One munday evening, we were talking about random topics then ended up asking what publishing really is?
chatty, messy, sticky, tsss...
A diary from Habitat (Tredozio, IT), August 2022
"Yesterday I published something. Ah wait, not 'I', I mean 'we'. I was with 11 other people and we made our own little book then bound everything together. Pfff... it was not easy to bind all the different pieces into one, because everyone made various contents with different intentions. We were so chatty thus it was chaotic. But we persistently and stubbornly stayed together. In the end, what we created was a heavy-fat-ugly-cute book thingy."
"3, 2, 1, Yayyyy! We
cheered and celebrated our collaborative Buchimgae (Korean pancake)
cooking. Sharing one Buchimage altogether, we tore it into pieces.
It was GOOD. The pancake batter was a glue, as it hugged all the
ingredients. Looking back, cooking was also a glue, because we
became closer in the end. Tssss... the sizzle, the chatty and the
festive sounds still lingers in my ears..."
Behind scenes and process
Procedure (step-by-step):
a: Relay book binding (chae nami also chose tools)
a-1) introduce what we're going to do; part one relay book binding
(10-15m)
Start from our title and unpack the (background) story of the workshop
idea. Let participants know that the workshop will recorded as
soundscape and ask if they're okay with it.
a-2) Play around with tools (15m)
Before get into the binding session, participants have 15 minutes to
play around with the prepared tools. They can touch and use a few of
them and will have the sense of materiality. Participants sit around a
table and each of them has a specific role. (e.g. Person A cuts
papers, person B punches holes, person C tapes, person D folds, etc).
Through the relayed tasks, they will make collaborative
publication(s). During the session, they will share their t
If we think of the word publishing, we're prone to be stuck with an idea of working on some documents in Adobe applications, then print, then glue.
BUT it could be more than this..
The forms of actions should be various...
All-together!
Hmmm indeed...we tend to 'bind' in the end of the book making.
One
publication is born when every single different page gets glued
together. Oh wait, glue?
Can Buchimgae
Buchimage is Korean pancake. be a
publication, involving with the glue? When making the pancake, all
the different ingredients gets mingled and binded through the
batter!
Also in Korea, we share Buchimgae together! We don't usually have one pancake per person. We tear the hot pancake together,using chopsticks..! That's the unique beauty of Buchimgae.
What if we create a moment of collective book binding?
We
could also host a small Buchimgae cooking session! In Korea we
actually say Buchimage one/two/three/.. page when counting the
number of it. Just like a book..! This could be another format of
the (book) binding.
Aha, everyone makes their own pages.
Then bind them in a relay format?!
Maybe it would have been nicer if we have the participants to sit in mixed composition.
Some participants were already close eacch other and mainly spoke in Italian in their own group.