The forthcoming publication brings together research, writing, and performance developed over the course of a year-long program at Klosterruine Berlin, curated by Juliane Bischoff.

Blending images, poetry, and movement, the publication creates space for rarely told stories that span centuries. The first section focuses on the performative works presented between June 2024 and April 2025. Central literary references—highlighted through facsimiles and excerpts—provide context for these performances, ranging from the mystical writings of Marguerite Porete, composed around 1270 (the same era in which the monastery church, now Klosterruine, was built), to contemporary voices like Enis Maci and Mazlum Nergiz, whose writings anchors the narrative in the present.

The second section documents anything, anything, Kate Newby’s sculptural intervention installed at Klosterruine Berlin during the same period. Newby’s work fostered a continuous dialogue with the shifting environment, forming the conceptual ground on which the performative program unfolded.

The publication will be released in July 2025 and will be available through Ness Books and selected bookstores.

It includes projects by: Kate Newby, Chloe Chignell, Bryana Fritz & Stefa Govaart, Schlechte Wörter (with Logan February, Moshtari Hilal, Nazanin Noori, Tanasgol Sabbagh, Fabian Saul, Ralph Tharayil & Mathias Zeiske), Mira Mann with Domi Chansorn, Carmen Gheorghe & Elisa R. Linn, Leyla Yenirce with Enis Maci, Mazlum Nergiz, Noah Jinu-Moerbeck & Theresa George as well as Mikołaj Sobczak

New text by: Miriam Stoney

Reprints of texts by: Marguerite Porete, Solmaz Sharif, Kim Hyesoon, OMARA (Mara Oláh), Enis Maci & Mazlum Nergiz, William Blake

Language: English

Editor: Juliane Bischoff

Graphic design: Espace Ness (Sophie Rentien Lando)

Published by:
Ness Books
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75011 Paris, FR
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ISBN: 978-2-9594887-3-3

© 2025 the authors and Ness Books