Publishing

There, there

A Slow Down Manifesto

There, there

An Ode to “Behind The Scene(s)”

Decolonial (re)mediators

The Situated Kitchen

School of Commons

Code of Conduct

Carina ErdmannSteph Holl-TrieuSchool of Commons

Footnotes: The story so far...

Band of Burnouts

PRESS: Our Lab in Page Magazine

Band of Burnouts zine is featured in the new issue of PAGE magazine.

Band of Burnouts

Band of Burnouts Zine

Band of Burnouts

Anti-Burnout Zine Making

a.k.a How To Avoid Having a Burnout On-Project. Some self-enforced constraints for the making of the Band of Burnouts collective zine.

Band of Burnouts

Chatting with an AI about Burnout.

Talking about burnout with OpenAI tool GPT-3.

Band of Burnouts

Introduction to the We Are Not Sick Zine

An extract from the special edition zine from our upcoming event with We Are Not Sick at Lange Nacht festival.

Profound Procrastination

#mirrorselfie

Don't Speak

Silence as Complaint

Noises that are fine but it's 5 AM, 10 PM, it's early, it's late, this has been going on for hours, I can't sleep, I can't read, I have to say something.

Don't Speak

Silence as Surrounding

I. Mutiny of the Body: Constellations Towards a Radical Ecology of Care

I. Mutiny of the Body: Constellations Towards a Radical Ecology of Care

Haptics of Miasma

Growing a Pearl

Autolysis: Post-mortem change

Dr. Kami Fletcher on Why Death Studies Should be Radical

We chat with one of the founders of the Center for Radical Death Studies on using cemeteries as a source of knowledge, how death changes the archive and how grief transforms into activism in the African American community.

Deschooling: climate and art

2. Communicating without aestheticizing or academicizing

Conversation with Angela Chan, creative climate communicator

Deschooling: climate and art

5. Mineralizing land and fabulating climate

Conversation with Nolan Dennis, artist

Don't Speak

Silence as Photography

What is "the quietest picture" you've ever taken? Not "first memory," "favorite vacation," or "one where you most look like your mother," but the one that conveys silence. A lack of crowds, sirens, children, witnesses. The one that makes no noise. When you look at it, you hear nothing. Not shouting, barking, even cars passing in the street. No noise. No echo.

The boudoir, the desk & the couch : Histories, practices and speculations on labour

5. Just Do It

This chapter explores the blurred boundaries between work and leisure entangling the sources of the social, political and cultural stigma of leisure as laziness. The couch as symbol of both idleness and exhaustion intersects with cultural imaginaries of unemployment, decadent aristocrats and mental illness. From the rest cure to the work cure, psychotherapy and medication treating burnout, work has been the pharmakon for exhaustion, presented both as its cause and its antidote.

Bianca Carague

Bump Galaxy

BUMP GALAXY is a virtual world and community for mental health. In it, players can visit several different Care Commons and engage with mental health professionals from around the world. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Vera HofmannDr. Friederike Landau

Art On Demand - Radicalizing Access to Art in Times of Crisis

Art On Demand is a collaborative participatory project which creates a platform from and for artists, curators, writers, theorists and audiences to collectively share and experience the creation of and encounter with art. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Clare Price

I spat on it to put it back together

A self-conducted interview which offers insight into Price's practice and reflects upon the ways in which she positions herself both in her work as well as her community during the pandemic. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Stefan KleinLena SkrabsFred Unruh

The Anatomy of DIY-Objects in an Epidemic Infrastructure

A short visual essay about the DIY infrastructures that pop up amidst a global pandemic. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Demian Jakob

A three-minute excerpt from springtime 2020

A collection of found footage from the lockdown period. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Rebeca Romero

dream#1 2020

This video work is a dreamy, haunting piece that looks at the role our personal stories play in the making of history, as well as the actual political potency of our feelings. Part of 'Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19.'

There, there

Practical Archives: Navigating Artistic Documentation in a Mundane World

Decolonial (re)mediators

Playlist Undertranslation/Subtraducción

Decolonial (re)mediators

A Manifesto for Undertranslation

HumDrum Press

💙 A Manifesto for Publishing the HumDrum Way 💙

We understand the manifesto as active, growing, lived in and through, alive. A verb and a constantly evolving document or conversation. We also understand the manifesto as a vehicle to underpin the values, philosophies, missions and visions of a practice, a process or a project, as well as the mundane, day-to-day maintenance and slow growth in it's development. As such, as a form, a vehicle, a way of thinking and doing, the manifesto fits perfectly in helping inform our growing HumDrum publishing model.

Band of BurnoutsAmy GowenBetül AksuCharlotte FriedliSid Smith

Book: Researching the Researcher, Noticing why it wanders

Profound Procrastination

Profound Procrastination asks a lot of questions

Band of Burnouts

Zine Release Radio Show

Celebrating the release of our zine in audio form.

