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− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lectures and Lab announcement.jpg|thumb|link=http://wiki.evaweinmayr.com/images/1/13/Piracy_Project_Poster_Piracy_Lectures_lowres.jpg|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lectures and Lab announcement.jpg|thumb|link=http://wiki.evaweinmayr.com/images/1/13/Piracy_Project_Poster_Piracy_Lectures_lowres.jpg|none|450px|'''Pirate Labs: Byam Shaw School of Art Library, London, May - June 2011.''' A series of open workshops and conversations on strategies and politics of unauthorised copying and reproduction.]]</li> |
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw School of Art Pirate Lab2 lowres.jpg|thumb|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623214602/http://andpublishing.org/|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw School of Art Pirate Lab2 lowres.jpg|thumb|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623214602/http://andpublishing.org/|none|450px|'''Pirate Lab, Byam Shaw School of Art Library, London, 12 May 2011.''' ]]</li> |
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Pirate Lecture Andreas Findings in Peru lowres.jpg|thumb|link=|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Pirate Lecture Andreas Findings in Peru lowres.jpg|thumb|link=|none|450px|'''Talk: Pirate Books in Peru, an illustrated talk by Andrea Francke, X Marks the Bökship, London, 25 March 2011'''Book piracy exists in many emerging countries and book pirates in Peru, for example, go beyond creating unlicensed reprints – they have even begun to interfere with the content. An entire genre of “improved” versions is emerging. <br/> |
In this illustrated talk artist Andrea Francke presented the findings of her recent research trip to Lima, where she visited locations where pirated books are for sale including book stores, copy shops, street markets and traffic lights. She returned with a heavy suitcase full of versions to London – displayed at X Marks the Bökship as part of AND's "Publisher of the Month Residency" in 2011.<br/> →[https://vimeo.com/24135913 Watch podcast].]]</li> | In this illustrated talk artist Andrea Francke presented the findings of her recent research trip to Lima, where she visited locations where pirated books are for sale including book stores, copy shops, street markets and traffic lights. She returned with a heavy suitcase full of versions to London – displayed at X Marks the Bökship as part of AND's "Publisher of the Month Residency" in 2011.<br/> →[https://vimeo.com/24135913 Watch podcast].]]</li> | ||
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Poster Piracy Lectures lowres.jpg|thumb|link=http://wiki.evaweinmayr.com/images/1/13/Piracy_Project_Poster_Piracy_Lectures_lowres.jpg|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Poster Piracy Lectures lowres.jpg|thumb|link=http://wiki.evaweinmayr.com/images/1/13/Piracy_Project_Poster_Piracy_Lectures_lowres.jpg|none|450px|'''A series of public lectures to explore practical, conceptual, political and ethical questions around book piracy, the concept of authorship and politics of copyright. Byam Shaw School of Art, May – June 2011.''']]</li> |
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture James Bridle lowres.jpg|thumb|link=|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture James Bridle lowres.jpg|thumb|link=|none|450px|'''Pirate Lecture: James Bridle – The New Pierre Menard: Digitisation and everything after.<br/> Byam Shaw School of Art Library, 5 May 2011.''' <br/>Bio at the time: James Bridle is a publisher, writer and artist based in London, UK. He makes things with words, books and the internet; sometimes the results look like businesses, and sometimes they don't. He speaks at conferences worldwide and writes about what he does at booktwo.org.<br/> →[https://vimeo.com/23787096 Watch podcast].]]</li> |
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture Eleanor Vonne Brown lowres.jpg|thumb|link=|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture Eleanor Vonne Brown lowres.jpg|thumb|link=|none|450px|''' Pirate Lecture: Eleanor Vonne Brown – Copy and Paste: re-reading uncreative writing. Byam Shaw School of Art Library, 12 May 2011.''' <br/>Bio at the time: Eleanor Vonne Brown set up X Marks the Bökship, a London based project space for independent publishers specialising in publishing works and projects by artists and designers, books by independent publishers, journals and discourse.<br/> →[https://vimeo.com/24129908 Watch podcast].]]</li> |
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture Daniel McClean lowres.jpg|thumb|link=|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture Daniel McClean lowres.jpg|thumb|link=|none|450px|'''Pirate Lecture: Daniel McClean – Authorship & Originality in Art. Byam Shaw School of Art Library, 19 May 2011.''' <br/>Bio at the time: Daniel McClean is an independent curator, writer, and art-legal adviser. McClean is a solicitor at Finers Stephens Innocent LLP where he specializes in art, media and intellectual property law.McClean writes regularly on art legal matters. He was the editor of The Trials of Art, (2007) and Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture, (2002).<br/> →[https://vimeo.com/24384608 Watch podcast].]]</li> |
