Eighth Dot: Nine points manifesto

Eighth : Sustainable Practice

The main reason I chose to follow the master program is my sincere wish to connect the dots of parallel worlds: the theoretical and the practical, the political and the private. I also like to focus on the connection between research and product, cooperation with others and the spectator and myself. My desire is to deepen my work and create conditions for what I call 'sustainable practice' over the coming years.

'Sustainable practice' is a well-planned way of working and operating professionally. It grants me freedom and time to experiment as well as maintaining a practice. It takes into consideration that making and creating is interdependent on many other aspects of life. Such as technology (as the vidders showed us), politics, financial situation, personal health, working conditions, human relations and so on.

How does a long-term praxis that is designed by me, for me, look like? What kind of working ecosystem would I like to create for myself? On a more practical note: who are the people that I want to engage with daily? Who are my allies? And how am I going to finance a process driven practice in a capitalistic system?

I got inspired by the tradition of ten point manifestos. Lists such as 'How to Work Better' (Peter Fischli and David Weiss 1991), 'How to Behave Better'(Anthony Huberman's, 2011) and 'Facing Value' (Studio Stroom ,2017) are a quick way to remember and to communicate their guiding principles. I too, made a list of how to research better in a sustainable practice. In the future, if I get distracted, this list can help me.

There is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in”

(Leonard Cohen)