Upcoming Events

Saturday 21 March

@ 15:00 - 18:00

'Prepping Otherwise; Survival(ism) Beyond Enclosure'

by Kari Robertson

After spending 6+ months research Kari Robertson presents ‘Prepping Otherwise; Survival(ism) Beyond Enclosure’. She explores ‘Community prepping’ or socially-oriented disaster preparedness against the context of European rearmament and current discourses of global instability.

In this body of research Kari refuses the image of the prepper as an individualised, militarised figure shaped by capitalist logics of enclosure and scarcity. Instead she explores alternative, affirmative forms of (collective) survival(ism) beyond enclosure, primarily through examining community prepping, prefigurative practices and situated knowledges through a series of trainings, learning from comrades, growing food, medicinal herbs and conducting interviews with relevant people.

The project asks: What do the ways we ‘prep’ for the future reveal about the world we anticipate? How are particular futures instrumentalized to justify our present? And what futures do we summon through our preparations?

The research will be presented in the form of a small publication, activated with some readings and accompanied by tastes from the survival cuisine.

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Friday 27 March @19:00

Labour of Tongues by neneh noï

(CUTT PRESS)

Dear Enheduanna by Erin Honeycutt

(Ugly Duckling Presse)

LABOUR OF TONGUES is a document of poetry that records, but saves nothing. It asks, how to stay with pain? This archive is build out of two channels, two voices running parallel to one another. In one an elder speaks, in the other a knot of generational fabulation. Through imitation and declaration this archive becomes a container for disorganised storytelling, disorder, the loss of narrative, language and tongues. Here, the poem and flesh serve as ushers for pain.

Dear Enheduanna is part prayer, part performance, part poetic treatise, Dear Enheduanna writes out to the high priestess and first known author then swallows whole the epistolary form. Pulp decay as publishing tactic. These are conjuring poems; poems coming after collaboration—entanglement as conceit, as kink, as communion pleasure tactic. Smuggle in a sexy mirror, smuggle in a double-headed dildo, smuggle in a sentence then feel it read back: the author is reader is author is reader.

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neneh noï is a poet based in Belgium. They approach their art as a social practice beyond authorship. They create contexts for writing/text, performance, and play to activate each other, wherein they seek the fine balance between pleasure, discomfort and fascination. They co-organise Anonymous Poets meetings with Kate Paul and Roya Shadmand, and co-host The Scandal, an open mic’s for poets, with cris e. fidelis (AU JUS 11/04 & La Balsamine 25/04).

Erin Honeycutt is a writer and bookmaker based in Berlin where they run the publishing project CUTT PRESS for pamphlets, poetry, artist books, and reprints. Erin is the author of Night School (forthcoming from MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE). Erin co-edits Womanwood, an open-call gazette for queer erotics, and Vortext, a mail-order poetry magazine.

BOOK TALK Friday 13 February @ 19:00

“Visit [country]” is an artist’s book by Carlos Azeredo Mesquita (@carlosazeredomesquita) composed entirely of texts taken from official tourism promotion materials from every country in the world. Removed from their usual images and inspirational music, these texts reveal how tourism is built on nationalism, chauvinism, and the invention of collective identities.

The evening will open with a brief introduction to the work, followed by a collective reading performance and a Q&A with Nikos Doulos (@voulos)

Hope to see you next week!

Carlos Azeredo Mesquita (1988, Porto; lives in Brussels) is a visual artist and performance maker whose work explores nationalism, class, and systems of representation. His work has been presented at the Berlin Biennale, BoCA, Festival Circular, and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, as well as in institutions including the Serralves Museum, Teatro Municipal do Porto, MAAT, and Galeria Municipal do Porto. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute (@dutchartinstitute)

Nikos Doulos is an Amsterdam based artist & art educator , born and raised in Athens, Greece.

In his work he creates malleable situations/conditions as participatory infrastructures: modes for reading the cultural landscape and ‘soft’ knowledge generators . Walking holds a predominant part in his practice. His is the founder of NIGHTWALKERS (developed under the expodium umbrella) – a nocturnal walking project investigating the contemporary identity of the flanêur. Doulos currently holds the position of Study Trajectory Counsellor at Dutch Art Institute

We are a study group that meets monthly at KIOSK to read and talk.

We know we are in deep trouble, so let’s learn together.

We are reading Ali Kadri’s ‘The Accumulation of Waste’ over the coming months.

Our next meeting will be on February 4, 20:00 - 22:00 at KIOSK.

For info mail to: vanreekum@essb.eur.nl