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture Maria Fusco low res.jpg|thumb|link=|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture Maria Fusco low res.jpg|thumb|link=|none|450px|'''Pirate Lecture: Maria Fusco – The Incunablum and the Plastic Bag. Byam Shaw School of Art Library, 26 May 2011.''' <br/>Bio at the time: Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born writer based in London. Her first collection of short stories The Mechanical Copula has just be published by Sternberg Press. She is the founder/editor of The Happy Hypocrite a semi-annual journal for and about experimental art writing, and Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.<br/> →[https://vimeo.com/25225399 Watch podcast].]]</li> |
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture Bobbie Johnson2.jpg|thumb|link=|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture Bobbie Johnson2.jpg|thumb|link=|none|450px|'''Pirate Lecture: Bobbie Johnson – The Copy Continuum: cultural perceptions of piracy, and the future of ideas.<br/> Byam Shaw School of Art Library, 2 June 2011.'''<br/>Bio at the time: Bobbie Johnson is a journalist, writer and trouble-maker based in Brighton who specialises in covering the intersection of technology and society. He has written for a range of outlets from the BBC to Wired, and acts as European editor for technology blog GigaOM. He was previously an editor and reporter with the Guardian for nearly a decade, based in London and San Francisco.<br/> →[https://vimeo.com/24905496 Watch podcast].]]</li> |
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture Prodromos Tsiavos low res.jpg|thumb|link=|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Byam Shaw Pirate Lecture Prodromos Tsiavos low res.jpg|thumb|link=|none|450px|'''Pirate Lecture: Dr. Prodromos Tsiavos – Of Pirates and Archivists: the boundaries of copyright limitations and exceptions and the underground archiving movement.<br/> Byam Shaw School of Art Library, 9 June 2011.'''<br/>Bio at the time: Prodromos Tsiavos is the legal project lead for the Creative Commons -England and Wales (CC-EW) and Greece (CC-Greece) projects, and an associate in Avgerinos Law Firm in Athens. Among other academic engagements, he is a research officer at the London School of Economics and has worked for the European Commission and Oxford University. He advises the Greek Prime Minister's e-Government Task Force on legal issues of open data as well as the Special Secretary for Digital Planning<br/> →[https://vimeo.com/25130385 Watch podcast].]]</li> |
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Berlin Miss Read-Open Mic-flyer.jpg|thumb|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Berlin Miss Read-Open Mic-flyer.jpg|thumb|none|450px|link=|'''Open Mic: I am a pirate - are you?, Miss Read, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 25 – 27 Nov 2011'''<br/> We are interested in the methodology of piracy and its significance for contemporary culture. The word piracy is applied to very different activities ranging from file sharing to attacking freight ships, from the production of counterfeit goods to mixing culture and – to political parties. We, The Piracy Project, are not only interested in your bit-torrent or fake goods but whether you use the works of others to build your own? Have you been pirated yourself and feel robbed of your intellectual property? Where are the limits in our engagement with culture? |
We would like to hear from you! Your input can be a lengthy declaration or as short as one sentence.]] </li> | We would like to hear from you! Your input can be a lengthy declaration or as short as one sentence.]] </li> | ||
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Printed Matter NY.jpg|thumb|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Printed Matter NY.jpg|thumb|none|450px|link=https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/76|'''Panel discussion: Printed Matter, New York.<br/> 17 August 2012''' <br/> With David Senior (bibliographer at MoMA), Anthony Huberman, (director of CCA Wattis Los Angeles), Joanne Mc Neil, (editor of Rhizome, NY), Sergio Munoz Sarmiento, (Art and Law, NY) in the exhibition ''Helpless'' curated by Chris Habib (July 14 - September 29, 2012).]]</li> |
