<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid63"><span><b><span class="gmail-il">Read</span> & <span class="gmail-il">Repair</span> - Digital Solidarity feat. Jara Rocha and Yoana Buzova</b></span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid64"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid65"><span>On Sunday 26th September we have a <span class="gmail-il">READ</span> with Jara Rocha followed by a <span class="gmail-il">REPAIR</span> with Yoana Buzova at Varia <span>(Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)</span>.</span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid66"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid67"><span><b><span class="gmail-il">READ</span></b></span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid68"><span>Of
all the greyzones of our readwrite worldings, bibliographic
self-defence constitutes a specially powerful one. Both because of the
fierce gestures of erasure and silencing that certain recursive
presences and absences signal at, and because of the extremely lovely
evidences of community building and care thereby performed.
Self-defence, resistance, counter-weighting and mutual support
operations of immense technopolitical value keep taking place at what
can be termed "peripheral literature areas" such as bibliographies,
footnotes, indexes, acknowledgement pages, colophons, library metadata
and side annotations, where trans*feminist, anticolonial, antiracist,
queer, crip, antispeciest, antifa and atiageist solidarities take very
tangible and specific forms.</span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid69"><span>On
this <span class="gmail-il">Read</span> session, we'll spend time with materials collected from such
zones, to identify stories behind or below them, and to perhaps also
extend them with our very situated manners to provide ourselves with the
bibliographic solidarities that are urgent and precious to us as a
latent "we" that exists across them.</span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid70"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid71"><span>Fragments will be <span class="gmail-il">read</span> from these bodies of text:</span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid72"><ul><li><span>Katherine McKittrick, Dear Science and Other Stories</span></li></ul></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid73"><ul><li><span>Dionne Brand, Blue Clerk</span></li></ul></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid74"><ul><li><span>(plus a collection of scattered hegemonic bibliographies)</span></li></ul></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid75"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid76"><span>Jara
Rocha works through the situated and complex forms of distribution of
the technological with an antifa and trans*feminist sensibility. Tends
to be found in tasks of remediation, action-research and
in(ter)dependent curatorship, and their main areas of study have to do
with the semiotic materialities of cultural urgencies. Together with
Femke Snelting they are making a book titled “Volumetric Regimes:
Material Cultures of Quantified Presences” and also with Helen Pritchard
they currently work on The Underground Division: an emerging research
on the co-constitution of the so-called body of the earth and the
patriarchocolonial turbocapitalist volumetric regime. With Karl Moubarak
and Cristina Cochior, they conform the Cell for Digital Discomfort at
the 20/21 Fellowship for Situated Research of BAK, Utrecht. Jara lives
in Barcelona, and their show "Naturoculturas son Disturbios" emits
monthly from that city's local Dublab radio. </span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid77"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid78"><span><b><span class="gmail-il">REPAIR</span></b></span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid79"><span>The
devices we surround ourselves with are an increasingly complex and
extremely heterogeneous matter. In a short workshop we will investigate
the materiality and inevitable politics of electronic components. We
will take an interdisciplinary approach to dissect specific objects in
terms of their material, socio-cultural and ecological dimension. </span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid80"><span>In
this process we will dismantle and dissect components to their very
building blocks, investigating components from the Electronica Depot.
What are the precious earthly compounds inside them? How do they
operate, breakdown, fall into obsolescence? Where do they come from?</span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid81"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid82"><span>ойо is an artist/educator playing with tapes, neglected and banal objects, public spaces.</span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid83"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid84"><span><b>Date:</b></span><span> Sunday, 26th September 2021</span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid85"><span><b>Time:</b></span><span> 11:00-13:00 (<span class="gmail-il">Read</span>) + 13:30-15:30 (<span class="gmail-il">Repair</span>)</span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid86"><span><b>Location:</b></span><span> Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)</span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid87"><span><b>NOTE:</b></span><span> This <span class="gmail-il">reading</span> session will be held in English. Please bring your laptop!<br></span></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid88"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_5076854466742088590gmail-magicdomid89"><span><a href="http://varia.zone/en/rr-digital-solidarity-2.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">http://varia.zone/en/rr-digital-solidarity-2.html</a></span></div></div>