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Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist

Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist introduction 6/6 💙📚📜

Elham Rahmati and Vidha Saumya are co-founders and co-editors of NO NIIN, an independent online monthly magazine at the cusp of art, criticality, and love.

Elham Rahmati is a curator, editor, and visual artist based in Helsinki. Elham's practice is motivated by the disruptive sparks emerging from the intersectional art and culture environs that counter the status quo, aspiring to develop them as springboards for new ways of thinking and working towards hope, liberation, and building transnational, feminist, and anti-imperialist solidarities.

Vidha Saumya lives and works in Helsinki. Her art practice is woven through the notions of exile and utopia and her works question the normatives of aesthetics, gender, taste, academics, or the populist nation-state. She is also a founding member of the Museum of Impossible Forms @museumofimpossibleforms in Finland.

Joining the public event on Wednesday online from Helsinki, Elham and Vidha will give an introduction to NO NIIN Magazine and welcome Mavelinadu Collective, their guest in Mumbai. The collective will talk about the process of founding and running Mavelinadu, a publication house and cultural platform that publishes the work of marginalised caste creators digitally, due to launch their first print publication in mid-2023.

Elham's image by Mina Keykhaie, image of the magazine by Laureline Tilkin-Franssens.

#ElhamRahmati #VidhaSaumya #NONIINMagazine #FrameFinland #TheShowroomLondon #RehearsingHospitalities #ContemporaryArt #PublicArt #Publishing #Print #FundedbyEU #FinnishInstitutes #IslandsOfKinship #TogetherAgain

Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist

Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist introduction 5/6 💙📚📜

Rose Nordin is an artist and graphic designer currently based in the Netherlands as she is a participant at the Jan van Eyck Academy. Through her practice and research, Rose explores the publication as a site of exchange and collaboration, print technologies as tools for union and letterforms as modes of magic. Rose is the initiator of STUART publishing imprint at Iniva @iniva_arts, a member of OOMK @oomkzine art publishing collective and a founder of Rabbits Road Press @rabbitsroadpress community printing studio.

At the public event on the 25th at The Showroom, Rose will be joined by writer and researcher Priya Jay for a conversation on ‘publishing paper prayers’; exploring expansions of the notions of publisher and publics beyond the material realm by drawing upon paper burning as ritual practice. The conversation will be an invitation to reflect on the written fire prayers formatted in the traditional Malay poetic form of the Pantoum. A fire will invite a delicate burning of the texts – a counterpoint to considering books as a violent or destructive act, and a gesture instead towards the transformative potential of paper invocations translated through fire.

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Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist

Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist introduction 4/6 💙📚📜

Minna Haukka is a Finnish artist based in London, who works with mixed media: installation, sculpture, textiles, video, drawing and archiving. Much of her practice is socially engaged with an interest in deconstructing and repurposing the everyday. She was an artist-in-residence at the Feminist Library in London from 2018 to 2020 and is currently the lead coordinator of the Library’s Curatorial Group.

Kristin Luke, based in Wales, is an artist who works across film, sculpture and live events. She is currently an artist advisor on the R&D project Dyffryn Dyfodol (Future Valleys) and has recently opened Oriel Machno, a rural community gallery in North Wales.

Since 2018 Minna Haukka and Kristin Luke have collaborated on The Mobile Feminist Library project – a white van converted into a library.

This Wednesday's public event at The Showroom begins with a tour of The Mobile Feminist Library van. Following this, Minna and Kristin will guide us through their collections selected for Editorial Tables and introduce some of the live processes of maintenance and making that will be unfolding in the space over the coming eight weeks. They will be joined by activist, writer and researcher Magda Oldziejewska who, with a focus on reproductive, LGBTQ+ and migrant rights, will share the histories and working practices of the Feminist Library.

On Saturdays (28 Jan; 11 Feb; 25 Feb; 18 Mar, at 12–6 pm) Minna and Kristin will be working in the exhibition space, maintaining books from The Feminist Library in need of care, with volunteers from the Library.

Images: [1] Mobile Feminist Library, Still I Rise, Arnolfini, Bristol 2019, image by Minna Haukka. [2] Mobile Feminist Library, Companions, Forum Box, Helsinki 2021, image by Anna Autio.

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Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist

Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist introduction 3/6 💙📚📜

Sezgin Boynik is a writer, editor and publisher based in Helsinki. He runs Rab-Rab Press, an independent publishing platform combining experimental art and leftist politics with scholarly rigour and punk attitude. Among the achievements of Rab-Rab are six volumes of journals and several internationally recognized books.

Boynik is also a founding member of @pykepresje Pykë-Presje, an independent platform based in Prizren, Kosovo, working with archives, emphasising local histories of people’s movements, gender emancipation and class consciousness defying the nation-state narratives. Pykë-Presje runs a bookshop, library and gallery in Prizren.

At the public event on Wed 25 January @theshowroomlondon, Boynik introduces Rab-Rab Press and talks about a number of recent, nascent and upcoming Rab-Rab projects and collaborations.

Details on how to attend can be found via link in bio.💫

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Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist

Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist introduction 2/6 💙📚📜

Meet Ruth Beale, whose socially-engaged and collaborative practice explores how culture, governance and social discourse create society, and how society creates culture. They use dialogue, drawing, publishing, performance, film and installations – and themes of sci-fi, pedagogy, education and public space – to examine institutions and grassroots activity, from prisons to common land, to schools and libraries.

