REBEKKA KIESEWETTER
Selected teaching & workshops
Upcoming
RE-CONSIDERING THE SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPH: TOWARDS OPEN AND COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
British Academy Early Career Researcher Network
Publishing worskhop
2019-2022
WRITING & THESIS TUTOR
Studio for Immediate Spaces, Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam
MEMBER OF HEAR! HERE! STUDY GROUP
Rietveld Academy & Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
2022
UNBIND: REIMAGINING THE ACADEMIC MONOGRAPH
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH), Cambridge (UK)
Publishing seminar
2021
READING TOGETHER: TOWARDS A WHOLE LIFE ACADEMY
Experimental Reading Group
With: Dubravka Sekulić
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) (online)
Reading Together is a meta reading group. It aims to respond to the challenge the Whole Life Academy is confronted with by having to shift their engagement to an online only format: reading is understood as a rehearsal in enabling situated ways of enacting knowledges together – in shaping a tentative community without physical proximity.
REUSING SOURCES 2 (DATA)
Mini workshop series for COPIM (WP6)
With Julien McHardy (Mattering Press / COPIM), Kat Jungnickel and Ellen Fowles (POP)
How – through re-using, re-reading, re-writing can large amounts of seemingly dry and dusty be brought into experience, on bodies, to literally craft different bodies and possibilities.
REUSING SOURCES 1 (TEXT)
Mini workshop series for COPIM (WP6)
With Julien McHardy (Mattering Press / COPIM), Janneke Adema (COPIM), Gary Hall (Open Humanities Press / COPIM), and Gabriela Méndez Cota (Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México).
Exploring re-writing as a form of dis-appropriation: as a way to expose the incomplete, processual nature of any text; as a way to make time and take time to relate with and around texts in (more) accountable ways.
Text / Publication
WHAT'S THE READING GROUP GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Performative Talk
Royal College of Art (RCA), London (UK) (online)
Talk / Slides
2020
THE READING ROOM #36 - READING INTERVENTIONS
Reading group & Workshop
The Reading Room & Page Not Found, The Hague (NL)
An experimental, interventionist, performative and collaborative re-reading of Hamid Dabashi's text "Can Europeans Read" (2015).
2019
TEMPLATE CULTURE?
Workshop
Insitute HyperWerk HGK FHNW Basel & FH Potsdam
Exposing and challenging the exclusionary patterns behind image, writing and publishing templates.
READING SCORES (wt)
Seminar
Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB)
With: Lucie Kolb
Some propositions for reading texts as an activity of after-/co-production.
2018
DRAWING TOGETHER
Workshop
Institute HyperWerk HGK FHNW, Basel
With: Anna Déer
Drawing and notation as reflexive and discursive techniques. Curating as collaborative negotiation and sense-making.
PERFORMING INTERSTICES. READING AS WRITING FORWARD
Workshop
Reading Room #28 at Stroom, The Hague (NL)
With: Joana Chicau
Exploring the text not as a static entity but as a provocation to perception that offers its possibilities as an event inviting potentially indeterminate acts of intervention. By applying choreographic protocols denominating a shared writing and reading space, the workshop explores how we are provoked physically and cognitively into reading and response (and thus into contributing to the creation of the text).
POST_DIGITAL PUBLISHING
Collective reading,
Reading Room #27 at Stroom, The Hague (NL)
With: Florian Cramer, Alessandro Ludovico, Joana Chicau
Exploring the notion of publishing in relation to what can be called the "post-digital," a term that aims to describe a contemporary condition, in which distinctions of "old" and "new media" have become obsolete, and where any publishing practice is being acknowledge as a material practice. Materiality is no longer understood as a mere physical property but as something that is inherently political, an emergence that may occur between textual content, its manifestation as an artifact, the economies and practices, as well as the non-human and human agents determining a publication’s production and consumption. We will ask how is artistic practice, understood in a broad sense as a gesture of ‘going public’, affected by this? What strategies, formats and notions of authorship and public may emerge from this new sensibility?
PUBLISHING ACTS II
Workshop and publication
With Istrian Architects (DAI-SAI), Šibenik Society of Architects (Soba DAŠ), Future Architecture Platform, Šibenik (HR), dpr-barcelona
The second edition of an investigation on publishing as an urban practice. How can we, by using publishing as a background for collaborations between local architects and participants from abroad and as a device for directing a critical engagement with an urban environment, identify and open possibilities for critical and collaborative reflection, imagination and action?
(PUBLISHING)SITES OF FRICTION
Seminar
Institut für Architektur und Städtebau (IAS), UdK, Berlin (DE)
Located in the areas of pedestrian circulation at the UdK, where university and city meet, where intersections manifest and disturbances arise, this publishing exercise aims to explore the meaning and potential of frictions, ambiguities and distortions for critical publishing endeavors. What can these moments, in which the peculiarities of coinciding worlds, perceptions and modes are revealed, and can be brought together for recombination and shared epistemic work, mean within and for publishing? What are the spaces for critical activity, productive publishing strategies, interfaces, formats and publics that could emanate from sites of emergent friction and its potential recombination?
