EDITIONS — SB34

︎ SB34 Manchester

EDITIONS: SEMINAR, PERFORMANCES & PUBLICATIONS

12-14.12.24

14:00-19:00

With An Onghena, Jivan van der Ende, Alexia de Visscher, Raphaël Van Lerberghe (A.R.D.V.L.), Christophe Clarijs, Robin Vets, David Maroto, Emilie Pariel, Divided Publishing, Eva Moulaert (Dear Reader), Gary Farrelly (O.J.A.I.), Gilles Hellemans, Ignace Cami, Jeroen Peeters, Liesbet Waegemans, Marjolein Guldentops, Marc Buchy, Maud Vande Veire, Emmanuel Depoorter (From Me To You), Maya Strobbe (Ramsdam Books), Milan Gillard, Neils Poiz, Pierre Coric, Raphaël Matieu, Robin Faymonville, Simon Asencio & Zena van den Block

Curated by Carl Haase (Zero-Desk)

︎ SEMINAR : PALACE OF MEMORY

Editions first assembly is based on the idea of language production and the various interpretations through the practice(s) of reading, writing, translating, editing and documenting these acts as a form of publishing, the distribution of knowledge. Which in tur generates a variety of different searchable patterns and or terms. A lexicon is one such example and can be seen as a mode of breaking down or the abstraction of essential information into its most rudimentary and meaningful structure (Richard Serra’s Verb List, 1967).

Allowing for further structures to emerge from the abstraction, reinforcing the personal, individual experience of communication and how it can be re-transmitted (perspective ove perception). This has been created and informed over a period of time and through a search for ways to input different approaches and mechanisms of working into writing in a more formal practice(s). Each of the following speakers will present an outline of ideas, of explorations, process and production into activities that result in a published form: performance lectures, radio board-casting, video and printed matter.

^{“The very idea of a living archive contradicts this fantasy of completeness. As work is produced one is contributing to and extending the limits of that to which one is contributing. I cannot be complete because our present practice immediately adds to it, and our new interpretations inflect it differently.”}^{Stuart Hall, ‘Constituting An Archive’ (2001)}
︎ SPEAKERS

JEROEN PEETERS
How do artists work? How do they speak about their practice? These questions have guided me over the years in my interest to document the ‘languages of making’ and to develop discourse from practice. Working as a writer, dramaturg, editor and publisher on thes questions, another repertoire of practices related to the reading of practices comes into view. How do artists or writers read their own work as it emerges in the studio when things are i constant flux and not yet public? How can one recognize, acknowledge, document, publish those variegated modes of attention? In search of an answer, I propose to look at related practices in ethnography, dramaturgy, translation and editing. They share an ethos of attending to other people’s traces of labour, affording particular ways of doing and verbs to address them: witnessing, tracing, practising alongside, inhabiting, belingering, being with, writing along, leaning, gleaning, skirting, drifting, listing.

www.jeroenpeeters.work @varamo_press

EVA MOULAERT: DEAR READER
During the last few years, letter writing became an important part of Eva’s design practice. Through letters addressed to a specific reader (friends, people she admires, people she collaborates with), she talks about the materiality of writing, the relationship between form & content, the search for collaboration and the position of the graphic designer. During th lecture, Eva will share a letter she wrote to translator and author Kate Briggs, reflecting on her reading experience of Briggs’ recently published first novel: The Long Form (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023).

www.dearreader.be, @dearreader.be

MAYA STROBBE: RAMSDAM BOOKS
Confessions of a Navel-Gazer: the artist’s book as a personal tool for navigating everyday existence. This lecture delves into the creation of artists' books as deeply personal tools for grappling with everyday existence. By exploring selected projects from 2016 to the present, such as Special Thanks, To Do, Megamix 2019, Yes/No, and Stien, Maya Strobbe will uncover how these works aim to transform private experiences into universal expressions She will explore how public ànd private publishing can function as means of emotional regulation, love letters, time capsules, and methods for navigating uncertainty. Drawing from personal practice, Strobbe will discuss how these intimate creations may serve as transitional rituals, offering a profound lens for understanding and connecting with the mundane.

@ramsdam, @amsdambooks

GARY FARRELLY: OFFICE FOR JOINT AMNINISTRATIVE INTELLIGENCE (O.J.A.I.)
Gary Farrelly will explore the publishing practices of the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.), emphasizing its performative modes that mirror corporate compliance and institutional reporting. A core element of O.J.A.I.’s publishing includes annual in-house DIY reports, chronicling the agency’s hyperbolic operations through the lens of para-intelligence gathering and bureaucratic self-actualization. Farrelly will also highlight O.J.A.I.’s catalog of experimental vinyl releases, published through their fictional record label Dexi Defunct, and the postal correspondence volume Auditing Intimacy—a collaborative project. Additionally, he will introduce the ongoing project Self-Institution Handbook, presenting it in its under-construction state. This project serves as a manifestation of the O.J.A.I.'s
promulgated community of self-instituted practices, encompassing artist offices, bureaus, departments, schools, ministries etc.

www.jointintelligence.org, @jointintelligence

GILLES HELLEMANS (MODERATOR)
Is a multidisciplinary artist, whose work has been shaped through site-specific walks and observations of architecture, public space, and furniture. Leading to the term and intuitive methodology “Always Stuff”, has developed as a way of navigating these landscapes and addressing the feeling of detachment within prevalent conformity narratives. The method serves as a means of cultivating a personalized sense of belonging and permission to perform amidst generic neoliberal structures. Hellemans’ has embedded his practice in the urban landscape (from disused subway offices as a permitted studio to the installation of the
Blue Bench Sessions, an invitation to informal encounters and as a platform for reflection on urban alienation and loneliness), searching for the boundaries between the personal, the private and the spaces of isolation. These motives, manifestations are shaped through a site-specific practice of reassembling architectural elements, collected words translated into public performances, videos and readings.

