Organizer: EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
Description:
Join the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop for a workshop on making prints, using letterpress and risograph technologies, to collectively produce a zine to keep and share. Following a brief introduction by Rianne Subijanto and Meghan Forbes on these topics, this event will highlight histories of print culture from Indonesia to Czechoslovakia a century ago, in which the working class and avant-garde artists utilized printed matter and modern channels of communication to push for an anti-capitalist, anti-colonial future.
About the Speakers:
Rianne Subijanto is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. She received a B.A. in English from Universitas Indonesia, an M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, and a PhD in Communication and Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory from University of Colorado - Boulder. Her research interests include communication technology and infrastructures, social movements, social and environmental justice, and the history of colonialism and capitalism in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Her book, Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2025), tells a story of the processes through which ordinary people mobilized an anticolonial communist resistance against Dutch rule through the production of revolutionary communication in the 1920s.
Meghan Forbes works as a writer, researcher, curator, translator, and gardener. Her forthcoming monograph Technologies for the Revolution: The Czech Avant-Garde in Print offers a nuanced portrait of leftist art practices in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period and explores the ways in which the Devětsil group utilized the production of printed matter to forge networks of exchange across Europe. Dr. Forbes is currently co-curator of a retrospective exhibition on the photographer Lucia Moholy, opening at the Kunsthalle Praha in May 2024. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and held postdoctoral fellowships at The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She is the sole editor of the volume International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms: Image, Object, Text (Routledge, 2019).
Registration:
To attend the event in person, please register here (email essye@efanyc.org). Please note that there are limited spots available.