Talks & Workshops
All talks and workshop will take place at Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien (Semperdepot), located at Lehárgasse 6-8, 1060 Vienna.
All workshops and presentations are free of charge.
-No registration is required to attend the workshops.
-As seating is limited, participation will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
To view the schedule of other days, please click on the 17 May and 18 May buttons below
16 May 2025 (Friday)
Bookbinding Workshop with Anna Frey
17:30 – 20:30
In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn the basics of bookbinding and create an A5 notebook using open thread stitching. All essential materials and techniques will be introduced. Tools and materials are provided and included in the course.
Free workshop
First comes, first served
Max. 8 persons
Presentation: ”A Daily Job / Comics Zine Presentation by Jan Grambow”
18:00–18:30
“Can we imagine the brutality of push backs? What do we know about the violence on our borders? What are we talking about these days? What if we don’t need horror movies/shows because we are monsters? Or are humans always the ones on the other side of the borders?”
Talk : Tehran Zine and Its Space – The Role of Zines in the Iranian Art Scene
18:50 – 19:20
Saghi Parkhideh will be presenting Tehran Zine, a project dedicated to exploring the growing role of zines within the Iranian art scene. Over the past couple of years, zines have emerged as a powerful and accessible medium for self-expression, collaboration, and resistance among Iranian artists. Tehran Zine is more than just a publisher — it’s a dynamic hub that hosts a collection of over 300 international zines and actively supports local artists through talks, workshops, and self-publishing initiatives.
Talk: Beksultan Oguz – Repeal the law!
19:50 – 20:20
This talk addresses the ongoing destruction of stray animals in Turkey following recent changes to the Animal Protection Law, and highlights the resistance and advocacy efforts of animal rights activists and grassroots initiatives.
17 May 2025 (Saturday)
book:collage:book
13:30-14:00
Paper collages, processed with stamps, pens, ink, rollers and pipettes are folded, glued and bound into experimental book shapes.
One-hour workshop
No previous knowledge necessary
Materials are provided
Anna-Maria Wolf (Hand-Bücher)
Nicole Tanneberger (nics.picbook)
The workshop will be conducted in English and German.
Free workshop
First comes, first served
Max. 8-10 Persons
Fluo Pop: a 45-min stencil-printing workshop with Charlotte Hornung
15:00 – 15:45
Come and stencil-print with us! We will take our inspiration from the shapes, textures and tactile qualities of flora, fauna or fungi. A spiky lizard, a hairy leaf, spiralling tendrils and sprawling asymmetrical growths – or something completely abstract: what would the sensation of running your fingers through long grass look like? Over the course of 45 minutes we will introduce you to the wonderful world of stencil printing, the tools you can work with and the different textures and effects you can play with. We will be working with hand-cut paper stencils, acrylic paint in fluorescent and contrasting colours, brushes and sponges. You can either print a single layer on cotton fibre paper, or experiment with overlaying colours on pre-printed textures prepared by us. By the end of the workshop, you will have a small edition of colourful stencil-prints to take home with you – and will have experienced some of the magic of screen-printing, but without the hassle of washing out screens!
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Free workshop
First comes, first served
Max.10 persons
💡: instagram.com/jo_el_ru /// instagram.com/charlottehornung
📷: @jo_el_ru
Presentation – ArtiViStory Collective: Comics as a Voice for Youth and Urban Innovation in Romania”
16:00 -16:30
At Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair, ArtiViStory Collective—led by creative director Alice Iliescu—presents a dynamic selection of urban comics, zines, and artist books created through socially-engaged, educational, and participatory art practices in Romania. Featured publications span Activating Values in Urban Transitions- A novel approach to urban innovation in Romania,OurCluj Case Study, Slices of You(th) , SPIRE Toolkit, Truth Toolkit– Are You Ready for the Future, Unboxing Stories, Voices of Youth, Imagining Future, Antropedia Posters, and Thinking Outside the Box from Platforma BD Cluj. These works highlight comics as a powerful medium for community storytelling, critical reflection, and urban innovation.
Talk: Making Zines with University Students: Opportunities and Challenges in the Social Sciences, with a Focus on Decoloniality as a Pedagogical Practice with Minerva Campion Canelas
17:40 – 18:10
Minerva works as a university professor and has been developing zines with students during her classes. In this session, we will discuss the dynamics of zine-making with students who are not part of the Arts. Additionally, we will focus part of the presentation on the challenges and opportunities encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to zine-making. We will also highlight the importance of participatory methodologies and the value of building knowledge collaboratively with the communities we work with.
18 May 2025 (Sunday)
Workshop: In Zines We Trust – Zine Workshop by Deniz Beser
13:00 -14:15
A zine is an independently published collection of materials, a self-created and self-reproduced publication. In the workshop we receive a short introduction to the past and present of fanzines and self-publishing. Under the guidance of Deniz Beser, we will learn the basics of creating a zine, such as preparing a page layout, and will be privy to a number of folding tricks. After the step-by-step demo and introduction, you can create your own zine.
Reading – Boris Contarin for fffllleeessshhh – The rich kid’s dilemma, On Envy by fffllleeessshhh
15:00 – 15:30
Envy is the rule of an unequal society. Culture, as unproductive goods, is easily the prerogative of privileged spoiled boys.
In the whole world the spoiled boys are the western, us, but in the first world of the west, here, spoiled boys are people who have family privilege and use it to work in the prestigious but unproductive world of culture.
Talk: Vera Koss // Dogs in sweaters in Dwapara Yuga
15:45 – 16:15.
What small dogs do in the shadows of the trees in the era of electricity, and what about matrix printer aka Presentation of 2 riso printed zines: Sweaters and Dwapara Yuga.
Talk: Kerry Ann Lee – Evolution of Red Letter (Zine Distro), zines in Aotearoa, New Zealand
16:40 – 17:20
New Zealand artist, designer and zine-maker Kerry Ann Lee will be presenting on a range of topics, including the origins and evolution of Red Letter (Zine Distro), zines in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and the role of independent publishing within Asian diasporic communities, particularly during and after Covid. She will also share international zine networks spanning two decades, exploring the intersections between art practice, design, academia, zine-making, and social engagement.
TALK: The Rock Retreat Gibraltar tells a zine-making tale of women and home…
17:40 – 18:00
A fascinating story of how a collaborative zine-making workshop between Gibraltar and St Vincent and the Grenadines for women on the theme of HOME spread across the globe to create an international archive of more than 60 submissions from the USA to Mauritius, Nigeria to Montserrat.
“Home can mean many things – it can be a physical place or an idea…” Camille Musser, Youlou Arts, St Vincent
“Working on the zine brought back a lot of childhood memories…it felt like a healing experience.
It made me feel heard among so many amazing people” Arev Hakobyan Armenia/Belgium
The installation is accompanied by a soundscape of women talking about Home. Listen to it here:
A full list of contributors can be found here: therockretreats.com/zine-project-2025/
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