28 September 2012
ALL MY INDEPENDENT WOMEN 2012: Practicing Sexual Difference, workshop with Alex Martines Roe
Practicing Sexual Difference, workshop
with Alex Martines Roe
28 September | 5-7pm | Free to attend RVSP: http://is.gd/amiw_28sept
@ Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths University of
London
In this workshop, radical Italian feminist practices
developed by the Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective and others in the mid 1970s
form a reference point for a series of practical tasks undertaken in groups and
pairs. Starting with some discussion of different practices like autocoscienza (consciousness raising), the practice of relationships, the practice
of doing, and affidamento (entrustment),
we will then work in small groups to identify our individual “symbolic
mothers”; relations of affidamento that
we experience in our own lives; and potential practices of doing. Although the content of the workshop is focused
on female sexual difference, people of all sexual identities are welcome to
participate. The aim of the workshop is to explore the contemporary relevance
of practices of sexual difference: as specific political acts, they move away
from ideological models of collective politics, but nevertheless connect to one
another. With special attention to the politics of documentation, we will
record and annotate aspects of each encounter with these practices, forming an
archive within the Women’s Art Library.
Alex Martinis Roe (b.
1982, Melbourne) is concerned with facilitating feminist relations within
the art encounter and its historicization. She holds a PhD from Monash
University Australia (2011), funded by Silver Jubilee Scholarship. Residencies:
Seoul Artspace Geumcheon (2011); Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (2006-7);
since 2009 lives and works Kunsthaus KuLe, Berlin. Recent shows: Collective Biographies, Bibliothekswohnung,
Berlin (solo, 2012); Post-planning, Ian
Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2012); non-writing
histories, Artspace, Sydney (solo, 2012); Genealogies; Frameworks for Exchange, Pallas Projects, Dublin
(solo, 2011); Denkmalpflege, Heidelberger
Kunstverein (2011); HaVE A LoOk! Have a
Look! FormContent, London (2010). This year she also gave a
presentation at Salon Populaire as part of
What is Power Today? and taught Lecture
Performance at the Public School, Berlin.
ALL MY INDEPENDENT WOMEN
2012
Interested in understanding and supporting
feminist modes of production and circulation of artists’ practices that deal
with issues around gender, this project marks the coming together of three
important archives: the Women’s Art Library/Make, the Open Music Archive, and
the AMIW Video Lounge.
The programme combines a series of talks,
workshops, roundtable discussions, and viewings hosted at Goldsmiths University
of London over a three months period, and two music commissions to be premiered
on the 16 November at Cafe OTO.
With: Miguel Bonneville, Genève Brossard, Ele
Carpenter, Catarina Carneiro de Sousa,
Hyun Jin Cho, Carla Cruz, Beatrice
Dillon, Mónica Faria, Althea Greenan, Karen Gwyer, Mika Hayashi Ebbesen, Risk
Hazekamp, Nina Hoechtl, Anna Jonsson, Alex Martinis Roe, Cristina Mateus,
Susana Mendes Silva, Sameiro Oliveira Martins, Lara Perry, Rita Rainho, Flávio
Rodrigues, Eileen Simpson, Evelin Stermitz, Francesco Ventrella, Lenka
Vráblíková, Ben White.
Exploring the different forms of distribution,
promotion, and preservation performed by these archives that were once living
networks, All My Independent Women 2012 searches
for new modes of accountability and circulation within the arts that are based
on dialogue with a potential for re-invention.
FULL PROGRAMME
@ Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths University of
London
27 September – 14
December | AMIW Video Lounge |
Collection of video art by feminist artists belonging to All My Independent
Women’s network
28 September 5-7pm | Practicing Sexual Difference | Workshop by Alex Martinis Roe
Free to attend, RSVP: http://is.gd/amiw_28sept
10 October 5-7pm | Archival Materials, Practices, Politics and Poetics | Workshop by Hyun
Jin Cho and Nina Hoechtl
Free to attend, RSVP: http://is.gd/amiw_10oct
2 November 5-7pm | Feminist Curatorial Practices | Talk by
Lara Perry and Francesco Ventrella
Free to attend, RSVP: http://is.gd/amiw_2nov
9 November 5-7pm | The Creative Commons within the Arts | Round table discussion with
Ele Carpenter (Embroider Digital Commons), and Eileen Simpson & Ben White
(Open Music Archive) | TBC
Free to attend, RSVP: http://is.gd/amiw2012_9nov
5 December 5-7pm | Re-engaging Archived Art Practices | Guided exploration of the
Women’s Art Library and the Women’s Revolutions Per Minute archives by Althea
Greenan and Mika Hayashi Ebbesen
Free to attend, RSVP: http://is.gd/amiw_5dec
Women’s Art Library/Make
Goldsmiths University of London
Special Collections Reading Room – Rutherford Building
(Library)
New Cross, London, SE14 6AF
a.greenan@gold.ac.uk
Opening Hours: Monday
– Friday 10am – 5pm (Wednesdays until 7pm)
@ Cafe OTO
16 November 8pm | The Brilliant and the Dark – B Side Samples for Remix | An Open
Music Archive Project | Performances by Karen Gwyer, Beatrice Dillon, and the
Open Music Archive
Cafe OTO
18 - 22 Ashwin Street
London E8 3DL
Advance tickets
available via http://www.cafeoto.co.uk
All
My Independent Women 2012 is supported using public funding by the
National Lottery through Arts Council England
