Latest Past Events
Touch A Book To Feel A World! with 56a Infoshop Archive
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, LondonIn this session, Chris from 56a Infoshop archive will talk about their 30+ years journey into ‘making it up as you go along’ archiving. Rather than focussing on the history of the archive, the talk will look at how the materials in the collection are sometimes presented and used: What is it you hold when […]
Archiving Vietnamese Revolutionary Visual Culture
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, LondonJoin Minh Nguyen from the Dogma Collection, for a presentation on the vibrant visual language of Vietnamese revolutionary culture. Through rare archival materials and comparative analysis, we will examine how Vietnam's socialist and anticolonial movements created visual narratives that resonated across international solidarity networks. The evening explores the striking parallels between Vietnamese revolutionary graphics and […]
Aesthetics of Resistance with Joel Scott + Harun Farocki’s On Display: Peter Weiss
MayDay Rooms 88 Fleet Street, LondonPeter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance follows an unnamed narrator and his peers as they attempt to organise against the fascist regimes of Europe in the 1930s and 40s. As these figures discuss the failures and political missteps of their recent past, they turn to art and culture in the hopes of discovering […]