Vivian Abenshushan

Vivian Abenshushan

Mexico

Writer and publisher. One of her basic concerns has been exploring aesthetic and discursive strategies to confront contemporary capitalism processes and the attendant structures for cultural production. Her latest project, Writings for the Unemployed, deals with a critical view of new working conditions (and their implicit violence) from a voluntary unemployment experience. A blend of essay, personal log, chronicle, pamphlet, critical theory, manifesto, book and web-page, these counter-essays were published by the firm Surplus under a copyleft license to encourage reproduction and on-line free downloads which recuperate hyperlinks as well as other videographic and documentary materials accumulated during the research period. In 2005, along with a group of writers and artists, Abenshushan founded the cooperative Tumbona Ediciones, an independent publishing project devoted to the crossings between art, literature and politics.