Ok, so, the world won't change overnight as we pass from December 31 to January 1. But something will have ended, and something else will be beginning. And we're taking that an opportunity. We've been learning alot about community throughout 2020; all of us have had to invest in different ways of working, experiment with various technologies for connection, and relate with an ever changing set of conditions, not to mention a future that has told us that planning like we used to just ain't possible.

In 2021 we remain committed to providing a social space to gather around publication practices. We are very excited to experiment with different formations of public gathering. We are concocting up a series of performances, presentations, lectures and listening sessions. In our shop, streamed, live, documented, dispersed, some simultaneous and others a relay of unfolding performance. In conversation with a bunch of brilliant local and international artists and writers we will be moving between many modes of togetherness.  

We have seen first hand the necessity of investing in spaces that can make accident and serendipity possible, to come together around things we don't yet know. This year the word 'unprecended' has frequented our conversations and feeds. Through it we express a resignation that we could not have known, could not have anticipated, the world as we are living with it now. It is through critical reflection and collective imagination that we can develop tools and strategies for navigating the speed of change and crisis that is the new normal. rile* remains comitted to fostering study as a mode of sociality and gathering.

Artists: (so far)

Sina Seifee, Stefan Govaart, Siet Raeymaekers (Non-local research), Quinsy Gario, Season Butler, and Harriet Nestor.

Dates and program details will be announced here shortly.

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