Pre-opening event | Garage Rotterdam x Casco Art Institute
Garage Rotterdam x Casco Art Institute
Underdeveloped study session: What about self-publishing?
Organised by Reza Afisina, reinaart vanhoe, Aline Hernández and Jip van Klaveren
Pre-opening event on Friday 13 September 2024 at Garage Rotterdam. Free entry!
Join our curators Reza Afisina and reinaart vanhoe, together with Aline Hernández and Jip van Klaveren from Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons (Utrecht, NL), for a collective study session inaugurating Underdeveloped: exploring various forms of art practice and working methods, using the title of the show as a starting point for reflection.
During the session, you are invited to explore the multidisciplinary editorial projects of Reading Sideways Press (RSP) and Taller XD – Cooperativa Cráter Invertido, both featured in Underdeveloped. This session will serve as a starting point to learn about collective study, self-organisation, and self-publishing, and to delve into the possibilities of independent editorial production and distribution.
What can the editorial projects of RSP and Taller XD teach us about economies that operate on principles of generosity, friendship, trust, and time? What can we learn from the conditions that inform these projects’ practices and interests? And how can we build on the knowledge, imaginations, and experimentations of RSP and Taller XD locally?
The collective study session takes place on 13 September, 2024 at 5 PM, extending into the opening of Underdeveloped at 7 PM where we will continue exchanging in a more “nonkrong” way by chit-chat and hanging out. No preparation is needed. The session is designed to create time and space for collective exploration of selected publications from both RSP and Taller XD—by reading fragments, listening to each other, and contextualising through storytelling. The outcome of the session will be a “harvest” that will stay on the exhibition.
The session also connects with Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons’ exhibition Hidden Arts: What do we do when no one sees us (Utrecht, 31 August-13 October, 2024), focusing on alternative economies of collectivity, shared resource building and arts organising.
Are you not able to join the session on Friday 13 September at Garage Rotterdam? More study sessions will be held at various institutional settings, including Casco’s headquarters, on Friday evenings from September 13th to October 6th. Stay updated through the Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons’ website (https://casco.art/), newsletter, and social media (https://www.instagram.com/whereiscasco/).”
This event will be held in English.