Index: Collective Research

Visual Comment by Rosalie Schweiker

In conversation with translator Jennifer Hayashida, curator Nkule Mabaso and theoretician Cathryn Klasto, Eva Weinmayr and Femke Snelting attempt to rethink translation and citation as dispersed economies of re-use.

Collective Research, Ecologies of Dissemination

Opening Keynote for Sensing Dissensus, 25. 27 October 2023, organised by European Artistic Research Network (EARN)

This is gathering of researchers and research groups, both formal and informal from EARN and its affiliates. The focus of the meeting is on forms of collectivity and forms of disagreement within artistic research processes.

Collective Research, Ecologies of Dissemination, Presenting

“Bridge and Rift” – art education as artistic research practice.

Thinking of art education, we often refer to learning and teaching in art classes at school, to artistic and pedagogical studies, and to outreach activities in museums. We do not simply understand mediation here as the transport from A to B. “Mediation” writes educator and activist Carmen Mörsch, oscillates between “bridge and rift” – between reconciliation, mediation on the one hand and separation, the disclosure of conflicts on the other. Working in artistic mediation therefore means working in relational and ambivalent, ambiguous and, not least, violent relationships.” (Mörsch) The lecture series provides input, workshops and lectures on artistic research and discrimination-critical mediation work and serves to endure this current and conflict-laden situation, to name it and to develop a perspective for joint knowledge practices and action. Download programme

 

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kritilab is an open source pool for teachers and educators to share current and daring examples of critical teaching in the arts. Initiated by students and teachers at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich it functions as a discrimination-critical laboratory at the interface of art, education and teaching. As such, kritilab offers plenty of space for new, experimental ideas on how the subject of art can be understood, thought about and practically organised in schools.
https://kritilab.adbk-muenchen.de/

 

 

Collective Research, Publishing

 

Invested in collective art and knowledge practices, we are concerned with how the current drive to openness in dissemination policies might overlook relational aspects. If we consider authorship to be part of a collective cultural effort, how can we invent a politics of sharing and re-use that does not buy into a universalist approach to openness.

Ecologies of dissemination is a collaboration between Femke Snelting, Eva Weinmayr and many others in partnership with HDK-Valand, Academy of Arts and Design Gothenburg (SE), the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University (UK) and Constant, a non-profit, artist-run association active in the fields of art, feminism, media and technology in Brussels (BE). It is funded by the Swedish Research Council (2022-24).

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A talk about the politics of a situated and contextual publishing practice for participants of this Summer School.

Organised by Karina Nimmerfall and Maximiliane Baumgartner (Labor für Kunst und Forschung, Institut für Kunst und Kunsttheorie, Intermedia, Universität zu Köln) in collaboration with Selena Kimball and Pascal Glissmann (Observational Practices Lab @Parsons/The New School, School of Art, Media and Technology, New York). […]

Collective Research, Noun to Verb: micro-politics of publishing, Presenting

Keywords in library catalogues are never neutral; they designate, classify, and index. An act of interpretation is thus always connected with them. They frame and determine how books and materials are found—and, to a certain extent, also how they are read or interpreted. What socially produced and embedded structures are found in the descriptive metadata of the Art Library? How can traces of the work on descriptors be made visible? How might it be possible to introduce keywords that focus less on demarcating a topic than on how it is possible to work with it, that do not describe what books are, but rather what they do, how we use them, and what they do to us?

Introduction and moderation Lucie Kolb, in cooperation with Philipp Messner, Axelle Stiefel, Eva Weinmayr, Jasna Zwimpfer. []

Collective Research, Noun to Verb: micro-politics of publishing, Presenting

Andrea Francke and will be contributing to the session titled “Borrowing” of this reading group at Yale Law School convened by Sara Petrilli-Jones (Yale Law School), Pierre Von-Ow (Yale History of Art), Enrico Camporesi (Centre Pompidou Paris) at Yale Law School – supervised by Professor Amy Kapczynski (Yale University). […]

 

Collective Research, Presenting, The Piracy Project

Conventional intellectual property law binds authors and their hybrid contemporary practices in a framework of assumed ownership and individualism. It conceives creations as original works, making collective, networked practices difficult to fit. Within that legal and ideological framework, Copyleft, Open Content Licenses or Free Culture Licensing introduced a different view of authorship, opening up the possibility for a re-imagining of authorship as a collective, feminist, webbed practice. But over time, some of the initial spark and potentiality of Free Culture licensing has been normalised and its problems and omissions have become increasingly apparent. This study day is therefore meant to see if we can start re-imagining copyleft together.

Can we invent licences that are based on collective creative practices, in which cooperation between the machine and biological authors, need not be an exception? How could attribution be a form of situated genealogy, rather than accounting for heritage through listing names of contributing individuals? In what way can we limit predatory practices without blocking the generative potential of Free Culture? What would a decolonial and feminist license look like, and in what way could we propose entangled notions of authorship? Or perhaps we should think of very different strategies?

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*The title is inspired by bell hooks’ book Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom.

TTTT is a no-credit collective research and study programme on critical pedagogy in the arts. The work, guidelines, workshops and pedagogical guidance material is shared on an open source publishing platform for others to adapt: ttttoolbox.net

The actual study programme is structured in four one-week workshops during 2020 and is developed transnationally by three European art schools, erg in Brussels, HDK/Valand in Göteborg and ISBA in Besançon. It is funded by Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Grant.

 

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