• Do-It-Together
• support for actions, and then direct one-to-one, outreach, then other requests at our discretion. We are not a service, and we will only take on work that we and the Art Group deem to be appropriate.
• Outreach Outreach Outreach, and spreading through the country. This has been the Blockers greatest triumph. This work needs to be continued at the highest priority, as a tool to create a mass movement.
• making actions look beautiful and communication of our messaging and cultural values.
• the creation of fantastic photographs indirectly by the set dressing of actions (see above).
• creation of banners and flags as designed by the Art Group.
• making of patches which help us look cohesive and give us a sense of belonging.
• supporting "xr printworkshop" (Paris 68 Redux)
• the co-ordinators role is one of service; to facilitate the most productive and joyful work of the volunteers.
• the Art Factories' primary role is making of assets that communicate top level messaging and designs, straight from the Art Group.
• the creation of the optimum work environment so that rebel volunteers can come and do meditative making in an atmosphere of constructive teamwork.
Essential factors involved in this are :
* tell everybody everything
* provide tools, instruction and space for stress free work
* everybody cooks together and eats together
* the Anarchist Library / Anarchist Book Club - a revolutionary reading a day keeps the fascists away.
* let the volunteers self organise, teach them autonomy, bearing in mind that some people want to be told what to do.
* a peaceful working environment without stress and continual chatter, people need to be able to concentrate and get into what they are making.
• the Art Factory is not necessarily a creative space. The Art Group is in many ways a design group and the assets made in the factory should adhere to these designs with the most efficient and economical use of materials, making us technicians. The coords are therefor not necessarily in a creative role of dreaming up ideas and telling people what to do, but a resource on the best way to make things.
• there are other channels being developed where anyone can propose the making of assets which could possibly be made by the factory, or improvements made in what we do, after being approved by the Art group or a similar group of experts, and budgetary factors.
• to provide a model for the Art Factories or Art Groups, for others to use as a starting point. We are not special, we want to stress our down-to-earth all working together utility, the opposite of an eliteist creative art group (obvs there are some contradictions here, which we can have fun clarifying).
• support other groups to set up art factories with advice, blocks, training etc... throughout the World, encouraging them to learn from us and make something better, and more appropriate for their place and time.
• the creation and distribution of digital and printed assets such as zines, making plain what we do and how we do it.
• support other groups in using the London creative space, and making use of the equipment and special tools (giant woodblocks) that we have access to.
• support the development of the Blockers into Repair Cafes, and then making of listening spaces where we can all share and educate each other. For the Repair Cafe we will team up with electronics fixers etc...
!!! We can set up a group for dreaming up art-action projects, but this should be a seperate enterprise. I (Miles) see my role in the Art Group and my role as an artist as essentially seperate from my role in the Art Factory, although I see making tools-blocks and advising on how to make things as an Art Factory role.
!!! Care should be taken when we talk about our work to remove our ego I keep seeing people who do good work making themselves look foolish as their egos grow out of control. For the creation of a better world we should try to be best practise, stay humble, humility, walk quietly, do the work.
!!! Care should be taken with interviews and social media posts to remove the ego and stress the Do-It-Together.
