title: Workshop "Self Publishing in Times of Freedom and Repression".
client: Centre for Visual Introspection (Bucharest, Romania)
assignment: Self-publishing in Romania has a complex and still insufficiently researched and publicized history. Under Ceausescu dictatorship, the ideologically imposed state regulation over the cultural and artistic realm was extremely harsh, the production of independent publications increasing only in the early '90s. In times of "freedom", ideological censorship has been replaced by new constraints. Publishing as a means of self-expression and samizdat as a form of it, born in specific oppressive conditions, might shed a new light on the meaning of self-publishing, its forms and challenges today. What are the new forms of censorship today? What are the limits and means of self-expression / self-censorship and freedom of speech? What is the role of printed matter in the age of internet and social networks?
This is the missionstatement for a workshop organised at the Centre for Visual Introspection in Bucharest, Romania. The practical part of the workshop consisted in producing a publication on the subject of censorship. 4 lectures were also given, parallell with this workshop.
Pictures of the printed matter will be put online soon.
More info about the centre: pplus.ro
date: april 2011
client: Centre for Visual Introspection (Bucharest, Romania)
assignment: Self-publishing in Romania has a complex and still insufficiently researched and publicized history. Under Ceausescu dictatorship, the ideologically imposed state regulation over the cultural and artistic realm was extremely harsh, the production of independent publications increasing only in the early '90s. In times of "freedom", ideological censorship has been replaced by new constraints. Publishing as a means of self-expression and samizdat as a form of it, born in specific oppressive conditions, might shed a new light on the meaning of self-publishing, its forms and challenges today. What are the new forms of censorship today? What are the limits and means of self-expression / self-censorship and freedom of speech? What is the role of printed matter in the age of internet and social networks?
This is the missionstatement for a workshop organised at the Centre for Visual Introspection in Bucharest, Romania. The practical part of the workshop consisted in producing a publication on the subject of censorship. 4 lectures were also given, parallell with this workshop.
Pictures of the printed matter will be put online soon.
More info about the centre: pplus.ro
date: april 2011