Nick Thurston, "Document Practices: The Art of Propagating Access"
b'This talk introduces arguments and examples from Nick Thurston\\u2019s current book project, Document Practices, which explores aesthetic and political frameworks for analyzing acts of re-publishing already public documents. With case studies that range from shadow libraries to experimental videos, and ideas about \\u201cthe document\\u201d which haunt the sociology of literature as much as documentary arts practice, Nick sketches out the project\\u2019s starting points and some of its key debates.\\n\\nNick Thurston is a writer and editor who makes artworks. He is the author of two experimental books, Reading the Remove of Literature (2006) and Of the Subcontract (2013), the latter of which has been translated into Dutch (2016), Spanish (2019) and German (2020). He writes regularly for the literary and arts press as well as for independent and academic publications. His most recent book is the co-edited collection Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right (2018). His recent exhibitions include shows at Transmediale (Berlin, 2018), Q21 (Vienna, 2018), MuHKA (Antwerp, 2018) and HMKV (Dortmund, 2019). He is currently Associate Professor in Fine Art at the University of Leeds, where he co-founded the Artists\\u2019 Writings & Publications Research Centre and is a fellow of the Poetry Centre.'