The Library of the Commons: How to live from fire to fire
With Kayfa ta (Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis), Olivier Marboeuf and Anastasia Sosunova.
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During this evening, speakers and performers address the question: How to live from fire to fire? And how to rise from the ashes? Drawing on language, politics and art, they take a page from a new book in the Kayfa ta (or "how-to") series by publishers Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis about the disappearance of newspapers in Lebanon and the resilience of language.
- As part of
- World Histories of the Commons
- Date
- 18:30 — 22:30
- Rates
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Free
Using underground publishing practices in Lithuania as a case in point, artist Anastasia Sosunova explores how early printing techniques resonate in the digital age. She also sheds light on the often invisible social and material aspects of printing and publishing, like language, copyright, censorship and distribution. Next, author, artist and curator Olivier Marboeuf takes you on a spoken journey through myths, archives and fables, in which fire becomes a symbol of Caribbean culture, colonial oppression and ecological disaster.
This event is part of The Library of the Commons, which collects and showcases publications that explore the histories, ideas and practices of the commons in the arts. As a living and experimental platform, it wants to provide free and unfettered access to independent publications from the Global Majority. The library will be housed in the CIVA-wing at Kanal.