Issue Newsletters
Anti-fascist Culture (Athens, Thessaloniki & beyond)
- We took the name Antifascist Culture to mark our stance
and opted for member anonymity to ensure that whatever
we did would not become ‘cultural capital’. We wanted to
register collective resistance in the cultural field in advance
of the fascist effect. Anti-fascism would be low-fi political
education: a means to stand against dominant ideology in
the circumstances faced in Greece.
(This newslettter follows the group’s first piece of collective
writing, done in 2019- eds.)
Museum Adjacent (Los Angeles)
Formal writing authors- Larissa Nickel and Leslie Foster.
Content contributions from Museum Adjacent collective
including text and images.
- Newsletter was distributed via pdf to Museum Adjacent
(MA) members, and friends/alumni of the Torrance
Art Museum FORUM program. It was intended to be
printed and distributed internationally at now postponed
MA events and exhibitions/ interactions with other
collectives
We TBD (Los Angeles)
Von Curtis, Olga Koumoundouros, Francesca Lalane, Kristy
Lovich, Ofelia Marquez, Jennifer Moon
- The Newsletter hasn’t been distributed yet due to Covid-19
sheltering in place orders. The plan was for me to print
out at LA County DPH (Department of Public Healt) office
using their photocopier. But DPH pivoted quickly to address
public health issues. Leadership was called in, copiers were
in use more than usual and all staff except for leadership
was asked to work from home, this included my position. I
should have gone to a copy center and paid, but my mind
was on coping with impact of disease since schools were
closed, then my Dad got sick and died. The community
centers and art venues where we’d planned to distribute
the newsletter remain closed. We intended this newsletter
to be read in hand and have not looked into online platforms
to distribute. We welcome any suggestions on how to
proceed.
Around the Table (London)
- We are a disparate and dispersed group of readers and activists
connected through The Field, a social centre in London,
and an interest in the politics of working collectively.
We aim to distribute hardcopies of this publication in various
locations such as social centres in the UK and the US.
Newsletter descriptions and page number
Five Years (London)
Five Years is an artists’ organisation and project space based in
London, comprising a fluctuating membership, with 18 of us
currently contributing to the programming and administration.
Over the course of its 22 years existence, Five Years has presented
more than 250 exhibitions and events at 3 primary venues and has
involved 35 members, functioning without individual directorship or
regular funding. More informationis provided in the introduction to
the newsletter and via our website.
- Since moving to Archway, we’ve established a series of
collaborative rapports with the nearby Archway Library where we
distribute our newsletter. We have organised two events so far
- workshops, displays and performances. Our next series in which
the workshop on thefascism/anti-fascism reading group was to be
held, was intended to coincide with the Islington Festival of
Storytelling in March.
Five Years newsletter installed in a window
collective @ .ac (Lancashire)
- We are producing newsletters on the two sides of an A4
sheet of paper to distribute on the picket line at the University
of Central Lancashire addressing key issues of casualization
and precarious working conditions, but also graphically
addressing the creative potential of strike action as a space
of and democratic becoming.
Evening Class (London)
-The DCW (Design and Cultural Workers Union) newsletter
was distributed at various DCW events, and by members
in their workplaces. They were also handed out on the
picket line and at events during the 14 day UCU Strike in
March this year.
DSA Ecosocialist WG (Santa Cruz)
Laurie Palmer, Martabel Wasserman and T. J. Demos
The material is circulated through DSA (Democratic Socialists of
America) channels in Santa Cruz and beyond
Critical Practice Notes (Los Angeles)
Critical Practice Notes is a mailed newsletter consisting of
interviews and reflection on critical practices mailed to a list
of 150 subscribers.
Woodbine (Ridgewood Queens, New York)
- The newsletter has been distributed in Ridgewood, Queens,
at our food pantry, and door-to-door in the neighborhood.
Pro Arts Gallery & Commons (Oakland)
- Pro Arts COMMONS is a multi-use space for the expanded
field of art, debate, experimentation, and collaboration.
Pro Arts’ newsletter has been distributed from their gallery
space located on Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland
California.
Black Book Assembly (Hong Kong, Wuhan, and elsewhere)
- Because of being unable to print in Wuhan as initially
planned, we had the inadvertent opportunity to print in Ankara,
but the breakout of the virus in the West around that
time slowed the process of getting the finished print run
back to East Asia, so we initially began distributing the digital
version, which has also been printed in small batches by
friends and comrades in Seoul, Yogyakarta and Guangzhou.
