Printing Plant x Jajajaneeneenee
24 November 2019

Publishing as Critical Practice

On Sunday 24 November at 11:30, tune in on https://jajajaneeneenee.com to hear a special edition of their live radioshow about Printing Plant 2019. In this episode, Radna Rumping and Arif Kornweitz will talk about the fair with the founders and curators of Looiersgracht 60 and Printing Plant, Soraya Notoadikusumo and Nadine Snijders. They will also talk about the idea of publishing as critical practice with three artists Mehraneh Atashi, Fernanda Aránguiz M., Delphine Chapuis Schmitz and a publisher participating in the fair, Delphine Bedel (Meta/Books). Jajajaneeneenee broadcasts and produces talk shows, discussions and lectures at art institutes, as well as maintains an online space for audible works of art and sonic residues of artistic research, installations and performances.

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Mehraneh Atashi is an Iranian artist currently completing a residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her body of work consists of publications, assemblages, sculpture, photography and video which hover between conceptualism and materiality. Atashi’s practice explores the concepts of temporality and space in the documentation of the self and looks at the excavation and archiving of memories.

Fernanda Aránguiz M. is a Chilean visual artist who writes and makes books to investigate the contradictions between the ideas of the real and the possible. Primarily starting off in written form, the ideas contained within the words are then later materialised into books; their format, mechanisms and materials determined by the precursor text. In this way, each of her artworks become an object that carries along another attempt to represent the ways in which reality always surpasses every expectation of itself. Fernanda Aránguiz M. holds a BA in Art from the Universidad Católica de Chile where she worked as a teaching assistant in Artwork Creation and Production workshops.

Delphine Chapuis Schmitz is a French visual artist currently living in Zurich. She completed a PhD in Philosophy in Paris, before obtaining her Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at the Zürich University of the Arts in 2012. Her artistic practice focuses on text and language, which she explores by aesthetic means in installations and publications. Chapuis Schmitz’s works involve a precise form of artistic research, they address the question of form, the possibility of forcing existing material to talk differently about questions that concern doing art today, but also the very nature of the subjectivity inherent in such a task.

Delphine Bedel is an artist, researcher, and founder of Meta/Books––a feminist publishing house and cultural platform, dedicated to emerging practices in art, photography and design. Meta/Books aims to foster a critical debate on publishing as an artistic practice. Bedel, whose work straddles the space between visual culture and technology, has always been interested in digital publishing and developed Meta/Books as a space for experimentation. Bedel is currently PhD Researcher at UCA – University for the creative Arts (UK).

Radna Rumping is an independent curator, editor, writer and radio host based in Amsterdam. Her work is embedded in music culture, (contemporary) art, communality and a critical view towards present-day communication. In addition to her independent studio practice, Rumping produces radio shows at Red Light Radio and Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee (which she co-founded), online radio platforms dedicated to the arts. She holds a BA in Journalism from HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and was in residence at Van Eyck Academie (Maastricht) from 2016-17.

Arif Kornweitz is a researcher, musician, radio-host, and educator. He is the co-founder of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee and a partner at Non-fiction, an Amsterdam-based office for cultural innovation, as well as an advisor to the Amsterdams Fund for the Arts in the categories music, sound art and music theater. Kornweitz holds an MSc in Conflict Resolution & Governance from the University of Amsterdam. His area of research encompasses design strategies for emancipatory technology––the design challenges and ethical consequences presented by autonomous technology.