We celebrated the day with a book-secret-gift-exchange:
prepare gift at our wrapping station, anonymously leave it, and, in exchange, collect another one at random. Everyone went home with a gift.
The launch of the new KABK school newspaper. Performance curated by Mushroom Radio. Image by Yade Noë.
verwardeman and minor moons host a listening session, inviting three sound artists that use the microphone in personal and off-putting ways...
We are developing the space into a public-facing library, where “library” remains as an open question. We begin by questioning the spatial infrastructure itself, approaching it as a site of intervention into what a library can be. Through performative and collective methods, we work with (and against) the symbolic authority of the modern library as a knowledge-bestowing institution, asking visitors to participate in an unfolding performance of library bureaucracy. We are interested in how informal and playful performative gestures can redistribute authorship and unsettle fixed hierarchies of knowing.
During Bermuda Open, our studio space is open to the public, inviting visitors to engage with our library and public programme. Over the weekend, we also hosted the Warsaw-based collective Tapczan Taboret (Olga Madler, Maria Lisicka, maja m tekla). Together, we activated the space by playing gra w taborety (musical stools). Through these activities, we aim to explore the different ways knowledge is created, preserved, and shared. Taboret means “stool” in Polish. Poster design: Olga Madler.
Soft-launch of our collective with and to our friends on the Lunar New Year. We celebrated, while playing games, making calendars together and burning the fire horse.
김장 (Kimjang) is a Korean term for a collective practice of making kimchi together. Kimjang used to be household work for female family members. It was laborious work, but it was also about sharing women’s power and showing solidarity among women back in the days. We followed a kimchi recipe from the zine Introduction to Creative Kimchi Making written by @nakpicnic.