Workshop conveners: Daniela Duca, Ingrid Kraus, Ksenia Jakobson, Ting Tsou, Julian Volz, Marlena von Wedel
Throughout the workshop participants will delve into queer visual culture in post-Soviet Russia, addressing the synergies between queerness, cultural presentation and the visualization of self-archiving methods. They will also excavate potential educational strategies exercised by the New Academy, a group that was active in Leningrad in the 1980s and 90s. Can a hedonistic approach to archives be an alternative to a dully systematic and positivist approach, especially when it comes to practices which render the life-art opposition irrelevant?
Guests: artist-duo Marta Volkova & Slava Shevelenko, Mikhail Tolmochev, Andrei Khlobystin, Anastasia Tarassowa (RAAN - The Russian Art Archive Network), Anastasia Kotyleva (RAAN), Maria Udovydchenko (RAAN) and Valeriy Ledenev (RAAN) and Peter Rehberg (Schwules Museum).
The workshop is part of the WHOLE LIFE ACADEMY workshop series organised by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin and will consist of 5 online sessions taking place between October 2021 and March 2022
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The Whole Life Academy is an experimental, collaborative research initiative. It takes on the long-term development of a hands-on methodology of site-specific research. Its participants collectively develop and practice a “nomadic curriculum”, a spatially expanded research setting that develops through a movement of knowledge and its producers, applying questions and methods on site, within and in-between archival settings, objects, and narratives.
With a comprehensive program of discussions, workshops, seminars, and archival viewings, the notion of archive is taken up as a space for dialogue, collective knowledge production and mobilization in the midst of current social and political upheaval. Alternative archival methods and practices are explored in relation to urgent discussions on natural and cultural ecologies, on decolonizing and rereading archival objects, and on the ways that digital and analogue tools can re-open historical narratives and canons.