Band of Burnouts

Interview with St. Celfer – Part II.

Part two of the interview with Seattle-based musician John Parker, aka St. Celfer.

Band of Burnouts

📗Free Download: The ‘We Are Not Sick’ Lyric Book

A free download of the We Are Not Sick lyric book to share, spread, and DIY make for yourself at home.

Band of Burnouts

Presenting 'We Are Not Sick' at Lange Nacht Festival

Band of Burnouts is stoked to present a collaboration with the experimental theory band We Are Not Sick at the 2021 edition of contemporary music festival Lange Nacht Zürich.

Band of Burnouts

🗣 Call for Contributions: Print Publication on Burnout

Announcing our first call for contributions to an experimental print publication sharing experiences of burnout.

Don't Speak

Silence as Nature

If a tree falls in a forest and no one's around to hear it, is it a waste of that peaceful silence? 

I. Mutiny of the Body: Constellations Towards a Radical Ecology of Care

II. Mutiny of the Body: On Sex Work and the Political Economy of Care

Haptics of Miasma

Wet Nurses, Microbes, Milk-siblings: Milk as Liquid Conduit

Haptics of Miasma

On Shrinking

The boudoir, the desk & the couch : Histories, practices and speculations on labour

1. Introduction

Work, we love to hate it as we pay tribute to, sing about, reflect on and whine about it. While work conditions have changed radically in the past century, from the spaces where labour takes place to the technical apparatuses employed to increase productivity; the premises of work have remained the same. Automation, repetition and standardization are only byproducts of the urge to make tasks, spaces and workflows efficient and ourselves more productive. Not only our work but our social life, relationships and ways we understand and value the world have been affected by the insidious effects of scientific management. With parts of our lives being templated and subsumed into labour, how are our notions of value, our interpersonal relationships, our bodies and our collective forms of consciousness being affected? The first chapter of this series explores the beginnings of the science of work, its intersection with a crisis of energy as evidenced by 19th century bodily, psychic and environmental exhaustion as well as the role that music played in the UK during WWI.

Deschooling: climate and art

3. Knowledge production as radical sharing and curation as care

Conversations with Bukola Oyebode and Danielle Bowler, editors

Deschooling: climate and art

6. Towards climate consciousness: a compendium

The boudoir, the desk & the couch : Histories, practices and speculations on labour

3. Looks like harmonizing growth and desire is gonna be a tricky business

From 1960’s utopian re-imaginings of the house of the future, to Wages Against Housework, this chapter explores the versatile and invisible character of female labour. We depart from the boudoir as a space to allow oneself “to feel", to find inner peace, away from the emotional, social and sexual labour required from the 17th century aristocratic woman. Through explorations of ejaculatory prayers, hedonistic luxury, lesbianism and prostitution as refusal to work and Marx’s economic vampires, we will dive into the domestic, the familial, the conjugal as well as the labour to remain desirable while emotionally and sexually available.

The boudoir, the desk & the couch : Histories, practices and speculations on labour

6. Is it a strike?

This chapter re-writes the last chapter within the times of global lockdown. The couch signifies exhaustion but also unwillingness/resistance to work, it functions as a symbol of unproductiveness, inactivity and a state of suspension that is always preceding any revolutionary “awakening”.

Emmy VollaardNajendra CalderaKwinnie LêLili Ullrich

Cuarentena Volumes I

initiated by Emmy Vollaard, Najendra Caldera, Kwinnie Lê and Lili Ullrich, four artists based in Rotterdam. Connected through their performative practices, the lockdown prompted a new way of sharing their texts, performances, letters and drawings with one another. Cuarentena Volumes is abbreviated as cv: “these times might become a dent in the curriculum vitae, allowing to focus on the work itself.” Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Zoe Marquedant

Somebody

Centering the body without other bodies, Marquedant questions the parameters of being singular. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

GCD Memes

GCD Memes

GCD Memes is a rolling body of work that attempts to reflect on the collective experiences of those involved in the GCD course at CSM from the student perspective. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Gianna Rovere

Kein Strom

A short story, written as a diary entry, describes a lockdown-specific encounter. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Jan Hofer

New – New Bericht Phase #1

Im Zentrum dieses Projekts steht die sogenannte «Rumford Fliese», das erste Produkt, das gezielt für raumakustische Zwecke entwickelt wurde. Diese besondere Art von Keramik wurde im frühen 20. Jahrhundert erfunden, um in Auditorien das Echo zu brechen und die Raumakustik für das gesprochene Wort zu optimieren.

