Auto Italia, in collaboration with Federico Campagna, Huw Lemmey, Michael Oswell and Charlie Woolley, present We Have Our Own Concept of Time and Motion, a four-day event devoted to the idea and practice of self-organisation.

Featuring a temporary bookshop run by the new cooperative organisation Book Bloc, archival material selected by participating artists and commissioned furniture by Charlie Woolley, the exhibition space becomes a base for the production of new work and ideas. Through a series of events this project will investigate pre-conceived ideas of self-organisation and the role of gender politics within this. The project will examine models of production especially from the position of an artist-run space, how this fits within a neo-liberal framework and is potentially complicit in the growing precarity of all labour. The project title references the fourth issue of the publication Class War, which controversially introduced Autonomist ideas to the London anarchist scene in the mid-1980s.

Auto Italia, Book Bloc, and the Deterritorial Support Group hold workshops and panel discussions throughout the event, along with daily podcasts recorded and distributed online. A new publication outlines the live programme, along with interviews and discussions from Art Torrents and AAAAARG, amongst others. Michael Oswell contributes an additional supplement during the project in the exhibition space.

We Have Our Own Concept of Time and Motion comes from a network of artists formed around Auto Italia. It is a product of artists finding affinity with one another’s projects, ideas and aspirations. It draws on the intangible expertise, knowledge and network around Auto Italia to produce new information that can develop a wider narrative for the future of grassroots projects and artist-led organisations.