The workshop will combine presentations of historical and contemporary models with daily hands on activities suitable for all art forms. Historical models such as wonder cabinets, medical libraries, natural history museums will be examined for their cultural and political significance and the ongoing obsessive desire for the consumption of other cultures and life forms.

Radical changes in the nature of work have lead to the current tendency to regard curatorial, artistic and cultural work as indicative of the ways in which all work is increasingly (forced to be) creative, flexible and precarious - making artists exemplary contemporary workers.

Through selected projects of contemporary artists and groups we will explore the increased sharing of skills and expertise as well as the rising importance of communicative interconnections in what the autonomists call the ’social factory’.