‘Web Working Bee’ with WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET

14th November 2024
6:30PM bar open, video work by Eric Jong
7 - 8PM, performance lecture, readings and screenings with Emily Simek, Alrey Batol, Jacina Leong, and Ella Peck

Please join us for a working bee with WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET, an online space for peer-led publishing. In this event, collaborators and contributors to WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET share works in progress, including video screenings, readings, and a garden tour of the back-end of the website. A work in progress is not necessarily about an end point, but is open to development: an idea, a practice, a friendship. Through their contributions, artists share different approaches to collective publishing, and extend an invitation to future artists to access, publish with, and caretake the website in their own way.

Contributing artists: Alrey Batol, Eric Jong, Jacina Leong, Ella Peck and Emily Simek.

WORLDWIDEWORMS.NET is an online space for publishing of draft, in-progress or adjacent creative work – low-fi, scribbled down, scraps of things. Inspired by the ethos of Do-It-With-Others and Peer 2 Peer infrastructures, the website is a work-in-progress that is focussed on process rather than outputs.

The space approaches online publishing and site maintenance through the lens of a community garden. With a focus on resource-pooling, self-publishing, and supporting work-in-development, it takes inspiration from food growing communities who work counter to market and institutional bounds.

Having begun as a ‘backyard’ project in Naarm, the site is opening up for use by wider networks of peers. Central to this approach is sharing back-end access to the website to artists, who can maintain, contribute, or collectively rework things, in their own way and time.