User:Aglaia/Final assessment

17.06.2024

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FIRST YEAR IN XPUB

SI 19 - Garden Leeszaal

https://issue.xpub.nl/19/index.html

The SI19 How do we library that? or alternatively Garden Leeszaal was crucial in diving into the structure of libraries as systems of producing knowledge and unpacking classification as a process that (un)names, distinguishes, excludes, displaces, organizes life. It was fruitful for me in order to start understanding the notion of infra-structure. Libraries as complex social infrastructures. From the library to the section to the shelf to the book to the page to the text. The zooming in and zooming out process. The library as a plain text.

During the collective moment in Leeszaal was really moving seeing people literally diving into recycle bins, grab books, tear pages apart, drawing, pen plotting, weaving words together, cutting words, removing words, overwriting, printing, scanning. A whole book made by all of us in the evening. Having them creating the object. Stations, machines, a cloud of cards. A sleeve that warms up THE BOOK.

[img scanned book] [img work-station with Irmak at Leeszaal] [the bins]

SI20 - Console

https://issue.xpub.nl/20/index.html

[the box] [ ] [ ]

SI21 - TTY

https://issue.xpub.nl/21/index.html

During SI21 TTY we messed around and worked with dusty machines like teletype and typewriters. These machines used to be instruments of administrative workforce and a expressing tool for concrete poetry and literature. This emerging workforce, in a large scale made up of women and minorities who were until then excluded from most qualified jobs, used typewriters and administration aesthetics to express themselves, re-organize and underline structural inequalities. This was an inspirational moment within XPUB for starting developing bureaucratic forms as interface of potential personal stories and discourse.

[the box] [ ] [ ]

Methods with Steve-Project that may or may not be made

Life with the XPUB chickens

[bootleg books]

[Chae and Kamo feed us before the thesis submission - April 2024]

SECOND YEAR IN XPUB

Project Proposal and Thesis Outline

How everything started.

Thesis: Performing the Bureaucratic (Border)lines

In the first chapter, I touch the concept of borders in relation to migration. I begin with a personal inspection and comprehension of material borders as entities. Alongside, I interweave in the text the concept of hospitality as a cultural attitude towards 'strangers' from the state’s perspective. Conditional and unconditional. How the document I hold in my hands reflects positions on the government’s conditional hospitality and what constraints it dictates.

In the second chapter, I unpack bureaucracy and focus on its bordering function. From migration ghost bureaucracies to the educational bureaucracies of my surroundings to even smaller components of this apparatus. I end up analyzing the document as a unit within this complex network. Through the "interrogation" of the form as an artifact are emerging issues related to language, graphic design and transparency, universality, and underlying violence.

In the third and last chapter, I bridge the written text with the ongoing project that runs simultaneously as part of my graduation work in Experimental Publishing, where I mainly speak through my prototypes. Talking documents¹ are performative bureaucratic text inspections, vocal and non-vocal, that intend to create temporal public interventions through performative readings. The intention is to underline how the vocalization of bureaucracies as a tool can potentially reveal their territorial exclusive function and provide space for the invisible vulnerability.

1Working title of the project

Project: Talking Documents

What is it about?
Why did i make it?
How did i make it?

Talking Documents in Public

I imagine the theatrical play as a “human microphone”, a low-tech amplification device. A group of people performs the bureaucratic scenario in chorus, out loud, in the corridor of the school’s building, in the main hall, at the square right across, outside of the municipality building. 

The term is borrowed from the protests of the Occupy Wall Street Movement in 2011. People were gathered around the speaker repeating what the speaker was saying in order to ensure that everyone could hear the announcements during large assemblies. Human bodies became a hack in order to replace the forbidden technology. In New York it is required to ask for permission from authorities to use “amplified sound” in public space

[Title]: “Department of Bureaucracy and Administration Customs Enforcement”
[When]: November 2023
[Where]: Leeszaal
[Who]: XPUB peers, tutors, friends, alumni
[Description]:

People queueing at Leeszaal to collect their documents, sign and leave their fingerprint to the Department of Bureaucracy and Customs Enforcement

I was thinking of queues as a spatial oppressive tool used often by (bureaucratic) authorities. The naturalized image of bodies-in-a-line waiting for “something” to happen at “some point” under the public gaze in an efficiently defined area. 

One applicant's form from Leeszaal

[Title]: “Passport Reading Session”
[When]: January 2024
[Where]: XML – XPUB studio
[Who]: Ada, Aglaia, Stephen, Joseph

[Description]:

This is a 20-page A6 booklet created out of the transcription of the recording during a session of "scanning" verbally our identification documents

[Title]: “Postal Address Application Scenario"
[When]: February 2024
[Where]: Room in Wijnhaven Building, 4th floor
[Who]: XPUB 1,2,3, tutors, Leslie
[Description]:

This is the first performative reading of the document "Postal Address Application Scenario" during a semi pubic moment at Wijnhaven building. The actors are sitting around the black table. Two bureaucrats from the one side and three applicants at the other. The narrator is standing still and and the audience surrounds them.

This is the first page of the ACT1 Postal Address Application Scenario that people performed for the first time at Wijnhaven

[Title]: “Talking Documents”
[When]: May 2024
[Where]: Art Meets Radical Openness Festival Linz, Austria
[Who]: XPUB, participants and visitors of the festival
[Description]:

Reading of the Act 2 "Call with the municipality of Rotterdam for the rejection of my application" and Act3 "Objection Letter" inside the tent that we build at AMRO

Kamo as the orange applicant

[Title]: “Talking Documents”
[When]: May 2024
[Where]: City Hall Rotterdam
[Who]: XPUB, and XPUB friends
[Description]:

A really spontaneous snapshot of the reading outside of the main entrance of the City Hall of Rotterdam. Reading of the Act2 "Call with the municipality ofRotterdam after the rejection of y application ", Act5 "Asking for my deposit - commmunication with the agency", Act 6 "Deregistration from the Netherlands Application"

The statue at the garden of the Gemeente is performing my scenario

Gesture Glossary - I love you/ I see you