The role of editorial practices and small-scale presses in artistic research: Second Workshop

This second event in the series will focus on three experiments in publishing practices around ‘live research processes’ across contemporary art. Nick Aikens will present the ‘Towards Collective Study in Times of Emergency’ as a combined practice of collaborative study from his work as Managing Editor and Research Responsible for L’Internationale Online. 

Dr. Janneke Adema,

is an Associate Professor in Digital Media at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University.  Dr. Adema, having earlier trained in Book and digital Media Studies, in Cultural and Intellectial History, and in Philosophy through three different master’s programmes, went on to complete her doctorate a decade ago on “Knowledge Production Beyond the Book”, Coventry University. Since then her research has continued to focus on the material-discursive practices of scholarly research and communication, critically analysing alternative models of scholarly communication—such as Open Access publishing, and what are described as “living, liquid and remixed books.” In her work she had engaged in a prodigious volume of experimental publishing practices that challenge foundational ideas such as those of authorship, the fixed text, copyright and originality. This includes supporting a variety of scholar-led, not-for-profit publishing projects, including the Radical Open Access Collective, Open Humanities Press, and Post Office Press (POP). Her own research is itself a sustained experiment in alternative, digital, and open practice—shared openly online as it develops and unfolds on the platform open reflections, as just one part of her wider experimentation with different, remixed, multimodal and multiplatform versioning of research. Dr. Adema is a leading contributor to the wider and urgent project of rethinking the way we do research, and how we publish, her work can teach us to avoid uncritically repeating what have become our dominant scholarly practices. And we are delighted that she has agreed to share her work with us this evening.

Dr. Nick Aikens,

is a curator, researcher, editor and educator. He is the Managing Editor and Research Responsible for L’Internationale Online. He assumed this role in August 2023 as part of the four year, EU funded project ’Museum of the Commons’. (2023-2027) Dr. Aikenshas a PhD from HDK-Valand one of the academic partners within L’Internationale, where he currently convenes the MA Forum, a cross-academy initiative connecting research to education in several disciplines.  He was previously Curator at the Van Abbemuseum (2012–2023) where he worked on numerous exhibitions and publications as well as leading the research programme Deviant Practice (2016–2019). He was also a tutor and course leader at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem (2012–2019) and a Guest Professor in the Department of Exhibitions and Scenography at Karlsruhe University (2023–2024). As well as an extensive international curatorial practice, Dr. Aikens is very active as an editor, and some highlights from among his many co-edited volumes include:

• Living With Ghosts:Legacies of Colonialism and Fascism, L’Internationale Online, 2019 (with Jyoti Mistry and Corina Opera (eds.)

• The Place is Here: The Work of Black Artist in 1980s Britain, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019, with Dr Elzabeth Robles,

• , The Long 1980s. Constellations of Art, Politics and Identities, Amsterdam: Valiz and L’Internationale, 2018, with Teresa Grandas et al (eds.)

These workshops are an associated initiative of CAPIm.