Cubitt Communities Analogue Dialogue 2020 Ciar O'Mahony and Isabella Waite Download: Analogue Dialogue. Cubitt Archive Placement x Goldsmiths MA Curating. 2020 In early 2020, Izzy Waite and Ciar O’Mahony received the Cubitt Archive Research Placement. This placement allows for Goldsmiths MFA Curating students to activate the Cubitt Artists’ archive with original programming. While their placement was originally intended to last six months, Covid-19 caused major delays and the project’s development took a bit longer. This extra time was welcome however, as it enabled the curators to create a two-part programme exploring the importance of experimental organisation and shared governance in Cubitts’ history and in arts spaces more broadly. Both Izzy and Ciar were drawn to this topic as they believe that collective discourse is an essential characteristic of artist groups with long term goals such as Cubitt Artists’. At the same time, this vital ingredient is often underemphasised when discussing arts collectives’ formation, success, and longevity. The curators explored this idea in two parts, firstly, with a zine titled Analogue Dialogue (AD). AD invited members of the Cubitt community to share significant, yet fleeting, moments, conversations, and interactions, unlikely to have been documented in the archive. The curators believe that such moments are as important to Cubitt’s identity as the exhibitions, publications, and professional opportunities it has generated. By publishing the replies and media they received from participants as a zine, they seek to acknowledge these crucial, if ephemeral, exchanges which shed light on Cubitts’ social ecology. In lieu of a zine launch, Analogue Dialogue’s release is activated by a recorded conversation expanding on the themes it explores. The conversation, How Do You Say Yes, takes place between Cubitt’s Director of Programmes Amal Khalaf, who is also included in the zine, and Canadian art gallery director Emelie Chhangur. Both Khalaf and Chhangur are leaders, using their positions to productively challenge the conventions of institutional operations which often risk replicating racist and colonial violence. Together, these two programmes explore the evolving role of cultural institutions, the ethical responsibilities of those who administer arts spaces and how artists can productively utilise their communities. A digital copy of the zine is available on this web page, as well as a link to the recorded conversation between Emelie Chhangur and Amal Khalaf. Physical copies of the zine are available at Cubitt Artists’. Special thanks to Ele Carpenter and Lizzy Whirrity and Paul Clinton for overseeing the project, to Nicky Hoberman, Helen Ireland, Andrew Carter, Polly Staple and Charlene Sandy for contributing to the zine, to Emelie Chhangur for participating in the interview and, finally, to Amal Khalaf for all of the above! Music Attribution. Song “No Wing” by Ketsa is licensed under CC-BY-ND-2.0. The full version as well as other songs can be found at this link, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa. Manage Cookie Preferences