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Mutual Training for/by Portal Workers

Mutual trainings

A spacetime to actively attend to, register and acknowledge the sensibilities, perspectives and modes of intervention that portal work towards liberation might entail. As an insurgent collective research situation, it allows us to read each other's work in resonance and in solidarity with each other but without the need to cohere.

Training is about collectively engaging in a set of exercises, and repeating them in a more-or-less contained context to build capacity for applying that later on. Mutual training, then, implies collectivities arriving to the situation with a clarity of their practice ready to be shared, but also with an opening to be porous to the exercises and practices proposed by others.

Training A = Infrastructural Rehearsals -> I'm training for a feeling I don't have yet

Training B = BMS

Training C = We Smell Gas

Portal Workers

A group of circa 20 'portal workers' engaged in mutual training as a form of collective inquiry. The session provided participants with modes of attunement to each other's rehearsals for collective life that are sometimes-depleted, some-times wild and feral and shiny -- reclaiming, letting go and shaking assumptions against the imposed narratives of the self-centered powers, from their very very centers and also not. Through the joyfully dissident technosciences, mourning humanities, rebel poethics, organising tactics and complex crafts that continue to try to world otherwise the many worlds that fit in this

The session was convened by multiple local and transnational collectives that struggle from the peripheries, the vortex of privilege and all the areas that connect them. It means that the portal workers that joined to train each other were not only participating as individuals but also as contributors to wider collective endeavors.

- BMS

- eeefff https://eeefff.org/

- Fondation Marius Jacob https://www.fondationmariusjacob.org/

- Infrastructural Rehearsals https://criticalmedialab.ch/projects/infrastructural-rehearsals/

- Decolonising Botany https://taey.com/decolonising-botany

- Le Nuage était sous nos pieds https://lenuageetaitsousnospieds.org/

- We Smell Gas https://www.wesmellgas.org/

- Zoumana Meité https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Projects:Zoumana_Me%C3%AFte:_Een_nieuwe_vuurceremonie

- Flo*Souad Benaddi https://www.hormonobotanik.wiki/

- Romi Morrison https://elegantcollisions.com/

- Foundation Maris Jacob https://www.fondationmariusjacob.org/

Program

Mutual training for-by portal workers

Kaleidoscope

An ongoing repertoire, "a kaleidoscope of portals", where we plan to continue to work on the building of theories and practices of transition, acknowledging the longer span of such works and their potential to contribute to ongoing rehearsals in every collectivity's specific habitats.

Online, spatialised, distribusi

Romi Morrison: That Which Will Have Had to Happen

Talk by Romi Morrison

Team

Mutual Training for/by Portal Workers was organised by The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI), in the context of the research project Infrastructural Rehearsals.
Production and hosting: Nani Campos, Frida Bueno
Infrastructural research and support: Martino Morandi
Kaleidoscope spatialisation, and future CSS: Vinciane Daheron (OSP)
Catering: Veggie is halal
Thank you: Rachel Himmelfarb
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Infrastructural Rehearsals: creative responses to the green and digital transition is a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2024-2028)