And I am also thinking of tomorrow
—Suzanne Césaire

Endless Study, Infinite Debt is an ongoing collaborative project facilitated by Snack Syndicate that brings together artists, writers, and activists to build spaces of dialogue and collective learning. Proposing the work of art as a series of continuously unfolding relationships between people, histories, systems and futures, the project aims to develop alternate spaces for the production and exchange of knowledge.

This iteration of the project, responding to Liquid Architecture’s ‘Unearthing’ prompt as well as the sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, will ask how collective study is possible in a moment of isolation, physical distance, and increased surveillance. Specifically, we ask:

• What does study look like in this moment of social isolation?

• In what ways are sound, speech, and listening central to the question of study in this moment?

• How can we work towards collective modes of study (reading, writing, speaking, listening, caring) while in isolation?

We want to know how we can work towards the construction of a radical social ground for future action.

‘Protocols for Listening’ is facilitated by Snack Syndicate and six invited collaborators—Trisha Low, Kynan Tan, Jason De Santolo, Spence Messih, Tom Melick and Chris Gaul—to create a score for study in the midst of a global pandemic that has revealed to us the catastrophic end point of neoliberal austerity. Over a three-week period five of the collaborators facilitate study sessions via video conference where their ideas are elaborated and explored with a group of workshop participants.

sessions

One. Groundwork Snack Syndicate
Two. Zoom, a user’s guide Tom Melick
Three. An unfolding Kynan Thian Chai Tan
Four. The winds, the weight Spence Messih
Five. Unceded Airwaves: Listening with compassion Jason De Santolo
Six. Of sustenance Trisha Low

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Participation by EOI to info@liquidarchitecture.org.au by Saturday 23 May 2020. Tell us “What is listening? What have you been studying?”

Unearthing or -un-ear-thing- is a new initiative extending Liquid Architecture’s work with experimental education and pedagogy.