Join us for a reading and presentation of Corrections and Clarifications, by Anita Di Bianco, a publication project tracing daily revisions, retractions and re-wordings of print and online news. Anita will read from the June 2024 edition, charting patterns of selective telling and misrepresentation of the Eastern Mediterannean region from 1981 to the present, and from Adrenalin, a poetry collection by Palestinian author Ghayath Almadoun.

All sales from this event will be donated to Warm Bed asbl, a grassroots organisation providing and facilitating the housing of Palestinian refugees in Brussels. Additional editions have been donated to the fundraiser by Cutt Press and Anita Di Bianco.

About Corrections and Clarifications
Anita Di Bianco’s ongoing project, Corrections and Clarifications, is a newspaper without headlines, a cyclical reverse-chronology of daily revisions, retractions, re-wordings, distinctions and apologies to print and online news, printed in numerous languages, locations, and formats since September 2001. An intermittent catalog of lapses in naming and classification, of tangled catchphrases, obstinate patterns of mis-speech and inflection, connotation and enumeration. The twentieth anniversary hardbound edition of the publication, entitled The Error is Regretted, was published in 2021 by The Green Box in Berlin.

This 2024 iteration, in a xeroxed edition of 100, collects corrections to news items back to 1981 — with its focus on the Eastern Mediterranean region, on patterns of mis-telling and misrepresentation through the persistent misuse of the passive voice, the omission of widely observable and verifiable facts and events, the euphemizing and toning down of deliberate actions, erasures through shifts in terminologies, through bold mistakes and tentative corrections.

About Adrenalin
Adrenalin is the first collection of poetry to be published in English by Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun. This sinuous translation by Catherine Cobham comprises poems that span years and continents, that circulate between cities, ideas, lovers, places of refuge, war zones, time zones, histories. A vital, relentless, intertextual voice that refuses arrest by sentimentality, that pursues the poetry coursing underneath the poetry.
Find more info about the book here: https://actionbooks.org/ghayath-almadhoun-adrenalin/

About Anita Di Bianco
Anita Di Bianco’s works in film, video, and print take up, modify and re-work existing and re-imagined patterns and characterization. Her work involves the imitative act, a taste for the possession and expulsion of narratives, the appropriation and accumulation of familiar texts and writing styles. Anita uses widely varying sources: from theatrical and historical texts to oft-quoted cinematic clips and thematic references. She lives in Frankfurt am Main.

About Ghayath Almadhoun
Ghayath Almadhoun is a Palestinian poet born in Damascus, Syria, and emigrated to Sweden in 2008. Now he lives in between Berlin and Stockholm. He writes poetry, and his poems have been translated into nearly 30 languages. In Arabic, he has published five collections of poetry, the latest being "Adrenaline" in 2017 and "I Brought You a Severed Hand" in 2024. He has also made several poetry films, and his most recent poetry film, Évian, won the Zebra Award for the best poetry film of 2020. Almadhoun collaborated with other poets and artists, and his poetry has been part of work by US artist Jenny Holzer, German musician Blixa Bargeld, and others.
https://www.ghayathalmadhoun.com/

About Cutt Press
CUTT PRESS is a riso-publishing project by Erin Honeycutt that makes artist books, chapbooks, and pamphlets, as well as collaborations with the archives of Hopscotch Reading Room, a bookstore for non-white, queer and diaspora perspectives in Berlin. More about Cutt Press here: @cutt_press

About Warm Bed asbl
Warm Bed asbl is a self-organised group of volunteers that have been hosting people from Palestine in occupied buildings in Brussels. They offer a place to sleep, provide food and help with paperwork and health care. While responding to practical emergencies they also try to facilitate a place of comfort, rest, healing and to cultivate local connections and entanglements for the guests. Warm Bed asbl does not receive any help from the state and as such are dependent on private support from the local community of the city.