Submission for #Correspondence:
Title: Global Swarming
Collective: ANDPress

Project Description:
Global Swarming the framework ANDPress worked within during its residency at
einBuch.Haus, between 25 and 30 May 2020. During the residency, development
process of the artist collective was staged in the gallery. This topic points to a
decentralized approach but at the same time underscore the group dynamics.
These elements are embodied in the exhibition towards the end of the residency. It
addresses individual and collective authorship and ways of working.

Correspondence:
Consider the infrastructure involved that enables correspondence – be it digital or
analogue communication between two entities, even an intimate message has its
publicness. Conversely, the seemingly auto-pilot of a swarm embodies a concerted yet
uncoordinated movement of private individuals. ANDPress´s Global Swarming was
developed during the global lockdown time. The process ran parallel to the time
when ´safe space´ was squarely defined as 1.5 meter social distancing. Meanwhile,
the topic Swarming delineates a safe space for the group. The auto-piloting manner
of movement in swarms is delved into by the artists´ reflection and deliberation on
hierarchy, authorship, coordination, dependency and group intelligence.
What can we learn from this phenomenon in order to address group dynamics in
collaborative (artistic) processes? With the group´s chosen medium - book, what
possibilities does the material, format and its production techniques open to reflect
such processes?

Following a decentralized approach and proceed, as experiment, with openness and
playfulness, ANDPress mounted its <<Mindmap>> on the glass window of
einBuch.haus. It charts the development process that began with keywords – a
intuitive response to swarming. The score card booklet of <<Swarming Exercise>>
collectively created to engage with audience incidentally celebrates connectedness
in time of self-isolation. Each artist finds a different point of entry to work with the
topic to develop and present their response as/ to group dynamics. 

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