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project The Showroom Hemmungs-Wirten lr.jpg|thumb|link=https://www.theshowroom.org/events/and-publishing-residency|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project The Showroom Hemmungs-Wirten lr.jpg|thumb|link=https://www.theshowroom.org/events/and-publishing-residency|none|450px|'''Roundtable with Eva Hemmungs-Wirten (Stockholm): "Polyglot Piracy: Translation and the Instability of Texts". The Showroom London, 23 March 2013.'''<br/>As a catalyst for conflicts over the perceived stability of the literary work; the relationship between authors and readers and the geopolitical tensions between producer and user nations, Professor Wirtén suggests that translation offers a complimentary, productive, and still largely unexplored approach into the authorship/ copy-right conundrum relevant for copyright historians and print culture scholars.]]</li> |
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Stephen Wright The Showroom.jpg|thumb|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Stephen Wright The Showroom.jpg|thumb|none|450px|link=http://theshowroom.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/FBAC495AA4EC5F462540EF23F30FEDED/10C944F5747F72EA23B7CB3C95A53812|'''Roundtable Workshop: ''Usership'' with Stephen Wright, The Showroom, London (18 May 2013)'''<br/>For this presentation, Stephen Wright will touch on the 'user-friendly' words listed in the image above, challenging the use of the word 'piracy' in The Piracy Project. This will be followed by a round table discussion that will try to reveal the ideologies that hide behind the word 'piracy'. |
'... I feel more comfortable with a notion of "poaching" instead of piracy: poachers are those who in the shadow of the night make forays behind the enclosures of the owner's land, capture their prey, and withdraw. I guess poaching, too, has a bad name, but I think both the scale and mode of intervention is more appropriate to describing off-the-radar cultural practices today….Usership stands opposed to the whole conceptual institution of ownership -- the very thing that piracy, in its contemporary cultural coinage, like poaching and hacking, is supposed to challenge' Stephen Wright.]] </li> | '... I feel more comfortable with a notion of "poaching" instead of piracy: poachers are those who in the shadow of the night make forays behind the enclosures of the owner's land, capture their prey, and withdraw. I guess poaching, too, has a bad name, but I think both the scale and mode of intervention is more appropriate to describing off-the-radar cultural practices today….Usership stands opposed to the whole conceptual institution of ownership -- the very thing that piracy, in its contemporary cultural coinage, like poaching and hacking, is supposed to challenge' Stephen Wright.]] </li> | ||
− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Courtroom Drawing The Showroom.jpg|thumb|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project Courtroom Drawing The Showroom.jpg|thumb|none|450px|'''Performative Debate: ''A Day at the Courtroom'', The Showroom London, 15 June 2013'''<br/> With Lionel Bently (Professor of Intellectual Property at the University Cambridge), Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento (Art and Law, New York), Prodromos Tsiavos (Creative Commons, England, Wales and Greece). Courtroom drawing by Thandiwe Stephanie Johnstone .|link=http://andpublishing.org/a-day-at-the-court-room/]] |
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− | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project New York Artbookfair 2014.jpg|thumb|none| | + | <li style="display: inline-block; padding:20px"> [[File:Piracy Project New York Artbookfair 2014.jpg|thumb|none|450px|link=https://nyabf2014.printedmatterartbookfairs.org/Programs|'''Panel Discussion: Classroom @ The New York Art Bookfair, MoMa PS1, 28 September 2014.'''<br/> |
For The Classroom event programme, we invited artist Lauren Haaften-Schick and lawyer Sergio Munoz Sarmiento to discuss their recent article "Cariou v. Prince: towards a theory of aesthetic-judicial judgements" in which they analyse the Second Circuit’s verdict in the "Cariou vs Prince" fair use ruling. In this text Munoz Sarmiento and van Haaften-Schick reflect on questions of labour, class and celebrity in this ruling, and what happens when appropriation turns via fair use into a tool of power. The Classroom is curated by David Senior. →[http://wiki.evaweinmayr.com/images/d/d0/Sarmiento_van_Haaften-Schick_Toward-a-Theory-of-Aesthetic-Judicial-Judgments_Cariou-v-Prince.pdf Download article].]] | For The Classroom event programme, we invited artist Lauren Haaften-Schick and lawyer Sergio Munoz Sarmiento to discuss their recent article "Cariou v. Prince: towards a theory of aesthetic-judicial judgements" in which they analyse the Second Circuit’s verdict in the "Cariou vs Prince" fair use ruling. In this text Munoz Sarmiento and van Haaften-Schick reflect on questions of labour, class and celebrity in this ruling, and what happens when appropriation turns via fair use into a tool of power. The Classroom is curated by David Senior. →[http://wiki.evaweinmayr.com/images/d/d0/Sarmiento_van_Haaften-Schick_Toward-a-Theory-of-Aesthetic-Judicial-Judgments_Cariou-v-Prince.pdf Download article].]] |
Revision as of 21:34, 21 February 2020
Contents
- 1 Starting point and context: Byam Shaw School of Art Library closure
