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For a few years we have been working as a Networked Collective. As the word implies, this collective stems from a network, there is not a core, or center, but at most a temporary focal point. The notion was coined by Okwui Enwezor in his text The Artist as Producer in Times of

Crisis, and defined as: ‘a flexible, non-permanent course of affiliation, privileging collaboration on project basis than on a permanent alliance.’ Collectively we work within residencies, projects, exhibitions, plays, informal gatherings and on publications. From these assemblies a fundamental research-area came to the core: a tension between on the one hand the social process of working together and living together, and on the other hand formal, autonomous qualities of works that are the outcomes of that process. These two aspects, the social and the autonomous, might seem independent from each other, but they interfere constantly and create an added value in their coalescence. Our collective projects are always proposals about this exchange. We would like to state a politics of collectivity. As an ensemble, but also an assembly, education can be a field in which this multi-voiced dimension resonates. In this way a Networked Collective within an educational situation does not only act as the fulfilling of a function, but as an internalization of a discourse, in which the structure becomes the embodiment of questions regarding diversity, vulnerability, multidisciplinarity and polyphonarty. The members of the collective that will give this workshop for BEAR students are: Samieh Shahcheraghi (artist), Gijsje Heemskerk (artist), Marijn van Kreij (artist), Liza Wolters (artist), Jochem van Laarhoven (artist), Chrys Amaya Michailidis (artist), Bas van den Hurk (artist), Benjamin Schoones (artist), Lotte Driessen (actor), Matea Bakula (artist), Sofie Hollander (artist), Marisa Goedhart (artist), Loran van de Wier (artist), Fatemeh Heidari (artist) and Reinout Scholten van Aschat (actor)