www.gilleshellemans.org, @gilleshe

︎ PERFORMANCES

Pierre Coric: T Wants to Be With H, but H Wants to Be With E (12min., EN)
Is an exploratory demonstration of a life simulation where the living entities are letters an the rules of life are their recurrence in a given text. The program is a life simulator based on human language, which animates letters in the space of your browser. The movement of the letters is induced by the three simple rules of Craig Reynold's boids algorithm. These rules are weighted according to the recurrence of pairs of letters in a given text.

www.pierre-coric.top/index.html, @pierrecoric

Robin Faymonville: Trois balles dans le dos du silence (12min., FR)
This series of poems is like a wrestling match between human finitude and the infinity of the world. It qualifies and accumulates facts and relationships in a shifting environment wher everything is in contact with everything else — this is the continuity I aim for, with all the uncertainty and fragility such an endeavor entails. The enumeration of facts and the combinatory associations grapple with the emotions and tensions that define our contemporary reality. From unease to epiphany, from "I" to "we," the interstice is narrow.

www.robinfaymonville.com, @robin_faymonville

Zena Van den Block: The Visitor (I Love Your Text Here)
Is a performance originally conceived to be executed in public spaces, specifically in tourist environments. In this performance, I take on the role of a living statue, like those often see in tourist hotspots, but dressed as a tourist. The work explores the duality of tourism: everyone seeks a unique experience when visiting a location, yet you inevitably follow framework largely shaped by the city or country in question. It is conceived from a generalist perspective on the expectations of a visitor. The universal nature of the concept of "the tourist" and the associated props in the form of souvenirs (magnets, postcards, T-shirts, etc.) create a rhythm in which, as a visitor, you seem to follow a choreography that you only partly define yourself. The costume for this performance is therefore a mix of practical clothing that reinforces the stereotypical image of a tourist and items that could pass as souvenirs—such as a version of the iconic "I Heart ..." T-shirt designed by Milton Glaser.

www.zenavandenblock.com, @zenavandenblock

Alexia de Visscher, Raphaël Van Lerberghe, Garance Debert: Table de perméabilité et conventions d'édition Voices - Bodies – Interpreted by Garance Debert (25min., FR)
Is a textual montage resulting from simultaneous readings. It is a compilation of embryonic narratives initiated by the voices of different authors. It is based on Victor Hugo's Le livre des tables, in which the writer describes séances with the spirits of famous authors. Conceived as a form of publishing, the performance is an opportunity to ‘replay’ these voices, which cross time as much as books do: ghosts and reading desks make up the stage space, calling on mimes, motifs and metronomes. The Table takes the floor.

www.ardvl.be, @a.r.d.v.l, @garanceddd

Ignace Cami: Sacrifice
This oversized cookie project is one of the results of research into the craft of cookie board(s) cutting and the possibilities of storytelling with dough. This text based cookie (and board) functions as a concrete poetry piece, changing meaning as it is being eaten. A Speculaas cookie will be presented and distributed as a closing ritual.

www.ignacecami.be, @ignace.cami, @laurageurten

︎ ABOUT ZERO-DESK

Zero-Desk is a small independent design studio focused on the research in art and design, publishing and teaching. Founded in 2014 the Jan van Eyck Academie by Carl Haase, Zero-Desk has dedicated itself to supporting new works by emerging and established artists, designers and writers that are invited to co-create projects through various platform (editorial design, web design, generative design, and other printed media). More recently the studio has started working in collaboration with institutions in supporting publishing projects, lecture-and-seminar programmes, exhibitions, workshops and conferences that fit with the studio’s methodologies. Zero-Desk (Editions) is the publishing desk and nomadic projects of the studio. Its focus is structured around art, design and literary projects that attempt to translate the buil environment that surrounds them into physical/tactile objects of either the printed or digital form. The projects strive in reviewing, understanding the vast amount of information that is directed at us daily and to develop new narratives, perspectives from it. This interest has come from a personal approach and interest in amassing collections or data based on on theme and transforming into a palatable platform for others.

Supported by Loterie Nationale, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, The University of Antwer and ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute of the Arts).

Jonáš Gruska & iii,

Alix Dussart
Luke Calzonetti
éditions la CAB/Charles Pigneul, Alan Jeuland & Brieuc Weulersse
Lars Herman Hegg
Julie Larrouy
Jacques Le Bourgeois
Anna Luz Pueyo
Sophie Martin
Rokko Miyoshi
Justin Sanchez
Marion Séhier

Thily Vossier

Mohammed Alani
Homa Arkani
Christophe Nasaridis/Biim

Gert De Clercq

Indigo Deijmann
Roshan Di Puppo

Nasrine Kheltent
Yona Laci
Anatole Lachasagne

Nikko Noirhomme
Fanny Patarin
Rik Peeters
Annelein Pompe

Stijn Stevens
Prose Studio
Paul de Toytot
Amélie Uwera-Ngira
Jivan van der Ende
Chantal van Rijt

Jonáš Gruska & iii,

Alix Dussart Luke Calzonetti éditions la CAB/Charles Pigneul, Alan Jeuland & Brieuc Weulersse Lars Herman HeggJulie LarrouyJacques Le Bourgeois Anna Luz Pueyo Sophie Martin Rokko Miyoshi Justin Sanchez Marion Séhier

Thily Vossier

Mohammed Alani Homa ArkaniChristophe Nasaridis/Biim

Gert De Clercq

Indigo Deijmann Roshan Di Puppo

Nasrine Kheltent Yona Laci Anatole Lachasagne