Aperto: Design, publishing & printing workshop with Émilie Ferrat et Sophie Rentien Lando (Espace Ness)
As part of the residency "Mi-Monstre Mi-Livre" (Half monster, half book) : After 8 Books / Publication studio (Paris) with Ariel Ink & Six Chairs Books (Vilnius).
Free with reservation: [email protected]
Mano Pasakėlės
Design, publishing & printing workshop
with Émilie Ferrat et Sophie Rentien Lando (Espace Ness)
November 15, from 11AM to 5PM and November 16, from 11AM to 3:30PM
Aperto project space
10 people maximum
Languages: French / English
The workshop Mano Pasakėlės is based on the eponymous collection of tales by Lithuanian writer Žemaitė (Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė’s pen name). Published in 1963, it takes the form of a box with seven 16-page, 13,3 x 10,8 cm signatures, each containing a different tale. We want to quote this editorial method and compile a collection of 16-page pamphlets: each publication will tell a tale, its narration evolving throughout the pages. Those tales will be created from the results of the various workshops taking place during the project Mi-Monstre Mi-Livre. It will be possible to add other visual elements or new texts found on-site. During the second day, this collection of tales will be printed and stapled, to make 16-page booklets that together will form the collective edition titled, Mano Pasakėlės.
Žemaitė (1845–1921) was a Lithuanian/Samogitian writer, democrat and educator. Born to impoverished gentry, she became one of the major participants in the Lithuanian National Revival. She was a prolific writer who produced throughout her life about 354 tales, novelettes, essays, plays, stories, as a number of articles and correspondence. Žemaitė wrote about peasants in a vernacular style that closely resembled the language spoken by them; by describing poverty, moral indecency and its effects on interpersonal and family relations, Žemaitė unravelled widespread violence against women, vulnerability of minors and the overall patriarchal nature of society at the time. She strongly supported the uprising of 1863, and a few years later married an active participant of the insurrection. For the next twenty years, Žemaitė worked on their farm, raised their children, kept on writing and battled poverty.
The workshop is free on reservation : [email protected]
Espace Ness is a graphic design studio founded by Émilie Ferrat, Julie Héneault and Sophie Rentien Lando, that also operates as the publishing house Ness books. Espace Ness works with many institutions and other publishing structures, while hosting events – book launches, readings, exhibitions… – in their space in Paris. Émilie Ferrat and Julie Héneault also teach graphic design and publishing in art schools in France and Europe.
