Friday June 6th:
- Group meeting in Pers studio-office start 2:30 pm
- Fedeles/Kristins Flash Job takes place at 3:00 pm, wooloo photographer will be present.
Saturday June 7th:
- 8:45 am - 4 pm; Per and Catalysts take part in a future workshop in the Berlin neighborhood Schoeneweide: Fedele and maybe Lucia and Kristin will come along.
- 5 pm: Flash Job Campaign is - among other NEW LIFE BERLIN projects - discussed at the public Live Review of Open Dialogues, Choriner Str. 85, Berlin Mitte, U-Rosenthaler Platz
Monday 9th - Wedensday June 11th:
- Catalysts continue their projects, Studio-office is open every day 10am - 2pm, ASISI 2, Krüllsstr. 3, 12435 Berlin. Visitors can set up appointment: per@teenkom.de
Thursday June 12th
- 2 pm: Catalysts visit and plans at the site for The FLash Job Campaign exhibition, scheduled to Sunday June 15th, 2 - 4 pm, at Festival venue, Greifswalder str. 220, 10405 Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, Tram M4
- 7 pm: Barbecue for the team at FAIR-ETHICS Society for Art & Aesthetics, Karl Marx Strasse, Berlin.
Friday 13th - Saturday 14th
- Last actions in social space, editing of material, preparing the 2 hours exhibition for Sunday. Planning of The Flash Job Campaign contribution to the FAIR art newspaper.
Sunday 15th - PUBLIC EVENT
- The Flash Job Campaign CONCLUSION with films, installations, photos and stories from the two weeks campaign.
End of June
- Deadline for The Fair Survey, a two pages contribution to the FAIR Art Newspaper, published mid-July in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
More to come
- The Flash Job Campaign 08, remastered edition including all texts, films and photos and pointing to the publication platforms of the individual Catalysts.
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THURSDAY - JUNE 5, 2008 - 06:59:30 PM
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The Flash Job Campaign - RESUME AFTER 5 DAYS
After the first days, where alot of time went with group discussions and everyone found their ways into or (for sofar 3 participants:) out of the project, the last two days have brought life and into the campaign.
The sofar 27 entries in the discussion forum - mostly from Catalysts announcing longer articles in their blogs - have had more than 400 viewings.
Marie, Visiting Catalyst, from Geneva:
Has among others focussed on the discrepancy between Turkisch and German people within the Neukoelln Community, and she has gathered alot of footage of film, ideas, text, objects which she will process and output in the coming days. She has for the time-being returned to Geneva, but might return for the last part up until our exhibition on June 15th. I filmed her while she told her story and showed objects like a lighter shaped as a bomb.
Patrick, OnSite Catalyst, from Berlin:
Had several meetings, which could develop into jobs and/or exciting interviews. Read more in his published texts.
Kristin, OnSite Catalyst, from Berlin:
Had the uplifting experience, that a teenager which she met in the Neukoelln park "Hasenheide" in the drug dealing scene, called her back because he would really like to have a job.
Fedele, Visiting Catalyst, from New York:
The job that Kristins teenager will do was set up by Fedele at the neighbours of our project studio-office.
Together with Steffi, Fedele had very acute experiences of the attitude towards teenagers among different people in Neukoelln.
Steffi, Visiting Catalyst, from Alpstadt, Germany:
Operated together with Fedele, and they found a job working in a garden. They are now in the process of finding a teenager to do it. They will in the coming days publish at wooloo. I videofilmed their story of experiences and reflections from wedensday, which I look foreward to share with you. We decided to spend time next week to edit the film together.
Suzanne, longDistance Catalyst, from Canada:
After having corresponded about the potential for a longDistance Catalyst being somewhere between Moscow and St.Petersburg, on monday, Suzanne send me her idea:
"I thought that her in Russia, I would set up flash jobs with some of the hotels and hotels that I am staying in where the people staying in accommodation would do the cleaning for the workers that normally would be working at these places. It might be a bit different socially, but still interesting since many of the people traveling will be from US and Canada as well as Europe. The people working in these hostels work 12 hours shifts, which is virtually unheard of in North America."
Amanda, longDistance Catalyst, from Chicago:
With Amanda I had also been emailing forth and back about the longDistance condition and she came up with the following idea:
"I want to produce with my crew, several short videos which in some extend will be ad's or publicity for and about the independent and entrepreneur business around the neighborhood, where Street Level is located. This have two implications, one is to understand with participants (teens), how the process of gentrification is implicit with the culture industry (since all this "new" business are related with music, coffee, tattoos, books, art galleries and their consumers are artist, students and yuppies), and how through this learning process, we can have conversations about benefits, negative impacts and changes, that the different communities perceive around this economical interaction.
So if i have to create a structure this could be:
-learning the basics of video (some of the students and participants from SL have already some experience with it.
-Getting ideas: Conversation about the changes, benefits and contradictions that gentrification brings -observing the surroundings: create a walk and talk with the entrepreneur business about the the idea of produce a short video about their store as an advertisement.
