This workshop explores independent publishing and radical print as tools for dismantling personal authorship and fostering collective idea-sharing. Participants will actively contribute to a collaborative publication, created as a live-printed paper scroll. Fragments of this scroll will be given to each participant to take home.
Moderated by M Lissoni, founder of STIGMATA, the workshop is divided into two parts:
(1) SHARING: A brief presentation and discussion on collective publishing practices, exploring shared ownership and the historical and spiritual aspects of printed texts.
(2) OFFERING: Participants submit images and texts (e.g., found imagery, book excerpts, personal writings) to STIGMATA’s live digital document. These contributions will be edited and printed in real-time as part of a continuous scroll. During the printing process, participants can discuss and observe the publication taking shape. Each participant will leave with a piece of the scroll, representing shared authorship.
Materials Provided
Specialist paper and thermal printer.
Outcomes
A live-printed collective publication, with fragments distributed to each participant.
What to bring
Images, text, or research to share with the group. Have digital files ready for upload to a collective Google Doc
M Lissoni is a London-based transdisciplinary artist. Their research-based practice focuses on the sacred as a tool to transcend personal authorship and embody collective ritual. Their work ponders issues of memory, cultural erasure, gender and mourning as a way of documenting the in-between. Drawing on fragments of objects, visual cultures, and traces of oral histories, they engage in decolonial forms of archiving the body, transforming these materials into installations, sculptures, prints, text, and books.
M is the founder of STIGMATA, an independent publishing and curatorial platform, operating at the intersection of print, moving-image and public programming. STIGMATA approaches independent publishing as both a collaborative practice of resistance and a medium for transcultural dialogue.
Social media handles
@s.t.i.g.m.a.t.a @__trances