- 2 Open Call for copied, modified, emulated, annotated books
- 3 Searchable Online Catalogue
- 4 Reading Rooms organised between 2010 – 2019
- 5 Organising Discursive Events
- 6 Talks and Interviews
- 7 Workshops, Collective Research, Teaching with the Piracy Project
- 8 Edited Publications
- 9 What Others Say
Starting point and context: Byam Shaw School of Art Library closure
The Piracy Project started at Byam Shaw School of Art as a response to restrictive university policies, when in 2010, the university management announced to close the Byam Shaw School of Art library, due to a merger with the University of the Arts London. Students were advised to visit the library on the main campus in the city centre. In a joint effort, students and staff turned Byam Shaw’s art college library, supported by its acting principal, into a self-organised and self-governed library that remained public, and intellectually and socially generative. There was not a clear-cut question that triggered TPP at this point. It was rather a political situation at the art school and the desire to organise against it, as well as Andrea Francke's puzzling discovery of specific cases of book piracy in Peru, where pirates had started to anonymously alter and amend the plot of some fiction books.
Open Call for copied, modified, emulated, annotated books
The open call,
circulated locally via printed posters and flyers, on AND Publishing's website and internationally through an art-agenda newsletter says: 'Andrea Francke & AND Publishing would like to invite you to contribute to The Piracy Project, an international publishing and exhibition project exploring the philosophical, legal and practical implications of book piracy and creative modes of reproduction.
With a series of talks from guest speakers, workshops and an open call for pirated book projects to add to a Piracy Collection we aim to develop a critical and creative platform for issues raised by acts of cultural piracy. After a period of research and production at Byam Shaw Reading Room in London, this unique collection of books will travel to international venues in 2011.
The Piracy Project is not about stealing or forgery. It is about creating a platform to innovatively explore the spectrum of copying / re-editing / translating / paraphrasing / imitating / re-organising / manipulating of already existing works. Here creativity and originality sit not in the borrowed material itself, but in the way, it is handled.'
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- This two-week workshop at Kunstverein Munich titled 'One Publishes to Find Comrades, The Piracy Project at Kunstverein Munich' focussed on alternative and informal and counter-public archives, collections, libraries and bookshops as well as independent print shops in Munich. For this research into local and informal knowledge infrastructures we invited Ingrid Scherf, the co-founder of Munich's independent Basis bookshop and event space (closed in 2010) and co-editor of "Das Blatt", West Germany's first alternative city magazine, published between 1973-84 in order to give a voice to those who are not represented by mainstream media. Marcell Mars passed by from his residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart to speak about his project Public Library, a collaboration with and Tomislav Medak. Sarah Käsmayr introduced us to her Raubkopiebuch investigating book piracy in the context of 1960s and 70s German student movement. Stephan Dillemuth invited us to unpack his Zine Archive. Ruth Höflich introduced us to her critical publishing practice and gave a guided tour through her father's print workshop, Druckwerkstatt Höflich, in Munich. Anna McCarthy invited us for a conversation about her exhibition Nein and her and Tagar's independent publishing, performance and recording practice. We also visited Steffi Hammann at the Munich Art Academy – where she together with Maria von Mier as a student set up a publishing house, Hammann von Mier, that operates from within the art school classroom. Finally we visited the copy shop Unikopie, a space – as the shop owners told us – is not only used as space for print production (making copies) but also for dissemination (leaving copies back in the shop for random people to pick them up). Download zine produced during the workshop
Searchable Online Catalogue
The local, national and international entries which we received (i) from students, staff and alumni at the art school, (ii) sent to us from across the world or (iii) found through our research and residencies in Peru, China, Turkey – were catalogued on a searchable online database. The catalogue descriptions, created in collaboration with writer John Moseley, provide selected metadata as well as the strategies of reproduction, modification and distribution used by the respective pirate. The catalogue lists the title, author(= pirate), date, publisher (= pirate), format, print technique, source (the book that had been copied) and context of the activity (as far as we are aware of it).
