FKA

The Tutor Base FKA imagines worlds beyond the limits of common sense and “good” taste. It develops critical perspec- tives on the systems of power that define these limits by standardising aesthetics and economies of understanding.

We are driven by a desire to move beyond the histories that shape us, orient us, and ground us in a bias. The acronym FKA (formally known as) points to a previous stability, but leaves the present unknown, trembling and fluid. We are changeable, adaptable, quick-footed and chameleonic, and we embrace not-knowing, opacity, and failure as a base to conjure up alternatives.

The aim of this Tutor Base is to collectively develop working methods that tangle time with uncertainty and imagination
— how can we reimagine pasts, work with uncertainty in the present, and speculate on possible futures? Often the group gathers for expanded forms of reading: we reflect with critical texts, fiction, poetry, we listen to spoken word, sound and music, and watch performances and films. In the past we have made a musical together, to explore the creative possibilities of working in a medium that none of us is an expert in. In everything we do we want to challenge expectations, our own included, and build new coordinates, new orientations for artistic work.