Weinmayr Eva Maria
About Weinmayr Eva Maria
Eva Weinmayr is an artist, teacher and researcher investigating the border crossings between contemporary art, radical education and institutional analysis by experimenting with modes of queer and intersectional knowledge formation.
Eva currently works as researcher at HDK-Valand, Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg. She lectures at Goldsmiths College London (MA Art and Politics), London College of Communication (MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures), Central Saint Martins (BA Fine Art: "Art, Publishing, Activism from an Intersectional Perspective").
She has been Visiting Lecturer at Parsons/The New School (New York), Ontario College of Art (Toronto), Cologne University, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Royal College of Art London, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Arts (Bremen), Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures – FHNW (Basel), Piet Zwart Institut (Rotterdam), Rietveld Academy/Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam).
She works with public art and activist spaces (SALT (Istanbul), MayDay Rooms (London), Showroom (London), Kunstverein München) and established museums and art institutions (National Art Gallery Warsaw, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Foundation Sitterwerk St Gallen). She published with art publishers such as Rhizome, Spektor Books, Hatje Cantz, Sternberg Press, Occasional Papers, Open Editions, BookWorks London as well as with scholarly presses, for instance, with MIT Press MA (US), Open Book Publishers Cambridge (UK), Centre for Curatorial Studies CCS Bard.
In 2020 Eva completed her doctoral thesis Noun to Verb: an investigation into the micro-politic of publishing through artistic practice (HDK-Valand, Gothenburg: ArtMonitor, 2020). This practice-based inquiry explores the social and political agency of publishing by investigating the micro-politics of making and sharing knowledges from an intersectional feminist perspective. There has been much discussion of the political agency of the book as a medium, yet it is often assumed that the book's political potential extends primarily, indeed if not exclusively, in terms of its content. The focus of this inquiry, however, is the potentially radical, political and emancipatory ways and processes by which a publication is made (authored, edited, printed, bound), disseminated (circulated, described, catalogued), and read (used). The research explores intersectional feminist strategies of publishing by asking: What if we understood publication not as a finite object? What if we gave attention and value to the processes and practices that lead up to a publication? How can collective processes of publishing themselves be a tactic to practically intervene, disrupt and change existing knowledge practices?
Current projects include:
Ecologies of Dissemination (working title). (With Femke Snelting, 2022–24). Funded by the Swedish Research Council. In partnership with Constant Association of Arts and Media, Brussels, and the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University. This collaborative artistic research project explores potential strategies of dissemination that acknowledge the tensions and overlaps between feminist methodologies, decolonial knowledge practices and principles of Open Access. Invested in collective art and knowledge practices, we are concerned with how the current drive to openness in dissemination policies might overlook relational aspects. How can we develop non-universalist policies, agreements, frameworks, licences that consider that there might be ethical reasons to refrain from release and re-use?
Teaching the Radical Catalogue–A Syllabus. (With Lucie Kolb, 2021–22). Part of the long-term project Reading the Library. In partnership with Kunstbibliothek und Werkstoffarchiv Foundation Sitterwerk, St. Gallen and Critical Media Lab at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures, FHNW, Basel (CH). “Teaching the radical catalogue – a syllabus” interrogates the prevailing practices of classifying and organizing knowledge in libraries of the Global North. Drawing on Emily Drabinski’s article “Teaching the Radical Catalog” (2008) the project develops a study and research program that investigates the politics of naming and framing and the practices of searching and finding in libraries from an intersectional and decolonial perspective.
Teaching to Transgress Toolbox, (Project lead, 2019–2022) EU-funded Strategic Partnership between HDK-Valand Göteborg, École de Recherche Graphique (erg Brussels) and Institut Supérieure des Beaux Arts (ISBA Besancon). The project is a collective research and study programme setting out to develop insights and tools to make our higher education institutions more inclusive, with an aspiration to create intersectional and decolonial pedagogies with a focus on the arts.
Recent projects include:
Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy? (Co-organiser, HDK-Valand, 2015–16) A long-term study group (Rose Brander, Andreas Engman, MC Coble, Kanchan Burathoki, Gabo Camnitzer, Eva Weinmayr) on intersectional pedagogies and non-normative forms of learning and teaching inside and outside the university. The group investigates questions of diversity, equality, racism, critical whiteness, citation and feminist media culminating in a three-day international mobilisation at HDK-Valand and the publication of a workbook: Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy?
