15:00 -17.30 PM:
Boek Klup #5
We are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Mbuchi: Turtle Words. On Forbidden Mother Tongues, a book by Eva Posas and to introduce you to our new Publisher in Residence Loraine Furter!!
Mbuchi: Turtle Words. On Forbidden Mother Tongues, delves into Eva’s long-term research on language, mother tongues and decolonial transmission practices through different generations and geographies.
The book explores in seven chapters the human as a turtle, the turtle as a human and the environment that intertwines Binnizá cosmologies with poetry, dreams, lullabies, migration policies, children books, family wounds, language resistance and its modes of becoming in this epistolary narrative.
Eva invited artist Valentina Jager to join this adventure with translation as an artistic practice and artist Alan Sierra, accompanies with his illustrations as a lyrical interpretation of the reading.
Design by Dongyoung Lee, printed and published by PrintRoom
Join us for a festive reading of Mbuchi: Turtle Words. On Forbidden Mother Tongues and conversation in the warmth of chocolate oaxaqueño
Let us introduce to you: Loraine Furter! who dreams of a publishing project as a liant (“binding agent” in cooking and chemistry) across difference — books that speak to divergent sensibilities, that can bring together the very old and the very young, that make you want to learn minored languages, alliances between typographers and illiterates, … a laboratory to imagine a publishing shelter for projects that are hard to find in regular bookshelves and that can circulate in surprising ways ♥
At PrintRoom, Loraine hopes to engage in conversations with neighbouring local projects and their communities, share experiences and desires, dive into PrintRoom’s publications archive and organise book-making and binding workshops.If you recognize yourself (or a friend) in this desire for a type of book that is hard to find in regular bookshelves, please get in touch with us.
More information
Eva Posas is a curator, writer, and editor living between Mexico and the Netherlands. Her work addresses the politics of language, (forgotten) identities, and intergenerational memory as a form of aesthetic reflection at the crossroads of her Binnizá heritage.
Loraine Furter is a Brussels-based graphic designer and researcher interested in storytelling and empowerment through different forms of publishing.In the next months, Loraine will frequently be at PrintRoom for research, workshops, presentations and to meet people. Please get in touch if you’d like to meet her or join parts of the programme.