Artist Takeover – Pykë-Presje
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23.09-06.10.2025
Pykë-Presje & Limestone Books
September 27: Who is Pykë-Presje? Introduction, Event, and Film as Political School
October 4: Yerin Dibi! A Collection of Underground Turkish Punk and Fanzines: Punk Fanzines as Political Opposition
October 11: Book Launch: Pykë-Presje x Limestone Books
The Artist Takeover project at Limestone Books invites an expanded field of practitioners—artists, designers, researchers, writers, poets, platforms, and collectives—to take over and transform the space of Limestone Books for 4 weeks. Participants are given full agency to engage with the book collection, displays, and rhythms of the space itself as raw material for experimentation, critically engaging with urgent social and cultural questions through spatial and curatorial interventions.
In this edition, we invited Pykë-Presje. Pykë-Presje [pü:k presye, Wedge-Comma] is an independent platform working mainly with printed matter and running an independent cultural space and bookshop in Prizren, Kosovo.
Pykë-Presje produces experimental radical publications, organises exhibitions and workshops, and is building an archive and library, with a focus on local histories of people’s movements, emancipatory women’s organisations, and class struggles that challenge nation-state narratives. The platform produced books and exhibitions about poems of a Muslim Sufi activist within the Yugoslav Communist Party in 1920, Anti-Fascist Women Front in Kosovo, Punk Fanzines in Turkey, The Scratch Orchestra members' album on Albania, and 'Film as Political School' series using experimental film forms to engage with recent contradictory histories of Kosovo.
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