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Returning islands |
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by Sophie Fetokaki

I’m trying to write about islands but keep writing about holes instead. When I was young I would often wake up during the night with the feeling that there was an impenetrable, spherical mass between me and my bedroom door. Back then the only way I could describe it was as a room-sized ball of elastic bands. A hole of traumatic memory.

Ήρτα δαμέ να γράψω ένα βιβλίο για τα νησ̆ιά, αλλά αντί τούτου ούλλον για τρύπες γράφω. Που ήμουν μιτσ̆ιά εξυπνούσα συχνά μες την νύχταv με την αίσθησην ότι είσ̆εν μιαν αδιαπέραστη, σφαιρική μάζα που στέκετουν μεταξύ μου εμένα τζαι της πόρτας της κάμαρης μου. Τότε εμπορούσα να την περιγράψω μόνον σαν μιαν μάππα που λαστιχούθκια μιάλη όσον η κάμαρη – μιαν τρύπαν τραυματικής μνήμης.

Adalara dair yazmaya çalışırım ama onun yerine habire delikler üzerine yazarım. Gençken, geceleri sık sık, gendimnan yatak odamın kapısı arasında geçilmez ve küresel bir kütle olduğu hissiynan uyanırdım. O zamanlar bunu ancak oda boyutundaki ve yoğurt lastiklerinden oluşan bir top olarak tasvir edebilirdim. Travmatik hatıralardan oluşan bir delik.

Languages: cypriot-greek, cypriot-turkish & english

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Fisherwomxn #3 by Nicola Mitropoulou, October 2026

This edition of the journal takes form on the coasts of Larnaca, the home city of Nicola Mitropoulou. Nicola is a domestic ghost lingering in homes that have become ruins. We have offered her these pages to inhabit. When she moved in it was a mess! She has since rearranged the debris: souvenirs from recently demolished homes, liquefied suns, the voice of her grandmother, delirious summer rumblings, notes to lovers and an immense hunger for god which will not be satisfied. 

Languages: cypriot-greek & english

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Fisherwomxn #2 by Sanabel Abdelrahman, December 2024

In this edition Sanabel Abdelrahman reflects on her last days living in what she calls “the belly of the beast” as a Palestinian, capturing the unforgivable and expanded time that will scar us forever. It’s a horrific time to be writing, but since we ought to keep going, we hope that these texts will find you and remind you that as much in grief, as in the struggle and the fight for liberation, we are a swarm.

Languages: arabic & english

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Fisherwomxn #1 by Miriam Gatt, December 2023

In this edition Miriam reflects on her personal struggle to stay connected with her land through her relationship to the sea and sets the ground to imagine a new yet ancient community of Fisherwomxn. This edition focuses on the deconstruction of the post-colonial narrative that people from formerly colonized lands struggle with: that we are better off away from home, that we should stay in foreign lands in order to receive any valid knowledge and recognition. 

Languages: cypriot-greek & english

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Fisherwomxn is a literary journal that aims to narrate the currents in the Mediterranean and beyond through notes kept on phones, thoughts scribbled in the margins, diary excerpts, conversation transcripts, screenshots and much more. Through these fragments we attempt to find each other, to transform our sense of belonging and to unearth shared cosmologies. We hope these words will find you and remind you that our experiences combined can reveal meanings and truths which are otherwise invisible to us.

(to the stones) we lent you our breath, and you whispered it back to the earth

This book was published in the context of the exhibition titled “(to the stones) we lent you our breath, and you whispered it back to the earth” at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 19th international architecture exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2025. It brings together a collection of writings that tend to the politics of the land and the commons of those inhabiting it, through tracing the rhythms of drystone building practices, an ancient communal practice of building without binding mortar.

Contributions by: Nadi Abusaada, Seta Astreou-Karides, Sevina Floridou, Aaron Gatt, Miriam Gatt, Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Demetris Loutsios, Nicola Mitropoulou, Ioulita Toumazi, Rahme Veziroglu & Clara Zinecker

Languages: cypriot-greek, cypriot-turkish & english

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These study folders are produced as part of a still evolving pedagogical project that centres knowledges that surface through encounters. They are edited collaboratively and include reading list, texts written for study sessions, exercises, scores, conversations and other fragments assembled by those who gather and study together. The folders serve as a growing archive of shared study, offering a practical framework for educators, artists, and cultural workers interested in building collaborative infrastructures for learning. We hope you will follow the trajectories they map and that they may lead you to new places.

DAI COOP Study Group 2024–2025 in alliance with SAVVY Contemporary

This COOP study group is the continuation of an ongoing study of the historical legacy of cultural workers and their material involvement in and support of anti-imperialism. It is an invitation to reflect, to draw from and to study the role that art has to play as a weapon of struggle and the lessons that cultural practitioners of today can learn as we attempt to wield it. Read more.

Students: Christelle Makris, Echo Guo, Fagner Lima, Liam Warren, Muyang Teng, Qiaoling Cai, Ratri Notosudirdjo, Sara Alberani, Zhuang Leng, Mokia Dinnyuy Manjoh, Leo Asemota

editorial coordination: Muyang Teng, Qiaoling Cai, Liam Warren with Fisherwomxn

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moving words, shifting worlds, fisherwomxn study program, 2025

In a time when meaning seems to be escaping our words this co-learning assembly focuses  on how we can resist these violent pulls through the act of writing, translating and publishing. Our study is grounded  within the linguistic and cultural landscape of Cyprus, a historically contested space where languages and identities have intersected, collided, and evolved over centuries. The fragmented reality of language in Cyprus and the questions it raises in current political dialogue, serve as an urgent starting point for our study. What does it mean to engage with language as a political tool? Read more.

Facilitators: Asphalt ( Joud Al-Tamimi, Sarah Zeryab, Lama El Khatib) Mokia Dinnyuy Manjoh, Sophie Fetokaki, Aphroditios, Odessa Warren, Eleni Odysseos, Seta Astreou Karides, Miriam Gatt, Ioulita Toumazi

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