Events

We are closed this summer from the 26th of July until the 26th of August. In August, we will be with some books at the SAAL Biennaal 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Maybe see you there! The webshop will be closed between the 10th and 19th of August, so packages won't be sent out during that period. Have a beautiful summer. x

Welcome to “Living contents”, a set of lectures, publications and performances by students and guests of the ReadingListeningSpeaking seminar at Erg Brussels.

Welcome to rile* for the live reading of If Repeatedly Then Reception, with Bryana Fritz, Quinsy Gario and Stefan Govaart. If Repeatedly Then Reception reads texts repeatedly. More than one, it summons simultaneity and seeks a third sentence. Day one draws together a selection of texts by authors who wrote with devotion unto us the readers. Day two offers devotions the readers wrote themselves.

Welcome for the day-long launch of Family Nexus, a new publication by Sophie Nys, Maud Gourdon, Liene Aerts and Leila Peacock. With presentations on Saturday at 6, 7, 8 and 9pm.

Welcome to XENOTOPIA, a webinar-performance film by Quanta Qualia (Tomàs Dittborn & Siet Raeymaekers). XENOTOPIA is a tribute to the strange Other, to the shiny crack opening unto the unknown. "There is no inside except as a folding of the outside; the mirror cracks, I am an other, and I always was." (Mark Fisher)

Join us [online] for the launch of Ethical Portraits, a new publication by Hatty Nestor investigating the representation of the incarcerated in the U.S. criminal justice system. Through interviews, creative non-fiction, and cultural theory, Hatty Nestor deconstructs a range of different prison portraiture, she will be joined in conversation with writer Alex Quicho.

Join us for our series of [online] reading groups. This month we're reading A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None by Kathryn Yusoff, hosted by Gabriel René Franjou.

We're excited to introduce to you our new podcast channel, we'll be featuring new conversations with artists as well as recordings we've made over the past two years of rile* projects. Our first episode launches the book The Bat, Bad Mood and Autodomestication by Krõõt Juurak and Galerie. You can view our podcasts here, or subscribe to rile*, books wherever you listen to podcasts.

Join us for our series of [online] reading groups. This month we're reading Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith, hosted by Olivia Douglass in collaboration with Passaporta Festival. 

Welcome for a slow, two-day launch of Time is an Arrow, Error, by Katja Mater. Katja will be joined by Elisabeth Klement on Saturday, designer of the self-published edition. Welcome!

Join us for a close reading in collaboration with Passaporta of Claudia Rankine's The White Card. Together with Pelumi Adejumo we delve into the work of Claudia Rankine through her recently published play The White Card. This short play was written as a way to address whiteness in conversations about race through a brilliantly crafted conversation around a dinner table. Through its characters we are given the opportunity to reflect on the positions we take in conversations on anti-racism and the limits of empathy and sentimentality. Posing the question: can (American) society progress when whiteness remains invisible?