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This is an online event, information on how to join the event will be shared closer to the time.

In this edition of Resurface, Black Swan share their collective project researching and experimenting with ways of giving artists control over funding, value, and decision making. Artists and organisers Laura Lotti, Penny Rafferty and Calum Bowden (Black Swan / Trust) invite participants into a reading and discussion group, focusing on a series of texts read aloud followed by conversations to explore new thinking about trans-local collaboration and sustainable economics.

Black Swan is an experiment designed to rethink the mechanisms that produce new generations of creative practitioners, proposing collaborative institutional forms to allow a redefinition of what art can be. The single observation of black swans in the 17th century invalidated the ‘fact’ that only white swans existed, only to later be rendered explainable and predictable, according to the theorist of probability Nassim Taleb. Black Swan has a utopian and conspiratorial edge: some day self-governed and self-curated funding organisations will seem so obvious that people will imagine they always existed.