From kw at berlinergazette.de Tue Oct 12 09:07:47 2021 From: kw at berlinergazette.de (Krystian Woznicki) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:07:47 +0200 Subject: =?utf-8?q?Black_Box_East_=C2=B7_Workshop_Results?= Message-ID: <45601f26-e46d-f874-0436-5f6eb839b59d@berlinergazette.de> Hi INC-folks, the BLACK BOX EAST conference took place on September 23, 24, and 25, 2021. The keynotes were recorded as videos. Moreover, five workshops brought activists, researchers, and cultural workers from more than 20 countries together. Using Big Blue Button, an open source alternative to corporate data extraction tools like Zoom, participants were invited to come up with cooperative projects. The results include various multimedia stories, two games, a digital exhibition, and an audio play. You can find an overview of all video talks and workshop projects on the BLACK BOX EAST website: https://blackboxeast.berlinergazette.de You can also look at the individual projects by scrolling down. *New Cold War* What imaginaries of the Other are intended to hinder ?us,? whoever we are, from unlocking and exploring the BLACK BOX EAST? What are the real and virtual obstacles that Western propaganda (and Eastern counter-propaganda) create? What does it mean to avoid the trap of binary bloc thinking and revitalize, for instance, the legacies of the Non-Aligned Movement? Aleksei Borisionak, Lara Luna Bartley, Max Haiven, Ela Kagel, Andrea Liu, Greg McLaughlin, and Olia Sosnovskaya looked for answers to these questions. The resulting workshop projects are bundled here: https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/workshops/2021/09/25/new-cold-war *Shouldering the West* Who are the Eastern workers shouldering the profits of the West? What are current struggles inside and outside the labor union context? What are the differences and commonalities between labor struggles in East Germany and Eastern Europe at large? What role does the rise of platform labor play here? And, last but not least, since ?Eastern? workers are in demand at home and abroad (hence doubly needed and doubly exploited), what does it mean for mobile workers to struggle at home and abroad? Sana Ahmad, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Migl? Bareikyt?, Anna Calori, Stefan Candea, Slobodan Golu?in, Adela Hincu, Holger Kral, Dunja Ku?inac, and Rena Raedle looked for answers to these questions. The resulting workshop project is accessible here: https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/workshops/2021/09/22/shouldering-the-west *The Wretched of the East* What does it mean to tell, share, and listen to stories from within historical and current social movements in former Yugoslavia (e.g., the Balkan Route), the former Soviet Union, and other parts of the former Eastern Bloc (Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, etc.)? Are these struggles linked among each other? What are the gaps where interventions have the best hopes of creating impact? How is it possible to pave ways for new common grounds and create bridges between struggles? Sylvain Alias, Marta Bogdanska, Mika Buljevic, Kalina Drenska, Alina Floroi, hvale, Gosia Jagiello, Cristina Pombo, Lela Rekhviashvili, Karolina Sobel, and Martina Staneva looked for answers to these questions. The resulting workshop project is accessible here: https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/workshops/2021/09/25/the-wretched-of-the-east *Post-Covid-19 States* What is the fall-out of the Covid-19 pandemic-related multiple crises in the post-Soviet Union, post-Communist Eastern Europe, post-Yugoslavia? What kind of information is available? What are the criteria to measure the consequences? What are the political and economic dynamics in ?the East? that in the course of the pandemic further aggravate structural problems? Jose M. Calatayud, Mark Cinkevich, G?raldine Delacroix, Anna Engelhardt, Andrada Fiscutean, Adriana Homolova, Martina Freyja Kartelo, Monisha Martins, Lira Ramadani, Sasha Shestakova, Sotiris Sideris, and Dzina Zhuk looked for answers to these questions. The resulting workshop projects are bundled here: https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/workshops/2021/09/22/post-covid-19-states *Politics of Liberty* What notions of ?liberty? manifest outside of an East vs West ideological divide? What does it mean to disarm Western propaganda of ?liberty? as an imperial weapon of capitalist expansion without replacing it with yet another oppressive system? And what does it mean to work in the shadow of imperialism from both ?the East? and West while creating transnational solidarity for a more just and inclusive world? Susanne Braun, Laura Burtan, Abiol Lual Deng, Asl? Din?, Katrin K?mpf, Mathana, Shintaro Miyazaki, Nina Pohler, Nicolay