Conflict Studies is a new public project that provides a social space for disagreement, discussion, and offer (if only the potential for) resolution. Conflict Studies assumes that a healthy social sphere can be judged by its ability to accommodate and even foster disagreement, and not by its capacity to resolve conflict.
The project aims to highlight the social rituals of commiseration, conciliation, and conflict. Over a pint of conflict
ale, participants will rehash, reargue, and recite an argument they’ve had in the past. Witnessed by friends, the disagreement will become a public record, transcribed for a forthcoming publication that will explore the role of conflict in everyday life.
Project participants will be selected from this call and notified by July 30, 2016. In exchange for rehashing this argument, you and the person you’ve disagreed with, along with the witnesses you bring, I will buy all of you beer for as long as it takes to rehash the argument.
To participate, please answer the following questions at the link below:
[contact-form][contact-field label=’Name’ type=’name’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Email’ type=’email’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Location (City, Province)’ type=’text’/][contact-field label=’1. Who are you disagreeing with?’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’2. What is the nature of the disagreement?’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’3. How long has this disagreement been going on for?’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’4. Who will you bring to witness the recital of this disagreement?’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’5. How often do you see the person you’ve disagreed with?’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Please check this box if you agree to the following terms: your participation in this project means that you will be documented, recorded, and your likeness will be captured for the purposes of discussing, promoting, and exhibiting this project. You grant unrestricted license to Justin Langlois and the participating galleries to use this documentation as they see fit in perpetuity.’ type=’checkbox’ required=’1’/][/contact-form]