"To whom it may affect," (first 21 pages PDF)
"Graduation project":
To whom it may affect, (This page is a temporary form, the design of the publication is still in process
"What follows is a corpus of four letters respectively addressed to Jeanne van Heeswijk, Erica Gargaglione, Carolina Castro and Chaiyoung Kim (Chae)—but also, to all of them at once and, ultimately, "to whom it may affect".
Each addressee is concerned with collective approaches whether their practice comprises rehearsing collectiveness, inspecting and documenting mechanics of self-organised cultural organisations, actually co-organising activities within a cultural organisation or more particularly questioning the effect of intimacy on publishing practices through experiments. At last, I would like to acknowledge all addressees for having played a consented or incidental role in the process and the publication of this epistolary chronicle.
Departing from a local issue—itself stemming from the context-specific process of a collective publication—these letters intend to give an account of recurring conflicts relating to collective processes.
The publishing of private missives both represents an invitation and a record of the relations involved in a process that is challenging to document or that may be overridden by its design. These series of epistles are punctuated with a collection of methods to practice collectiveness in publishing contexts. In turn, the suggested methods may be enacted and adapted to any collectivity."
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Previous experiments at XPUB:
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Collective editing tools
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Restaging reality
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Acknowledgment
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52.948.000 tales
- Experiment
- Working with existing content as a constraint
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Audience's agency
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Space and surrounding
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Common narration to host multiple voices
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Price tag SI17
AccAcc
Public moment #1
Public moment #3
 Self-proclaimed co-hosting, with Erica, at Het Bollendpandje , this time with more awareness than the previous
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X-Kitchen
- Experiment
- This project is mentioned in the thesis as well as in the project
- Role in special issue process: Facilitating tools for self-organisation with the aim of generating equitable outcomes
SI18, "Uneven pattern"
SI18, "SIX"
...where an ordinary private setting was turned into a stage, hosting and broadcasting a program.
- published on: 2022, May
- published from: Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
- published @: (URL)
- published by: Erica, Kamo & Kimberley
- guest-publishers: XPUB students (all names), XPUB tutor (Femke Snelting)
- public: anyone with url
- narrative: A day-long conversation and workshop on cross-reading methods developed by students of XPUB. The conversation is facilitated and documented thanks to a script, as well as (sound) recorded and broadcasted.
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notes/observation/traces:
"XPUB studio": A large room in a modern school building; individual desks with computers and monitors; opening and closing time; students and tutors of XPUB
"XPUB living room": A circular arrangement of two red and one green sofa; a makeshift coffee table; an eclectic assemblage of objects dismissed from their respective functions a long time ago (air pump, dead cactus, mouldy cup, empty mustard jar, etc.) and organically accumulating as time and students pass by.
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The contrasting nature of the "XPUB studio" and the "XPUB living room" gives meaning to the two space's relation: a space of exchange at the heart of the room emerging from the need for sociability; a space where traces left by individuals persist in contrast to individual desks that are emptied and restored at the end of each school year.
gesture: (dis)placed in an empty room, the familiar arrangement becomes a stage (reenactment)— awareness prompted by the mic, the script and other recording materials. Repurpose an old setting, turning a private space into a space of publication.
F.N.P
- Page Not Found's alternative reality
- Using a wiki format to create sections that describe a different aspect FNP, different members of the group can contribute to the narration, resulting in collective world building
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Retrospective narration as a tool to document a situation
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Interdependencies introduction assignment
"Somewhere on the highway, publishing" (thesis)
- A thesis investigating collective practices of graphic design and self-organisation tools made by self-organised groups with a publishing practice.
- Opens up to the project (in which excerpts of the thesis are featured)
"To whom it may affect" (project)
- Project extending the thesis research to a series of letters addressed to 4 individuals concerned with collective processes leading to publishing. The letters describes and analyse past "publishing situations", gives an account of the tools originating from these encountered situations and proposes a series of instructions, methods, exercises to an audience of designers, editors, publishers (or others) concerned with questions around collectivity.
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Figuring out recurring methods, gestures, etc.
To whom it may affect,
Table of content
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Addressees |
Letters |
Tools for collective editing and self-organisation |
At the show |
Beyond the show |
References
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Somewhere on the highway, publishing (thesis)
Take-away ("public moment n.3")
This part recounts the process and outcome of a publishing event collectively organised to present the work in progress of 11 graduating student at XPUB (class of 2023)
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Jeanne van Heeswijk
...follow-up of an interaction that occurred during an ice breaker activity on the occasion of a workshop on letter-writing at BAK.
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- Introduction
- Introduction
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- Publisqueshions (published questions)
- X-Kitchen
- Foot-note
- Close reading in closeness
- Instructions for collective editorial
- Bodily editing
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- Heeswijk, J. "Preparing for the not-yet", in Paula Pais, A. & F. Strauss, C. (2016)Slow Reader. Amsterdam: Valiz pp.42—53.
- Garcés, M. (2012). Honesty with the real. Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 4(1), p.18820. doi: [link]
- Groten, A. 2022. Figuring this out together: On the relationship between design and collective practice. Ph.D. Universiteit Leiden [online] Accessible at: link
- Hirshhorn, T. (2005) Anschool. Bonnefanten museum
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Erica Gargaglione
..."participant" at XPUB, class of 2023
..."contributor" to Take-away ("public moment n.3")
..."co-host" (self-proclaimed) on the occasion of the "public moments n.1 and 3"
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Carolina Castro
..."contact person" at Het Bollenpandje
..."contact person" during the organisation of Take-away ("public moment n.3")
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Chaiyoung Kim (Chae)
..."participant" at XPUB, class of 2023
..."contributor" to Take-away ("public moment n.3")
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