Workshop
Tue 27 Jun 2023

Workshop “A politics of re-use”

Online

Participants

Eva Weinmayr

Working group 4, Instant Publication (detail), Workbook on the topic of Assembly, IMMA Summerschool Art and Politics #5 Assembly, 27.6.2023

Workshop “A politics of re-use” at IMMA International Summer School: Art and Politics: #5 Assembly, convened by Nathan O’Donnell and Lisa Moran

During the 4-hour workshop “A politics of re-use” for IMMA International Summer School participants developed in small groups an instant publication that could function as a work book/reader for the summer schools theme “assembly”. The brief consisted of using, building on, mixing, adapting, collaging each others images and texts, while addressing and reflecting on a set of questions:

  • Could you reflect on the strategies of assembling images and texts and captions you are experimenting with?
  • Do you know the sources of the materials used? What is your relationship with these sources?
  • How to credit them? How to acknowledge the giving and taking?
  • Do you feel comfortable with using them? With which of the images/texts do you feel least comfortable. Why?

For more information, see IMMA International Summer School 2023 Art & Politics #5 Assembly.

Contributor

Eva Weinmayr

Eva Weinmayr works at the interface of art, critical publishing and radical education. Her focus is on decolonial feminist discourses, pedagogies and practices. From 2019 until 2022 she co-led the EU-funded collective research and study programme “Teaching to Transgress Toolbox” (with erg, Brussels) and co-initiated kritilab, an open-source platform and laboratory for Critical Diversity Literacy at the intersection of art and education. As part of “Ecologies of Dissemination”(HDK-Valand, 2022–24) with Femke Snelting, she develops decolonial feminist practices to Open Access.

Recent collaborative publication projects include “Noun to Verb”, a PhD thesis concerned with the micro-politics of publishing from an intersectional feminist perspective that was developed and published on a MediaWiki. She collaborates with Lucie Kolb on decolonial, feminist approaches to naming and cataloguing knowledge in institutional libraries in the Global North that led to an exhibition and the online publication “Teaching the Radical Catalog – a Syllabus” (2021–22); Further projects include “The Piracy Project” (2010–15, with Andrea Francke), an international publishing and exhibition project exploring the philosophical, legal and practical implications of book piracy and modes of reproduction.

Currently, she works as Guest Professor for Critical Access at the Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures, Basel Academy of Art and Design (CH) and is part of the team of the MA “Critical Social Practice in Art Education” at ZHdK Zurich. Since 2024 she is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University (UK).

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