CAROLINE WOOLARD: Solidarity Art Worlds
CAROLINE WOOLARD:
SOLIDARITY ART WORLDS
Online lecture
Q & A session with Agnes Szanyi
14.01.2024 at 6 pm
Event will be held in English. It will be accessible as a live stream on Facebook page tranzitsk.
Around the world, groups that value collectivity and transparency have organized together to win and co-create tailored tools of support, including paid training programs, solidarity financial vehicles like non-extractive loans, and policy platforms in what is known as the Solidarity Economy movement. How can these methods and experiences be used (or in fact are they already being used) in the art world? What can we draw inspiration from to imagine solidarity art worlds?
In her online lecture followed by a Q&A session, Caroline Woolard will talk about ways that she works individually and collectively to build objects as well as networks that prefigure more equitable (art) worlds. From a head made from a mushroom to a national network of art and design cooperatives, Woolard builds networks and objects that imagine and enact things that seem impossible.
Caroline Woolard is an American artist and organizer, whose work explores intersections between art and the solidarity economy. She primarily works collaboratively and collectively, she co-founded barter networks OurGoods.org and TradeSchool.coop (2008-2015), the Study Center for Group Work (since 2016), BFAMFAPhD.com (since 2014), and the NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative (since 2016). She is the co-author of two major reports: Solidarity Not Charity (Grantmakers in the Arts, 2021) and Spirits and Logistics (Center for Cultural Innovation, 2022) and three books:Making and Being (Pioneer Works, 2019), a book for educators about interdisciplinary collaboration, co-authored with Susan Jahoda; Art, Engagement, Economy (onomatopee, 2020) a book about managing socially-engaged and public art projects; and TRADE SCHOOL: 2009-2019, a book about peer learning that Woolard catalyzed in thirty cities internationally over a decade. Her work has been commissioned by and exhibited in major national and international museums, including MoMA, the Whitney Museum, and Creative Time.
carolinewoolard.com
Agnes Szanyi earned her doctorate in sociology at The New School for Social Research in New York in 2024. Her dissertation, which was awarded the Albert Solomon Memorial Award in Sociology investigates the intersection of art and activism and explores the struggles and dilemmas of artists who strive to bring change to the largely privately funded New York art world and the larger society. Between 2007 and 2011 she was the project assistant of the Budapest-based tranzit.hu contemporary art initiative. While a doctoral student at the New School,
she was a research fellow of the Curatorial Design Research Lab at Parsons School of Design. Since 2014, she has been a member of the art collective BFAMFAPhD. Currently, she teaches a class in the Arts Administration Program at the Teachers College of Columbia University and works on a book based on her dissertation
research.
Event is part of the Towards other possible artworlds program curated by Judit Angel and Eliška Mazalanová.
ERSTE Foundation is main partner of tranzit.
Media partners:
Artalk.info, Flash Art CZ & SK, Kapitál,GoOut.net
