28.04.2024, 16:00—17:00
Bebe Books
Welcome on the 28th of April for the artist talk by Bebe Books, our current collective-in-residence. Their presentation at 4 pm will dive in various projects by the queer publishing powerhouse Bebe Books. The event frames within Let’s Talk Leuven, a platform for artist talks in Leuven, co-organised by STUK, SLAC, Museum M, Bac Art Lab and Cas-co.
Before and after Bebe’s presentation, you can attend the second day of the public programme ‘Back-to-back: perspectives on artists’ writing and publishing’, a weekend full of performances, talks, workshops and readings, curated by curator-in-residence Alicja Melzacka. The exhibition by artist-in-residence Oya will also be on view.
Bebe Books is an ongoing collective experiment that operates through shared agency in creative labor, care and friendship in the field of communication design and publishing. By working together, we resist the modern myth of a singular heroic designer — what Ursula K. Le Guin referred to as“the narrative of the arrow or spear.” We consider ourselves as a queer collective not merely as a statement of identity, but as that of methodology. Besides the fact that the majority of our constituents are gender-non-conforming, we use our creative capacity and resources to design a context – be it a book, a gay bar, a temple, or a political campaign – where diverse marginalized experiences and voices can be represented.
Bebe Books has been a resident at Kunstencentrum Viernulvier since September 2021 and is a resident at Netwerk Aalst since 2023.