Practice-based Forms of Reading and Writing

What are ways of situated writing & reading that are committed to specific contexts yet aim at generating new publics?

How can we weave together creative modes of critical knowledge production and political practice by thinking through formats that transcend academic writing & reading practices?

The public Make/Sense assembly centers on the significance and potential of situated, embodied and embedded writing & reading practices in the context of practice-based research. Hosted by the MAKE/SENSE PhD program, a collaboration between the Basel Academy of Art and Design and the Art University Linz, the assembly revolves around the launch of the Brand New Life special issue “Imagination as a Site of Struggle” and features conversations, performative readings, and workshops that explore writing pedagogies & intertextual affects, lyrical personas & abolitionist minds, inauthentic voices & choral refrains, queer-feminist anti-racist politics as well as the negotiation of solidarities on and writing through social media.

With Jackie Wang, Cassandra Troyan, مشترى هلال (Moshtari Hilal), சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah), Sarah E. Truman, fantastic little splash (Lera Malchenko & Oleksandr Hants), and Délphine Chapuis-Schmitz.

Hosted and facilitated by Lucie Kolb, Eva Weinmayr, Gabriela Aquije, Helen Pritchard, Jonas von Lenthe, Ines Kleesattel, Johannes Bruder, Mayar El-Bakry and members of the MAKE/SENSE PhD Program.

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June 12th 2025 - 14:00 - 16:30

Ways of Writing. Proposals for a Collective Exploration
Workshop hosted by Delphine Chapuis-Schmitz (facilitated by Lucie Kolb)

In artistic research, embodied experience, lived context, and the researcher’s situated perspective are central to how knowledge is generated and understood. From this standpoint, not only what we write, but how we write becomes crucial: How can we approach writing as a material, aesthetic, and embodied practice of engagement with/in the world? This workshop invites participants to experiment with a writing situation designed to explore and reflect on the potential of writing as an aesthetic practice of research. Together, we will engage writing as a relational process and further ask: How can situated writing practices be documented in ways that allow them to be shared and transferred across contexts and beyond disciplinary boundaries?

Delphine Chapuis Schmitz (F/CH) is an artist, writer and researcher. Her research focuses on writing as an aesthetic practice of research, embodied processes of sense-making and exploring relationalities within sensory entanglements through writing. A relational approach lies at the heart of her work, which involves various collaborative projects of thinking-in-the-making from a transversal perspective. She holds a PhD in Philosophy and a Master’s degree in Fine Arts, and lectures in the Department of Cultural Analysis at Zurich University of the Arts.

 

Infocry
Workshop with fantastic little splash (facilitated by Johannes Bruder)

fantastic little splash’s Infocry project draws inspiration from the concept of the Greek chorus, a foundational element of ancient Greek tragedy that shaped Western democracy and the principles of political equality. Today, while we often perceive online voices as representing “the people,” it is crucial to recognize that some of these emotional expressions may stem from inauthentic actors, raising questions about their motives and consequences. To gather these voices, they used Osavul, an AI-powered software that analyzes vast amounts of text data, grouping similar comments together. This process allows for the identification of patterns among seemingly independent statements, revealing coordinated narratives across different users and publications. They will introduce the process and a device that they built which acts as a chorus machine for inauthentic actors’ voices.

fantastic little splash is a collective comprised of journalist/artist Lera Malchenko and artist/director Oleksandr Hants. fantastic little splash combines art practice and media studies to research collective imagination and emotions appropriation in technosocial systems. Group works with videos, texts and interactive game-based tools. Established in 2016 in Ukraine, their projects have been exhibited at events including transmediale, post.MoMA, Plokta TV, Ars Electronica, Liste Art Fair Basel, Construction festival VI x CYNETART, KISFF, and Docudays, among others. fantastic little splash – participants of the transmediale x Pro Helvetia Residency 2022, and the Cité internationale des arts residency 2023.

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