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Participating artists:
Sina and Sami, representing Fehras Publishing Practices

Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

Fehras Collective warmly invites participants to join us in investigating new aesthetic strategies for the future of publishing. At a time when content can be generated without human presence, it becomes urgent to recall publishing as an embodied practice. For us, this means remembering the symphony of hands and bodies involved in producing published material, and returning our attention to the ways content can be reborn through gestures and contemporary bodies. In the digital age of alien intelligent agents, embodiment becomes the last authentic trace of the human.We begin by sharing a story from our artistic research into Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings, and how this journey led to our arrest by Cypriot agents at Larnaka International Airport before flying back. This incident transformed into the piece Article 1 – Human Dignity, published in Makan Journal by Think Tanger this summer. On this first day, we will talk about our practice and some of the formal questions we faced while preparing this publication. Through conversation, we hope to begin formulating participants’ own questions, which will guide the work of the second day.On the second day, we will start with a short presentation of our evolving project Hadar Halal – حاضر حلال, which opens a space to think about how collectivity emerges between us. With this in mind, we will work together to create a booklet for Hadar Halal – حاضر حلال , drawing on the questions raised during the first day and extending them into collective publishing practice.

The workshop is organised by the Team Diversity Development. Registration: kervinsp@hgb-leipzig.de

More information:

https://www.fehraspublishingpractices.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fehras_publishing_practices