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CONCEPTUAL POETICS DAY 2026
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Miss Read Stage
silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstrasse 35
13347 Berlin
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PROGRAM
10:00 – 11:45 * FOCUS Åse Eg Jørgensen, Jesper Fabricius (Pist Protta/Space Poetry), Sezgin Boynik (Rab-Rab Press), Cecilia Grönberg, Jonas (J) Magnusson (OEI Magazine), moderated by Michalis Pichler
Bibliodiversity in Magazines
What does it mean for a magazine to resist uniformity: in form, politics, and memory? This panel brings together editors of three landmark independent art publications who, alongside their magazines, each run their own book publishing operations. Together they discuss bibliodiversity as both aesthetic practice and critical stance.
Since 1981, the Danish art magazine Pist Protta (published by Space Poetry) has treated the magazine itself as an experimental medium - with every issue reinventing its size, layout, paper quality, printing method, and graphic effects in an attempt to create each number as an original expression, even as a work of art in its own right.
OEI Magazine, founded in Stockholm in 1999 and now with over 100 issues, is dedicated to extra-disciplinary spaces and de-disciplinizing moments - experimental forms of thinking, montages of art, poetry, philosophy, and documents; critical investigations and counter-historiographies. Its range consistently recovers overlooked positions from the margins of art history.
Rab-Rab: Journal for Political and Formal Inquiries in Art, initiated in 2014 and run by Sezgin Boynik out of Helsinki, combines experimental artistic forms with leftist politics and scholarly rigour. Its issues pursue a "remembering as future" approach, recovering and reactivating forgotten figures and movements - from Russian Formalism and concrete poetry to militant aesthetics.
12:00 – 13:45 * FOCUS Carlos Soto Román (DAAD Artist-in-Residence), Verónica Stedile Luna (ICI Berlin, UNLP, EME Madriguera), Angelica Stathopoulos (ICI Berlin), moderated by Rebekah Smith (Err Editions, Ugly Duckling Presse)
Discussion and workshop
Disrupting Forms: Personal Dictionaries and Documentary Poetics
On the occasion of the publication of Verónica Stedile Luna’s Personal Vocabulary of Publishing, Err Editions opens a conversation between author, publisher Rebekah Smith, and writers Carlos Soto Román and Angelica Stathopoulos - thinking through personal dictionaries and ruptures of book forms across their respective practices. The discussion is followed by a hands-on workshop exploring the proposition that there are as many languages as there are desires.
Workshop held in English and Spanish. Materials: old or discarded dictionaries, paper, scissors, glue, pencils. Participants are welcome to bring their own.
14:00 – 14:45 * FOCUS Thomas Geiger (Mark Pezinger Books)
Rotting Sounds: Subject to Inevitable Erosion
At the center of the research project Rotting Sounds at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna is the decay of digital music: our MP3 and WAV files are, inevitably, subject to gradual deterioration. The researchers understand this "rotting" not merely as loss, but as the emergence of a new, chance-driven aesthetic - where decay itself becomes composition.
Over the course of three years, the team collected all of their waste - from yogurt cups to discarded hard drives - which was then shredded and turned into paper. This process became the basis for a collaboration with graphic designer Astrid Seme and Mark Pezinger Books as a publisher. The amount of collected waste determined the print run: just 20 copies. In this way, the book itself becomes an experimental field - research that is not only readable, but physically tangible through its uneven, resistant surface. It challenges standardized mass production and affirms the value of singular, experimental forms of knowledge-making.
15:00 – 15:45 Kyle Booten (dispersed holdings), David Richardson (dispersed holdings)
Booten Up: A GYMS Membership Trial
Been feeling a bit sluggish lately? Is your CPU lagging? We’ve got just the thing: a reading performance with computational poet Kyle Booten. Booten will conduct a live "workout" from his 2025 dispersed holdings title, GYMS: at once a book of poems and an experimental lab notebook which records the results of nine computational "gyms," each intended to challenge and strengthen a particular aspect of the subject’s poetic musculature.
Press editor David Richardson will introduce Kyle Booten, and serve as coach and spotter.
16:00 – 16:45 * FOCUS Kenneth Ting-Yu Lin (Nomad Papaya Books)
Iconography of Tropical Plants in Taiwan Vol. VII
The Iconography of Tropical Plants in Taiwan (Vol. 1–6) by Kudo Yakuro, completed in 1943, is a comprehensive visual and textual documentation of tropical plants photographed at the Taipei Botanical Garden during the late Japanese colonial period. Its author - a forestry engineer at the Forestry Bureau - left no biographical trace beyond the work itself, which took 14 years to complete.
Vol. VII traces back the genesis of this 6 volume publication, with its history of various editions and publishers. The artist’s book The Iconography of Tropical Plants of Taiwan Vol. VII serve as a "shadow" of the original copy and explores the question on traces - the traces of antiquarian books (bibliology), the traces of time (color and stains), and the traces of colonialism in East Asia - with the ambiguous love towards plants and nature, and the colonized places.
17:00 – 17:45 * FOCUS Daniel Falb, organized by Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature (CfL)
Earth Spirits: Notations on AI Animism
Many people are animists towards AI. At the same time, the development of AI is a process of real-animation, in which infrastructures and earth matter assume qualities of aliveness. A fragment in the ethnography of the present, the poems and materials of Daniel Falb’s Earth Spirits: Notations on AI Animism (Textem, 2026) analyze the interactions and linguistic forms that arise when people enter into intimate exchanges with AI chatbots: seeking closeness, advice, and comfort. At the same time, they trace how AI systems are connected to the entire planet through extractivism, energy consumption, and intellectual theft from the world population, thereby animating global exploitative relationships.
Daniel Falb will read from his book and discuss some of its key concepts.
18:00 – 18:45 * FOCUS Sezgin Boynik (Rab-Rab Press)
Bibliography with Attitude
According to Sezgin Boynik, bibliography - the historical materialist study of printed matter - is an inherently democratic and egalitarian way of presenting knowledge. In this talk, Boynik argues that militant counter-bibliographies offer powerful tools to connect different political struggles and collectivize knowledge, challenging the liberal notion of objective bibliography. Drawing examples from the anti-fascist exile libraries of Willi Münzenberg in Paris, the publications of the Palestine Research Center in Beirut, and the dissident bibliophiles of Kosovo, Boynik will introduce counter-bibliography as a radical break from institutional stagnation. The talk of Boynik will expand on his recent essay "Bibliography with Attitude" published online in What is Critical Publishing?