Recirculations redirects attention to the ongoing initiatives people have created for support and survival in this time, through contributions by fellow cultural workers, whether professionally or informally. 

The idea is that contributed works are presented on this page alongside cultural workers’ specific “asks” to encourage support for ongoing community efforts.

We’ve already collated a growing list of ongoing efforts and initiatives that you may support on the Amplifications page, here: softwallstuds.space/Amplifications

We encourage visitors viewing the works here to support the efforts listed at the link above or at the “asks” section below, in your own capacity. Upon doing so, one may ‘register’ as a supporter in the next section.

There is no buying, selling, or auctioning of the works/contributions on this page. Instead, show your support:

1. Contribute to ongoing efforts listed at the Amplifications page, or at the “Asks” by cultural workers. Do this in your own capacity, whether via funds, groceries, hygiene products, secondhand IT equipment, time and labour, or any other needs.

2. Keep some form of documentation of your support (for example, a transaction advice or a personal testimony).

3. ‘Register’ as a supporter by filling up this form with your contact details, your mode of support, and your documentation: https://forms.gle/b649yN4BKYa7MNag7

4. We’ll keep you updated via email when your support has been registered: You’ll be provided the instructions to access supporter only works, updated over new asks and contributions and works that have changed across time. Thank you!

Parameters for contributions: We are interested in residues—annotations, reference pictures, archives, leftovers, b-sides, drafts et al. of your creative practice—and/or in entwinement with our respective lives—that perhaps feel especially resonant at this point in time.

A thought keyed into “notes”; the first stroke of a downscaled painting practice; a child’s tantrum; daily rituals; a practice seen in a new way. We wish to draw attention to the poetics and temporality of leftovers, wastes, ephemera, errata;

Material scatters that seem unimportant, unfinished, but which nonetheless fill the substrata and periphery of our lives, while also drawing attention to very real and urgent needs in this point in time.

These are nudges towards reframing, repurposing and rehabilitating, in part not to overburden individuals in respective times of stress, but also to tap into an energy of reflection, recontextualisation and play. We hope this exercise is one way of directly addressing material needs at this point in time, while taking creative coordinates and re-orientations from the submissions that complexify our understandings of this time and the structures that surge forward (or recede), hopefully forming a fretwork that leaven, breathe, break, heal, splice, think and feel anew.

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Alongside your work, your “asks” will be published. You could provide your patreon or paynow details, if you need financial support to tide through this difficult period; list down organizations that you would like for people to support; or an action you wish supporters would perform.

If you have a work you would like to contribute, please fill up this form:
https://forms.gle/iGusQ9CoNsGkNaxi9

We will keep you posted, and thank you!