TAC meeting Monday 27th August
I have organised the points into the three agenda areas so it is easier to read. This means that it is not sequential as the meetings actually ran but will be clearer to follow. Points which require feedback have been marked in italics.
All of the below is my subjective note taking and is open to correction, suggestion, comment, feedback etc.
NEW MEMBERS
All are agreed that we need new members.
Suggestion that new members should be recruited in each area of the diaspora.
Blog would then become group to group post rather than internal communication.
Name suggestions; TAC Wellington, TAC Christchurch etc. The when we do something together we would be TAC United?
So, with suggested new members involved, each TAC project would become under their own regional control. Each group needs to be activated and able to act. Esp as noted by recent problems with blog re communication, loss of energy for group etc.
A group focus could be feeding into a new bio / manifesto which could be used to create a new members pack. Enough history to provide an orientation.
Importance of the power structure remaining level discussed. No experts. Decision making should be consensual.
Manifesto should not be too solid / prescriptive etc. Open; like how we have recorded our processes as conversations. New members could get the assessment of CAMRU as a conversational piece in new members pack.
Differentiation between tac groups can develop. Each group could contribute a chapter to the kit. Organic. There would be a natural progression according to each group’s interests.
Value of the initial openness of the call to TAC. Diverse range of people.
Could use photos in orientation/new members pack.
NEW MEMBERS SUMMARY
New members in each centre
Each centre deciding on how to recruit it’s own members
Create an orientation kit for new members – (photos, manifesto, CAMRU assessment?)
KIT
Use the aesthetic of CAMRU like the scattered notes. Give artists / organisations a page where they could write / draw whatever about their experiences in collaboration.
Flow chart model
Open structure for other collaborative structures to engage with.
Non-directive and non-definitive. Can keep being added to. Could be like a ring binder with new chapters / blank pages.
FUTURE PROJECTS
Developing and spreading TAC
Becoming The Association of Collaborations, ie finding ways to be inclusive of other groups without them having to be part of the every day running. Pages in kit are one way.
Funding application to Creative Communities Wellington. Idea of creating posters about TAC to create interest in group / ideas / new members. Then packs could be sent out after this. This would be relevant for Wellington audience. Other groups apply in own districts? Or may prefer alternative methods of recruitment?
Poster ideas; disseminating info, drawings, text, a series of three, drawing of writing on wall at Enjoy? Good to have a visual project to keep interest up aesthetically. Good to have another tangible project this year.
CAMRU ASSESS – questions for the group
Input are Tom’s questions and Andie’s musings previously on blog.
Discussed these and own input and came up with following Q’s;
What were our individual expectations of the CAMRU project?
What did it do?
What TAC processes worked well?
What TAC processes didn’t work so well?
How effective was CAMRU in communicating with an audience?
What did the responses tell us that was valuable towards understanding the Prospect show?
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6 comments:
Cool, thanks Sian. That all looks good - some points might need further fleshing out for those not present.
Tom, Andie, Mel - comment any questions here and one of us that was at the meeting can clarify the discussion if its not clear - and we can continue on with talking about our ideas here too.
Sian - I am not sure what the 1 week decision subject label refers to?? Is there something we need to decide about specifically? Did you mean it in regard to the camru assessment questions perhaps, or just generally in terms of everyone getting up to date with our meeting?
Hiya
One week decision was just to get some feedback on what we discussed, particularly the ideas about regional groups for TAC, idea of posters to publicise etc because for those things we will need to decide in the next two weeks before our next meeting so that we can write a funding proposal for Creative Communities.
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Tom said:
am very supportive of plan to get new members on board TAC, it is definitely hard to initiate projects when you are on your own. i have already had a number of conversations with people who are interested in collaboration and some of the ideas that we had worked through with TAC and I think the best way for me to recruit people would just be through discussion. im happy to put together a little pack with some previous documentation and pictures to outline some of our previous activities. or do people think that recruiting people through prior communication is too exclusive and i should advertise more widely? also, who has the images of our writing on the wall at Enjoy for Every Now, and Then, they would definitely be useful in outlining some of our initial brainstorms.
Paula responded:
your recruitment possibility sounds good, but you may need to have a way for people you don't know to get involved - as per the initial call. i think non-exclusivity is an important part of TAC in general, and we certainly dicussed that as a central tenement in our meeting re: recruitment.
[these were cut and pasted form toms banking post -L]
Yes I think that getting new new people ie people we don't know in the new groups is important too x
Any thoughts on the ideas about the kit and posters guys? Like em? Don't like em? The Welly gagng is gonna need to decide whether to apply for poster and kit funding from Creative Communities real soon, as the application needs to be in by 25th September.
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Hi guys
I'm really sorry it's taken me so long to respond to this. Thanks for re-shuffling the comments on to the same post, much easier!
I am happy for an application to creative communities to be handed in ....tomorrow!?! to cover expenses for a kit/poster set etc
I'm not sure how to go about recruiting new members in Melbourne - or if I want to take it on at the moment. But I still want to be involved, but I'm keen for change, so I'm definitely all for some new blood
In answer to these questions:
What were our individual
expectations of the CAMRU project?
- To encourage people who might not normally share their responses to art exhibitions to be heard.
What did it do? Elicited a wide range of responses- good and bad, critical and non-critical about Art in General, CGW, Prospect, and even TAC
What TAC processes worked well?
collating the responses and making alternative roomsheets
What TAC processes didn’t work so well?
the degree of control TAC had over audience participation? I dont know because I wasnt there but i thought this might be something that was difficult-inviting people to engage but also directing their engagement?
How effective was CAMRU in communicating with an audience?
I'm not sure- do you think most people walked away thinking any differently? Is that what we aimed for?
What did the responses tell us that was valuable towards understanding the Prospect show?
They told us what they liked, what their values were- what they expected from contemporary art and how it functioned according to their point of view
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