1 ☕️👌 chit chat time (15 mins)
2 👋🇼🇪🇱🇨🇴🇲🇪🙋 (5 mins)
- 🙏 ADL - Participants
- What?
- format: hybrid mode, and today's schedule
- space: gathering all experts -> future translation/publishing
- 𓆡🌊🐬 🐳𓆝𓆟𓆜𓆛𓆞🌊🦈🐡🐟🐠 Sea: our relationship with ocean, the specific context of the South China Sea, the ownership issues/disputes, commons
- Goal of today: How can the South China Sea be co-managed by the people around the world(beyond nations)?
2.3 👋Who are we (subject position)? (10 mins)
- Winnie (HK) & Tzutung (TW)
- background
- why Taiwan/ Hong Kong situation bring us together and do Forkonomy()?
2.3.1 Jumbo (1976) @ HK Food Culture
- Floating restaurant in Aberdeen Harbour
- 2003: renovation - a theme park with an entertainment center, a Chinese cooking school, and a Chinese tea garden.
- Jun 2022: capsized in the South China Sea
- Aug 2022: Docks in South Korea port
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/08/26/tugboat-that-towed-hong-kongs-jumbo-floating-restaurant-docks-in-south-korea-eaterys-whereabouts-unknown/, https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hong-kong-jumbo-kingdom-restaurant-farewell/index.html
2.3.2 🥹 Hong Kong Political Movement
2014 - Umbrella Movement | 2019–2020 HK protests | 2020:National Security Law
- Freedom of speech, press, expression
- Increasing blurry red lines
- Digital/Self censorship
2.3.3 HK🇭🇰/TW🇹🇼
- Many HKers went to TW in 2020+
- Share same traditional chinese (written) language
- Threats & Concerns
2.4.1 TzuTung
2.4.2 TzuTung
3 🤼🏽♂️🫂 Ice breaking (45 mins)
post-it are set next to each seats
- self introduction + what's your feeling right now? (each 3 mins) Lee Tzu Tung @ feeling / Winie Soon @ feeling bright
- two true, one fake + something relating to the sea (20 mins)
4 👀Presentation🌎🚢🌊 (30 mins)
Land Acknowledgement
We [I] would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is used in many ways in Korea. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work/present in this land which consist of diverse history background.
Compare with Taiwan's Indigenous Land Acknowledgement
4.1 Forkonomy()
How to buy/own/mint one millilitre of the ocean from the South China Sea? (guided by such a speculative question that takes the figurative and pirated material— the South China Sea as our object of study)
#geopolitics #FLOSS #commons #ownership #transaction #water #queering
Image credit: Pete
4.2 South China Sea GeoPolitics
boundaries are constructed only in relation to land: three-mile zone and the two 12 miles international boundaries follow the coast line (UNCLOS 10 December 1982).
4.2 South China Sea Politics
Why choosing South China Sea as a figurative and pirated object (of study) to think about forkonomy, digital commons and piracy?
- Geopolitical site & colonial power (not only about the sea but natural resources e.g huge oil and gas reserves, economic trade, international relations, space, rights/power struggles)
- the sea gives an enormous trade value, military value, and world power.
- Indigenous territory issues (land/Sea/rights/ownership/contract)
- Buying/Owning (contract/licensing)
- Commoning (beyond privatized and state-owned property)
- resource for the communities
- grassroots
- code of conduct: how to operate in a fair, open, diverse, and more equal fashion
4.3 News/Research
- mediterranean history
- culture (Sino/ Java) vs GDP
- America in Pacific Rim Era
- Korea's situation (what we've know so far: dokodo and yellow sea dispute, nationalism, relation with China - Japan)
4.3.2 News/Research
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Article 121 - Regime of islands:“Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf” -> "Erecting physical structures and placing military personnel on barren rocks has become a tool to turn rocks into inhabited islands with a claim to suzerainty." (Hans-Dieter Evers 2014)
4.3 Forkonomy() -ver 1
4.3.1 Forkonomy() -ver 1
4.3.2 Forkonomy() -ver 1
contract, code of conduct
4.4 Forkonomy() - ver 2
As part of Dear Block Chen @ Solid Art, Taipei
What does it mean by mining and co-owning one millilitre of the ocean from the South China Sea (beyond Taiwan context)?