-pre-production time: General ideas, how are the users? what is the targeting? what are the benefits, if they are?, how it is personally connect with them?
-production time: Hand on the video production in three teams -post-production time: video editing and show the ad's in groups Finish the project and make the dvd for the costumers.
Shelton, Visiting Catalyst, from New York:
flew back to New York this morning, but managed to set up a job and have it executed on her last day.
She took alot of fotos, that together with the stories will be published within some days, and I made a video of her telling about the day, which I look foreward to share with you.
Anne, OnSite Catalyst, from Berlin:
One her first day in Neukoelln, she found a job for a teenager at a Rolls Royce and Bently dealer. Unfortunately the owner backed out of the deal as the definite schedule for the job was to be made. Anne has critical thoughts about the project, due to which she might not want to continue in the week to come.
Lucilla, Art and Chris left the project after various discussions about the role of the catalysts in relation to the framework of the project had taken place monday and tuesday.
Change, edited on Saturday June 7th:
Tonight I met Art. I thought he had gone back to Poland. Then we talked about his exit of the project, and realized, that none of us really wanted that he should leave it. It just happened in the flow of Lucillas (also Polish) exit. Art has gathered different footage and will publish this within the project.
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TUESDAY - JUNE 3, 2008 - 06:21:15 PM
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In my role as initiator of The Flash Job Campaign I was - during the planning phase - wondering about how to represent our process oriented project with all its unknowns and open ends in the final format of postings on the Internet. With a dozen of people engaged in complex action throughout two weeks and with our wish to attract users of wooloo to join the discussions, you can imagine, which clouds of fragments this could lead to.
Which role does an intervening person has at which moment of a social intervention and how do you represent the shifts in a publishing format, that includes not only the individual blogs of all catalysts and the discussion forum at wooloo, but also external online platforms and later maybe exhibitions?
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My intension of the output-structure for The Flash Job Campaign is to root content as closely as possible to the position it has within a social intervention, beginning by planning and ending at publication. This way content can be sorted and compared no matter how different the media in use or the content at stake is.
I first decided to set up 4 domains to represent all stages of a social intervention:
- My Intervention: how do you make contact to people? how do you understand your role?
- The Deal: How do you arrive at an agreement with people? How do they, you and third parties understand their contribution, their advantage, their goal? Specifically in The Flash Job Campaign: How much money for a job? How do the catalyst "sell" the idea of a job to teenage "makers" and to "clients"?
- The Act: The action itself - in The Flash Job Campaign: The job-situation: what happens? how do you see the situation, how do others see the situation?
- My Report: How do you communicate what happened? With what means do you form your report or publication?
Then, within every category I defined three different types of content:
Story: The stories that the catalysts pick up and experience
FAQ: The questions that the catalysts have and pick up
Tips&Tricks: The solutions that the catalysts see and their methodology
Every time a catalyst posts new content in his or her blog, he or she will go to the discussion forum and post a short text announcing the publication. In order to compile the 3 different types of content, we set up 3 threads named "story", "FAQ" and "Tips & Tricks".
As we had gotten the grip of this structure in the group, the catalyst Shelton introduced a clever practice: She would put within one blog-entry all the types of content that belonged to a certain stage of the social intervention while providing each chapter with a headline like Shelton_MyIntervention_story_02 or Shelton_MyIntervention_FAQ_01. The announcement of the blog-post in the FAQ discussion forum as well as the announcement in the Stories discussion forum would be linked to the same blog-entry, thus giving background to the case.
I am curious of how a next step of this content management will look.
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WEDNESDAY - MAY 28, 2008 - 01:12:26 PM
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The application process of the Flash Job Campaign has ended, and I am pleased to announce the participation by 5 onSite Catalysts (living in Berlin), 6 visiting Catalysts (USA, Canada, Poland, Switzerland, Italy and Germany), 2 longDistance Catalysts (1 from Mexico living in Chicago and 1 from Canada, being on the move somewhere between Moscow and St. Petersburg) and 2 writers (from England) from the project Open Dialogues, also a featured project at the NEW LIFE BERLIN festival. In the coming days the catalysts will introduce themselves in their individual BLOGs and from this point on, the discussion can start, where all registered users can join.
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WEDNESDAY - MAY 14, 2008 - 05:06:31 PM
Until June 15th, I will - in my role as initiator of THE FLASH JOB CAMPAIGN - concern this blog exclusively with this participative project featured at the NEW LIFE BERLIN art festival. Issues on organization and practical stuf will be dealt with via normal Email between participants. All other issues of conceptual nature will be treated in this blog and the blogs of all participants, in correspondence with the discussion forum.
With so far 8 approved participants from the USA, Canada, Poland and Germany, we are well equiped to run an exciting project. We do still accept applications, the DEADLINE is May 25th. Application is online from www.wooloo.org/flashjob
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