Table of Contents

Reading Guide

Common Language

Background & Struggles

A. Introduction

B. Vision

B.1. Paradigm shift in post-colonial and neo-liberal contexts.

B.2. Self-sustainability as our highest value for the Network.

B.2.1 Sustainability understood in its multiplicity.

B.2.2 Sustainability and the need for funding.

B3. Collective Study, instead of demonstration and administration

B4. Exploring Radical Imagination.

C. Ethical Principles

C.1. Open ethics, not a manifesto.

C.2. Arts Collaboratory’s Ethics.

D. Commonwealths

D.1. Lifeline Plan

D.2. Resource Map

D.3. Budget

D.3.1 Philosophy

D.3.2 Allocation of Budget

D.4. Time strike

D.5. Advance Payment.

E. AC Organization: Mechanisms for self-determination and shared governance

E.1 Philosophy: Self-ccountability and Study

E.2. Challenges faced

E.3 Cooperative entity through the working groups

E.3.1 Permanent activities

E.3.1.a Self-organized Assembly

E.3.1.b Triangles

E.3.1.c Banga

E.3.1.d Mutual Learning (study)/ Tooling/ Resourcing

E.3.2 Permanent Groups

E.3.2.a Communications (Internal and External)

E.3.2.b Financial Administration (Attaya)

E.3.2.c Fund-raising

E.3.3 Temporary Groups

E.4 Membership, growth and openness of Arts Collaboratory

F. Unresolved Questions

Resources

Appendix I: Working Groups: List & Guidelines