Post-Platform Digital Publishing Toolkit
2024–2025
Post-Platform Digital Publishing Toolkit is an ongoing project exploring how to overcome the limitations of digital publishing today, on social media or elsewhere online, and aims to advocate self-hosting methods for artists and artists' book publishers. For updates, subscribe to our newsletter on our about page.
Image: Fadi Houmani
Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair 2024
We are participating in Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair 2024 and presenting our upcoming publication, 'Communism Reader,' featuring different contributions at The Classroom.
Workshop Printing as Resistance
25 February 2024
We co-organized the printing and zine-making workshop 'Printing as Resistance!' with Chen Yifei and ROKU, hosted by Alice Kahei Yu at Prenzlauer Studio, Berlin.
Eine Alman Stadt Installation at Trafohaus
January–June 2024
Trafohaus in Kassel, a publishing platform housed in an old electrical substation, showcased the book 'Eine Alman Stadt' by Ipek Burçak alongside two billboards carrying photographs from the book in the front view; an Einfamilienhaus (typical German single-family house) with its front garden, and in the side view, Halitplatz with the memorial of Halit Yozgat—about 1 km far from the location of Trafohaus—who was murdered by the neo-Nazi group NSU in 2007.
How to Book in Berlin
We contributed to the publication 'How to Book in Berlin' edited by Jae Kyung Kim and Anna Schanowski, published by einBuch.haus and Small Editions in 2023.
'How to Book in Berlin' is a comprehensive guide to bookmaking and publishing, offering insights we wished we had when we were starting out. It includes information on research methods, funding strategies, production techniques, and distribution approaches, all underpinned by the perspectives and advice of experienced publishers.
At Miss Read 2023, we were part of the talk 'How to Book in Berlin' at HKW Berlin, where we discussed different aspects of making books, community, and making books as artists.
Poles of Inaccessibility
Pole der Unzugänglichkeit at Galerie im Turm
20 July–17 September 2023
Eren Ileri's poster work 'Poles of Inaccessibility' was part of the same-named exhibition curated by Johanna Janßen at Galerie im Turm, Berlin. Ada Karayel designed the A1-sized poster. Copies are available in our shop section.
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Autobahn, Meteoriten, Höhlen, Männerphantasien, Documenta 2
Bibliothek Andreas Züst Journal Contribution
As part of our artist residency in November 2021 at Andreas Züst Library in St. Anton, Switzerland, we made a text contribution to their online journal.
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Aşina Projesi
2021–2022, Ankara
https://asinaprojesi.art
Aşina is an artist book publication and distribution project supporting 6 artists' publications from Turkey. At Aşina, we work as consultants throughout the making and distributing process of the selected publications.
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Idea Poll, Miss Read
2021, Berlin
http://missread.com/ideapoll/
Idea Poll was published by Miss Read, featuring us, among many other independent publishers, some ideas about our publishing practice and more, as a response to the online query Miss Read organized.
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Well Gedacht Publishing Kiosk at Ortstermin 2021
28–29 August 2021, Johanniskirche Moabit
https://www.gallerytalk.net/kunstfestival-ortstermin-21-reset/
Well Gedacht Publishing Kiosk was a temporary nomadic installation for Ortstermin 2021 at the arcades of the Johanniskirche in Moabit, Berlin. At the Kiosk, the visitors could have a look at W.G.P. publications and download a free-of-charge copy of our ePub zine via a QR code displayed on the Kiosk's e-ink display.
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Book Launch: The View From "No Man's Land" by Firas Shehadeh
16 January 2021, Twitch
We hosted an irregular radio show on Istanbul-based Root Radio, in rotation with Well Gedacht records. We did readings and played sound works and music.
Well Gedacht Publishing | Root Radio 6 December 2020
This episode features a reading of “Oh be dünya varmış / What a relief, there is the world” by Ayfer Kayabıyık, sound work/song “Tiny Shoes” by Mira Thompson, songs from Saadet Türköz’s album “Urumchi” from 2006, alongside other cut-ups and songs.
Well Gedacht Publishing | Root Radio 6 September 2020
A mix featuring tracks from Autistic Turn Mini-CD which is based on The Autistic Turn book and other texts read by Andara Shastika, with quotes on neurodiversity.
Well Gedacht Publishing | Root Radio 2 August 2020
This episode of Well Gedacht Publishing Radio represents the first attempt at our ongoing project on travel, including readings of/by others, accompanied by our texts written for this project, as well as music related to travel and various transportation modes.