Unlearning my library builds upon Read-ins research into the wider context of public and private libraries. We investigate how a specific library is constituted through the physicality of reading, library etiquette, the books being read, histories of articulations within bookshelves, architecture as well as the different categorisations within the library. These aspects very often sink into oblivion without necessarily losing their agency. Read-in experiments with formats to challenge these taken for granted notions and enter a process of renegotiation.

FST at Digital Methods Summer School

2019 / June / Amsterdam University / During the DMI2019 we opened our research question “Why are the authors of the books we read so white, so male so eurocentric?” to new contexts which led to exploring visualisation tools and other platforms and datasets.

Intersectional Search in Queer and Trans Archives

2020 / 4 Nov / Presentation of the Feminist Search Tools project, and a special panel about marginalized voices in queer and trans archives curated by Wigbertson Julian Isenia (co-founder Black Queer & Trans Resistance).

FST Meet-ups

FST working group co-initiating a number of meet-ups with practitoners from various backgrounds to discuss important stages of the feminist search tools research.

Feminist Search Tool API Workshop

with Hackers & Designers and Read-in at Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, OBA Oosterdok (central) Maakplaats 021

Haunted Bookshelves_In Circulation

2017 / 7 September – 15 October/ Haunted Bookshelves_In Circulation / Read-in at Hauntopia/What if? / Exhibition and Conference at Research Pavillon Venice / PhD-in-practice Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

Unlearning My Library Forum

2017 / Saturday 24 June / Forum / Utrecht University Uithof / Read-in at Zero Footprint Campus / Forum at Geneveplein, Utrecht

Feminist Search Tool

2017 – ongoing / Digital interface that invites users to explore different ways of engaging with the records of the Utrecht University Library/

Haunted Bookshelves

2017-on going/ choreographies of memorizing / built on Bookshelf Research

Unlearning my Library. Bookshelf Research #2

2017 / 1-25 June/ Why are the authors of the books I read so white, so male, so Eurocentric? / Read-in at Zero Footprint Campus, Utrecht.

NUMPANG as politics of sharing space

2016 / 26 April / Read-in contribution to Radio Kunci at ifa gallery Berlin / How can numpang create a situation for study? What kind of values are being exchanged in this interaction? How to contextualize the history of numpang in contemporary artistic context? How to unlearn numpang? Nuraini Juliastuti (KUNCI) in conversation with Read-in […]