AFFECT 2016 Curriculum of topics, facilitators, dates and details on project venues and partners

1. AFFECT is a Program for Collaborative
Artistic Practices initiated by Agora
Collective e.V. in Berlin, currently in
its third edition.
A hybrid between an educational
program and a project-based artist’s
residency, the 2016 edition consists
this year of a curriculum of 7 topics
growing out of the research and
practice of 7 Berlin-based
international artists and curators.
Each module takes the form of a
month-long participatory workshop
revolving around a central research
question supported by a series of
activities proposed by the leading
facilitators. Participants will have the
opportunity to collectively delve into
the proposed research question,
bringing in their own sensibilities,
practice and experience.
Collective exercises, urban
explorations and site visits, readings
and discussions will pave the way
towards the co-generation of a final
public event to be presented at the
end of each module.
AFFECT 2016 is facilitated by: Judith
Lavagna, Diego Agulló, Lorenzo
Sandoval, Thelma Bonavita, Sarah M.
Lewis, and Kinderhook & Caracas (Sol
Calero and Christopher Kline).
agoracollective.org
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The program of AFFECT is initiated by
Agora Collective e.V. and co-funded by
Creative Europe — Culture Sub
Programme between 2014/18
AFFECT 2016 media partners
Contact
AFFECT at AGORA
Mittelweg 50, 12053 Berlin
www.agoracollective.org/affect
Coordination & Communication
affect@agoracollective.org

2. AFFECT2016PROGRAM
#MODULES
WHILE WE WORK:
A TEMPORARY
STATE OF AFFAIRS
May 2 – 28
Facilitated by Judith Lavagna
Departing from the
interest in reconsidering "the
exhibition" as a critical
medium and a creative
process beyond its
conventional forms, WHILE
WE WORK takes on a creative
context in mutation that
witnesses
different momentums of
work and labor. This
workshop intends to explore
which roles artists take on as
cultural producers, the
merging of artistsas curators
and the interweaving of those
'junction-makers' in search for
performative expression.
Structured towards active
frameworks, case studies and
research methodology,
Lavagna proposes to conceive
an exhibition together with
selected Berlin-based artist as
a final event which will
investigate the context of
Agora's new space
*Apply before March 20
1 2 3THE ARTISTIC
MISSION:
DISMANTLING
PROFESSIONALISM
IN A FOR-PROFIT
ECONOMY?
June 1 – 29
Facilitated by Diego Agulló
A collective investigation
on what is the role of art in
the given economy, the
workshop will provide the
participants with a frame to
problematize together the
way they access the
professional structure. A
mutual practice of self-
examination on what is the
purpose of making art, which
value system operate behind
their professional practices,
and what are the tactics and
strategies to infiltrate to and
affect the professional
structure from within. The
purpose is to understand the
constitution of the political
body as the fundamental
matter of social
transformation within the
realm of our everyday life
actions. *Apply before May 1
THE INSTITUTE
FOR ENDOTIC
RESEARCH:
READING BODIES
July 4 – 31
Facilitated by Lorenzo
Sandoval
This workshop facilitated
by Lorenzo Sandoval is
focused on researching about
the relationships between
body and text. The
participants will approach
libraries, archives and its
potential performativities. An
exploration of the everyday
life and the immediate
surroundings focusing in the
body - as object and subject,
as medium and device, as a
place of inscription where
reading is a never passive
writing gesture, and as
mediators who have the
ability of activating their
political agency. As output of
the workshop Lorenzo
Sandoval proposes the
construction of a negotiated
library made of inner
“s(h)elves.
* Apply before June 4

3. AFFECT2016PROGRAM
#MODULES 4 5 6COM(m)O(n) CLUB
RADIO
August 1– 27
Facilitated by Thelma
Bonavita
For this workshop, Thelma
Bonavita invites participants
to compose and perform an
experimental radio station
culminating in a final
exhibition. The participants
will transform Agora´s new
space into a functioning base
to explore its meanings,
matter and entanglements.
The purpose of this collective
experience is to produce and
explore the notion of
a common space, where the
primary framework is the
body and the mind, working
together to create a sound
environment of ideas in
movement - as if one could
materialize the act of
thinking.
* Apply before July 1
ECOLOGY OF
ATTENTION
September 5 – 30
Facilitated by Sarah M. Lewis
If we think of scarcity as
the driving force of an
economic model then, given
today’s incessant inundation
of information, what is
becoming increasingly scarce
is the attention we are able to
pay and command. How does
this scarcity affect, jeopardize
or enhance the experience of
working collectively? Utilizing
a set methodology we will
leverage imagination to more
deeply engage with each
other and elements around
us by attempting to create an
ecology of attention. We will
switch roles, rotate
authorship, view, observe,
explore proposals put forth,
and collectively edit and
perform our generated
material.
* Apply before August 5
CONGLOMERATE:
ONE-SHOT
SACRIFICE
October 4– 29
Facilitated by Kinderhook &
Caracas, directed by Sol Calero,
Ethan Hayes-Chute, Derek
Howard, Christopher Kline and
Dafna Maimon
CONGLOMERATE acts as a
TV Network based at
Kinderhook & Caracas, a Berlin-
based project space run by Sol
Calero and Christopher Kline.
CONGLOMERATE invites the
participants to develop a short
“TV Special” based on the
theme of “Sacrifice” - which
connotations can range from
the esoteric to the everyday.
Through workshops, group
presentations and discussion,
CONGLOMERATE will work with
participants to create a single,
final, one-shot (non-stop) scene
composed of various set
elements, props, actors,
miniatures, costumes, sounds,
etc, to be featured in the frame
of a final Wrap Party within the
created sets.
* Apply before September 4

4. AFFECT2016ORGANISER:
AGORA
Agora is a project space based in
Neukölln that hosts people and
projects based on a philosophy that
reflects the values of its community:
diversity, self-organisation and social
ties. Agora sees itself as a prototype
of a micro-community with the
intention of defining new ways of
interactions and working in today’ s
context, developing formats that
work as means of researching and
producing collectively in the fields of
food, Work, art and learn.
Housed in a restored Altbau in the
heart of Neukölln in Berlin, this
multidisciplinary project space is a
cultural hub where educational,
artistic, and entrepreneurial values
are cultivated and exchanged. With
bright large spaces, art studios, silent
zones and a bustling cafe, Agora
provides a complex that can be
transformed and curated for a range
of uses and purposes.
Contact
AFFECT at AGORA
Mittelweg 50, 12053 Berlin
www.agoracollective.org/affect
affect@agoracollective.org
AGORA Direction & Production
Caique Tizzi
Tainá Moreno
Marcela Donato
AFFECT Coordination &
Communication
Paz Ponce

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MEETINGSPACE

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OPENCAFÉ&GARDENSPACE

7. AFFECT2016NEWSPACEFOR
PRODUCTION&PRESENTATION
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8. AFFECT2016
PRACTICALINFORMATION
Duration of
residency
ONE MONTH – group
meetings 3 to 4 times a week.
Final public event at the end of
the module.
Disciplines
AFFECT is based on an
interdisciplinary approach.
Some of the main fields of
interest for the development of
the program are:
Visual Art - Film - Sound and
Music - Dance/Choreography -
Theoretical Practices -
Philosophy - Writing – Urbanism
& Architecture - Curation -
Education & Mediation -
Performance - Creative Science
Crossovers - Political/Social
Activism - Web Programming -
Design - Innovation - Animation
– Technology.
Each group accommodates 15
people.
Assistance
Wood working tools and
exhibition display basics
provided by Agora. Module
facilitator and project
coordinator assist
participants in specific
project-related needs along
the residency process.
Agora can provide individual
acceptance letters to support
grant application processes.
Letters can be issued to
successful applicants upon
request.
Accommodation is not
provided. Future participants
can get orientation from the
program coordination about
where to find
accommodation, best
locations and prizes upon
request.
Studio/workspace
Shared studio space at
Agora, 4th floor, 120m2 loft.
AFFECT group meetings and
workshop process taking place 3
to 4 times a week. Kitchen
provided. Residents of AFFECT
can use Agora’s facilities during
the time of residency. The
building has 2 co-working floors,
a café, a garden and the AFFECT
floor. 2200m2 Production and
presentation space in Kindl
Brewery Area, 600m walk from
Agora space.
Fees & support
Participation fee is 300€ for
each module. A small
production budget will be
provided for the final event. Our
hybrid model between an artist
residency and an educational
platform opens up more
possibilities to apply for
financial support. Previous
AFFECT participants have been
granted to attend our program
by university career
departments, academic
research fellowships, cross
European and overseas
mobility funds for artists, etc.
Expectations
towards
participants
Willing to engage in
collaborative and group
working dynamics.
Commitment to all the stages
of the process with energy,
respect and openness.
Application
information
Applications are reviewed on
a rolling basis. Selected
participants will be notified
within twenty days upon
application. Accepted
participants are requested to
pay a deposit of 150,– EUR to
confirm their spot in the
module. This amount will be
later deducted from their
enrolment fee. You can apply to
one or more modules of AFFECT
by filling in our application form
WWW.AGORACOLLECTIVE.ORG/
AFFECT/APPLY

9. APPLY!