PROPOSITIONS
WINNER!
We propose that our 19 friends create one physical a4 sheet of admin + post it to us. We will collate and RISO print them into a booklet, which we will then return. It will be beautiful. It will tell you something about your 'colleagues'. You can use it to keep your fire burning. You can leave it in your local library. You can use it in your youth led participatory project. You can make it into a compostable flowerpot. [drowsy]
Entered:
1. 0 [rleeps]
2. A Blindfold Walk With Someone/Split
Choose a person to do this activity with – possibly someone with no artistic background and offer to pay money for their commitment(from the budget). They can reject the payment if they got something from the experience. CRAFT a blindfold, which you can then reuse, each together. Ask them to accompany you for a30 minutes silent, blindfold walk and change around. While you walk, both ask yourself: What are you noticing? What is standing out to you? Why are we doing this? After the walk, take min 30 minutes to reflect on your experiences and offer to pay your companion... Questions prompt for this part will be provided. [aleepb]
3. A Collection of 26 Words Where ‘C’ Isn’t Necessarily for ‘COVID’ or ‘CORONAVIRUS’: Many of us are just beginning to make sense of the last year. Language can help. Choose one word starting with each letter of the Latin alphabet to talk about the lived experience of the pandemic. Your collection could be a hand-drawn ABC book, a set of cards/images, an audio recording (song, recitation, spoken word), a 3D model, sky writing, a walking route, etc. Non-English versions are most welcome. Subversive alphabets too. [gleeph]
4. A collective online audio call of sharing admin experiences of this year. How many calculations radmin participants do per day. Thinking of the rhythms their body follows every day, such as how many times they visit the kitchen or if they count the steps when they walk outside. How was the radmin experience for them? [mleepn]
5. A place is chosen - forest, purdown, bearpit? Radministrators tag-meet. Not more than 2, 2 metres apart. The 1st is observed by the place, the 2nd is an observational presence for the 3rd etc. Each bring objects, words, movements which represent their (group''''s) ''''now'''' longings, fears, dreams. Each places objects in the space. Ideally there is a permenent marker & some wood to write words on, a camera to self-capture, a dictaphone to collect. [cleepd]
6. A random walk is the process by which randomly-moving objects wander away from where they started. This walk will be 6.7 times more random than a usual walk.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Boil the kettle, fill a flask.
Leave your home.
Allow yourself plenty of time.
Don’t have a designation in mind
Take a different route than usual.
Drift.
Step one foot in front of the other in no particular order.
Turn left, right, right right left, go straight. Stop. Continue. Left or whatever.
Get into your own rhythm.
Walk down a street you''ve never been down before.
Wander.
What do you see, sense, hear, feel.
Spend your £1 on chocolate. Sit on a bench or whatever and eat it with your flask of hot liquid.
Take your time, don’t rush.
Record your journey by some means; trace your steps, annotate your walk, record the sound of people, photograph each corner, draw a line by hand, pick things up, write things down, or whatever.
OPTIONAL:
If you would like a system or instructions set out for your random walk, you can ask a fellow Radminner via text message.
If you would like to take a fellow Radminner on a walk with you, you can share your location via google maps.
A random Radminner will be selected via a random generator for both options.
[A RANDOM RADMIN WALK / Split]
7. Co joined walk / split (Prep 2 hrs) make a field recording when out walking / out and about and make into a soundtrack to send onto another Radmin participant. Accompany this with any instructions on how to walk and listen. 1 hr Co joined walk (3-4pm on Saturday) to be made by participant listening to received soundtrack following instructions. Soundtracks to be repeated for duration of walk. Spend allocated budget on snacks/ drink for your walk. [eleepf]
8. Each Radminer visits an outdoor space with significance to them, that’s representative of their place (home/town/country) at this time of year. Radminers collect natural objects to construct a 3D sculpture here, that represents their self, connection to this place, and hopes for the future. Radminer takes 3 photographs of their sculpture from different angles and sends to Kate/Chiz. These are merged to create a seasonal collage which represents the group, our places and our hopes/Split [nleepo]
9. Expanding and diversifiying and colliding networks via collective writing/Pooled, mixing and merging networks on an internet-pad, one collective moment of conversation between people of mixed networks to find common grounds- some prompts suggested by the organiser to break the ice. Everyone who comes to the session will receive a symbolical payment for assisting and for their time. The amount of money will be different for everyone will change with the currency exchange rates of every participant. Each participant will invite at least e people from their network, to spice up the mingle. [pleepq]
10. Grasp the Nettle: An activity collecting [pesticide-free] nettles at their youngest and most nutritious stage in early spring, preparing them and having a shared online meal where we 'grasp the nettle' and discuss any difficulties that have arisen from involvement in Radmin, or find mutual benefits and healing properties that we weren't previously aware of. This will involve some foraging. You can make any nettle-recipe you like ready for the shared meal. Other ingredient costs (including accompanying beverages) can be reimbursed [⊙▽⊙]
11. SESSION: INDIVIDUALISM 1. WHAT IS INDIVIDUALISM? 2. HOW DOES IT IMPACT THE WORLD? 3. WHAT HAS IT TAUGHT YOU? Do you consider achievements to be lessened if shared? Would you rather lead or contribute?
3. HOW HAS IT IMPACTED YOU? Has it emboldened you to believe in your own brain and disregard others? 4. REFRAMING THE WAY YOU THINK: sharing work - Put it out there! [ileepj]
12. Sharing a gift - each participant to share with every other participant a gift. This gift could be a piece of advice, something made, something found, something learnt. It has to be reproduced 18 times so each Radmin participant can receive a copy. Budget would go towards postage. / Pooled [hleep]
13. Task courtesy of Pauline Oliveros. 'Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the soles of your feet become ears.' This task should be completed outdoors, with earth under your feet and with no mechanical distractions. These are the only instructions. (1-1.5 hours) [qleepr]
14. The floor is lava AKA the Radmin volcano escape committee The objective - to travel as far a possible across (or around) your living space (+beyond) without touching the floor. Each player will also devise and submit a help card to the group (make it as useful as possible), to assist the process. Each player receives a complete set of help cards. Each card can be deployed once by each player. If you touch the lava - you decide your fate. £3.25 paid per help card (maybe bonus for very useful ones) [who the hell am I?]
15. We propose that our 19 friends create one physical a4 sheet of admin + post it to us. We will collate and RISO print them into a booklet, which we will then return. It will be beautiful. It will tell you something about your 'colleagues'. You can use it to keep your fire burning. You can leave it in your local library. You can use it in your youth led participatory project. You can make it into a compostable flowerpot. [drowsy]
16. Wild Nettle Soup Transmission/Pooled: As the enlightened XI century Tibetan yogi Milarepa was depicted in green due to the only food he ate for years, we will like to support and contribute to the stylish yogic activity by sending to a random RADMIN participant a pot of nettles along with the old recipe to make a nettle soup and receive the transmission and the peculiar effects. We will like to hear about the results and outcomes. [oleepp]
17. Work with the Adfree Cities network - https://adfreecities.org.uk/ - on one or more billboard takeovers according to budget and opporunities to reclaim space from corporate entities and share RADMIN output with a small corner of the world (and beyond?) [lleepm]