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Research Network: Archipelagos in Reverse

Talk An introduction to STUART publishing: Bootlegging / blood letting Rose Nordin, Priya Jay and Amrita Dhallu

22 Apr 2021

In this talk, artist and graphic designer Rose Nordin introduces the practical and conceptual role of STUART publishing platform and design studio at iniva, through mapping relationships to the gallery and the work of STUART Hall. The studio introduction will lead to more specific enquiry into access and distribution of published material.

The conversation with Priya Jay and Amrita Dhallu, co-editors of the first issue of STUART, explores modes of distribution, circulation and access to printed matter and the shifting potential of the publication after print. The vital and transformative roles of bootlegging/book piracy will be discussed in addition to the ongoing potential of annotation and footnoting.

Biography

Rose Nordin is a graphic designer and artist in residence at Somerset House Studios, London. She is a founding member of OOMK (One of my Kind) art publishing collective — focused on supporting self-publishing as “a vehicle to an independent validation to ones’ own culture, history, politics and sense of self” [John La Rose]. Collectively OOMK runs community Risographpress  Rabbits Road Press. Rose functions independently as an artist and graphic designer with an emphasis on publishing as creative and social practice. She produces publications and printed matter, often embedded in educational projects, research residencies or exhibitions. Rose has a focused interest in typography books as sites of  collaboration and the book as an object of representation.  

Priya Jay is a researcher using curatorial, artistic and herbalist methods to develop a practice that is healing and experimental. She facilitates spaces of co-inquiry, and honours vernacular, embodied and non-linear knowledge and pedagogies. Her academic background is in anthropology, with a specific focus on digital and decolonial ecologies. Priya has worked with notable institutions Barbican, iniva, Autograph ABP and Wellcome Trust, and is a recipient of the 2018 Peer Forum at Camden Arts Centre.

Amrita Dhallu is a curator and researcher based in London. She provides support structures for emerging British artists through commissioning, editorial projects, creating artistic networks and intergenerational learning spaces. Her current research examines ‘care’, spatial politics and ethno-futurist discourse within exhibition-making. She is Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern, London, where she co-curated Lubaina Himid’s monographic exhibition (2021-2).

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