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File:Zamotka zine 2024.pdf
- Zamotka
compiled by Freefilmers
"Zamotka is a kind of wrap made by spreading hummus on lavash flatbread and adding toppings of your liking, which was popularised by Mariupol’s underground creative scene in 2017–2018.
It is also the name given to a self-published zine that explores grassroots food practices, communal dining, food related trauma caused by the war and its social and personal dimensions in the context of Mariupol’s devastation. To honour this legendary wrap and personal memories of the city, Freefilmers have compiled a series of visual and textual contributions in Zamotka."
Nychka Lishchynska: literary editing of the zine, text project coordination, interviews. Sashko Protiah: coordination, project management. Natasha Tseliuba: art and photo project coordination, design, zine layout. Concept and implementation: Freefilmers Published January 2024
2024-07-22
File:Oroza Ernesto Rikimbili une etude sur la desobeissance technologique et quelques formes de reinvention 2009.pdf
Rikimbili: une étude sur la désobéissance technologique et quelques formes de réinvention
"Quand nous acceptons le critère bourgeois qui sanctionne la nécessité comme indigne et celui qui exprime ses besoins comme faible et vulgaire, nous participons à la réduction systématique de la créativité et de la liberté qui pourrait se traduire dans la culture contemporaine." (Ernesto Oroza)
“PLOUGHSHARES AS TECHNOLOGICAL DISOBEDIENCE (CUBA)
Cite du design is a broad church. Whilst hordes of courtiers flocked around the Minister like starlings at sunset, copies of a subversive new book, by Ernesto Oroza, were being distributed by Cite’s publications team. Rikimbili – “a study of technological disobedience and other forms of re-invention” – describes how Cubans have adapted and recycled industrial objects during fifty years of US sanctions. The book’s title, Rikimbili, is named after a two-wheeled vehicle that started its life as a bicycle. The book is subversive because, for me anyway, it describes the kind of design we’ll be doing in the coming age of scarcity industrialism (a phrase of John Michael Greer). Design shows filled with shiny objects, by contrast, are best perceived as historical events about a pardigm that has passed. Write direct to obtain your copy of Rikimbili to: emilie.chabert at citedudesign dot com.” (John Thackara)
Publisher Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, 2009 Translated by Nicole Marchand-Zanartu French ISBN 978-2-86272-527-7 67 pages PDF (8mb)
Video interview (8 min, 2013). Research blog (est. 2016). Author. Publisher.
See also
- Ernesto Oroza, "Subvertir la panne. De la réparation à la prophylaxie", Techniques & culture 72: "En cas de panne", 2019, pp 108-125. (French)
- Pénélope de Bozzi, Ernesto Oroza, Objets réinventés: la création populaire à Cuba, Paris: Alternatives, 2002, 125 pp. Author. Publisher. (French)
2024-07-17
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)
Publisher, Exhibition. Source.
2024-05-11