Events

Join us for the launch of Exocapitalism – Economies with absolutely no limits (becoming press 2025), with authors Roberto Alonso Trillo and Marek Poliks. Exocapitalism is a rigorous account of the dynamics of capitalism today through an in-depth exposition of software, speculative finance, and the highest scales of arbitrage.

Join us for the launch of Blackout by Yann Chateigné Tytelman, translated from french by Clem Clement and published by Les Fugitives 2025. Neither diary, nor essay, nor short story, Blackout is a weaving, a braid made from lines of silence. Through fragments it tells a story of a dispossession, of an entry into darkness. After the reading Yann will be joined by Anne-Claire Schmitz to discuss the book and its translation. 

Join us for the launch of MAKAN #3 / Synthetic Agencies. The journal, published by Think Tanger, explores themes of control, resistance and the architectures of the unseen. We will be joined by MAKAN's editor-in-chief Ali T. As’ad and publication director Hicham Bouzid alongside Fehras Publishing Practices and Saba Innab and Nuha Innab from OPPA Research Architecture. The event was made possible through the collaboration of Tashattot Collective.

Welcome to the launch of 45-120, a bilingual anthology of poetry edited by Juf project and published by Caniche editorial, 2025. The publication brings together the work of eighteen contemporary poets to reflect on how political, social, sexual, racial, class, and accessibility factors shape our notions of personal space. We will be joined by editors Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra for a reading and presentation.

You—and a book of your choice—are warmly invited to join the social text* reading group. For this next edition of social text* we encourage you to bring the book you’ve been busy with all summer or the book on your summer reading list that you didn’t get to finish. Curious to know what kept you reading over hot days, and what didn’t make it to the beach.

Join us for the launch of Répondeur (Occasional Papers, 2025) by Slow Reading Club. With readings by Slow Reading Club, Will Holder, and Alicja Melzacka. Joined by Daniel Dariel on drums.

We’re excited to welcome you for a performance by artist Chipo Chipaziwa. She will present Slipping Into Slipping Away, a performance that deepens her ongoing investigation into the nuances of archiving performance art. The evening also celebrates the launch of her recent artist book My Mother, My Home (Archive Books, 2024).

Join us for an evening of readings and performances to celebrate the launch of We Circle Through The Night and Are Consumed by Fire edited by Simon Asencio and Pauline Hatzigeorgiou and published by SB34. The publication acts as a postscriptium to Simon Asencio’s exhibition Through The Valley of The Nest of Spiders at SB34—The Pool in Brussels, continuing its intertextual exploration of Samuel R. Delany’s sci-fi sexutopia through annotation, performance, and artistic collaboration.

We are delighted to welcome poet and activist Fariha Róisín to read from her most recent book of poems Survival Takes a Wild Imagination. Through the collection Róisín prays, claws, and scratches her way out of the grips of generational trauma on the search for the freedom her mother never received and the kindness she couldn’t give. 

Join us for a summer reading group taking place on Tuesday evenings in July. Over the three sessions we will read through the wildly poetic and radically political Lesbian Peoples: materials for a dictionary written by Monique Wittig and Sandie Zeig in 1976. The reading will be held in english, french editions will be available. No prior study or reading necessary. 

Social text* is a collective practice that attempts to facilitate reading with and through pleasure, moving from conversational modalities toward experimental modes of poetry-making. Participants are encouraged to bring their own books, especially those they find difficult or resistant. Through cyclic phases of aleatory reading, writing, and discussion, we will gain new access to the text as social fields.

Join us for a reading by poet Bahaar Ahsan and artist Stefa Govaart. Stefa will read from letters and poems under the title “psalms/Duplicity”, using various intra-English translations of the psalms of the Old Testament as tools for language acquisition. Bahaar will read poems from a first full-length manuscript that deals with metonymy and love.