Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/21-01-2020 -Event 1

XPUB1 SPECIAL ISSUE #11: WORKSHOP 1: DAY 2
Rosemary Grennan + Jan Gerber (MAYDAY ROOMS)

TIME: 12:00

LOCATION: WH.-1.203 (Instruction Room Research Station [RS])), see email with location: 20 Jan

WORKSHOP: Dissenting Ephemera
https://maydayrooms.org/ https://leftove.rs

A workshop over two days in which we will explore how we can build archives of resistance both on and offline. Drawing on our experience of running MayDay Rooms archive and of developing https://leftove.rs we will think through how historical material from past struggles can be activated in the present. Over the course of the workshop we will scrutinise digital documents, make connections between materials that conventional cataloguing and metadata systems have often suppressed, and to think of new ways of distributing, collecting and reading online collections.

BIO: Since 2013 MayDay Rooms has existed as a safe haven for radical social movements and their histories. We have built a physical archive of over 20,000 items and a digital archive of over 13,000 items, focusing on social struggles, counter-culture, and acts of resistance from the 1960s to the present. Alongside conserving these histories we have developed a range of new forms of digital dissemination and collectivising archival work. Our emphasis is on making materials from past struggles available to people actively engaged in the emancipatory struggles of the present. Through this we seek to give people the skills to preserve and present their own histories “from below”.