AND Publishing (Co-founder, London 2010, ongoing). A collaborative publishing activity with artist Rosalie Schweiker.
The Piracy Project (with Andrea Francke, 2011 - ongoing) explores the philosophical, legal, and social implications of book piracy. It questions common-sense assumptions about ownership, authorship, and the implications policy development has had on the current debate around intellectual property. Through an Open Call for pirated books and our research into pirate book markets in Peru, China, and Turkey, The Piracy Project gathered a collection of around 150 copied, emulated, appropriated and modified books from across the world. Their copying approaches vary widely, from playful strategies of reproduction, modification, and reinterpretation of existing works, to circumventing enclosures such as censorship or market monopolies, to acts of piracy generated by commercial interests.
Exhibited at: Paper Struggles, Raven Row, London, 2019. Resource, The Bluecoat Liverpool, 2015. Kunstverein Munich, 2014. Glasmoog, KHM Academy of Media Art, Cologne, 2014. Grand Union, Birmingham, 2014. Books from the ships, Oslo 10, Basel, 2013. SALT Research Istanbul, 2012. The Grand Domestic Revolution Goes On, The Showroom London, Casco Utrecht, 2012. Truth is Concrete, Steirischer Herbst, Austria, 2011. KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2011. New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, 2011.
Boxing and Unboxing (with Rosalie Schweiker, 2018) was developed at the invitation of curator Jenny Richards at Marabouparken Konsthall in Stockholm. During a six-month research residency "Acts of Self-Ruin" based on Leela Gandhi’s book The Common Cause (2014) the project explored the struggle for collectivity and equality in an age of individualism. Through a range of activities, a two-week boxing club, workshops, public talks and a publication the project investigated whether sparring, when defined as physical play and not as competition, might allow us to rehearse ways to relate to each other in other areas. As a moment of intense negotiation of border space and contagion, as a nonverbal bodily dialogue, sparring transgresses boundaries that we elsewhere seek to protect. During sparring, I deliberately forgo this established immunity – my contours become vulnerable through the mutuality of the touch: my fist touches and is being touched at the same time.
Exhibited at: Marabouparken konsthall, Stockholm 2018. Open Scores – How to Program the Commons, Panke Gallery Berlin, 2019.
The Library of Inclusions and Omissions (2016-) is a practice-based experiment into critical knowledge infrastructures. By setting up a community-run reading room around intersectional feminist and decolonial printed matter, the project explores the library as an infrastructure for accessing, activating, and disseminating knowledge. In what ways could such a curatorial strategy thereby turn the library from a repository of knowledge (Springer 2015) into a space of social and intellectual encounter and action? Can such a library project help build a community or connect different communities?
Exhibited at: Utopia of Access, Pavilion for Artistic Research, 57th Venice Biennial 2017. The Research Show, A-Venue, Göteborg, 2016. Meaning Making Meaning, A-Venue, Göteborg, 2016
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Who gets in? Rethinking Admission — Confronting
Segregation
Andreas Engman, Eva Weinmayr, Ram Krishna Ranjan
Teaching to Transgress Toolbox - 2022 -
Krabstadt Education Centre meets
TTTToolbox
Eva Weinmayr, Jeuno Je Kim
Parse Journal, issue #14 - 2022 -
Who is in the
Classroom?
