With the contributing artists, designers, publishers and curators hosting tours, actions and discussions around their intersecting ‘editorial tables’, this event offers an introduction to each of their practices and the materials gathered together in the space.
Recordings and materials from a number of the presentations will be made available online after the event.
The event begins with a tour of The Mobile Feminist Library van by artists Minna Haukka and Kristin Luke. They will be joined by activist, writer and researcher Magda Oldziejewska who, with a focus on reproductive, LGBTQ+ and migrant rights, will share the histories and working practices of the Feminist Library.
Joining us digitally from Helsinki, NO NIIN Magazine founders and editors Elham Rahmati and Vidha Saumya will give an introduction to their magazine and welcome Mavelinadu Collective, their guest in Mumbai.
After a short break and time for browsing, Minna Henriksson gives us a tour of a new iteration of the Kiila Feminist Archive in London. Henriksson’s archive-as-artwork is based on her long-term studies of the early years (~1936-1939) of the artists’ and writers’ association in Finland, Kiila, as they continue to resonate in the present.
Rose Nordin will be joined by her collaborator, writer and researcher Priya Jay from publishing platform STUART for a conversation on ‘publishing paper prayers’. A fire will invite a delicate burning of the texts; a counterpoint to considering books as a violent or destructive act, and a gesture instead towards the transformative potential of paper invocations translated through fire.
Sezgin Boynik introduces Rab-Rab Press, an independent publishing platform based in Helsinki combining experimental art forms and leftist politics with scholarly rigour and punk attitude. Boynik will talk about a number of recent, nascent and upcoming Rab-Rab projects and collaborations.
Ruth Beale and children from The Hundred Club share interview videos responding to the question “what would you change?”.