STAGING
Intensive week
Sciences-Po Expérimentation Arts et Politique (SPEAP), Paris (FR)
With Paolo Patelli, Donato Ricci, Benoit Verjat, Jamie Allen, Marco Ferrari
RENDERING&PROJECTING
Coaching
Communication, Media, Sound and Interaction Design (CMS), Spezialisierung Medien Design, Joanneum Graz (AT)
Rendering, evaluation and synthesis of project research and definition of further steps and methods to employ within the continuation of the work.
REPRESENTING
Intensive week
Sciences-Po Expérimentation Arts et Politique (SPEAP), Paris (FR)
With Marco Ferrari, Donato Ricci, Paolo Patelli, Benoit Verjat, Jamie Allen,
2017
TOUCHING SHADOWS. SENSORY EVIDENCE & MATERIAL WITNESSING
Intensive week
Sciences-Po Expérimentation Arts et Politique (SPEAP), Paris (FR)
With Jamie Allen, Donato Ricci, Marco Ferrari, Paolo Patelli, Benoit Verjat
Speculative methods, sensory evidence and material witnessing, a workshop evolving around the course's annual topic “Body Politic.”
ERINNERN IST VERGESSEN KÖNNEN
Workshop
Institute HyperWerk HGK FHNW, Basel (CH)
Development of own documentation and note taking methods, memory & archival practices.
GESTURES OF PASSING ON
Excercise, intervention during "Publizieren als gestalterische Praxis"
HGK FHNW, Basel (CH)
With Anna Huber
Exploring the choreographies of the moment of releasing (passing on) a publication.
PUBLIZIEREN ALS GESTALTERISCHE PRAXIS
Lecture series
Institute Aesthetic Practice and Theory HGK FHNW, Basel (CH) (Kontext)
Publications as interfaces, experimental publishing practice as a frame for critical discourse and research.
PUBLISHING ACTS
Publication launch and workshop
MAO, Ljubljana (SL)
With Future Architecture Platform and DAI-SAI, Ana Dana Beroš and Emil Jurcan
Publishing Acts is the result of the “temporary editorial office” and publishing experiment held in Pula, Croatia, 1-3 June, 2017, which was designed to produce instant, open-ended socio-political imaginaries about the city. The "Publishing Acts" in Ljubljana, the for the present final act of this site-specific “social choreography”, serves as an occasion to think about possible further developments of the initiative.
PUBLISHING ACTS
Workshop
Future Architecture Platform & Association of Istrian Architects, Pula (HR)
"Publishing Acts" was an experimental publishing workshop and part of an a-festival with the same name. With Ana Dana Beroš, Emil Jurcan, Léopold Lambert (The Funambulist), Fosco Lucarelli and Mariabruna Fabrizi (Microcities), Rebekka Kiesewetter, Sofia Dona (Co-Hab Athens), Mika Savela and Henrik Drufva. Publishing in the Pula experiment was understood and explored the means to inform a process of connecting and re-connecting with the place by reviewing its history and cultural context in a specific and conscious way. The publication, resp. the publishing undertaking, figured in the role of an institutionalizing object conjoining a variety of international and local participants within a common process. From their respective points of view and against the background given by the parameters of the publishing proposition, the participants collaboratively explored the territorial, economical and sociopolitical situation of Pula. The ‘‘foreigners” – informed by their personal practices and perceptions – through the exchange with their hosts were not bound to adopt a touristic and external view, yet remained far from an insiders’ perspective. The locals, on the other hand, re-encountered their city through the amateurish eyes of experts from abroad. The connectedness within this discursive process of negotiation evolving within and dealing with a concrete territory required the participants of the Pula workshop to shift from their usual perspectives and adopt a kind of in-between-position. This in between – awareness meeting naïveté, experiences interspersed with impressions, perceived realities mixed with playful speculation – was the interface, the common base for mutual understanding.
DOCUMENTING THE "DA"
Coaching
Institute HyperWerk HGK FHNW, Basel (CH)
Rewriting the archives of tomorrow. Speculative methods and strategies of documentation.
PUBLISHING AS A SPATIAL PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE
Workshop
Institute HyperWerk HGK FHNW, Basel (CH)
Co-creation of learning formats. On documentation, collaborative publishing processes and the spatial choreographies of publications.
ICH SEHE WAS, WAS DU NICHT SIEHST
Workshop
Visual Communication Institute HGK FHNW, Basel (CH)
Tracing and visualizing Basel's hidden infrastructures together with Michael Hübner.
2016
NOTIZEN ZWISCHEN KALKÜL UND GEFÜHL
Workshop
Institute HyperWerk HGK FHNW, Basel (CH)
Learning strategies: on collective note-making, recording and the potential of dance notations as working tools.
MEDIA STRATEGIES
Coaching
HGK FHNW, Basel (CH)
Transdisciplinary exercises on communication and press relations.
Jurys
Bachelor of Post-Industrial Design 2017, HyperWerk HGK FHNW, Basel
Bachelor of Design Product 2016, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.