Åke Sjöberg, Eva Weinmayr, Flo*Souad Benaddi, Kolbrun Inga Söring
Teaching to Transgress Toolbox - 2022 -
Categorizing Knowledges – Dismantling the Disciplined Catalogue, Derouting Distribution, Cripping the
Canon
Eva Weinmayr
Publishing Practices #1, Archive Sites - 2022 -
Situated Publishing – Ecologies of
Dissemination
Eva Weinmayr
Symposium "Publishing as Repair", convened by L’Internationale Confederation, hosted by Gothenburg City Library - 2022 -
"Noun to
Verb"
Eva Weinmayr
Ecologies of Art Publishing - 2022 -
Teaching the Radical
Catalogue
Eva Weinmayr, Lucie Kolb
“Reading the Library” (exhibition) Kunstbibliothek and Werkstoffarchiv Stiftung Sitterwerk, St Gallen (CH), 29.08.2021 – 07.11.2021 “Teaching the radical catalogue”-- A Syllabus (online publication) 29. August, 2021 “Der radikale Katalog”, issue 375, Fabrikzeitung Die Rote Fabrik, Zurich, 17 December 2021 - 2021 -
Radical Publishing Demands Radical Librarianship: Perspectives and Framing under the Disguise of
Neutrality
Eva Weinmayr
"We discuss", conference as part of the exhibition “We publish”, Kunsthalle Bern - 2020 -
Noun to Verb: an investigation into the micro-politics of publishing through artistic
practice
Eva Weinmayr
2020 -
Situated Collective
Publishing
Eva Weinmayr
"Publishing as Social Practice", Ystad Konstmuseum, Sweden - 2019 -
Experimental Publishing #1, Critique, Intervention,
Speculation
Eva Weinmayr
Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Post Office, Coventry University (UK), convened by Janneke Adema and Kaja Marczewska. - 2019 -
Micropolitics of
Publishing
Eva Weinmayr, Cornelia Sollfrank
"Creating Commons", Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich University of the Arts in cooperation with HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel). A research project by Felix Stalder, Cornelia Sollfrank and Shusha Niederberger (2017 – 2020) - 2019 -
Library
Talk
Eva Weinmayr
Gerrit Rietveld Academy / Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam - 2019 -
Situated, Collective
Authorship
Eva Weinmayr
Authors of The Future: Re-imagining Copyleft, Constant, Brussels - 2019 -
Confronting Authorship, Constructing Practices – How copyright destroys collective
practice
Eva Weinmayr
Whose Book is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity - 2019 -
Against Immunisation: Boxing as a Technique for
Commoning
Eva Weinmayr
Open Scores - How to program the Commons, exhibition at Panke Gallery, Berlin, 21 September – 12 October 2019, curated by Shusha Niederberger, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder in the context of the research project "Creating Commons", at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich University of the Arts, conducted in cooperation with HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) 2017 – 2020. - 2019 -
Publishing as Collective
Practice
Eva Weinmayr, Jinglun Zhu
The NetLetter, Centre for Curatorial Studies, CCS Bard, Annandale on Hudson, New York - 2019 -
“Boxing and Unboxing” Guestroom Residency /
Calendar
Eva Weinmayr, Rosalie Schweiker
Marabouparken Konsthall Stockholm - 2018 -
Writer
X
Eva Weinmayr, Eleanor Vonne Brown
Whitechapel Art Gallery London, X Publishing School - 2018 -
Lery
Eva Weinmayr
Fabriques de contre-savoirs, 49 Nord 6 Est—Frac Lorraine, Metz, France - 2018 -
UND STATT ODER – Die Anatomie von AND : Ein Gespräch von Annette
Gilbert
Eva Weinmayr, Rosalie Schweiker, Annette Gilbert
Kunstforum International : 'Publish! Publizieren als Künstlerische Praxis' - 2018 -
Less Noun – More
Verb
Eva Weinmayr, Rosalie Schweiker
What Problems Can Artists Publishers Solve? - 2018 -
Feminist Arts
Education
Eva Weinmayr, Rose Borthwick
"Feminist Art Education" series at the Institute for Art and Art Theory, Cologne University - 2018 -
Help! David Cameron Likes my
Art.
Eva Weinmayr
"Distributed", edited by David Blamey & Brad Haylock, Open Editions, London 2018 - 2018 -
Radical publishing practices ask for radical
librarianship.
