Miss Read 2025: Conceptual Poetics Day
The annual Conceptual Poetics Day on Saturday, June 14, explores the border between visual art and literature. Writer Clara Obligado reads from all that grows: nature and writing, weaving together personal memoir, botanical observations, and reflections on displacement, in conversation with Verónica Stedile Luna (EME Ediciones). A dual book launch by Textem Verlag and Ugly Duckling Presse celebrates Mirtha Dermisache (1940–2012), a trailblazing figure in artists’ books whose radical approach to writing and circulation challenges conventional reading practices. Jhen Chen and Emily Shin-Jie Lee of Limestone Books introduce the “Cross-border Publishing Co-op,” an experimental research initiative building a publishing alliance across Europe and Asia. Focused on non-Western perspectives, it aims to connect small-scale local hubs across borders. Editors Gigi Argyropoulou and Olga Schubert of Ecologies of Instituting and philosopher Bernd Scherer explore how artists, cultural workers, and organizers create alternative institutional ecologies. Alessandro Ludovico presents Tactical Publishing, rethinking the binary of print and digital publishing and advocating for a new ecology of publishing based on the stimulation of our senses, the role of software in the publishing infrastructure, and the importance of archives.