THE BREAKFAST CLUB 24/7 on Clubhouse

Description

Discussion Club for Transdisciplinary Sharing /// THE BREAKFAST CLUB BACKGROUND /// TBC
The Breakfast Club was founded in November 2013 by Ines Dantas, Mathieu Wellner and Mirko Hector over a breakfast meeting aiming for the exchange of ideas between people from different disciplines who meet over an early breakfast.
We meet different guests on site and online in different places and time zones.
The Breakfast Club has several inspirations. The early format is similar to the HUO concept of the ‘Brutally Early Club’, and we take inspiration from Louise Bourgeois's 'Sunday Salons', from The ‘Planetary Sculpture Supper Club’ and from ‘NU’ zine's 'Round Tables'. We also take Jacques Derrida concept on board on the limits of Digestion. The Breakfast Club (TBC) was the title of a film by John Hughes in the 1980s, following the principle that when ‘you isolate a group of people in a room, you have them talk, and eventually they exchange truths about themselves and come to new understandings’. In our case, we invite practitioners and theorists in different disciplinary fields for a productive discussion and provocative feedback.
Due to the nomadic nature of The Breakfast Club, the sessions are frequently based in different cities of the world. We have hosted sessions on: ‘Decay’, ‘Collaboration’, ‘Change’, ‘Validation’, ‘Happiness’, ‘Fundamentals’, ‘Migration’, ‘Data’, 'Sustainability', 'Equality', 'Growth'…

We discuss a topic following a guiding sentence. Each guest starts by picking up on this sentence, explaining a current project they are doing or something they have been involved in. It is a chaotic, non-linear conversation, just like having breakfast with a group of friends, however some guests don't know each other previously. For instance, in the first session the guiding sentence was: 'Tanzt, tanzt sonst sind wir verloren' by Pina Bausch ('Dance, dance otherwise we are lost'), in the second session the sentence was: 'Language takes us on an excursion of its own. And if that language is not ours, we are definitely in foreign territtory' by Beatriz Colomina. Here, we discussed creative collaborations across disciplines.

After each formal scheduled session each guest writes up notes and these are compiled in what we call ‘cartographies of the breakfast’. In Clubhouse the rooms will be more fluid and each member can start their own as long as alligned with the values of TBC. Get in touch with one of the founders for mentorship or troubleshooting.
Respect all opinions even if you do not agree.:
Only interrupt if you have a pressing comment to add.:
Do not explicitly offend any individual.: