Event overview
Workshop with Alex Martinis Roe
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.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Sep 2012 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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