Nach:Leben – Writing Workshop & Book Presentation

Using a multiple-choice board game, Ana de Almeida and Mariel Rodríguez offer a playful exploration of creative ways to inscribe the self into theory. The “Play-and-Write” session is aimed at artists who write and wish to reflect on their own position within a sociopolitical context.

Following the workshop, the two editors will present their book “Standpoint Autotheory: Writing Embodied Experiences and Relational Artistic Practices,” a collection of texts by artists and theorists who engage with radically self-reflexive research approaches by incorporating embodied experiences into theory-building.

Ana de Almeida is an artist and writer based in Lisbon and Vienna. In her practice, she engages with archival methods, the intersection of personal and collective history, and processes of memory from a sociopolitical perspective. A central focus of her work is activating informal archives to reflect on revolutionary desire, the transmission of resistance, and the formation of political subjectivities.

Mariel Rodríguez is a research-based artist interested in decolonial artistic methods, practices of resistance, self-reflexivity, and relational forms of research. Her artistic practice and theoretical reflections are shaped by her personal experience of migration from Mexico to Austria and the inner transformations that accompanied it. In her work, she explores connections between identity formation and representation from an intersectional perspective, moving between various media and aesthetic languages.