Alex Martinis Roe
The Frameworks for Exchange: Workshop on Genealogies and Spaces Between Authorships involves three main tasks, which are undertaken in pairs. Each of the tasks involves discussion of the specific relationships each participant has to the female authors that have been important to her/him, and involves different ways of working together and listening to one another. During the workshops in Dublin, Melbourne, Berlin and Sydney the difference between relationships to authors the participants knew in person were explored in contrast to relationships that remain in the experience of reading books or encountering artworks. Each of these tasks is recorded and documented in different ways by the participants. In the workshops that have already happened, the decisions that each participant made about what to record during each conversation became an important way to develop ideas for future practices. The creation of a selective history also became a self-reflexive exploration of the politics of the archive and its relationship to feminist histories. ■Alex Martinis Roe 2011–2012