Process Park focuses on reinserting ourselves into the act of production, to interrupt the paradigm of contemporary alienation.
Our Working Framework from week to week is based on the organizing structure of a book from the Keleketla! Library, 58 Years To the Treason Trial. Keleketla! was an experimental library and collective running for a decade in Johannesburg, South Africa: https://keleketla.org/.
The book is a learning tool meant to be used in different contexts, to process through the meaning of a place. Applied here, it will help generate a collaborative framework for artists, educators, and creative practitioners, and help document this collective effort.
“Plans are not made with clear and prescribed end points. Plans are made for the journey, and decisions are made along the way.” -Theresa Giorza, from the Preface.
Framework of Process Park Cycle:
Space for Conversation\Space for Consideration\Space for Implementation
The Process of Archiving: Archiving, documenting, and writing about the cycles of Conversation, Consideration, and Implementation, will be a key ongoing process! during the residency month. Contribute your thoughts for each cycle in the corresponding Issue. This will become our collective work: thinking through texts in our space of conversation, our writing here during consideration sessions, and any and all material deposited into the residency Github through implementation. The goal is to have, through the Github, a repository of our findings, a way to track our overlaps and intersections as a group, and a method for forking off new strands of inquiry – material, made, or otherwise. Github Link: https://github.com/processpark/chanorth2018-v.1