FICA is pleased to announce a zine workshop led by artist Renuka Rajiv that will explore the intersection between acts of reading and concepts of care. Inviting applications from all, the workshop will look at how reading can be an invitation to come together, leading to reflections on the process of making collectively. Conducted in three sessions spread out over three days, the workshop will combine modes of reading and thinking together into exercises around the format of a zine and its possibilities.

3 sessions: 11 - 13 January 2022
Last date for applications: 3 January 

As a publication, zines have permitted the creation of networks - between collaborators, audiences, writers, artists - and have historically been affordable, accessible sites of convergence for art, activism, politics and culture. While zines hold ground steadfastly within counterculture movements, there is a noticeable shift we are witnessing towards the mainstream, with the format approaching new kinds of visibilities, spaces of consumption and myriad thematic juxtapositions that both excite and activate.

This workshop by Renuka Rajiv is keen to collaborate with moments of (mis)translation, looking at the kinds of definitions, representations and interpretations of care that reside in the languages we speak, understand, think and communicate in. Within contemporary circuits of dissemination, the format of zine has grown to be identified with certain visual languages that have mutated with time, inscribing fluctuations and subjectivities, bringing together different ideas and meanings. We are curious to see how the format of a zine can be a creative outcome for acts of reading, looking at how personal and shared languages of care intersect with each other. 

The workshop will be conducted over three online sessions held on Zoom, spread over three days. It will entail short reading sessions leading to and intertwined with exploring the elements of zine-making, encouraging the participants to reflect on care in/as language.

Attendance for all sessions will be mandatory.
Please note the workshop will be limited to 15 participants only. 

Application requirements:

  • Send us a glimpse of your practice - samples of your writing, your art and/or any other related pursuits - that might demonstrate your interest in this workshop.

  • Please write to us at info@ficart.org with a very short introduction of yourself, along with samples of your work as mentioned above by 3 January 2022. 

Eligibility:

All are welcome to apply. There are no prerequisites for applying to participate in the workshop. 

 

Renuka Rajiv is an artist based in Bangalore. They did a diploma in Digital Video Production from Srishti School of Design, Bangalore, India(2007). They did a Bachelor of Fine Art, Printmaking from VCA, Melbourne (2010). They have participated in several group shows - The Brunswick Show, CBD, Melbourne (2010); EggEggEgg, White Elephant Artist Space, Brunswick, Melbourne (2010); Shoes 2, White Cube, Brisbane (2011); They’re A Queer Mob, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne (part of Midsumma festival) (2011); Launch, Brunswick Arts, Brunswick, Melbourne; Future Now, Substation, Newport, Melbourne (2011); Nature In The Dark, Fed Square, Melbourne (2011); Future Now, ICU, Castlemaine (2011); Energy In Stillness, Midsumma festival, Red Gallery, Melbourne (2013); Future Now: Traveling exhibition, (Cowwarr Artspace, Gippsland and B1 Contemporary, Ballarat) (2013); Unlikely Part 1 – Feral, Bella Union, Melbourne (2013); Bright Sparks, Firestation, Melbourne (2014); I Got You Under My Skin, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne (2014); Aspergers Vs. Parkinsons, Knight st Artspace, Melbourne (2014); Howl, Brunswick Artspace, Melbourne (2014); stutter in your eloquence, Backyard Civilization, Kochi (2014); Conspirators, Czech & Slovak Film Festival, Yarra Gallery, Melbourne (2014); Airdrome, The Hive, Bombay (2015); stutter in your eloquence II, Ambedkar University, Delhi (2015); Privacy to Piracy, Walkin Studios, Bangalore (2015); Group Therapy, Brunswick Artspace, Melbourne (2015); Exit, Brunswick Artspace, Melbourne (2015) andAt the turn of a Page, Vadehra Gallery, Delhi (2016).

Their solos include - Life As a Solo, Handheld Gallery, Melbourne (2013); Wild Fermentation, Brunswick Artspace, Melbourne (2013); Static/Problematic, G159, Bangalore (2015). Renuka was artist in residence at CONA, Mumbai funded by INLAKS Shivadasani Foundation (2014), TAJ Residency/SKE Projects, Bangalore,(2015) and Walkin Studios, Bangalore (2015). Their publications include Silicon Plateau #01, a collaborative publishing project between T.A.J. Residency/SKE Projects + or-bits.com in 2015. They have received the City of Stonington Print Prize in 2010; the NGV Women’s Association Prize in 2010 and the Substation travelling exhibition prize in 2011.