Ruth Beale works collaboratively with Amy Feneck as The Alternative School of Economics, and together they founded Rabbits Road Institute Library. Since 2021, Ruth has worked with TACO! @tracey_aint_coming_out in Thamesmead to produce The Hundred Club, a space for children and families to use art and play to explore social justice issues, and publish an annual newspaper.

For the Editorial Tables public programme on Wednesday 25 January, Ruth Beale and children from The Hundred Club share interview videos responding to the question “what would you change?”. On Saturday 4 March, Ruth and The Hundred Club organize a workshop responding to the materials in the show and working on the next WAAAH! newspaper.

Details of how to attend can be found on our website, link in bio.💫

Image: Hydar Dewachi

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Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist

Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities Artist introduction 1/6 💙 📚📜

Minna Henriksson is a visual artist based in Helsinki working with a disparate range of tools including text, drawing, painting, and linocut. Henriksson’s work relates to leftist, anti-racist, and feminist struggles, and aims at highlighting positions of power and oppression. Her works are based on research and often draw from real historical events.

As part of the Editorial Tables public programme on Wednesday 25 January at The Showroom, Minna Henriksson gives a tour of a new iteration of the Kiila Feminist Archive in London. Henriksson’s archive-as-artwork is based on her long-term studies of the early years (~1936–1939) of the artists’ and writers’ association in Finland, Kiila, as they continue to resonate in the present. Henriksson foregrounds intersecting feminist issues at the core of Kiila’s founding principles, which have since been obscured, lost, or actively written out of its histories. As an active current member of Kiila, she continues re-tracing and translating these feminist orientations through the fiction writing of its founding female members.

The event is free but booking is essential. Details on how to attend can be found via link in bio.💫

Image: Roza Boynik

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Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities opens n

Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities opens next week at The Showroom Gallery 🎉

'Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities'

Opening: Tue 24 January 2023, 6.30-8.30pm, no booking required

Public programme:
Wed 25 January, 4-8pm
Thur 26 January, 10am-1pm

A two-day programme of talks, workshops and performative interventions from the contributing artists, designers, publishers and curators in dialogue with invited guests. Free but booking is essential via link in bio.
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'Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities' is an exhibition and public programme bringing together the publishing practices of Ruth Beale, Sezgin Boynik: Rab-Rab Press, Minna Haukka & Kristin Luke: The Mobile Feminist Library, Minna Henriksson, Rose Nordin and Elham Rahmati & Vidha Saumya: NO NIIN magazine.

Co-curated by Lily Hall at The Showroom and Yvonne Billimore & Jussi Koitela at Frame.

Celebrating the production and dissemination of knowledge through the act of independent, experimental and artist-led publishing, with a focus on intersecting feminist and decolonial perspectives, the project involves a range of publishing, archiving, print and distribution practices by artists, curators and art workers; bringing these into relation and dialogue in the lead-up to the realisation of the exhibition at The Showroom.
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Exhibition continues 25 January-18 March 2023. Open Wednesday-Saturday, 12-6pm

'Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities' is a collaborative project between The Showroom, Frame Contemporary Art Finland and the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland.

The collaboration forms part of Together Again programme by the Finnish Academic and Cultural Institutes, towards which artist Minna Henriksson will further contribute in 2023.

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Image: 'Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities', poster and visual identity 2023. Design by Reishabh Kailey.

ID: poster with text detailing the title, location and dates for the upcoming exhibition and events.

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Interested in learning Finnish? 🇫🇮 Institute’s Finnish courses are starting again next week!

The institute offers Finnish language classes for adults, ranging from beginners to advanced levels on weekday evenings and Saturdays. You can attend the classes either in-person or online.

Check the link in our bio for more info and registration! ✨

📢 New collab between @theshowroomlondon, @frame

📢 New collab between @theshowroomlondon, @frame_finland & the Institute opens in London in January!

Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities
at The Showroom, London
Preview: Tuesday 24 January 2023, 6.30–8.30 pm
Continues 25 January–18 March 2023
Open Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6 pm

Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities is an exhibition and public programme bringing together the publishing practices of Ruth Beale, Sezgin Boynik (Rab-Rab Press), Minna Haukka & Kristin Luke (The Mobile Feminist Library), Minna Henriksson, Rose Nordin, and Elham Rahmati & Vidha Saumya (NO NIIN magazine).

Editorial Tables celebrates independent, experimental and artist-led publishing, with a focus on intersecting feminist and decolonial perspectives. Check the link-in-bio for more info.

The collaboration forms part of The Showroom’s programme in 2023; Rehearsing Hospitalities, Frame’s public programme for 2019–2023; and Together Again, an international festival organised by the Finnish Academic & Cultural Institutes. The exhibition and public programme are co-curated by Lily Hall at The Showroom and Yvonne Billimore & Jussi Koitela at Frame.

This is the first in a series of international collaborations in the final year of Rehearsing Hospitalities working with The Showroom (London), UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists’ Society) (Oslo), Vera List Center for Art & Politics (New York), Finnish Cultural Institute in New York & Finnish Institute in the UK + Ireland. Part of the EU-funded project Islands of Kinship: A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions, more details will be announced in January.

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Image: Minna Henriksson, Lentolehtiset / Leaflets (after Elvi Sinervo, Runo Sörnäisistä, p. 76-77).