Sindi-Leigh McBride

The Coffee Commons

This essay reflects upon the divergent responses to and asymmetrical consequences of COVID19 in McBride’s home country, South Africa, and her country of residence, Switzerland. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

There, there

The Line is Not Dead—It is Simply Floating

Decolonial (re)mediators

Un Manifiesto para Subtraducir

Writing letters to/from choreographic elements

Subject: Reply to Lina Zeller or to Whom it may concern

HumDrum Press

Books are Bridges: a workshop with backbonebooks

During the month of April, HumDrum Press had the pleasure of being invited to join a workshop led by backbonebooks as part of PrintRoom Rotterdam's Growing the Archive series. 

Eligibility Criteria (and beyond)

Open open call

Eligibility Criteria (and beyond)

Bureau of Commons

Band of Burnouts

We Made A Zine!

The Band of Burnouts publication is out in the world.

Band of Burnouts

Interview with St. Celfer – Part I.

An interview with Seattle-based musician John Parker, aka St. Celfer, on burnout, homemade instruments, and making during the pandemic.

Band of Burnouts

An Interview with Geert Lovink

An interview with one half of the We Are Not Sick Band: Geert Lovink (media theorist, net critic, activist and founder of the Institute of Network Cultures).

Band of Burnouts

✨ Scholarship Opportunity: Workshop with CA Conrad

Band of Burnouts

📌 Further Introduction to the Lab

A page of additional background to the Band of Burnouts lab.

Don't Speak

Silence as Waiting

I. Mutiny of the Body: Constellations Towards a Radical Ecology of Care

III. Mutiny of the Body: LA BRUXA EROTICA NEUROTICA

Autolysis: Post-mortem change

A Visit to the Mausoleum

Upon arrival at his grandfather’s hometown, Iskandar was greeted with grief. He expected that he would struggle with names and faces, but what he didn’t plan for is for his visit to coincide with the seventh-day ceremony of his great aunt’s death, when all their faces wore the same expression.

Haptics of Miasma

Entangled Pathogens - Interview with Dr. Lina Moses

Autolysis: Post-mortem change

An Etalage: Three Ways of Dying

Three instances of death are examined: a preman's ascension into mokṣa, a medical death checklist and programmed cell death found in fermentation. As we leave this world, what traces do we leave behind?

Deschooling: climate and art

4. Dialogic processes, decolonial pedagogic practice and humanizing history

Conversation with Nomusa Makhubu and Nkule Mabaso, curators

The boudoir, the desk & the couch : Histories, practices and speculations on labour

2. Out of Office

From capitalist realism to domestic realism, architecture has played a major role in the standardization of work as well as in the engulfing of time dedicated to labour. This chapter explores the spaces of labour, the birth of ergonomics and its intersection with both the military and the prison industrial complex. From medieval bloodletting rituals, to transhuman war veterans, from time saving devices to factory panopticons, from architectural standards to a modernist lifestyle design, this chapter traces the slow transformation of architecture into the spatial organization of exhaustion.

The boudoir, the desk & the couch : Histories, practices and speculations on labour

4. Ora et Labora

This chapter departs from automation of labour and the evolution of work landscapes from factory counters to office cubicles. Did the rise of the managerial class increase productivity in the workplace? From bored employees that hate their jobs, to work induced involuntary choreas, to compulsory jolly service workers, to tech work cults and spiritual marketing consultants, the chapter explores the values and principles we associate with work as well as the theological standings behind the relationship of salvation and industriousness.

Andrea HerreraCarolina OpazoJose CáceresPaulina Barrenechea

VIRUS TDS

We may have infected ourselves because we were born in the same territory. Although we are spores in movement and three of us reached europe, we transmit our rebellious being, inherited by our ancestxrs. During the revolt of 2019, we find each other. In rebel fury and collaboration, our genoma mutated. At pandemia present, we connect our actions of feminist and decolonial practices towards the opposition against the neoliberal organism trying to bolt us down, but its failed attempt transforms us into an affective virus that aims to interweave, replicate and mutate our dis-gendered tactics of subsistence. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Prom

Prom.run

«Prom.run» is the publishing project of Prom. The publication consists of a selection of materials that have inspired their practice as an art collective and addresses topics relating to self-organization and knowledge-related commons. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Andrea Ragno

A short reflection on what COVID-19 teaches us about science

An essay which offers a welcome respite in thinking about the future of knowledge production and its rootedness in community. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Katy Morrison

A Conditional Construction in the Making

A text reflecting Morrison’s interests in discursive frameworks; performative platforms for critical enquiry; and ways in which we can facilitate and mediate multiple spaces for the generation of knowledge. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Vera Rieger

Wochenplan

A short video that shows the ways in which Rieger organised her activities into weekly schedules in order to maintain her singing practice as well as her social life. Part of "Learning from COVID19: Reflections on knowledge-related commons and practices of self-organization amidst COVID19."

Learning in Island Ecologies

Call for Participation — Learning in Island Ecologies

While we are all apart, we wonder: How does our collective isolation affect our capacity for learning? Learning in Island Ecologies seeks to answer.

Deschooling: climate and art

1. START HERE

an invitation to imagine