Personal Monuments of
Accidental Baggage

The first session was an introductory one, people introduced their practice and motivations for being in the sessions. Facilitator laid down the guiding principles of how we want to create a safe space away from judgment to be with each other in this space, and then opened up the floor to co-design the framework of how we would get to work until June so that this space can respond to their needs. After a brief introduction to the facilitator’s creative practice we went into a short introduction to everyone’s work. All participants shared 1 piece of work with the group.
Topics identified to orient future sessions are: Sharing each other’s portfolios and having the space to talk about work Develop work with a seminar-type guidance and circling back Brainstorming and soundboarding on future steps for individual projects or collective projects. Skillsharing Technical - Creative and Personal facets of work Marketing, Portfolio development, and Communications And the group greatly gravitates towards having discussions on socially engaging topics through art and having debates on ethics, to inform themselves better on contexts they don't know and to reflect on how to navigate some next steps ethical chokeholds in their own practice.