rosa (they, them) is a feminist server that travels between different locations, providing a mobile infrastructure for learning, documentation, and experiments for the meetings that happened during the A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers project. rosa is not only its constituting hardware or software, but also the multitude of relations which are created around the making, maintaining and passing on of this infrastructure: the processes that are performed, the affective charge of their actioning, the communities around them. 

In this workshop, we got acquainted with rosa , the choices that were made with regards to accessing this server, and the specificity of its environment. There were different layers to consider and unpack. rosa could be a place to store and write together but they could also be a space to make a publication. In working with rosa along the ATNOFS trajectory, there was a specific attention to language, the server’s modes of address, and the different questions that are at stake for feminist server communities.

In the framework of the installation Now, think of a question that is at stake for you* in the window of Constant’s office.

*The title of this workshop and installation, created in situ by Alice Strete & Cristina Cochior (Varia), came from a lecture by Alexis Pauline Gumbs in which she explained how she imagined her book ’Dub: Finding Ceremony’ as an oracle. Her instructions were adapted to welcome those accessing the rosa server.