PACTO will encourage a dynamic dialogue around how artistic action can be a vehicle for enquiry and an apparatus for creating lines of agonistic discourse and empathy building. PACTO is looking to pose a proposition: What is communal negotiation of autonomy? 

PACTO is an academic year long research program starting on September 2017. Divided into focused months where each participant's research would take a central position within the groups collective response to the research statement. Each participant will propose a line of research in response to the current central proposition and their ideal residency location during one of the months. This location could be anything from embedding within a particular community, working in a specific geography, hanging out at your local pub or bar, a carpentry workshop, a lawyer’s office, wherever the participant believes best suits their individual research contribution. PACTO will support the proposals and as a group we will collectively develop the research methods and help make the residencies happen logistically. 
There will also be 3 residential weeks, bringing all the participants together: one at the beginning of the process, one in the middle and one at the end of the year, where we will all cohabit in the same place and discuss PACTO and the body of collective research that is born from it.