Ecologies of dissemination

Abstract

You may have felt too shy to reuse existing work out of caution of overstepping cultural boundaries. You may have unknowingly engaged in cultural appropriation or regretted including a fragment, image or reference but did not know how to apologise. Perhaps collaborators voiced concerns about credit, or you struggled with who or what to include in a colophon. You may also have felt wrongly acknowledged or not acknowledged at all.

This issue of PARSE Journal is for anyone who engages in cultural production: those practising through citations, appropriations, referencing, fan-fiction, piracy and other forms of reuse; for those who recognise the tensions that emerge when the conviction that cultural work is collectively produced and owned is brought in conversation with power asymmetries, inequities and appropriative moves grounded in intersecting forms of oppression. As such, the issue highlights the need for solidarity in sharing and reusing work and proposes forms of reuse that strengthen modes of collective practice.

With contributions by Erri Ammonita, Constant, Gabriela Méndez Cota, Séverine Dusollier, Andrea Francke, Gary Hall, Jennifer Hayashida, Cathryn Klasto, Nkule Mabaso, Nicolas Malevé, C. Thi Nguyen, Peggy Pierrot, Ram Krishna Ranjan, Dubravka Sekulić, Femke Snelting, Winnie Soon, Marloes de Valk, Eva Weinmayr, Stephen Wright