This month we have also started sending hard copies to info
shops and spaces around Hong Kong, Tokyo and Taipei.
The Center for Enchantment (Albany)
The Center stands beside an institution called Grand Street
Community Arts in Albany, NY, located in old St. Anthony’s
Church in Albany, NY.
A first draft of our newsletter was distributed at a community
breakfast at GSCA on February 23, 2020. A revised
edition that removed mention of in-person events was
wheat-pasted as a poster on the side of Grand Street Community.
A wheatpasted newsletter on the streets of Albany
Zizi de Vitruve (Strasbourg)
Cynthia Montier & les ouvriers du chantier Kellermann,
Anonymous construction site workers
- The newsletter was printed by Cynthia Montier in 150
exemplars in February 2020 and was distributed from hand
to hand on various occasions since then. It was meant to
be clandestinely diffused in 500 copies at the opening of
Primark shopping mall in Strasbourg the 16th April 2020—
that has been postponed because of the quarantine period
in France.
La Foresta/Evening Class (Rovereto & London)
“The newsletter was printed on a Risograph and distributed
in Italy and Germany, simply at events we went to or to
people we met.” (note from La Foresta)
“The La Foresta newsletter was distributed from their space
in Rovereto, and informally by Evening Class to friends and
collaborators in London (at the ASP5 book fair and the HURRA
HURRA festival in Halle Germany).” (note from Evening
Class)
Never Again/Anti-Fascist Year (Warsaw)
Anti-fascist Year + Art Against War and Fascism in the 20th
and 21st Centuries and Internationalism After the End
of Globalization, Edited by Marsha Bradfield and Keep it
Complex, with support of Kuba Szreder. Designed by Keep it
Complex.
- The newsletter was produced after the Never Again conference,
Kuba Szreder solicited contributions to the newsletter
you are now reading. This working group was initially conceived
as meta space to develop a mission statement for
the Anti-Fascist Year but was eclipsed on the day by more
pressing urgencies; namely the Crisis in the Castle.”
Never Again was an interdisciplinary conference of two
parts - Art Against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st
Centuries on October 24th, 2019, and Internationalism
After the End of Globalization on October 25th and 26th,
2019. This event took its name from the concurrent exhibition
Never Again: Art against War and Fascism in the 20th
and 21st Centuries, which was organised in cooperation
within the EU programme Our Many Europes and L’internationale
coalition of European museums, to coincide with
the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World
War.
(The Crisis in the Castle relates to the right-wing curatorial
take-over of the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski
Castle (CCA) -eds.)
ReadingRoom (Utrecht)
Texts were collectively written, desigers include Yo-E Ryou,
Pinar Türer, Birgit M. Kaiser
- The newsletter was shared digitally with the growing number
of (former and current) participants of ReadingRoom
and with the friends of Casco Art Institute.
ReadingRoom wrote four newsletters. The third one is reproduced in the issue and linked above. View others here: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4.
The Re-Imagining Value Action Lab/RiVAL (Thunder Bay)
Our team includes Max Haiven, (Canada Research Chair in
Culture, Media and So-cial Justice at Lakehead University),
Cassie Thornton (a participatory and community artist),
Sam Martin-Bird (Indigenous Relationships Supervisor at
the TBPL), Robyn Medicine (Indigenous Liaison at the TBPL),
Adar Charleton (post-doctoral fellow at the University of
Manitoba), Matthew Benoit (graduate student at LU) and Liz Ward (graduate student at LU)
- This brochure was distributed at meetings with stakeholders
in the project, in Thunder Bay. The project is a collaboration
with The Thunder Bay Public Library. (RiVAL is a
workshop for the radical imagination, social justice and
decolonization based at Lakehead University and active
around the world.)
The Casual School Collective (Canberra)
Currently TCSC is Ruby Rossiter (R.R), Michelle IJtsma
(MijT) and Zora Pang
- We are either current or alumni of the Australian National
University School of Art and Design, but that is only our beginnings.
We are about to expand the collective beyond our
current institutional borders. We are all practicing artists
and/or curators. The collective was born out of a desire to
do something more concrete in our respective communities
about the ever confining crunch of neoliberalism.