Clara Balaguer is a cultural worker. She is the coordinator of the Social Practices course at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam and teaches Experimental Publishing at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. In the Philippines, she co-founded Hardworking Goodlooking, a cottage industry publishing hauz, and The Office of Culture and Design, a research platform and residency program that articulated cultural programming with rural and underserved communities. Through her projects, she is interested in the value of vernacular material culture and processes of collectivizing authorship.

The Fleshy Nature of the Body Public

Recording this as a demonstration of an editorial and writing process that I have been working and thinking through called Channelling... a form of deep listening and it consists of reenacting, something that you are hearing in real time, reenacitng in a slight delay, and allowing your body to act as a vessel of amplification for what you are listening to: the words, the gestures, and sounds that let you become a sort of vessel...a way to carry other people’s voices and give yourself over to them.

Vitality ZOOMBOMB: Gently Implacable Breaks for Your (Not so) Boring Zoom Meeting

This video was created for an exercise in gently insisting on breaks during (long and short, boring or intense) Zoom meetings, as a collaboration between Karlin Boelens-van der Klink (WdKA Vitality Coach) and WdKA Social Practices.The mechanics for its use are simple. In a regular work meeting, every 30mins, a Vitality Zoombomber crashes the meeting and, without saying a word, takes over screenshare functions to play ths video. Meeting participants should be gently briefed on the exercuse when the work session begins, ideally even meeting the Vitality Zoombomber briefly over auto only (everyone else can have their cameras on). Vitality Zoombomber is not part of the workgroup and exits the meeting after the audio introductoin.

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