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Listening appears as a research strategy: listening to remember, to resonate, to fill the gap, to unpack, to participate, to endeavour, to write, to read, to represent, to witness, to change, to resist, to learn, to un-learn, to dream, to imagine, to meditate, to fall, to question, to reveal, to travel, to envision, to feel, to wonder, to ask, to think, to navigate, to dig, to bind, to murmur, to say loud, to share, to commit, to repair, to speak out, to meet, to hear, to dwell … in becoming. 

The round table instituting/fleeing addresses collective practices as forms of resistance against power asymmetries – as activist strategies. It focuses on the entangled dynamics between fleeing and occupying the institution and the role institutional critique plays in these dynamics. We will map out our different collective practices by posing questions, such as: How can we understand the different ways the institution and the collectives are linked? How to create collectives within the institution? How can collectives flee or occupy the institution? Who can flee and where to? How do institutions appropriate and destroy collective structures?

This text was part of the opening to the symposium sharing/learning: methods of the collective in art, research and activism and was read on 28th June 2019, in English, by two members of the organizing team, as introductory words. The text deliniates the central questions from which the two-day gathering arises, as well as its methodologies and actors. Many formulations originate from previously written concept papers, which were used to present the project for various purposes. These in turn are informed by the many conversations that took place within the organizational team – a group of people whose constellation was shifting along the way – orally as well as in writing.