based on workshops with: Judith Westerveld, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, KAJET, Karl Moubarak, Maike Hemmers


[autonomy as politics]
- autonomy = political concept
- autonomy as democracy and liberation; vs. dictatorship and authoritarianism
- artmaking as a moment/subjective experience of autonomy

[autonomy vs. social systems]
- autonomy = is in relation to societal dependencies
- how can a squatter claim autonomy when they are dependent on public infrastructures (healthcare, transport...)?
- one can be simultaneously autonomous and dependent on an institution
- you can stretch what is allowed and expected but ultimately have to exist within a system

[cultural autonomy]
- conceptual understanding of autonomy: can one maintain an autonomous position in constant struggles over power and cultural hegemony?
- having to write and speak in English means to compromise one's autonomy
- all works needs to come with a disclaimer: autonomy has been compromised, a second skin is worn

[institutional autonomy]
- institutional autonomy: to realize projects with minimum interference by others 
- funding can allow or compromise autonomy
- structural dependence on funding means to lose autonomy

[public vs. private art]
- arts and culture are a public service in the Netherlands.  This means: you have to create joy, you are not allowed to be angry. Your art is meant for the middle-class, suburban Dutch household; otherwise it's private market art
- the question is who can afford to be autonomous?

[individual and collective art] 
- autonomy shifts from individual to collective work after feeling alone in one's autonomous practice
- autonomy began as individual work, but then became placed in larger contexts
- broadening one's autonomous practice by making more connections
- artistic research helps in learning to work collaboratively where multiple voices and perspectives are important
- using open frameworks to collaborate on equal footing
the new experience how quickly one can create in a group of people

[bodies, spaces, objects]
- an attitude of “Being in relation with…”: autonomy exists in the relationships between bodies, objects and spaces.
- And there is autonomy of objects and spaces themselves
What does it mean to understand something we consider non-living as autonomous? - ecological autonomy.
- Animals have been treated as objects, women have been treated as objects, people have been treated as objects, and these things continue to happen.