This issue of ART REPUBLIK is themed ‘The A Team’. It started as a small gathering of friends who wanted to sell merchandise, original creations, second-hand items and so on and it evolved from something monetary to something with social value, where we exchange ideas and experiences and build a community that attracts people from different walks of life. The most well-received programme is an event called Future Market. We think that the residency is a mutual exchange, and we try to learn from each other, as a host and as a peer. The Project and Research residency programme is a self-directed residency, where 98B assists the artist with his/her project. From this limitation, we are developing how to show art in different ways to enable new encounters with our audiences. We don’t have a proper exhibition space, so every time we come up with a show, we have to envision possible spaces in the building, the street or even our storage space. Which aspect has come through more or been most well received? It’s a laboratory to build new relationships in the process.ĩ8B COLLABoratory has five major programmes: Project and Research Residency, Events, Exhibitions, Talks and Exchange Programme. We added the word “collaboratory” to show that as a space and initiative, we try to create new ways of producing works and at the same time work together with other people from different disciplines. 98B came from their address, where they hosted small gatherings with artist friends for casual discussions over food and drinks. How did 98B COLLABoratory come about? Who came up with the idea, and/or what precipitated the creation of this artist-run initiative and space?ĩ8B was initiated by artist Mark Salvatus and his wife, curator Mayumi Hirano in their small apartment in Cubao, Quezon City in 2012. ART REPUBLIK speaks with its founders to find out more about the dynamics of the group and the challenges that lie ahead in sustaining and developing the initiative. All images courtesy 98B COLLABoratory.ĩ8B COLLABoratory, based in Manila, Philippines, is a creative space where artists and individuals from varied disciplines interact and work on projects together. It’s about inclusion, for everyone.Various 98B COLLABoratory projects. It is about reaching the people we haven’t yet reached, and supporting the ones we have, in the best ways possible. About doing these things for people who live in isolation, who are distant from the services and supports that our cities offer. About keeping food on the table of mothers, fathers, and children. It is about keeping a roof over the heads of the most vulnerable. The potential prize, the transformative end goal, is too important, too critical, to use traditional “projects to fix the problems” methods. The partnership between The Boldness Project and the Rural and Remote Community Legal Clinics is an initiative where we can aim high, be bold, pilot ideas, learn from our successes and our failures. It is for organizations and communities that have the courage and commitment to pursue breakthrough results. It is an incubator for transformative change, grounded in the belief that this can only be accomplished when we connect leading-edge knowledge with leading-edge action. The Boldness Collaboratory framework is purpose-designed to enable new configurations of experts and civic actors – from across sectors and across silos – to come together to conceive, design and develop initiatives that achieve greater well-being for people and place. Drawing on lessons gained from the world of successful Research and Development (R&D) labs and innovation enterprises, The Collaboratory model has been developed to both facilitate and accelerate social innovation at the organizational and community level. The Boldness Project offers a new model – The Boldness Collaboratory TM – for the pursuit of transformative social innovation. Left unresolved, legal problems have an impact on health and well-being, which will be lasting and far-reaching. Almost 40% of people with one or more legal problems report having social and/or health related problems. Why Boldness? What does Boldness have to do with including people who live in rural and remote areas within the system we call “justice”? According to the Canadian Forum for Civil Justice, nearly 12 million Canadians will experience at least one legal problem in a three year period. We are working on changing the experience of law and justice for people in rural and remote communities by creating an inclusive justice approach to the work we do and the work that our community does for people who have lived experience with poverty.
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