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This session is scheduled for Mondays, November 2, 9, 16, and 23 from 11am-1pm PST (that’s Los Angeles time).
Registration is $320 and includes all four sessions.
Participants gather via Zoom.
The concept of “social form” has been defined and re-defined throughout history. From Marx’s idea of the Commune as a new “form of social life” to Rosa Luxemburg’s suggestion that a mass strike is much like the movement of water, ebbing and flowing with the tides of revolution, “social form” has become an open and flexible concept used to think through myriad modes of self-organization, from the soviet, to the council, to the ayllu.
In this Studio Session, we will explore the concept of “social form” in relation to clay. Participants will learn about some of the ways in which clayworkers have organized and aggregated into historical social forms–concretizing in the clay strike, the clayworkers’ paper, the clayworkers’ local, the clay lodge, and the clay studio. We will discuss the relevance such historical structures have in our present world. Marxist thinkers past and present will inform our consideration of the ways in which clay as a material–its plasticity and its brittleness, its groginess and its stickiness, and the very ways it holds its shape–can so aptly metaphorize the building and rebuilding of social form.
More details can be found here.
This session is scheduled for Mondays, November 2, 9, 16, and 23 from 11am-1pm PST (that’s Los Angeles time).
Registration is $320 and includes all four sessions.
Participants gather via Zoom.
The concept of “social form” has been defined and re-defined throughout history. From Marx’s idea of the Commune as a new “form of social life” to Rosa Luxemburg’s suggestion that a mass strike is much like the movement of water, ebbing and flowing with the tides of revolution, “social form” has become an open and flexible concept used to think through myriad modes of self-organization, from the soviet, to the council, to the ayllu.
In this Studio Session, we will explore the concept of “social form” in relation to clay. Participants will learn about some of the ways in which clayworkers have organized and aggregated into historical social forms–concretizing in the clay strike, the clayworkers’ paper, the clayworkers’ local, the clay lodge, and the clay studio. We will discuss the relevance such historical structures have in our present world. Marxist thinkers past and present will inform our consideration of the ways in which clay as a material–its plasticity and its brittleness, its groginess and its stickiness, and the very ways it holds its shape–can so aptly metaphorize the building and rebuilding of social form.
More details can be found here.