Index: Noun to Verb: micro-politics of publishing

On Thursday, October 19 at 18.00 Eva Weinmayr will talk about her practice and the social and political agency of artists’ publishing. Speaking from an intersectional feminist perspective the talk’s focus is not on the commodity genre “art publication”, but on the collective processes, exchanges, and relationships such critical publishing practices can enable.

Open Lecture by Eva Weinmayr: Noun to Verb — the micro-politics of publishing

Noun to Verb: micro-politics of publishing, Presenting

The symposium asks what is the role of art writing and publishing and the processes of mediating, distributing, and reading as an act of repair or resistance, to create spaces of non-violent encounter of thought and creation when public spaces for culture are at threat.

Noun to Verb: micro-politics of publishing, Presenting

The search window in the library or archive catalogue opens doors and gates to new worlds. But what we often don’t think about when typing in search terms is that this window is designed, built and maintained. It has different lenses that allow us to see certain things very clearly, but other things only blurred and outlined – for example, texts from marginalised groups. To find some things, it is enough to enter one word, for others we need a multitude of search terms until we find the information we are looking for. Some things cannot be found at all. Every search query, every effort to obtain information is characterised by the actions and decisions of librarians, information scientists and developers who shape the framework conditions for our search. They describe, name and categorise, and their attitudes, opinions and cultural situations play a role in this. In passing, they shape decisions that are political.
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Noun to Verb: micro-politics of publishing, Publishing

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

In this interview, Eva Weinmayr and Jinglun Zhu (CCS Bard) discuss modes of production and dissemination of underground publications, the politics of authorship and reproduction, and publishing in relation to collaborative knowledge practices. The conversation also offers insights on modes of collectivity in higher education and methods for archiving ephemeral materials.

In CCS Recollection 1: The Netletter, edited by Evan Calder Williams, Centre for Curatorial Studies CCS Bard, Annandale/New York, 2019

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Noun to Verb: micro-politics of publishing, Publishing