For the Beirut edition of Platform Translation, artists explored the book as a form — at times as an autonomous final object, at other times as a means to poetically organize research and sketches, or as a platform for collaboration and correspondence.
The process of making the books was approached in diverse ways, stretching the possibilities of the medium — often beginning with a story or an archive. The relationship between words, images, movement, and distribution — essential elements of books and printed matter — was also examined within the fixed framework of the book.
‘On Books and Translation’, organized by 98weeks, aims to assemble a growing, traveling library of artists’ books, continuously expanding as it moves from place to place.
The Chilean artist Soledad Pinto invited Loes Heebink for a collaborative project. Over the course of six months, they worked online on the loose-leaf publication Collections of Disappearances — a search for the invisible, for that which appears only as a fleeting glimmer.
During a subsequent work period in Beirut, all the sheets were gathered into a cassette (edition of 5), in which sound, photography, video, and paper made the instability of the moment tangible.
Participants in this edition included: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Dimitris Ameladiotis, Marwa Arsanios, Elena Bellantoni and Daniela Alloca, Víctor Hugo Bravo, Federico Cavallini (invited by Silvano Manganaro), Hatem Imam with Jana Traboulsi, the collective Interactivité Povera, Daniel Jacoby, Manos Kornelakis (invited by Zoi Pappa), Mariagiovanna Nuzzi, Zeynep Oz and Suna Kafadar, Zoi Pappa, Iordanis Papadopoulos and Nana Sachini (invited by Zoi Pappa), Katia Roumbou, Soledad Pinto and Loes Heebink, Javier Rodríguez, Tom Robinson, Mihalis Theodosiadis, Vaticanochico Publishers, Karine Wehbe and Mirene Arsanios.
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