For Disorganising Marrickville School of Economics are collaborating with the School of Instituting Otherwise and the Food Art Research Network to explore economies that foster circularity, interdependence and establish bio-culturally diverse principles that circumvent capitalist paradigms of risk and profit. In this workshop we will explore how artist led economies are reimagining collective health in a metabolic relationship to the earth/soil/gut biome.

“We want a system that puts care based labour at the core of an entangled more-than-human biosphere. A system that is relational, seeks balance, fosters circularity, pleasure, and is emotionally intelligent.

We want an economy that is shaped by hands in the soil—an economy that is led by practice, facilitated by those who are best positioned to design the production and distribution flows in a remaking of worlds and our more-than-human relations.” MSE 2020, Contagion Syllabus

The workshop will explore protocols for inefficient mapping with artist Linda K Knight, the metabolism as a site for disorganising our relationship to capitalism, and set out key principles for community economies. In the last part of the seminar we will work in groups to build an MSE Glossary for bio-culturally diverse economies and map some institutions by artists that explore food as a collective resource, beginning wth Cocina Collaboratorio, Tenacious Bee, Company Drinks, Manthithoppu Milk Coperative Society.

Texts and viewing materials will be sent out on Tuesday morning 27th July 2021 so please sign up before then to get the readings.

KEYWORDS: Gut - Commons - milk - Mutual Aid - ecosystem of care - Social reproduction - Decommodified labour - micro-solidarities - kitchens - more-than-human - Kinship - storying otherwise - farming - planting - bread - Seeds - being human as praxis - Bees - agroforestry.

The workshop will be conducted in English and we welcome people from anywhere with an agreeable time zone cross over.

Time Zones

7:00pm - 9:30pm AEST

2:30pm - 5:00 pm IST

11:00 - 1:30pm CEST

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We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and
work: the people of the Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we work. We
respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.