#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#36: We support production separately.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#23: That’s a very interesting piece, but how would it behave in a pizza joint?|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#53: Immaterial support for artists is important.|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#4: Pay what you can.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#36: We support production separately.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#23: That’s a very interesting piece, but how would it behave in a pizza joint?|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#53: Immaterial support for artists is important.|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#4: Pay what you can.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|
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09.06.2021 17:00

Alternative conference by Cairography Collective, Sarma/Oral Site & HaRaKa

Pay what you can

PRICKS #2:
Touching publication

CAIROGRAPHY COLLECTIVE presents
PRICKS #2 - TOUCHING PUBLICATION
An alternative conference on independent publishing in pandemic time

For this alternative conference at Kunsthal Gent, Cairography Collective, Sarma/Oral Site and HaRaKa, three organisations with a collaborative history in various forms of publishing, join forces to make the different agenda's tangible behind recent publication projects, their formats, concerns and outcome.

Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic was announced as a rupture to our epistemologies, social lives, artistic practices, and research work, we were struck by the speed of catastrophe(s) and systems that enact them. From colonial encroachment to totalitarian technological tools taking over our bodies under the guise of pandemic control. Performance artists created radio plays, choreographers danced on TikTok, and conferences moved to Zoom. The technological shift that happened to artistic practice and performance challenges the foundations of the reflection on art and curatorial practices. However, this shift that is seemingly nascent has taken over many geopolitical regions outside of Europe and the US decades before Covid-19. Living under colonial rule, or within states of exception and emergency, artists, and cultural workers in places like Palestine, Egypt, or Syria have always explored alternative possibilities of being somewhere, and of being elsewhere. Both in creating solutions for radical practice to exist outside of the habitual institutional settings, and equally to explore the production of knowledge and specifically of publishing away from the commonly trodden paths.

This edition of PRICKS, Touching Publication, looks at acts of independent publishing and alternative institutional setups that echo with the institutional, social and epistemological rupture that we witness today because of the pandemic. PRICKS is an alternative conference that travels within different artistic and academic settings, carving out spaces for urgent conversation. Radical thinking is supported, unfinished papers are welcome, and stuttering panels are de rigueur.

PRICKS #2 -Touching Publication
brings together Maha Mamoun, Adam Kucharski, Reem Shadid, Ahmed Naji, Sana Gobbeh, Enkidu Khaled, Mariana Karkoutly, Myriam Van Imschoot, Ismail Fayed, Adham Hafez and others, and will explore questions of independent publishing, commons and urbanities, digital resistance and alternative art economies, and new institutions for the arts.

To attend the conference, please register via the link at the top.


PRICKS Photograph by Adham Hafez 2

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