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A look back at the Mi-Monstre Mi-Livre residency at Aperto

© Esmire & Erwan
© Esmire & Erwan

The Mi-Monstre Mi-Livre residency project at Aperto is the result of a collaboration between the Parisian bookshop and publishing house After 8 Books and its branch Publication Studio Paris, and two Vilnius-based structures, the graphic design studio and publishing house Ariel Ink and the bookshop Six Chairs Books.

Developed as part of the Lithuanian Season in France, Mi-Monstre Mi-Livre consists of a series of writing and publishing workshops organised as part of a residency in the Aperto space at the Pernod Ricard Foundation, plus a programme of events, lectures and screenings.

Mi-Monstre Mi-Livre will create a concrete link between the artistic and publishing scenes of the two cities: numerous editions and light publications will be produced with the guest artists over the course of the project, and distributed in a number of venues in Paris and Vilnius.

The residents :

Marek Voida - Graphic designer and printer, Marek Voida is the director of Ariel Ink, a studio based within a cooperative of artists' studios in Vilnius: Sodas2123.

Justina Zubaitė-Bundzė - Curator and director of the public programmes department at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, founder of the art bookshop and publishing house ‘Six Chairs Books’, is also a writer.

Gaile Pranckunaite - Graphic designer and typographer based in Vilnius, Lithuania, whose work focuses on an experimental vision of typography.

Benjamin Thorel - Art critic, curator, editor, co-founder of After 8 Books and Publication Studio Paris.

Théo Robine-Langlois - Artist and writer. Co-founder of After 8 Books and Publication Studio Paris, he is also a correspondent for the webradio *DUUU.

15-16/11/2024 Mano Pasakeles - Graphic design, publishing and printing workshop with Émilie Ferrat & Sophie Rentien Lando (Espace Ness)

The Mano Pasakėlės workshop was inspired by the magical stories of Žemaitė, a Lithuanian author who gave a voice to the weakest. Each 16-page publication will contain a story born of the Mi-monstre Mi-livre workshops, interweaving stories, images and collective memory. The whole thing will take shape in a unique edition, an echo of a past that still resonates. Žemaitė, with her simple yet powerful writing, has shed light on the shadows of society, recounting poverty, resistance and the strength of women.

Espace Ness is a graphic design studio founded by Émilie Ferrat, Julie Héneault and Sophie Rentien Lando, and supported by the publishing platform Ness Books. The studio collaborates with numerous institutions and publishing houses and organises events in Paris, such as book launches, readings and exhibitions.

Photo © Esmire & Erwan