Caroline Woolard is an artist and organizer based in Brooklyn, New York who works between the solidarity economy and conceptual art. Making media, sculptures, furniture, and events, Woolard co-creates spaces for critical exchange, forgotten histories, and desire inducing narratives. Her practice is research-based and collaborative. Sensing that each project transforms the people who make it, Woolard opens spaces for co-production rather than toiling alone. In 2009, Woolard co-founded three organizations to support collaborative cultural production; three long-term infrastructure projects that support short-term artworks: a studio space, OurGoods.org, and Trade School.coop. Working with conceptual artists, educators in the solidarity economy movement, and technologists in start-ups, Caroline Woolard labors for political economies of cooperation.
Wound: Study Center for Group Work
If democracy is an endless meeting, then how might we gather together more beautifully? People in the United States have few experiences of shared decision making at school, at work, or at home. To move toward democracy at work, as Platform Cooperativism requires, a musculature of cooperation must be built. Caroline Woolard will speak about WOUND, a study center for lifelong practices of listening and cooperation. Woolard will argue that practice spaces are essential to workplace democracy, as continuous education and continuous organizing go hand in hand.