The Book Before Printing \; \;\n
\n Workshop wit
h Erin Honeycutt / Cutt Press \; \;
Please note: If you'd like to participate in the workshop we kindly ask you to send an email to jonas.vonlenthe@fhnw.ch with a short rationale outlining your background a nd motivation to participate. Accepted participants will be informed by Oc tober 5.
\nThe index of The Book Before Printing (1982) will guide a speculative history of book culture\, the origins of writing\, and author ship. We will use this index as an inventory of forms to select from\, arr ange\, and press into new writing. Working through categories like scribe \, seal\, colophon\, and palimpsest\, participants will build texts that b orrow the index's own logic of classification while unsettling it. What do es it mean to write "after" a form rather than as its sole originator\, fo llowing Sezgin Boynik's argument that bibliography is not a neutral record but a collectivizing\, politically charged act. \;
\nErin Honey
cutt is a writer and bookmaker based in Berlin\, where they run CUTT PRESS
. They have taught across art and writing\, including Video Art at the Ice
land University of the Arts and the "Radical Publishing" seminar at the Ud
K Berlin. They are the author of the poetry chapbook Dear Enheduanna (2025
\, Ugly Duckling Presse) and the prose and poetry collection Night School
(2026\, MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE)\, as well as numerous self-published ephemera.\n
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\n CUTT PRESS is a publishing project founded in 2020\, growin
g out of a bookselling practice at Hopscotch Reading Room\, a Berlin books
tore for queer and anticolonial perspectives. The press is curious about b
ootlegging aesthetics\, the materiality of writing\, and an ongoing dialog
ue with its tools.
The workshop is part of Non-Public Publics\, a series of events organized by Make/Sense Research and the Institute Experi mental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) at FHNW Basel\, and is embedded in the program of the MESH festival 2026. \;
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