Spesivtsev, and Cagri Taskin looked for answers to these questions. The resulting workshop projects are bundled here: https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/workshops/2021/09/22/politics-of-liberty We documented the processes in a photo album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinergazette/albums/72157719917837016 Please spread the word by sharing this email with your friends! And please re-tweet this: https://twitter.com/berlinergazette/status/1447464593249480706 Best wishes, Krystian (for the BG team) PS: We are happy to announce the second webinar of our cooperation with the Transnational Institute Amsterdam and the editors of the book ?The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ?Transition?: New Left Perspectives from the Region.? Co-hosted on the Berliner Gazette?s Big Blue Button server, the upcoming webinar is entitled ?Beyond the ?China threat?: Chinese investments in Eastern Europe and the reorganisation of global capitalism? and will take place on October 14, at 6 p.m. CET. Here is the link to more info and registration: https://www.tni.org/en/webinar/beyond-the-china-threat-chinese-investments-in-eastern-europe-and-the-reorganisation-of -- -------------------------------------------------------------- BG ? Berliner Gazette | since 1999 | https://berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- BLACK BOX EAST ? "Post-Communist" Laboratories of Globalization BG Project 2021: Workshops, Texts + Artworks https://blackboxeast.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- SILENT WORKS ? The Hidden Labor in AI-Capitalism BG Project 2020: Exhibition, Conference + Texts https://silent-works.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- MORE WORLD ? How Can We Cooperate Across Borders to Tackle Climate Change? Results from BG?s 20th Anniversary Event: Videos, Audios, Projects + Texts https://more-world.berlinergazette.de? -------------------------------------------------------------- From geert at xs4all.nl Tue Oct 12 19:37:15 2021 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:37:15 +0200 Subject: Launch of INC ToD Pandemic Exchange, Oct 16 2021, Rotterdam Message-ID: <22767531-CE3B-4E71-9704-04FC526E4758@xs4all.nl> https://printroom.wordpress.com/ Join us on Saturday 16 October for two presentations of art publications dealing with the Covid-19 crisis. With the shock of the lockdowns slowly fading into the background it may seem we are getting ?back to normal?, yet many of us still feel the after effects of the crisis on a daily basis, especially in the cultural sector. Covid19 affected each of us in different ways. While many suffered from lack of income and isolation, some benefited from an increase of time and a lack of distractions. ?Printroom invited artist Sophia Tabatadze to present her colouring book with a workshop for kids and grownups in the first part of the afternoon and a talk at 16.00. ? ?From 16.30 till 18.00 we have the official Dutch book launch for Pandemic Exchange ? how artists experience the Covid-19 crisis. Art writer and editor Josephine Bosma talks about how the book was conceived, while artists Daniela de Paulis and Michelle Teran will tell us more about their contributions. ??Printroom provides food and drinks ?? Practical info: Date: 16 October 2021 from 16.00 ? 18.00 Location: Leeszaal West, Rijnhoutplein 3, Rotterdam 16.00 ? book presentation Soul Kitchen, a colouring book by Sophia Tabatadze The drawings that are collected in this book were made during the pandemic. The artist cataloged her home observations during the lockdown. Strange things appeared in her home where she lives with her six year old: toy lizards were taped on the slide in the living room, iron met drawing materials on the kitchen table.. Instead of tidying up Sophia treasured these combinations and captured them on A4 paper. Rather then going to her studio she brought her studio home. The coloring book Soul Kitchen is placed in a multi-functional corrugated cardboard folder which can also be turned into an easel and a wall pocket. Sophia made it in collaboration with Mukao, a Georgian company specializing in innovative products from corrugated cardboard 16.30 ? 