leading project for summer of protocols
Interested in maintenance broadly…
- requiring stewardship and how stewards play a role in protocols (such as swarms, in death, and to conduct archival work).
- what gives a steward legitimacy and what role do they play in protocols?
- how are people chosen and how does the role cycle?
- as a historically underappreciated and overlooked act of labor that requires a healthy culture of credit and intentional sustenance
- as an act that is often a second-order effect of a protocol rather than the main thing.
- what would it look like for maintenance to be the protocol?
- as a method of protocol subversion in that it empowers you to insert your own personality and opinion into shaping the overall structure of an environment, in which you might not have had any say in the original design of.
- what acts of maintenance can be used as subversion? How have they historically been used for this and how could they be used to counteract totalizing protocols in the present and future?
- how it is historically enacted and sustained both in the context of top-down institutions and emergent communities.
- how do maintenance practices emerge and evolve?