Text in Public – Zine Performances and Rants

Emma Wolf-Haughs Publikation Text in Public – Zine Performances and Rants verbindet Texte aus performativen Arbeiten, Performance-Skripte sowie collagierte und kollektiv entstandene Textformen miteinander.

In Wolf-Haughs interdisziplinärer Praxis der letzten zehn Jahre überlagern sich Installation, Performance und experimentelle Workshop-Formate. Oft dient dabei DIY-Publishing im Kollektiv oder Selbstverlag dazu, Emmas vielschichtige Aktivitäten mit Text zu bündeln und neu zu kombinieren.

Die Publikation durchquert kulturelle und historische Schauplätze, gelebte Gegenwart und imaginierte Zukünfte und nutzt Autofiktion und Anekdote als Teil einer Tradition queer-transfeministischer Arbeiter*innensprache und -ethik, die freizügig ist und gleichzeitig geschickt innerhalb von Limitationen operiert.

Emma Wolf-Haugh is a visual artist, educator and writer-based Berlin and Dublin and working internationally. Emma’s work is shaped by economic necessity, engaging forms of recycling, thrift and ephemera that result in soft modularity, wild archiving, and performative intervention, posing questions about value, accumulation, and authorship. Their pedagogical and publishing work posits the imagination as a political tool with radical potential that can exist and erupt anywhere and at any time.

Emma has developed a trilogy of works since 2014 dealing with queer and transfeminist economies and spatial politics. The Re-appropriation of Sensuality, Sex in Public, and Domestic Optimism have been exhibited through various iterations at: The Project Arts Centre Dublin, The Grazer Kunstverein Graz and De Appel Amsterdam, among other places.

Emma is co-founder of ‘The Many Headed-Hydra’, aqueous-mythmaking-decolonising collective, since 2015 and founder of ‘The Reading Troupe’ – Disruptive Pedagogy, workshop and instant publishing series, since 2013. Emma is the editor of Having A KiKi – Queer Desire & Public Space, PVA, 2016.