Eva Weinmayr
(im)print: Artists as Publishers as Artists - 2018 -
Micro-politics of research
dissemination
Eva Weinmayr
Symposium Micropolitics of Reseach Dissemination, Research School at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg - 2018 -
Library of Omissions and Inclusions, Library Underground – a reading list for a coming
community
Eva Weinmayr
Pavilion for Artistic Research, Venice Biennale 10 May – 2 July 2017 2017 - 2017 -
Library Interventions: Reading Gendered
Words
Eva Weinmayr
Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK - 2017 -
Archives of the Common II, The Anomic Archive: The Piracy
Project
Eva Weinmayr
Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid - 2017 -
Socialising
Print
Eva Weinmayr
Publishing—Art—Communism, Materialities of Experimental Publishing at MayDay Rooms London - 2017 -
Rethinking where the thinking happens — in conversation with Sarah
Kember
Eva Weinmayr, Sarah Kember
Let's Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy - 2016 -
Library Underground — A Reading List for a Coming
Community
Eva Weinmayr
Publishing as Artistic Practice - 2016 -
Let's Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy?
Workbook
Eva Weinmayr, Mary Coble, Andreas Engman, Rose Borthwick, Kanchan Burathoki
2016 -
Library of Omissions and
Inclusions
Eva Weinmayr
Meaning Making Meaning, A-Venue GothenburgResearch Show, A-Venue GothenburgLet’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy?, Valand Academy GothenburgAND Publishing, index catalog of collection (http://andpublishing.org/library-of-omissions-and-inclusions-index/)AND Publishing, archive of installations (http://andpublishing.org/library-of-omissions-and-inclusions/ - 2016 -
Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist
Pedagogy
Rose Borthwick, Kanchan Burathoki, Mary Coble, Andreas Engman, Eva Weinmayr
● Three-day mobilization: Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy took place at Valand Academy, Gothenburg University, SE 12—14 Oct 2016● Online Blog/Archive: Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy: http://whatisfeministpedagogy.tumblr.com● Publication/Workbook: Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy Workbook (print and online), Valand Academy Gothenburg, AND Publishing London● Krabstadt film screening (Jeuno Kim and Ewa Einhorn): A-Venue Exhibition Space, Gothenburg, SE● Participation in Exploiting Justice Symposium: Processes, Performances and Politics-a multi/ interdisciplinary symposium at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research, University of Gothenburg, November 27, 2016 - 2016 -
Politics of feminist publishing practices in academia and
beyond
Eva Weinmayr, Rosalie Schweiker, Sarah Kember
Valand Academy: Let's Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedgogy? a three-day investigation of queer and feminist pedagogies - 2016 -
P_R_I_N_T
Eva Weinmayr
Der Fahrende Raum - 2016 -
Library Underground — performance lecture at Symposium: Photography in Print and Circulation, Hasselblad Centre/Valand Academy,
Gothenburg
Eva Weinmayr
Photography in Print and Circulation, Symposium, Hasselblad Centre/Valand Academy, Gothenburg - 2016 -
Library Underground — performance lecture at Symposium: Conceptual Poetics, Academy of Arts,
Berlin
Eva Weinmayr
Miss Read, Conceptual Poetics, Publishing as Artistic Practice, Academy of Arts, Berlin - 2016 -
Let’s Mobilize! Here’s what we learned: Pedagogy and Social
Justice.
Eva Weinmayr, Mary Coble, Rose Borthwick
Exploiting Justice. Processes, Performances and Politics, Symposium at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research, University of Gothenburg (27-28 November 2016) - 2016 -
Poached Eggs: Women as
Poachers
Eva Weinmayr
Sideroom and W139, Amsterdam - 2015 -
Downing Street or Help! David Cameron likes my
art.
Eva Weinmayr
New Documents, Los Angeles (artist book), The Showroom London (A Sketch of a Performance with 7 Actors and the Audience), Forest Fringe (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Queen Mary University (Queen Mary Theatre Company), at a friend’s living room and Rochester Castle London (Wetherspoons Pub), Twitter - 2015 -
Publishing as
Intervention
Eva Weinmayr
Public Lecture, University of the Arts Bremen, in the programme "The Artist as Independent Publisher", 11. November 2015 - 2015 -
Copyright Flattens
Stuff
Eva Weinmayr
Friction and Fiction: IP, Copyright and Digital Futures, 26 September 2015, conference at Victoria & Albert Museum, London - 2015 -
The Piracy
Project
Eva Weinmayr, Andrea Francke
Code-X – Paper, Ink, Pixel and Screen - 2015