[spectre] Strategies for Tactical Archives, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam October 27 & 28, 2023

[Eric Kluitenberg]

Dear Spectrites,

After quite some time there is a program I’ve been working on that makes sense to send to this esteemed list called “Strategies for Tactical Archives”.

We are convening a public (keynote) lecture by Sarah Schulman of the ACTUP Oral History project <https://actuporalhistory.org/> on Friday October 27 at Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam from 19.30 and an in-depth series of discussions the next day (October 28, 10-17 hrs) on strategies for tactical archives, by which we mean documentation efforts of / for activist and experimental artistic / cultural initiatives.

The program looks quite nice now, so I wanted to share that with you.

Please note: These two events will NOT be streamed, but we will record them. If you want to participate in the event live you have to come over to Rotterdam. Good thing is we have very low ’suggested’ ticket prices, including the option to register for free (solidarity ticket).

We will of course bring thee recordings online afterwards, and when we have done that I will send a notice that the recordings are available.

The events are also organised in conjunction with the REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art <https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/reboot-baanbrekende-digitale-kunst> exhibition, which will then just have opened at Nieuwe Instituut, and there is time reserved in the program to visit the exhibition.

all bests,
Eric

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Strategies for Tactical Archives: 

Sarah Schulman – Public Lecture & Keynote

Friday, 27 October 2023 – 19:30 - 21:00

Discover how tactical media continues to shape our understanding of activism, representation and the media's role in empowering marginalised communities. In a public keynote lecture writer and activist Sarah Schulman will share insights into her work around LGBTQI+ rights and AIDS advocacy.

The public keynote lecture by Sarah Schulman takes place on the eve of the conference Strategies for Tactical Archives at Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam on 27 October 2023. Two respondents for the evening will be artist and activist Anne Krul, and Eliza Steinbock (Maastricht University). The evening will be moderated by Sara Rosa Espi Jacobson (Network Archives Design and Digital Culture - tbc).

Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman is an American writer and activist, known for her impactful contributions to LGBTQ+ rights and AIDS advocacy. With a prolific literary career spanning various genres, she fearlessly tackles social justice issues, shedding light on the challenges faced by marginalised communities. Her book Let the Record Show provides an invaluable historical perspective on the influential work of ACT UP, highlighting the importance of collective activism in times of crisis.

Sarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction (including The Cosmopolitans, Rat Bohemia, and Maggie Terry), nonfiction (including Stagestruck, Conflict is Not Abuse, and The Gentrification of the Mind), and theatre (Carson McCullers, Manic Flight Reaction, and more), and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films (The Owls, Mommy Is Coming, and United in Anger, among others). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, and many other outlets.

She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities, the recipient of multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. <https://actuporalhistory.org/> A lifelong New Yorker, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Language: English
Location: Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam.
See also: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/strategies-tactical-archives-day1 <https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/strategies-tactical-archives-day1> 

Tickets: 10,-/5,-/0,- <https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/strategies-for-tactical-archives-day-1-with-sarah-schulman-tickets-686435967457?aff=oddtdtcreator>

Please note: This event has ‘suggested’ pricing - in solidarity with the trying times we all face you are welcome to order your ticket free of charge!

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Strategies for Tactical Archives: 

Conference

Saturday, 28 October 2023 – 10:00 - 17:00

This conference investigates how documentation and archiving can feed into living practices of activists, artists and media makers that address the position of communities who feel aggrieved by or excluded from the wider public culture.

Activists, artists and (tactical) media makers often seem captivated by the urgencies of the present moment. This eternal dominance of the ‘here and now’ can obscure the vital role of (community) memory and documentation in shaping current and future practices. With this conference, we aim to explore the question of how to create more sustainable and dependable documentation and archiving resources for public engagement. What approaches to archiving can ground experiences from the bottom up? In what ways can records contest dominant narratives and form accessible, shared knowledge bases? When and how do documentation resources become productive for community activation?

Speakers

    Sarah Schulman (ACT UP Oral History Project)
    Özge Çelikaslan (bak.ma <http://bak.ma/>)
    Henry Warwick (RTA School of Media, Toronto)
    Chris Julien (Waag / Extinction Rebellion)
    David Garcia (Experimental Media Research Centre, Bournemouth University)
    Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Nieuwe Instituut)
    Gaby Wijers (LI-MA)
    Ari Ralph (WORM Pirate Bay)
    Per Backhuis (IISH)

Program overview

Session 1: Time and Memory
Sarah Schulman and David Garcia, with a response from Eliza Steinbock (tbc).

Session 2: Infrastructure and Care
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer and Gaby Wijers, with a response from Ari Ralph.

Session 3: Strategies and Futures
Özge Çelikaslan, Henry Warwick and Chris Julien, with a response from Per Backhuis.

The event will be moderated by Eric Kluitenberg (Tactical Media Files) and Alexandra Barancová (Network Archives Design and Digital Culture).

Language: English
Location: Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam.
See also: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/strategies-tactical-archives-day2 <https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/strategies-tactical-archives-day2> 

Tickets: 10,-/5,-/0,-
 <https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/strategies-for-tactical-archives-day-2-tickets-686438133937?aff=oddtdtcreator>
Please note: This event has ‘suggested’ pricing - in solidarity with the trying times we all face you are welcome to order your ticket free of charge!

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Strategies for Tactical Archives is jointly organised by Eric Kluitenberg (Tactical Media Files) and the Network Archives Design and Digital Culture <https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/nadd>, in the context of the exhibition REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art <https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/reboot-baanbrekende-digitale-kunst>  and generously supported by Nieuwe Instituut’s International Visitor Programme 2023 and the Creative Industries Fund NL.


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