This workshop part of the Connected Communities Symposium used the symposium as a temporary community of practice to explore deeper questions of community. It was held by the art collective sampler-cultureclash.
The workshop is based on ‘The Paper Orchestra’, an idea that grew from an experimental and dynamic workshop exploring the creation of instant and temporary communities. Participants are encouraged to build keys from a piece of paper and a pencil, connect them to the main instrument: the beat box stylophone, to find “mates”, and to perform. The process is quick, and the pressure on – the performances were broadcasted live through Culture Lab Radio. Participants are also encouraged to reflect on the sense of community that this focused and compact activity encourages.
The workshop happenned twice, in two separate 50-minutes long sessions, held during lunch breaks on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th. Results were showcased during the Wednesday lunch break. Registration was limited to 15 people per session.
Photo documentation by Berit Greinke >>
sampler-cultureclash members David Littler and Berit Greinke also introduced ideas behind this project during the conference session 8 about Co-Creation >>
Bio
sampler-cultureclash is an international collective of sound artists, DJ’s, embroiderers, textile designers, performance poets, machine hackers, graffiti artists and dancers. Together the collective is exploring the connections between textiles and sound and the cultures of embroidery and DJ-ing, using the common word “sampler” as the starting point for investigation.
The collective creates social spaces where different people can meet, talk, experiment, share knowledge and ideas, collaborate, create, perform, play, have fun and invent new things. The project has been running for the last 3 years growing out of an initial week-long laboratory in Brixton, and has since brought together a wide range of individuals, informal groups and organisations in the UK and abroad.
It celebrates the art of sampling as a way of moving us from passive consumers of culture into active participants. Through the processes of sampling and collective-making we question ideas of ownership and champion the “commons”. We believe in the circle of sharing, remixing and re-using in order to contribute to and build upon existing ideas.
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