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File:Archiving Activism in the Digital Age 2024.pdf
Archiving Activism in the Digital Age
Edited by Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney
"The archiving of social movements has long contributed to their cultural impact. Given the wide availability of digital tools for the making and storing of records, ‘autonomous’ archiving is today becoming a significant part of the activist toolkit itself. In parallel, professional archiving has undergone significant change, leading to more participatory and community-based practices that belie the idea of ‘the Archive’ as an institution merely serving the interests of the state.
This collection brings together academics, archivists, and activists to explore some of the many new sites where activist archives are being produced at the present time. With case studies ranging between Turkey, Afghanistan, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, and the US, it offers new insights into the opportunities and challenges posed by digitization as well as into the tensions between autonomy and long-term sustainability. It shows above all the potential of archives to become sites of renewed critical engagement."
Contributors: Michelle Caswell, Özge Çelikaslan, Rosemary Grennan, Flore Janssen, Kera Lovell, Eline Pollaert, Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen, Paul van Trigt, Daniel Villar-Onrubia.
Publisher Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, May 2024 INC Theory on Demand #52 ISBN 9789083328287 Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 License 153 pages PDF (9mb), EPUB (9mb)
2024-05-17
File:Promiscuous Infrastructures Practicing Care 2024.pdf
Promiscuous Infrastructures: Practicing Care
Edited by Michelle Teran, Marc Herbst, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Renée Turner and The Promiscuous Care Study Group
"Promiscuous Infrastructures brings together more than twenty contributors—art and social practitioners, researchers, and educators—who have been researching and writing about caring infrastructures and promiscuous care for the past several years. This interdisciplinary publication comprises essays, visual schematics and scores, personal letters, recipes, and conversations, which emerge from the work of the Promiscuous Care Study Group, situated around the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.
Promiscuous Infrastructures calls for an ethics of care and attentiveness to one another within and beyond the shared context of a structurally dispassionate institution that requires innovation, expediency, and accountable results. The promiscuity it explores is defined by a collective refusal of efficiency, and favors generosity, care, love, and attention. Together, the group and their interlocutors address themes ranging from institutional change, communal responsibility and accountability practices, mental health and collective care, hospitality and hosting, soil, counter-histories, intergenerational learning, joy and collective grief and the poetics of imagining otherwise."
With contributions from: Carla Arcos, Jacquill Basdew, Selma Bellal, Seecum Cheung, Cooking Something Up, Yoeri Guépin, Marc Herbst, Czar Kristoff P., Pablo Lerma, Judith Leijdekkers, Carmen José, Edwin Mingard, Skye Maule-O’Brien, Lola Olufemi, Laurence Rassel, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Reading Room Rotterdam, Kari Robertson, Yusser al Obaidi, Michelle Teran, Renée Turner, and Julia Wilhelm.
Publisher Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Leipzig, and WdKA Research Center, Rotterdam, May 2024 ISBN 9798218366827 Creative Commons BY—NC—ND 4.0 License 285 pages PDF (38mb)
2024-05-16
File:Home Works A Cooking Book Recipes for Organising with Art and Domestic Work 2020.pdf
(Home Works) - A Cooking Book: Recipes for Organising with Art and Domestic Work
Edited by Jenny Richards and Jens Strandberg
"Home Works – A Cooking Book: Recipes for Organising with Art and Domestic Work expands on cooking with art and food as a process for coming together and building collectivity. The book highlights the art and politics of eating together through a number of artistic, curatorial and tasty dinner recipes. Recipes that nourish and nurture conversations around domestic labour, collaborative practices and feminist politics, expanded upon through a series of essays and interviews.
The recipes were learnt during the cooking of Home Works; a research and exhibition programme investigating domestic labour and the politics of the home, hosted by the art space Konsthall C in Stockholm 2015-2017.
Home Works – A Cooking Book is a tool for everyone that wants to use art to challenge what work we value and how work is organised.
Without further ado...let’s cook!"
Contributors: Samira Ariadad, Jonna Bornemark, Marie Ehrenbåge, Silvia Federici, Sandi Hilal, Dady de Maximo, Temi Odumosu, Jenny Richards and Jens Strandberg, Khasrow Hamid Othman, Halla Þórlaug Óskarsdóttir.
