Us JOAAP folks facilitated a conversation about the feelings that come
up when people work together. We invited collaborative members from the
Echo Park Time Bank, Fallen Fruit. We did this at the Public School.
This event was done in collab with the Performing Economies exhibit at
FOCA.
Matias of Fallen Fruit shares how money can effect group dynamics even in utopian projects.
Lisa Gerstein, an organizer of the Echo Park Time Bank get frustrated when talking about the difficulty of competing agendas in group work. Autumn Rooney and Lisa Gerstein were there representing the timebank.
Another Time Banker demonstrates the constant need to work as negotiator during group work.
People attending the discussion thoughtfully consider.
Some of the goals of the discussion.
Notes and quotes from the discussion:
Managing is wrangling?
-it's not what I want to do.
-your Job is to manage a collective.
"I don't want to tell you to wash your socks"
"He (sic) never reads my email"
Finding a space to not get emotionally involved
Fights over crediting
How to negotiate relationships?
"We are all hear to be happy"
How do you manage expectations?
"What triggers what?"
Managing time lines
Fear of imposition
How do you live with something that isn't your idea?
More content in fight... less emotion
FAIR FIGHTING
Don't avoid conflict but learn to manage it succesfully
Moving away from "resentments" and to more specfics.
Everything is all of ours.
How time is valued
-conficts arise around this issue
"that's easy for you to say. You have a job."
"When the object becomes commodity that is a moment of stress."
SCALE AS A STRESSOR
Anxiety- Bill Paying
Whoever has money puts that in.
The disparity between $ is sucky
A disparity of LOVE
Internal/ External
Resentful
Trust
Furious discussion
Everyone's an asset
Sharing vs Holding
Altruism- Giving
OVERCOMING ALIENATION -> FEAR
-> Guilt
TRUST- > RELEARNING "TRIBALISM"
"Work Load is too much"
"We are volunteers"
"We don't need to be rigid"
"Manegerial"- conflict resolution
FIGURING OUT HOW TO LET IT GO
conflicts- "we are a happy collective though we conflict." "with a group of 100 personalities people require attention"
Freud "Money = Love"
"what is private what is public?"
"Where not Stalinists"
'We sit together to make Jam"
"working with strangers is difficutl"
negotiating doesn't create conflict.
Labor is easy (sharing?)
Jam is the excuse for temporary group relations.
Technology as mediating device-hard to transcend to get to day to day
Fear of crossing boundaries.
guilt of talking to much
Money is supposed to take emotions out of it.
Interpersonality of exchange vs the personal nature of time exchange?
How your value your time your personal worth and how you measure Self Value
The incentive of giving