Session 1: Introductions

• Introduction to the program and course overview.
• A brief introduction to the concept complicity
• The lecturer will introduce the program and participants will introduce themselves. No prior preparation is necessary.

Session 2: Artist-curator relations

• Different examples of how curators and artists work
  
• Diplomacy; ethics and professionalism
  
• Hospitality: the friendly parasite
  
• Boundaries and clear communication
  
• Expectations, obligations, control (or not) who makes what
  
• Good fences make good neighbors: Responsibilities & Fees
  

Session 3: Deep Listening

• The first approach
  
• Reviewing portfolios
  
• Listening skills to get involved
  
• The role of imagination in conversations
  
• Getting the most out of studio visits
  

Session 4: Making-with as a methodology

• Sympoiesis: a term developed by Donna Haraway, a word for worlding-with, in company
  
• How to un-hierarchize conversations
  
• Creating complicities to be in the same boat
  
• Finding a common language and making glossaries for a better understanding.
  
• Fostering long-lasting relationships
  

Session 5: Creative processes

• Creative collaboration: different strategies and possibilities
  
• Deepening artistic processes: Pedagogical methodologies for understanding of the artists’ work
  
• Chance and Serendipity as tools to create
  
• Oracles and games to provoke unexpected conversations and uncover hidden paths