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Exhibition at [German National Library](https://tinyurl.com/54skwsz8), 2 Nov 23—18 Feb 24!


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Video interview

Washko_Banged_roosh_v_interview_full-transcript.pdf

Full transcript of the interview

Washko's essay on the interview in Animal NY

On the negotiation and the process behind interviewing Roosh

artist website

Performance "Thightrope Routines"

Washko

For *BANGED*, the feminist artist Angela Washko engaged with pickup artist Roosh V, the “web’s most infamous misogynist” according to numerous press outlets and author of the *BANG* series (guidebooks for men outlining strategies for picking up women). Washko originally intended to interview women who have had sexual encounters with Roosh V and to publish their side of the story—an approach she discarded when Roosh V and his followers learned of the project through online announcements after Washko received the Rhizome Internet Art Microgrant. 

“I knew the project would from then on have to be in conversation with Roosh V himself. After his awareness was publicly communicated I became critical of my own black-and-white extremist approach. To introduce more of the nuance that is often ignored in conversations about pick up artists within stratified spheres of the internet, I decided to reach out to Roosh with the hopes of additionally conducting an interview with him. 

After over a month of emailing him a question or two every few days, I was able to convince him to do a digitally mediated interview over Skype. I published the interview through *ANIMAL NY* and it was widely distributed, through Roosh’s community, my digifeminist community and other broader mainstream audiences. 

Debate over the sincerity of the gesture, my artistic credentials, my intentions, empathy & internet bubbles, exploitation, and whether or not members of his community wanted to bang me ensued. A flood of insults, support, and harassment broke through my email, social media, online forums and comment sections of mainstream media sites. Roosh V proceeded to frame my project as a desperate attempt to have sex with him and suggested that I was stalking him. Members of his community suggested that they were going to have a meeting with me where I live. [...] At some point I had to re-calibrate the project due to the terrain” (Angela Washko).

The seven-month investigative art project resulted in a two-hour video interview with Roosh V, two books documenting the project, along with performances and installations. The artist describes the book series “as a testament to our contemporary condition of increasingly disparate bubbles that exist online and elsewhere—creating their own vernaculars and developing radically different ways of viewing the world. It is also a document analyzing reactions to Washko’s experience shifting from activism to ethnography in spaces of extreme hostility toward women and feminists” (artist website).

Produced with Lulu but sold via the artist’s website, the book series comes in an edition of 300 with a signature and handwritten edition number. Our copies, however, were ordered directly from Lulu’s webshop and lack these alterations.

limited edition

signed

available only through the artist / publisher

numbered

isbn

15.2 x 22.9 cm / 6'' x 9'' (US Trade)

artistic research

unpaginated

perfect bound

black-and-white

paperback

test / experiment

study / analysis

documentation / archiving

Lulu

gender

bias

politics / activism

internet culture

dating / sex

BANGED

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artist's website

Schmid

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In analog times, Joachim Schmid relied on photographic material that he found on the street, through advertisements or at flea markets. In the digital age, he finds the material for his publications primarily on the internet, on photo-sharing platforms such as Flickr. Some of these photos were presented on his website along with his publications in which they appear. After receiving several complaints about this, Schmid was forced to replace some of the photos with placeholders. This was the starting point for *The Missing Pictures*, which collects quite a few such placeholders that Schmid found—just like the replaced photos—on the internet. Among them are delightful finds such as: “This photo has been removed due to an ego violation,” or “Portrait removed. The guy didn’t like it.” But as a placeholder with the Wikipedia abbreviation “WP:NFCC” (non-free content criteria) shows, there can of course be weighty reasons from serious institutions. 

As with many of his publications from the 2010s, Schmid discontinued his collaboration with Blurb in this case too, due to countless annoyances. He switched to Lulu in 2012, which resulted in a change in paper and format from 12.6 x 20.3 cm to 10.4 x 17.3 cm.

second edition

open edition

10.3 x 17.2 cm

photobook

found material

appropriation

Blurb

flickr

censorship / ban

publishing / distribution

photography

copyright / law

visual culture

The Missing Pictures

Project website

Snelson_Danny_PoD Poetry Making Books after the Internet_NUPoD2017_course flyer.pdf

NUPoD2017 course flyer

NUPoD2017 Collective

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*Blank Books* is a set of sixteen books produced during Danny Snelson’s 2017 class “Print on Demand Poetry: Making Books after the Internet” at Northwestern University. Each book consists of 200 blank pages in pocket book format, shifting the only way for expression and semantic charging to the paratext, which is used in various ways by the students, ranging from calling the publication a notebook for doodles to more conceptual approaches like 100 reasons why the author loves milk. The series is a demonstration of how to utilize print-on-demand for an exploratory pedagogy in the studies of literature and media. As a virtuous presentation of paratextual play it also shows how in the age of book distribution platforms, digital paratext becomes an integral part of framing and handling books today—as it is usually the first encounter we have with a book even before we are able to get a glimpse of the paratext of the physical book object.

Blank Books