Interdependent unlearning(s) and caring for disruption: A queer-feminist collective writing session on curatorial experiences and desires for instituting otherwise

Helena Reckitt contributed to this online discussion about curatorial (un)learning(s), wishes and desires, within institutions as well as self-organised feminist and queer spaces. The project was initiated and edited by Vera Hofmann and Sylvia Sadzinski in the context of YEAR OF THE WOMEN* which centered (queer) feminist perspectives and positions of women*, lesbians, inter*, non-binary, trans* and agender people throughout the annual programme, at the Schwules Museum, Berlin. After an initial meeting during which Hofmann and Sadzinski shared their questions with invited co-authors based in the UK, US, and Germany, the group met for three hour-long co-writing sessions in June and July 2022. Writing together, in no particular order, they cross-referenced and jumped back and forth within the text. One participant, Jamila Prowse, could not join the meetings during the periods of co-writing, but contributed at different times to the shared document. The text was very lightly edited and proofread. Nothing from the original contributions was deleted. The editors decided to keep the repetitive elements and all unanswered questions as key elements of their original idea, in tune with their advocacy of process-based work instead of polished results

Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects.

This paper will discuss methodologies, approaches and issues, emerging out of three major research projects that have investigated early histories of video art in Europe: REWIND (2004 ongoing), REWINDItalia (2011-2014) and EWVA (2015-2018). The paper will discuss how the projects have engaged with the history of the apparatus, the identity and status of the artworks, preservation methods, and the legacy of these video artworks today. A particular focus will be on semi-structured questionnaires for interviews structured to capture oral histories, memories and recollections, that in some cases would have been otherwise lost to future knowledge and the uncovering of lost artworks and their available documentation. The speakers directly involved in the projects - will discuss solutions, risks and experiences encountered in the projects and future research perspectives for re-covering, collecting, archiving and narrating the histories of early video art in Europe. The paper will discuss also different practice-based research methods, platforms and engagement strategies, including re-installation and re-enactment

The meaning of national guilds : with a new preface and a new chapter on current problems: Bolshevism, The social theory of functional democracy, The expansion of the cooperative movement, Major Douglas's credit proposals, The building guilds movement /

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