Publisher Onomatopee, Eindhoven, October 2020 ISBN 9789493148376 280 pages PDF (33mb)
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2024-05-11
File:Collective Creativity Kollektive Kreativitaet 2005.pdf
Kollektive Kreativität / Collective Creativity
Catalogue published to accompany an exhibition held at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (1 May–17 July 2005), curated by the collective What, How and for Whom/WHW. The exhibition explored notions of communal work and collective production, as well as their political dimensions, with regard to contemporary art production and discourse.
Contributions by Art & Language, Collective Situaciones, Charles Esche, Ljiljana Filipovic, Jon Hendricks, Brian Holmes, IRWIN, Ana Longoni, Viktor Misiano, Angelika Nollert, WHW and Stephen Wright.
Artists and groups: 3NÓS3 • AA Bronson • Allegoric Postcard Union • Pawel Althamer in collaboration with Artur Zmijewski and Nowolipie Group • Art & Language • B+B • BankMalbekRau • Joseph Beuys • BijaRi • Bokhorov / Gutov / Osmolovsky • Collective Actions • Contra Filé • Escape Program • Etcétera… • flyingCity • Freud’s Dreams Museum • General Idea • Gilbert & George • Gorgona • Group of Six Artists • Grupo de Arte Callejero • Gruppo Parole e Immagini • Guerilla Art Action Group • Dmitry Gutov • IRWIN • kleines postfordistisches Drama • Maj 75 • Moscow Portraits • Neue Slowenische Kunst • Oda Projesi • OHO • Pages • Radek Community • Mladen Stilinović • Superflex • ŠKART • Taller Popular de Serigrafia • Temporary Services and Angelo • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised • Tucmán Arde Archive (Graciela Carnevale) • Urucum • Zagreb – Cultural Kapital 3000 • What is to be done?…
Foreword & edited by René Block and Angelika Hollert Publisher Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, 2005 ISBN 3865880894, 9783865880895 German and English 383 pages PDF (75mb)
2024-04-24
File:KUNCI Study Forum and Collective eds Tools for Radical Study A Collection of Manuals 2024.pdf
Tools for Radical Study: A Collection of Manuals
edited by KUNCI Study Forum & Collective
"For Tools for Radical Study: A Collection of Manuals, KUNCI have invited education practitioners from diverse learning spaces to share their tools, which have been developed through collective learning practices. At least for those who reside amid the proliferation of collective practices in the Global South, talking about and sharing tools means talking about and performing the redistribution of power – a power that is most likely derived through the process of knowledge accumulation. Talking about tools also means talking about things one finds in places like public kitchens, village meeting halls, slaughterhouses, and residential gardens – places where theory and its methods are rarely found, whether on the ground or in quotidian conversation.
Building on their educational initiative the School of Improper Education, KUNCI uses cross-referencing as a framework to provide a grounded understanding of local study contexts while also engaging in the mobility and connection of people, ideas, tools, and institutions that, in turn, multiply the frame of references in each implicated study practice. Inhabiting the space of sharing and collectivity, this multiplication creates a commons-based production of knowledge rather than a centralized accumulation of intellectual property. All contributors to this publication offer alternative forms of studying that are fundamentally practiced as a mode of sharing and nurturing alternative publics or counterpublics."
Contributors include Al Maeishah, Fawaz, Feminist Search Tools, Sanchayan Ghosh, Moelyono, S. Soedjojono and Sindhusiswara, Sima Ting Kuan Wu, and Chen Yun.
KUNCI Study Forum & Collective experiments with methods of producing and sharing knowledge through acts of studying together at the intersections between affective, manual, and intellectual labor. Since its founding in 1999 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, KUNCI has been continuously transforming its structure, ways, and medium of working."
Managing Editor Sarrita Hunn Copy Editor Bonnie Begusch Design & Illustration Celcea Tifani, Tasia Loekito Printing books factory Published by MARCH, March 2024 ISBN: 978-0-9980774-3-7 157+[16] pages Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported License PDF (8.6mb)
2024-04-16
