‘Undoing funding. An invitation to €XP€RIM€NT’ by Kate Rich

To stand against the forcefields of business-as-usual, we need some radical tricks, acts and altered forms of confidence. It calls for a radical plane shift – for artists as much as for others – to start playing around with the stuff of organising [is this the right word?] itself. To get experimental with charged and uncanny elements of money and administration – things typically considered off-limits, in terms of being curious or collective.

On April 29, we invite you to Join Hangar’s Administrative Fellow Kate Rich and a crowd of your peers, for a hands-on experiment in summoning, adjudicating and disseminating funding. This experimental gameplay is designed to intervene directly in the infrastructural dramas of how we fund our work, with real resources and relations at play. Today’s action follows on the heels of diverse other monetary manoeuvrers that Kate Rich has safely conducted in the Netherlands, Norway, UK and Australia. The proceedings are not offered as best practice or a model for anything. Instead the interest is to stage (with care!) spiky issues in the processes of allocating funding, and mobilise conditions in which other forms of thinking and action could take root.

Undoing funding. An Invitation to EXP€RIM€NT is the second event in the Grey Tuesdays series, deployed as practical research around infrastructural maintenance. Grey Tuesdays have two main objectives: first, they serve as a space to share specific cases of “radical administration,” narrated in the first person by various guests. Second, they provide opportunities to build conversational frameworks and solidarity networks among those who work in and with administration. While other institutional roles or areas often have support networks, complicity, and spaces for exchange, administrative work tends to be solitary, fragmented, and sometimes unappreciated. Grey Tuesdays emerge as an open space for all cultural workers in the field of administration, as well as anyone interested in rethinking administrative work and its scope.

Practical Information
Date: Tuesday, April 29
Time: 6 to 9 pm
Location: Hangar Offices
Free event with prior registration until capacity is reached.

To participate, please register using the following form (you will soon receive more details about the event).