EMILIA-AMALIA SESSION X:
THE PRACTICE OF RESONANCE – GENERATING POLITICAL ALLIANCES
Saturday, 3 June 2017, 11 AM–7 PM
with Federica Bueti and Alex Martinis Roe

Presented by Berlin-based artist Alex Martinis Roe and writer Federica Bueti, this workshop will begin from the resonances between two feminist texts that are from completely different places, contexts and discourses: one about the Milan Women’s Bookstore co-operative, and the other “No Selves To Abolish: Afropessimism, anti-Politics, and The End of The World” by K. Aarons. The resonances and dissonances between the two texts will be explored through a collective film and writing experiment. Through the production of a short film, the group will devise a toolbox of techniques and practices to explore the conditions for generating political alliances between different positions.

The texts will be sent in advance of the workshop—please read them prior to the event. No prior knowledge or experience with filmmaking required to participate.

Federica Bueti and Alex Martinis Roe are guests of the Goethe-Institut and the Italian Consulate. This event is presented with support from Partners in Art.

Federica Bueti is a writer and editor based in Berlin. She is the editor of …ment, Journal for Contemporary Culture, Art and Politics. Her writing on art and cultural theory has appeared in magazines such as frieze, BOMB, Ibraaz, Makhzin, Flash Art,Carla, X-TRA, a.o., and she regularly contributes to critical anthologies and artist monographs. Her current research focuses on feminism and the economies and politics of personal writing. She is part of the curatorial team at SAVVY Contemporary, where she co-curates the series Speaking Feminisms dedicated to an exploration of current feminist practices and alliances. In 2013, she organised the spoken-word series Rhythms, Voices and Ties at Archive Kabinett, Berlin. She has given lectures widely including at Tate Liverpool, UK; HKW, Berlin, Germany; Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Akademie der Künste Der Welt, Cologne, Germany; Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Norway; and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany. She is currently completing her PhD in Critical Writing in Art at the Royal College of Art, London.

Alex Martinis Roe b. 1982 (Melbourne, Australia) is an artist based in Berlin. Her current projects focus on feminist genealogies and seek to foster specific and productive relations between different generations as a way of participating in the construction of feminist histories and futures. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Badischer Kunstverein, Germany (2017); ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano (2017); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2017); Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Amsterdam (2016); Rongwrong, Amsterdam (2014); Archive Kabinett, Berlin (2014); and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2013). She was a fellow of the Graduate School for Arts and Sciences, University of the Arts, Berlin from 2013-16.