Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
Berlin, Germany · On-site
Publishing Practices 3
Weaving the Inner Bark
Archive Berlin
Reinickendorfer Str. 17
13347 Berlin

Weaving the Inner Bark Festival is an invitation to unpack, share, and inquire more broadly on how library projects can reflect on experiences of resistance, create ground for transnational solidarity, and participate in the unwriting and unfixing of hegemonic knowledge systems. Weaving the Inner Bark inhabits the physical space of the exhibition In the Inner Bark of Trees and activates it. The exhibition, imagined as an ensemble of potential libraries, is made of many voices and mediums. Each object in the exhibition calls for a haptical and multisensorial reading breaking away from the hegemonic fixity of the printed matter.
Weaving the Inner Bark embarks on forms of archiving and editing that defy canonical and standardised notions of publishing and prompts ancestral techniques such as oral storytelling, embodied literacies, and texturalities, a compound term for textiles interwoven into/as texts. These modes of knowledge inscription and transmission trouble the dominance of the book and inform the idea that libraries can become spaces of affective reading and experimental laboratories for practising hapticality. The Greek root of “haptic” is “haptein,” meaning to touch or grasp an object. Weaving the Inner Bark thus explores haptic experiences and experimentation, connecting somatic knowledge to contemporary bodies, spaces, worlds, and imaginations.
Curatorial ensemble Leila Bencharnia, Chiara Figone, Miriam Gatt, Samira Ghoualmia, Paz Guevara, Beya Othmani, Savanna Morgan
Curator in residency Salma Kossemtini
Graphic design Archive Appendix
Production Miriam Gatt
Production assistance Malab Alneel, Iman Salem
Tech Rey Domurat, Benjamin Nash
Publishing Practices 3. Weaving the Inner Bark festival is supported by Spartenoffene Förderung für Festivals und Reihen.