• Everything you do from the heart is good.
• If you prefer to do nothing, stay present and sustain the group energy.
• Enjoy the process. There is no success or failure.
• Respecting other beings, present or not, human or more-than-human.
• Taking time to listen.
• Asking before assuming.
• Avoiding to speak for others.
• Caring for language gaps. This is a multi-lingual environment.
• Accepting differences. Appreciating divergence in pace, points of view, backgrounds, references, needs and limits.
• Recognizing that words and ways of speaking impact people in various ways.
• Asking for explicit consent before sharing photographs or recordings on proprietary social networks.If we run into conflict with one of these guidelines, or when we see that others are flagging our behaviour:
• we do not fuel the conflict.
• we speak with each other.
• we step out of the room and breathe.
• we apologise.
• we come back with a renewed engagement to collaborate.
• if we continue to transgress the guidelines, we will be asked to leave.
Note: These guidelines are adapted from the Constant’s Collaboration Guidelines: https://constantvzw.org/wefts/orientationspourcollaboration.en.html
Anaïs Berck was launched by An Mertens in October 2019. The idea of the project grew out of An’s 13 year long commitment as a member of the coordinating team and activities of Constant.
Constant is a non-profit, artist-run organisation based in Brussels since 1997 and active in-between art, media and technology. Constant develops, investigates and experiments. Constant departs from feminisms, copyleft, Free/Libre + Open Source Software and works on those vectors through an intersectional perspective. More about Constant: https://constantvzw.org/site/-About-Constant-7-.html.