What is a comfortable distance from a matter of concern and what does it mean to you?

How does positionality create a difference of meaning of a similarly formulated method?
Example: thinking of majority inclusion in cultural production and favoring a small but meaningful participation (exclusive? Or meaningful?)

Do you get to speak if you are distant from a problem? If, not, then who does?

What is the value of an internal conversation that is in a technical language specific to a craft?

How can an internal conversation grow to include different languages and experiences?

How can a concept be furthered into work in an accessible way?

Is anything that centers the people as an activity inherently populist?

Does any space have the potential to have multiple entry points? Show us something.

Is there a real possibility for an undercommons in an institution?

Is there such a thing as being non-complicit (complicit in being subversive in discourse but obedient in daily procedures)? If we are complicit, what can we do with that?

Do you prefer the ephemeral or the expansive/long term?

How are different layers of power invited into a project?
Example: thinking of not only the institution but also the state in scheduling for an exhibition

What is grounded public engagement? How can it occur within layers of censorship?

What is the difference between the freedoms of a physical space and a virtual space?

Where’s the audience? How do we talk to each other (makers of work and audience of it)?

What is the role of a cultural institution as a political imaginary?

What’s the relationship/difference between the political sphere and state politics? Does the distinction between the political and politics hold? Is the distinction elusive?

Can we justify the institution on any level? What do we expect from institutions at this point? Taking into account that we inhabit a critical perspective?

How can an institution respond to a public conversation without co-opting it?

How can we solidify something that neoliberal work arrangements diluted?

How can we trace the afterlife of a grand scale event?

What does a theoretical space represent as an imaginative space (with its potential and shortcomings)

To what extent can the public space of the institution function as a site of the generation of citizenship, or as a space for counter hegemonic practices: a site where the political is enacted?

How has the public sphere been mobilised in different institutional models you have encountered? Can you make a case in favour of one of those models?

Can we defend the public sphere as a universal proposition?

Can we still use the term ‘democracy’ in good faith? Especially bearing in mind that since the 90s it has been presented within the frame of a neoliberal project. 

What sort of consequence did COVID have for our understanding of locality/proximity/distance and how they function?

There’s no easy mobilisation of the pronoun “we”. Who’s included, who’s excluded?

Is the concept of internationalism still relevant? How do we understand transnational solidarity in light of the current global moment?

How has the pandemic impacted the question of what we want the state to be? 

How would you want the institution to operate?

What are resources? Who do you like to work with?