How to: disturb the public, a week-long residency and workshop, launches with a public event—and drinks—in the CCA’s garage. Join us and the eight cultural agonists who will be investigating the latent potential for public programming, to lead by upsetting expectations—to disturb the public and also the institution.

Events are acts of solidarity around ideas. When a normal day includes both mass protests and individual experiences of digital content on couches, it becomes harder to predict turnout and it is more significant when we do turn out (and where). Yet despite a proliferation of hosts—from palatial cultural institutions traditionally oriented toward education, to nomadic producers who just want to leave a good-looking digital corpse for others to consume—it is remarkable how standardized public program formats still are.

How to: disturb the public will take place from 21 to 27 July.