ABC Assembly, 2021

ABC Assembly is an experiment in collective book production conducted at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center - Ramallah, Palestine. Members of ABC, guest curator Alaa Mansour and invited artists were asked to submit images and texts to a "manual of self-organisation” divided into six chapters decided by vote, after a web search for "tips on how to self-organise".

During the exhibition the chapters were printed on an office printer installed in the gallery and operated remotely. At the conclusion of the exhibition the pages were bound together and the project made available as a print-on-demand facsimile publication, available here.

The project was part of But These Forms Need to Be Created an “exhibition and an attempt to explore forms of self-organisation” curated by Adele Jarrar.

With contributions by Alaa Mansour (LB), Amin Husain (PS/US), Anja Saleh (DE), Claudia de la Torre (MX) Corinne Vionnet (CH), Daniel Elias (PS), David Schulz (US), Dawn Kim (US), DROSS (UK), EJ Major (UK), Felix Kalmenson (RU), Hanaa Ismail (LB), Ian Paul (UK), John Maclean (UK), Jonathan Lewis (UK), Jonathan Schmidt-Ott (DE), Lapsus (RO), Louis Porter (UK), Micheál O’Connell/Mocksim (IE), Muhammad Salah (SD), Oliver Griffin (UK), Rahel Zoller (DE/UK), Wil van Iersel (NL), Ziad Naitaddi (MA)