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Public Recordings makes performance projects that question the meanings and possibilities of shared space. We are an artist-led collective based in Toronto.
12/27/2025
There's no thanks w/out you -
no thanks w/out you It’s almost hush time. And I’m thinking about this year of Public Recordings. Call it a hinge year. A year of big changes but also (in a manner that surprises no one so much was me) a return to form.
01/31/2024
We are happy to announce that Playwrights' Workshop Montréal is hosting another edition of What's Collective? this winter. Participation is limited (but free!). Please see this open call—deadline is February 18th.
What's Collective? is an itinerant workshop about collective art practices that we have been sharing with folks since 2020. Each iteration stages an artistic exchange through which collective approaches to art making can be shared, examined, and renewed. The result is a gathering in which participants can more deeply consider their own artistic contexts, and develop new questions and ideas in response to the project’s title.
What’s Collective? is co-facilitated by Public Recordings associate artists. This one will be lead by Christopher Willes, Evan Webber and Brendan Jensen (with remote contributions from Bee Pallomina and Germaine Liu).
Over four sessions participants will explore systems and strategies borrowed from past Public Recordings projects and the personal practices of the facilitators, to uncover common issues of group work. The sessions will include physical practices, sound-making, listening, discussion, reading, writing, and reflection. The goal with What’s Collective? is to hold a space in which participants can reflect on past experiences of group work, better understand and articulate important aspects of collaborative and collective practices, and discover how we can work together better–inside and outside of art making.
We hope you can join us.
Exploring Practice: What's Collective? - Playwrights' Workshop Montréal A workshop with Public Recordings (Toronto) exploring strategies for working collectively within the artistic practices. Application Deadline: Sunday, FEBRUARY 18TH, 2024 AT 11:59PM EST. If you have any questions regarding accessibility, or require assistance with this application, please contact ac...
07/27/2022
We're headed to Glasgow soon to share a new iteration of What's Collective? - a research project and workshop we do on the subject of collective practice. Check out this call for participants from our host Take Me Somewhere. We hope you can join us.
This iteration of the project is co-facilitated by Bee Pallomina, Brendan Jensen, Christopher Willes and Evan Webber. We're also going to share this project in Canada soon, so please stay tuned!
Public Recordings — Take Me Somewhere Take Me Somewhere are delighted to invite Toronto based performance company Public Recordings to deliver their 3 day workshop What’s Collective?, exploring strategies in collective working within organising & creative practise.
06/29/2021
Mark your calendars because The Toronto Dance Community Love-In is offering up yet another heartfelt and exciting Summer Love-In Festival this year! It's all happening online July 5 - 17, and the line up features many incredible artists that we admire. See you there.
The open call for What’s Collective? Is now live. This online exchange is the The Toronto Dance Community Love-In's 4th iteration of Collective Practice Project.
The Love-In will invite six participants to join the process, prioritizing artists based in the GTA. This is a paid opportunity. The deadline is 9pm EST on March 1st, 2021.
Apply here: https://tolovein.com/open-call-whats-collective/
What’s Collective? offers a site to research ways and means of making that promote shared agency and authorship: a research space in which collective approaches to art making can be shared, examined, and renewed. Building on a reading of Jo Freeman’s 1970 text “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”, a reflection on her experiences in the US Women’s Movement, this online iteration of What’s Collective? will draw on the lived experience of participant artists and the five facilitators to explore common issues in group work. Participants will explore practical elements and systems borrowed from both individual and shared practices of the facilitator team, and consider how group processes can produce positive outcomes inside and outside of art.
Evan Webber, Christopher Willes, Brendan Jensen, Germaine Liu, and Bee Pallomina are currently in an online residency devising this new edition of the project. We look forward to sharing this process. And we also want to note that we will have further opperunities for folks to participate in this work in the near future.
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