[Nettime-nl] this Friday 12pm-6pm Reading Anarchism final event

[Nicoline van Harskamp <mail@vanharskamp.net>]

> Join us for the last and full reading day of Reading Anarchism with  
> Katrin Böhm, Melanie Bonajo, John Jordan andElena Loizidou. With  
> music by Almudena Rubio Perez.
>
> Friday 17 May, 12.00 – 18.00 | Admission € 7,-
> Seating is limited, please make a reservation
>
> John Jordan (FR/UK) is an artist that has been involved in direct  
> action movements such as  Reclaim the Streets, the Rebel Clown Army  
> and various summit mobilizations. With Isabelle Fremaux he made the  
> book and film "Paths Through Utopias", that documents their journey  
> past eleven utopian, often anarchist, communities in Europe. The  
> trip inspired them to set up their own community in France, where  
> they live and work today. John Jordan’s contribution to Reading  
> Anarchism is a 90-minute workshop developed especially for the  
> occasion. Please be in time if you want to participate. (read more)
>
> Elena Loizidou (UK/CY) is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Birkbeck  
> University in London. Her research interests include anarchism and  
> political theory; theories of gender and sexuality, law and culture.  
> She is the author of "Judith Butler: Ethics, Law, Politics" and is  
> currently working on a monograph on anarchist practices and theory.  
> The many legal battles of  feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman been  
> one of the subjects of Loizidou’s special interest. (read more)
>
> Melanie Bonajo (NL) is an artist who works with photography,  
> performance, video and installation and who is, in her own words,  
> “captivated by concepts of the divine”. In her work she aims to  
> explore the spiritual emptiness and the shifted relationship with  
> nature that she perceives in her own generation. In 2012 she  
> initiated the collective Genital International, which focuses on  
> subjects around participation, equality, environment and “politics  
> beyond polarity”. (read more)
>
> In the past 20 years, Kathrin Böhm (UK/DE) has worked   
> internationally on art projects in the public realm and has  
> initiated a number of collaborations, such as Public Works. With two  
> other artists that were born and raised in small villages, she  
> founded myvillages.org, a group that aims to investigate relations  
> and reciprocal assumptions between the rural and the urban. In her  
> session, Böhm will elaborate on this in relation to two works of the  
> London anarchist Colin Ward: "Child in the City and Child in the  
> Country". (read more)
>
> Alumudena Rubio Perez (NL/SP) was an activist in the 15M-movement  
> (Indignants Movement) in Spain and is currently a researcher at the  
> International Institute for Social History (ISSG) in Amsterdam. She  
> will perform a number of songs to close the final Reading Anarchism  
> session at NASA. Many of these were written by Chicho Sanchez  
> Ferlosio, a Spanish musician who applied his talents to anti- 
> Francoist song writing from the 1960’s.
>
> Please click on the authors' names to go straight to the texts.
>
> John Jordan reads Anonymous – Call (2012)
> Elena Loizidou reads Emma Goldman – Was My Life Worth Living? (1934)
> Kathrin Böhm reads Colin Ward - Child in the City (2000)
>
> Reading Anarchism is a series of readings to accompany the extensive  
> art project Yours in Solidarity by artist Nicoline van Harskamp. The  
> readings examine the anarchist theoretical tradition. Guests with an  
> affinity for the subject are invited to prepare a presentation on a  
> book or article from the online archive of anarchist writing.  
> Reading Anarchism encourages audience members to read the same texts  
> and inspire further reading. The names of these and other guests and  
> their chosen book titles are also announced online and in the  
> exhibition spaces. All titles will be available as a laser printed  
> booklet at NASA, and can be downloaded for free at www.theanarchistlibrary.org 
> .

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