Participants: Ximena Alarcón-Díaz, Felicity Allen, Carla Cruz, Fabiola Fiocco, Karolina Majewska Guede, Lily Hall, Manual Labours, Kuda.org/Zoran Pantelić, , Kirsten Lloyd, Chris McCormack, Gerrie van Noord, Helena Reckitt, Irene Revell, Marina Rosenfeld, Katja Praznik, Abhijan Toto, Jelena Vesić. Convened by Lina Džuverović.

Current enthusiasm towards collectivity within the artworld, including within prize-giving culture, harbours a certain romanticising of collectives, a simplification of collective practice suggesting that collective work - be it artistic, curatorial, or within an arts organisation - is somehow automatically emancipatory and egalitarian, that collectivity by its very nature preserves the promise of equality and inclusivity. But the reality of working collectively is filled with challenges and those working collectively are no less vulnerable to exploitation than individual cultural workers. Glossing this fundamental truth can risk both the replication and the masking of inequalities under the broad label of collectivity.

In the Autumn 2022, the research project 'And Others: The Gendered Politics and Practices of Art Collectives' hosts four panel discussions to investigate different questions central to collective work. Building on two months of asynchronous collective writing, involving eighteen participants, the panelists below consider how we might write, think, read and practice together through other means.

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The blog for the Her Noise Archive has been relaunched with dozens of interviews with artists and curators, guest curated selections, responses to Her Noise by students on the MA Sound Arts at London College of Communications as well as material from several conferences and symposia.

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Group exhibition looking at practices that emerge between text and performance, the page and the body. Exhibition at Chelsea Space with Beatrice Gibson, Alison Knowles, Ghislaine Leung, Annea Lockwood, Claire Potter, Charlotte Prodger, Carolee Schneemann, Tai Shani, Mieko Shiomi. Accompanying performance programme on 20 May at LUX (Waterlow Park) with Anna Barham, Daniela Cascella, Ami Clarke, Tomoko Hojo, Natasha Lall, Aura Satz, Linda Stupart. Co-curated by Karen Di Franco and Irene Revell.

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A special opportunity to hear more about Else Marie Pade with talks, film screening and discussion at Cafe OTO. Soarings is a rough translation of the Danish word svæninger - a word coined by Pade to encompass both the phenomenon of different frequencies colliding to make an interference beat, and the more poetic image of soaring through the air. Contributions by Ain Bailey, Jacob Kirkegaard, Mads Kjelgaard, Sanne Krogh Groth, Jo Langton and Frances Morgan. In collaboration with Kammer Klang.

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This text draws on the authors' shared experiences of growing alientation from the figure of the "contemporary curator", stemming from a wider concern with the rigour, ethics and radicality that become impossible with the pace of work they term "hyper-production" that has become almost completely normalised. This alienation is articulated through an enmeshment of desire and capacity - "won't" and "can't" - where "can't" is a matter of capacity, time and energy relating to competing responsibilities such as child care and the self-care of chronic illness. This question of capacity to work is explored through recent art and curating thinking - by Carolyn Lazard, Taranah Fazeli, Alyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue - that underscores the challenge posed to capitalist modes of labour by such a refusal, as well as a problematisation of "stamina", which draws on disability activism and advocacy via Catherine Hale and Susan Wendell. The text concludes with the articulation of a series of questions that attempt to glimpse other more "resilient", via Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez - forms of curating that might exist in opposition to the marathon-working "stamina" required of the normative "contemporary curator".

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