18.00 ? Pandemic Exchange, How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis News reports on the Covid-19 pandemic seldom include how the virus and the societal lockdowns affect artists. A lively circuit of cultural events, meetings, and exhibitions had come to an almost complete stop, leaving artists often not just with a significant drop in income but also bereft of their vital and supporting social communities. Art writer and curator Josephine Bosma, feeling quite cut off herself after a year of lockdowns and too much screen time, saw both desperate and relieved outcries from artists popping up through the glossy algorithmic veneer on social media. She decided to reach out to some of the more outspoken voices. From this an interview project was born, which grew into this collection of heartfelt stories and brief reports from artists trying to survive the pandemic and sometimes finding unexpected ways to do so. Contributors: Annie Abrahams, Lucas Bambozzi, Dennis de Bel, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, S()fia Braga, Arcangelo Constantini, Tiny Domingos, John Duncan, Nancy Mauro Flude, Ben Grosser, Adham Hafez, Sachiko Hayashi, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Garnet Hertz, Jennifer Kanary, Brian Mackern, Miltos Manetas, Lorna Mills, Daniela de Paulis, Tina La Porta, Archana Prasad, Melinda Rackham, Michelle Teran, Mare Tralla, Igor Vamos, Ivar Veerm?e. This book is part of the Theory on Demand Series of The Institute of Network Cultures. A limited amount of printed copies of the publication will be available during the launch. You can download the epub and pdf versions of the book here . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marcela at aksioma.org Sun Oct 17 18:45:14 2021 From: marcela at aksioma.org (marcela at aksioma.org) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 18:45:14 +0200 Subject: (re)programming: Community - Astra Taylor in conversation with Marta Peirano In-Reply-To: <078a01d7c376$33cf7470$9b6e5d50$@aksioma.org> References: <077c01d7c375$c76bce00$56436a00$@aksioma.org> <078a01d7c376$33cf7470$9b6e5d50$@aksioma.org> Message-ID: <079101d7c376$5bf26b10$13d74130$@aksioma.org> Dear friends, we?d love to read your questions and comments in the live chat tomorrow during the 7th episode of the (re)programming series of conversations! (re)programming ? Strategies for Self-Renewal Curated and conducted by Marta Peirano February?November 2021 STREAM #7 (re)programming: Community Talk to Your Neighbours With Astra Taylor Monday, 18 October 2021 at 7 PM CET STREAMING & LIVE CHAT: http://aksioma.org/reprogramming/ FB event ----- How can we act collectively in an age of extreme polarisation, isolation, dehumanisation and dystopian imagination? What can we build from the ashes of the Arab Spring, the Indignados movement and Occupy Wall Street? Astra Taylor knows there is no such thing as a perfect social movement, but in a series of legendary attempts to improve existing ones, she has become one of the essential chroniclers of contemporary acts of collective resistance. Ever since publishing Occupy!, a ?semi-regular, forty-page tabloid newspaper inspired by the Occupy movement?, she has been engaged in a lifelong debate about the nature of community-driven power, pushing its limits and analyzing its discontents. Astra is an international filmmaker, writer and relentless political organiser, hailed as the ?New Civil Rights Leader? by the Los Angeles Times. She has directed philosophical documentaries such as What is Democracy? (2019), Examined Life (2008) and ?i?ek! (2005). Her latest book Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone (2019) was published by Metropolitan Books. Special guests: Tja?a Pureber, Barbara Rajgelj, Asja Hrvatin ----- About the series The tenth edition of Tactics & Practice: (re)programming is a festival of conversations with world-class thinkers in crucial disciplines that discuss the ways in which we can repair our thought and behavioural patterns in order to keep us collectively safe. The program is led and curated online by Marta Peirano. Watch previous episodes: - Kim Stanley Robinson: Trigger: What Does it Take to Change the Future? - Benjamin Bratton: Infrastructure: An Alternative Earth - Holly Jean Buck: Energy: Can We Repair the Climate? - Anab Jain: Interdependence: Post-Human Politics - Kate Crawford: AI: Better Machines for Better Humans - Joana Moll: The Cloud: Everything is Not Connected ----- Organised and produced by: Aksioma ? Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana In partnership with: Kino ?i?ka ? Centre for Urban Culture For the series: Tactics & Practice In the framework of: konS ? Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art The project konS ? Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations ?Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres?. The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union. Outreach partners: Disruption Network Lab, Drugo more, FILE ? Electronic Language, International Festival, Furtherfield, La Ga?t? Lyrique, IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], The Influencers, Institute of Network Cultures, Interface Cultures | Kunstuniversit?t Linz, MKC Maribor, Neural, ?Node, Zalo?ba Sophia, Supermarkt, We Make Money Not Art. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: