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

short description of the thesis, what is included and how it contextualizes the project?

chapter 1
chapter 2
chapter 3

Project: Talking Documents

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

Talking Documents in Public

[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

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.

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

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

Gesture Glossary - I love you/ I see you