Marginal Notes by Annett Busch

"Marginal Notes" can be read as notes coming from the margins (geographically, socially, institutionally, historically) but also as marginalia, notes made on the margins of a page (of a book, document, journal), Referring to close reading, note taking, learning, highlighting, processes of understanding and critical engagement. In whichever context, “on the margins” is always a relative concept that shifts and moves in relation to what is considered central and can form an altering power from aside or below. Marginal Notes starts to take shape by looking at collective (innovative) and cooperative forms of organising, and an understanding of sustainable entrepreneurship that develops out of needs, on the margins, and creates something new by recombining and repurposing. We apply the same approach to the proposed artistic research. Transposing and assembling as an editing method (spatial, audio-visual and text-based) that shifts and creates relations/conversations and geo-temporal analogies.

WE WILL MOVE ...

... NARRATING A COUNTER-PANORAMA, NOT TO GET FIXED IN TIME

The printed matters displayed in the exhibition at greengrassi, We will move to the land of birds as a flock of previous humans, curated by the Otolith Collective, offered a factual and document based reading as well as an imaginary and personal visualisation of feminist world-making and organising. It takes the little-known Women’s International Democratic Federation or WIDF as its starting point and dramatises moments of the tactics and strategies of anti-imperialist internationalism deployed by WIDF at the height of the Global Cold War from 1945 until 1963, and travels with the academic research of Elisabeth B. Armstrong and her most recent publication Bury the Corps of Colonialism The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949 (2023) as a companion.

Unfolding the research material in the digital environment allows for continuation, more in-depth reading and extended linking to counter the efforts put into forgetting these rich feminsit histories of world-making.

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