- NFT: Based upon ver 1's agreed price and co-owned type
- decentralized network and protocols
- selling 1 millilitre of water (ownership via contract)
- contract (EN, CN, Code)
- Bash (1989 - is a Unix shell and command language written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software)
- unlimited edition (vs limited edition) -> unlimited water owners
- challenge the notion of privatized assets in the capitalistic economy
4.5 Forkonomy()
Forkonomy = Forking + Economy (ver 1 + 2 + 3)
In the project Forkonomy(), we are interested in rethinking the politics of our contemporary economic and technical-cultural systems. By employing free and open source software and decentralized protocols, we set the participatory project as a commoning ship for people of the pacific who want to queer and care the matters of hierarchies, ownership, gendered labour division, as well as to fight against the constant threats of maintaining a high degree of autonomy regarding the land and the sea. Forkonomy() shall sail the economy and autonomy into a queer ocean of freedom and the sea of commonwealth.
Goal: How can the South China Sea be co-managed by the people around the world(beyond nations)?
5 ☕彡 ꞎᥑ𐌊୧ ᥑ ᑳɽ୧ᥑ𐌊 ☕彡 (15 mins)
6 💰🔨⚖Capitalism and Time - Pricing the South China Sea (45 mins)
💥 Buy One milliliter of the South China Sea 💥
- Pass the 🌊water🌊 around
- Exercise to price South China Sea in different logic.
6.1 Questionnaire Forkonomy() - version 3 on the South China Sea (8 mins)
6.2 💰🔨Participating The South China Sea Cooperative Preparation committee (10 mins)
1.61 NTD = 70.06 KRW
6.3 👀Questionnaire Discussion (15 mins)
- Your decision:
- Why you chose to buy/ not to buy?
- Why chose X in your questionnaire?
- Pricing:
- In the first questionnaire, why set the South China Sea in such a price?
- How do you feel about the ways of the price attached to the South China Sea?
- Responsibility:
- Do you think there's ecological/ economical responsibility relating to the price you offered?
- What do you think the relating ecological and economical responsibility might be?
- Ownership:
- What it means to you by owning the water? and if an ocean can be owned by many people?
8 ☕彡 ꞎᥑ𐌊୧ ᥑ ᑳɽ୧ᥑ𐌊 ☕彡 (15 mins)
9 Taxation & Management (80 mins)
The South China Sea Cooperative Preparation committee
Building upon your previous concerns on the ocean price/matters ->
To produce a queer ocean X: a manifesto, love letter, manual kind of thing that is expressed in the format of a zine
Goal of today: How can the South China Sea be co-managed by the people around the world(beyond nations)?
9.1 Zine/manifesto/love letter/manuel
Our ref point (also in the Forkonomy() book):
- Love letters (1952), remade by Nick Montfort here
- 25 ways to make love to the earth, other manifesto list here
- Queering Damage
9.2 Group work 1 (Using the wall) - 10 mins (at 10 mins ppl can exchange)
- Would you use military force to manage your ocean property?
1-2. Would you give out your ocean ownership to others for managing an ocean for you? （20 mins）
Stakeholder Chart:
9.2 Group work 1 (Using the wall) - 20 mins (at 10 mins ppl can exchange)
- What do you want to do with the ocean? How do you make love/date with the ocean? (20 mins)
2-2
Glossory Chart:
terms:
Queer / Damage / Repair/Resist / Commons / Management / Stakeholder
9.2.1 Group work 1 sharing - 20 mins
9.3 Group work 2 - zine + post-it
Why zine?
- self-publishing
- DIY ethos
- rising from the feminist, punk and activist movements of the 1980s
- share personal and political views and are easy to read and cheap to buy (many are free)
- widely distributable and accessible manner
- artistic practice
- fosters community, sharing, collaboration and innovation.
9.3.1 Folding zine + materials
- Material: post-its, A3 papers, color pens -> zines
- Folding (everyone pick an A4 paper)
9.4 Group work 2 - post-it: 30 mins
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Next step: If you are asked to produce a “Queer Love Ocean X (Manual/manifesto/statement)” for the South China Sea, what would be the elements?
- 2 in a group
- each group responsible for 1 page of the zine
- put your ideas/statements/drawing/visual/x into post-its
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Discuss the element/piece
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Compile the zine
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Outcome: The zine will be shared on the public page + with previous participants/committee members (including Taiwan environmental NGOs, Indigenous activists, marine biologists, policymakers etc.)
10 Recap + final discussion and reflection (5 mins)
🙏Thank you for supporting the project🙏