FRIDAY 5th JUNE / Auditorium
14:30-15:00
(reading)
Speaker: Tine Melzer
(info TBA)
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15:10-15:40
(talk)
Speaker: SHELTER PRESS ( Bartolomé Sanson & Félicia Atkinson)
Description:
Shelter Press is a French record label / publishing platform founded in 2012 by Bartolomé Sanson and Félicia Atkinson, building up dialogues between contemporary art, poetry and experimental music through printed publications and records.
Distributed worldwide by Secretly.
Starting September 2021, Shelter Press is also carrying and collaborating on the releases of the Ideologic Organ, Recollection GRM and Portraits GRM labels.
https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/
Shelter Press is invited to PUBLICS COUPLING eighth exhibition featuring selected publications by Semiotext(e) & Shelter Press, running alongside the Coupling with Félicia Atkinson & Aino Lintunen, opening on May 12 and running until June 17.
https://www.publics.fi/calendar/coupling-6/
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15:50-16:20
(Book launch)
Presentation Title: Book Launch: Radical Runosong
Speakers: Vaim Sarv and Ott Kagovere
Description:
OPA! Publishing is proud to launch the second edition of Vaim Sarv's book "Radical Runosong: Decolonizing Self and Tradition". The book is a critical celebration of the oral poetic tradition of runosong which has been practiced for centuries by Baltic Finnic peoples throughout the region. Featuring conversations with singers and folklorists, the compiled texts enact a fugitive search for historical consciousness by drawing upon the wealth of alternative vocal and somatic practices embedded in runosong.
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16:30-16:50
(Talk + Performance)
Presentation Title: Suck Green and See 2026: New Issues + Puppet Café
Speaker: OT
Description:
Suck Green and See is a zine series that brings together nature-based research, stories, and artworks inspired by the living world. Established in 2021, the project continues to explore connections between ecology, creativity, and narrative.
In 2026, New issues 08 and 09 released: one focusing on puppets in the forest, and the other exploring family methodologies. These new editions expand the series’ engagement with storytelling, environment, and experimental practices.
SATURDAY 6th JUNE / Auditorium
13:50-14:20
(Screening + Q&A)
Title: Valokuvat, joita ei otettu / Photographs Not Taken
Animated documentary film
Duration: 11'22"
Dialogue: Finnish and Swedish with subtitles in English
Description:
The animated documentary film Photographs Not Taken is based on the lives of the photographer Julia Widgrén (1842-1917), and the women of her family. The work sheds light on Julia Widgrén's background as a second generation illegitimate child and the development of women's social status at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The animation also explores the invisible in history: shame, power relations and insecurity in 19th century Finland.
The film depicts real, or possible, events in the lives of its protagonists from the early days of photography. The work draws attention to the possibility of giving a dimension to oblivion and absence, to the representation of the invisible. It takes a stand on questions of the representation of information at the interfaces of memory and historiography. The themes of the work lead to the history of photography, the meaning of the image, femininity and the encounter between two times.
Hanneriina Moisseinen is a graphic novel artist and animation director with a background in fine art. She has been awarded several times for her work. Moisseinen has directed three animated films and published five graphic novel books, which have been translated to various languages. Currently she is working on her PhD at Academy of Fine Arts, at Uniarts Helsinki.
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14:30-15:00
(Talk)
Presentation Title: An intro to the first feminist publication in Norway: Forloren Skildpadde 1937
Speaker: Julie Asplund
Description:
Forloren Skildpadde is Norways first feminist publication, started by the icon Camilla Collett and her best friend, Emilie Diriks, in 1837. In 2023 Asplund started the project up again as part of her Masters Thesis at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and later on Emma Aars joined. Together, they work with the written and visual content of what a text can be, in all the Scandinavian languages.
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15:10-15:40
(Book Launch)
Presentation Title: Launch of 'Catalog: collected'
Speaker: Lieven Lahaye
Description:
Catalog is a serial publication about cataloging, written by Lieven Lahaye and designed by Ott Metusala. This book collects the different Catalog signatures, published since 2020. These were originally published as support structures for exhibitions, events and talks. It’s a book that started from one interest (the near invisibility of writer Duncan Smith) and then followed many different tangents until it ended up somewhere… miscellaneous.
With contributions by Phil Baber, Carlo Canún, Kasia Fudakowski, Annie Goodner, Meg Miller, Noah Emanuel Morrison, Joke Robaard, Duncan Smith and Anu Vahtra. With material from the archives of Kathy Acker, Sylvère Lotringer, Terrence Sellers, Semiotext(e), IISG,
Published by Catalog Publishing in 2026
Amsterdam – Brussels – Tallinn
ISBN 978-9916-4-3801-5
cataloging.xyz
Lieven Lahaye is an artist, writer and publisher, working between Amsterdam, Brussels and Tallinn (where he teaches at the Estonian Academy of Arts). Since 2016, he has written and published Catalog, a serial publication about cataloging.
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15:50-16:20
(Talk)
Presentation Title: What can independent publishers today learn about typography and distribution from the illegal socialist presses of the early twentieth century?
Speaker: Sezgin Boynik/Rab-Rab Press
Description:
By looking at examples of brave and radical publishers who smuggled socialist literature in the Sami language to Kirkenes, ran illegal workers' presses in Yiddish in Vilnius, organised shadow Marxist libraries in madrasas in Skopje, and operated an underground printing house in Chișinău, Sezgin Boynik will discuss how these emancipatory and internationalist publishing projects from peripheries revolutionised printing techniques.
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16:30-17:00
(Reading, Reprint)
Presentation Title: Aquatic Encounters
Speaker: Anastasia (A) Alevtin, Tuukka Kaila (Rooftop Press)
Description:
A brackish reading to celebrate the reprint of a glossary of hydrofeminisms. Read by co-editor Anastasia (A) Alevtin and introduced by publisher Tuukka Kaila (Rooftop Press).
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