Bienvenue pour une présentation et lecture d'extraits du livre de Jill Johnston, JJ, Tartine-moi et autres textes paru aux éditions Brook avec les traducteurices et éditeurices Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor et Rosanna Puyol Boralevi.

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Bienvenue au lancement de Pour des écoles d'art féministes !, un manifeste collectif rassemblant une série de conférences, d'entretiens et d'ateliers féministes intersectionnels. A l'occasion de ce lancement editrice Sophie Lapalu, Michèle Martel et artiste Nino André présenteront ses recherches et lira des extraits de la publication.  

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Join us for the launch of The Ginny Suite (Montez Press, 2024) by Stacy Skolnik, a novel which asks how much—and who—we’re willing to sacrifice in the name of progress. The evening features a reading of The Ginny Suite by Stacy Skolnik alongside readings by Christiane Blattman, Annee Grøtte Viken and Tessel Veneboer.

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Join us for a reading and conversation with Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, a writer and cultural worker whose work focuses on anarchist and dissident publication practices, utopian thresholds in language, and literary expressions of the revolutionary consciousness. Eugene will read from his recent publication Bitterness & Wit (Asymmetry Art Foundation, 2023) followed by a conversation with Chloe Chignell. 

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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.

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Welcome to A time will come where there will be nothing left but ashes, a reading-performance by Brussels based poet, musican and artist Loucka Fiagan. The performance draws together sound, field recordings and two poetic essay-fictions written during a recent trip to the Canary Islands.

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Join us for a presentation of Bricks from the Kiln, a multifarious publishing imprint and irregular journal edited / run by Matthew Stuart and Andrew Walsh-Lister.

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Join us for the book launch of Confidences / Oracle (OCT0, 2024). Ivan Cheng will read passages from his latest theatre novel, which extends the vampire universe established in earlier volumes of the Confidences series.

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Join us for a reading by US based, Syrian-Peruvian writer Farid Matuk. He will read new poems from the forthcoming collection Moon Mirrored Indivisible. The poems explore the aesthetic perversions of syntax and rhyme to search for yet unrealized perversions and purities amidst national, sexual, and ancestral orthodoxies. After the reading he will be in joined in conversation by Brussels based writer Filip Jakab.

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Join us for the launch of To Enter The Forest, a new artist edition by Lucia Palladino published by Nero Editions (2024). On the occasion of the launch Lucia will activate the publication with a performative reading. 

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We are excited to invite you to ...have ...word, our second series of bimonthly reading groups. In this series we will look into the concrete and spectral forces attempting to govern our languages. Through poetry and essay we will dissect the frameworks that shape the way words act in the world and on our bodies. Questioning what it is to have, to hold, to let go, to be transformed by language.

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Welcome to the rile* reading room hosted as part of Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2024. Come and visit us at the festival centre at KVS to browse through our collection of books weaving together themes of the festival. You can find artist books and theory on labor, memory, the kitchen table, performance and choreography.

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