Reading Rooms organised between 2010 – 2019
Annotated by AF
Organising Discursive Events
Talks and Interviews
Workshops, Collective Research, Teaching with the Piracy Project
Brett Bloom (Temporary Services, Chicago) invited the Piracy Project to run a workshop in the series Making Social Realities with Books, which he co-organised with rum 46 in Copenhagen. The series of lectures and workshops explore the idea of how books – libraries, archives, publishing, and distribution - are used to create distinct social realities, whether it is in small communities, or entire movements within art practices and related activities. For this series Brett and rum 46 invited Art Leaks (New Brunswick), Eva Egerman (Vienna), Public Collectors (Chicago), David Senior (San Francisco), Banu Cenetoglu (Istanbul), Brandon LaBelle (Copenhagen), Delphine Bedel (Berlin) and Lauren van Haften-Schick (New York).
Participants of the Piracy Project workshop travelled from art academies in Denmark, Latvia and Estonia in order to collectively think through the complexities of cultural piracy. We explored strategies and ethics of unauthorised publishing, built on local facilities and knowledges, visited self-publishers, self-organised print shops, libraries and bookshops in Aarhus.
Vertiefung Piracy Project / Fortsetzung von Arbeit vom Vortrag
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Appropriation / Manipulation von Text - Experimente / Verschränkungen: Transformative Reprography, Narrative Appropriation, Plagiarism (Narr. Appropr.),
Curation from the Commas, Translatative Re-Authorship, Visual Re-Authorship, Experimental Authorship, Reductive Re-Authorship, Reductive Subtraction, Identity Subversion (Translation. Authorship), Bootleg (Visual Re-Authorship), Concrete Transformation (Narrative Appropriation), Critical Theory (Denial of Image Clearance) etc.
For example: changing the ending, translating, taking out, inserting etc...
Edited Publications
This booklet printed in black and white with a blank library card slid into the front cover contains the full catalogue of the books in The Piracy Collection received by November 25.11.2011. It represents a specific point in time, as the collection is constantly evolving. Alongside an introduction, the catalogue contains cover images and short descriptions of the submitted book projects demonstrating many different strategies and approaches to un-authorised copying and piracy.
The Piracy Papers is a series published in irregular intervals that explores material previously published online.
Piracy Papers#1 Jackson Hole by Michael Eddy & Grandpa Eddy. Michael Eddy's Jackson Hole is an email exchange between Michael (based in Bejing) and his grandfather (based near Jackson Hole, USA) about the re-creation of the eponymous American town on the outskirts of Beijing, China and both writers's reflections on these two places that – although connected — are so different from each other.
Piracy Paper #2 The Author of Everything by James Bridle.In this short story, James Bridle explores the possibilities and practices created by the current practice to employ workers overseas to digitise classic English literature into e-books. What are the systems that guarantee the truthful “transformation” of these texts?
Piracy Paper #3 The Junk Ships on Alibaba by Joanne McNeil. In this short story, Joanne McNeil describes a series of encounters with different types of counterfeit cultures around the world and their interaction with digital technologies.
The Piracy Project Reader is an open-ended reader, which will develop as people buy shares in one of its chapters. It explores the vocabulary relevant to Piracy Project and so far contains essays and contributions by Dave Hickey, Eva Hemmungs-Wirten, Joanne McNeil, Karen Di Franco, Lionel Bently, Prodromos Tsiavos, Sergio Munoz Sarmiento and awaits prospective essays by James Bridle, Stephen Wright and 16 others. Courtroom drawings are by Stephanie Thandiwe Johnstone. Many thanks to all supporters who have already bought a share.
Excerpt from the introduction to the book: "This book is not finished. It is the start of a dialogue that will grow as we go along. Normally when you publish a book it aims to be a resolved object, an endpoint of a process. Not this one. The thing is that there are two of us and that has become one of the key determinants on how the project evolves. There are always two voices and that allows us to always be open to different positions. I guess that’s what I call a dialogue." (...)
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What Others Say