You’ll Never Work Alone: Collective Infrastructures in Moving Images
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ISBN 978-3-903172-77-7
By linking practical examples and film theory approaches from Jakarta, Athens, Rome, Paris, Madrid, and Vienna, we aim to initiate an exchange of ideas on collective modes of production. The publication gathers together further reading and responses related to the event series “Collective Infrastructures,” hosted by the Golden Pixel Cooperative (GPC) in 2019. In curating the series, the GPC borrowed Judith Butler's idea of considering collectivity as infrastructure. The focus lies on the specific infrastructure—social, material, visionary—of a collective association that has evolved or could evolve together through a community’s practice.
Book Presentation
On the occasion of the exhibition “Indizien” by the Golden Pixel Cooperative at Kunsthaus Graz and their participation in the concurrently held Diagonale, the publication was presented on-site at the Needle of the Kunsthaus in the form of a round table on April 7, 2022, at 5:00 PM. The event consisted of a panel discussion and a lecture performance of the Cooperative's text contribution, featuring various authors of the publication. The Golden Pixel Cooperative, Gerda Lampalzer, and Jul Tirler were present. The event was moderated by Claudia Slanar.
Biographies
Cinenova Working Group was founded in 2010 and oversees the ongoing work of preservation and distribution, as well as special projects that seek to question the conditions of the organization. The Working Group has organized numerous events, screenings, and exhibitions across the UK and abroad, at Transmission (Glasgow), LUX (London), Marabouparken (Stockholm), Archive Kabinett (Berlin), Auto Italia (London), CCCB (Barcelona), amongst others; including but not limited to: Reproductive Labour (2009-11), Now Showing (series), Time and Time Again: Women & the Law Collective (2017), Hysteria and the Hybrid Body (2018), if you can’t share no one gets any with Carolyn Lazard and Collective Text (2018), You’ll Never Work Alone: Celebrating the Feminist Film Collective (2019), and The Work We Share (2021–22). cinenova.org
Théo Deliyannis (b. 1992, France) is the current manager of Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris). He holds a Master’s Degree in Film Theory and in Film Pedagogy at Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle. His own filmmaking activities happened mostly through an involvement with the do-it-yourself Greek lab LabA (Athens); he does curatorial work at the Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris and within his managing position at Collectif Jeune Cinéma. He is mostly interested in exploring non-canonical film history and in collective experiences of cinema on the levels of spectatorship, filmmaking, programming, and distribution.
Gerda Lampalzer (b. 1959, Austria) is a media theorist and media artist with special focus on artistic research. This encompasses curatorship, lectures, workshops, and publications in the field of video and media art. Her artworks include installations, photography, video, concepts, and texts. She has participated in innumerable international exhibitions and presentations. Since 1993 she has collaborated with Manfred Oppermann; the artist duo LAMPALZER/OPPERMANN operate mainly in the areas of staged photography, transdisciplinary media projects, and performance lectures. She has been a co-director of the Medienwerkstatt Wien for independent media work since 1980. lampalzer-oppermann.at
Katja Lell (b. 1987, Russia) is a filmmaker, film mediator and PhD candidate at the Institute of Art & Art Theory, University of Cologne. She works in collaborations, either during the production of her films, in educational workshops, or on curation projects. In her PhD project she focuses on practices and formats of queer-feminist video and film education. Latest projects include: I want to break the order of things (a queer-feminist video-workshop at F + F Art School Zurich, 2020, with Riikka Tauriainen) and Memories from Now (short film dealing with subjects of migration and language, premiered at Nordic Film Days Lübeck 2020). Currently she works as a co-researcher in a project that investigates concepts of diversity in film education in Austria and Germany. katjalell.de
ruangrupa is a Jakarta-based collective established in 2000. It is a non-profit organization that strives to support the idea of art within urban and cultural context by involving artists and other disciplines such as social sciences, politics, technology, media, etc., to give critical observation and views towards contemporary urban issues in Indonesia. ruangrupa also produces collaborative works in the form of art projects such as exhibition, festival, art lab, workshop, research, as well as publication. In February 2019, ruangrupa was selected as Artistic Director of documenta 15. ruangrupa.id
Eleni Michaelidi (b. 1983, Greece) is a contemporary art historian, editor, and curator. Her research interests focus on experimental time-based media, histories of the exhibition form, and the concept of urgency in contemporary art. She has previously worked for the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Snehta Residency, and the Bergen Assembly, and was Curator in Residence at the Salzburger Kunstverein (2018). Eleni is currently Research Fellow of the project “post documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies,” a collaboration between the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. She lives and works in Athens and Berlin. linktr.ee/elenimichaelidi
Jul Tirler (b. 1985, Austria) is a theoretician based in Vienna. Currently a PhD candidate and recipient of a DOC Fellowship Editors of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Jul’s publications as well as theoretical and political interests include work on labor struggles, feminist theories and practices, queer theory and politics, visual cultural studies, and critique of representation. In their PhD, Jul is investigating notions of collectivity in filmmaking with a feminist perspective.
