publics&publishings is a joint digital platform run by GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Künstlerhaus Bremen, and the Kunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven. Based on our respective exhibition, event, and mediation programs, the online platform gathers a range of contributions dedicated to spaces both as frameworks for activity and as normative codings, speaking to and with art in different ways. At the same time, the platform will discuss and negotiate questions of plurivocal publishing.
Based on shared reflections on longed-for places, GAK will set up a bookstore as a temporary framework for activity. Here, the publics&publishing events will take place, gathering various forms, constellations, and voices of publishing and publics.
These will include Ana Luiza Fonseca and Tanja Baudoin, who will focus on collaborative translation and on independent Brazilian publishing; Lucia Farinati on the meaning and power of listening and the relationship between recording and imagination; a workshop by Dudu Quintanilha on prophetic complaints; and a performance by Karolin Meunier, who weaves together the biographies of several women based on Barbara Loden’s film Wanda.
The bookstore will host an opening event on October 8 from 3 pm to 6 pm, after which it will be open during the regular hours of 11 am to 6 pm, Tuesday to Sunday.
Events
Sat, 8 October 22, 3-6 pm
Opening of temporary bookshop
Tue, 25 October 22, 6 pm
Explizit implizit: Vom Konsum des Begehrens in postmodernen Bildkulturen
Book presentation with lecture by Susanne Huber
In cooperation with Mariann Steegmann Institut. Kunst & Gender
(German, hybrid)
Friday, 28 October, 7 pm
Lecture by and talk with Lucia Farinati on the Power of Listening.
(English, hybrid)
Saturday, 19 November, starting at 5 p.m.
Aller-retour et aller Performance by Karolin Meunier
+ Public evening with Bar do Amañha
Thursday, December 8, 4-7 p.m.
Worst fear, best fantasy
Workshop with Anna Witt
(German)
Friday, December 16, 7 p.m.
Errant Journal: States of Statelessness
With the editor Irene de Craen and other guests
(English, hybrid)
Support
publics&publishings is a collaborative project between GAK, Künstlerhaus Bremen as well as Kunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, which is being developed as part of “dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions” of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) with funding by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the NEUSTART KULTUR programme.)