PAPER TRAILS

Post-industrial histories, technical memories and art practices A Trans-disciplinary Seminar

Duration:

October 13, 2021– January 19, 2022

Semester:

Fall Semester 2021

ECTS:

according to study plan (for students)

Language:

English

Format:

5 meetings, 3 hours (3 x 45 min), Wednesday afternoons 14h45 – 17h00 (CH time) and 13.45H – 16.00H (PT time)

Platform:

Zoom

Admission:

open call

Participants:

up to 25, students (according to their study plan); professors or researchers (according to the lifelong learning University regulations)

Attendance policies:

10% absences only allowed

Paper records, folds, supports, melts, indexes; it preserves writing and blank spaces, conceptual instructions, identity information, filing cards, administrative records, today’s news; it is cut pages or surfaces, it is folded to create mock-ups. The post-industrial traces of paper mills re-emerge in recent artistic and decolonial debates; they affect reflections on the future of books and reading.

The transdisciplinary seminar Paper Trails inaugurates the eponymous research project of the IPT Instituto Politécnico de Tomar / Technology, Restoration and Arts Enhancement Center (TECHN&ART) (Portugal) and the EDHEA - The Valais School of Art (Switzerland). Open to teachers, researchers, and students from the two universities, the seminar brings together knowledge and ongoing research on and around paper, in its broadest and most material sense.

The seminar consists of four interventions related to the cultural history of paper as an administrative support; as related to the history of books and artistic practices; as a document and support for partitions and conceptual archives between dance and design; and the material dimension - chemical, conservation - of paper. The conferences will be followed by Q&A and accompanied by bibliographical references.

The last meeting will be dedicated to feedback on the works proposed by the participants in response to the themes of the course. A selection of the papers/works proposed by the participants will be considered by the selection committee for the conference planned in Tomar in May 2022.

Students will be awarded ECTS based on attendance and assignment submission. For the Professors and researchers who may which to attend the course on a Lifelong Learning perspective, an attendance certificate will be issued in January.

Seminar ONE,
October 13, 2021
Dagmar Riedel, Limited Storage

Seminar TWO,
November 3, 2021
Leonor Loureiro, The Paper World and the Paper Conservator

Seminar THREE,
November 24, 2021
Sarah Burkhalter, Dancing on paper

Seminar FOUR,
December 15, 2021
Marcelline Delbecq, White Paper

Seminar FIVE,
January 19, 2022
Feed-back on the participants’ works

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Print/Book/Reading Culture

Eco, U., et J.C. Carrière. N’espérez pas vous débarrasser des livres. Grasset, 2009.
Edwards, B.F.R. Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada Before 1960. Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Eisenstein, E.L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Canto Classics. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
MacPhee, J. Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today. PM Press, 2009.
Mak, B. How the Page Matters. Studies in book and print culture. University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Manguel, A. A Reader on Reading. Yale University Press, 2010.
Manguel, Alberto. A history of reading. Penguin, 2014.
———. The library at night. Yale University Press, 2008.
Mattern, J. The Printing Press: An Information Revolution. Technology That Changed the World. PowerKids Press, 2002.
McLaughlin, K. Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age. Critical Authors and Issues. University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 2011.
Morris, William. « A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press ». édité par William S. Peterson, 75 78. University of California Press, 2020.
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Riedel, Dagmar. « Of making many copies there is no end: The digitization of manuscripts and printed books in Arabic script ». In The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies, 65 92. De Gruyter, 2016.
Riedel, Dagmar A. « Books in Arabic Script ». A Companion to the History of the Book, 2019, 315 33.

Paper as an Artistic Medium

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Papermaking

Haggith, M. Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash - The True Cost of Paper. Ebury Publishing, 2008.
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Medioli, Chiara. Cotone, conigli e invisibili segni d’acqua. 750 anni di storia della carta a Fabriano. Corraini., 2013.
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Paper as a Medium

Bloom, J.M. Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World. ACLS Humanities E-Book. Yale University Press, 2001.
McLuhan, M. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Routledge classics. Routledge, 2001.

Paper-Based

Basbanes, N.A. On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013.
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Benjamin, W., M. Jay, et Arion Press. Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting. Arion Press, 2010.
Bolter, J.D. Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print. Taylor & Francis, 2001.
Derrida, J. Paper Machine. Cultural memory in the present. Stanford University Press, 2005.
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Kurlansky, M. Paper: Paging Through History. W. W. Norton, 2016.
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Ong, W.J. Orality and Literacy. New Accents. Taylor & Francis, 2013.
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Paperwork

Caplan, J., et J. Torpey. Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2018.
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