"Motxilla impremta", © Dani Zelko
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Workshop with the RWM Working Group and Dani Zelko
From Listening to Writing
Community meetings and urgent editions
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Listening processes, work on orality and community self-publishing.
The aim of this session is to support the research processes and collective conversations of the RWM Working Group concerning a range of issues that inform and affect our practice, as well as artistic research processes. Issues that also form part of the themes that regularly come up in conversations and recordings on Ràdio Web MACBA, with the aim of equipping ourselves with collective tools to think critically, undo knee-jerk responses, update vocabularies, learn and unlearn.
Among the threads running through this collective research are two lines of work which artist, publisher, writer and activist Dani Zelko also pursues, and which will help us to trigger new conversations, raise the frequency of our criticism and re-imagine our practices.
On the one hand, we are interested in listening processes, work on orality and with others, and community self-publishing, all of which form part of the nomadic project for portable, urgent writing called Reunión, in which Dani Zelko puts into practice a collective writing methodology with and from communities in conflict and dispute. Seen as a series of publications and events, Reunión provides an intimate, conversational space in which speech – and its silences and breaths – become writing and, at the same time, feed back into the narrative of the communities with which they are interacting and start a conversation, through what the artist himself calls “urgent editions”.
On the other hand, we are also interested in explaining the writing process and the working framework of his book Oreja madre. Mi cuestión judía, published in 2025 by Caja Negra, which works both as an autobiographical essay and as a critical exorcism, to understand and think from the standpoint of a Jewish identity just what it means today to be part of a historically persecuted community, at the time of a genocidal assault on Palestine by the state of Israel and the violent process of redrawing the colonial map of the Middle East.
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Dani Zelko is a writer, publisher, artist and activist. Through a range of procedures, he generates publications and encounters to activate political disputes, listening practices and experiments with language. Since 2015 he has worked on “Reunión”, a collective work and emergency printing mechanism based on conversations, real-time transcriptions, collective publishing and the release of books bringing together first-person voices in contexts marked by conflict. He gives classes and workshops in art and writing at institutions around the world. He has also published the poetry books “Y las fuerzas del desorden, Selección sudamericana x la Muerte” and “Post-natural”. In 2025, through Caja Negra, he published “Oreja madre. Mi cuestión judía”, an autobiographical essay that sets out to explore, both personally and collectively, how to think from within the Jewish community about spirituality, pain, violence and territory, run through by the intersectionality of the geopolitical conflicts between Israel and Palestine. Zelko has presented his work at international venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Universities of New York, Princeton and California, among others, and has won several awards and distinctions.
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