Sezgin Boynik as guest researcher in residence

Invited by the Make/Sense PhD programme at the Critical Media Lab, Institute for Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) at the HGK Basel, researcher and publisher Sezgin Boynik will be a guest in the Atelier Mondial residency program in January. As part of the residency program, Sezgin Boynik will work with Prof. Dr. Lucie Kolb and Jonas von Lenthe to compile a bibliography of the largely unexplored field of anti-fascist publishing.

Together, they will read, discuss, and catalog key texts from primary and secondary literature. One focus of the research will be on self-reflective texts from the 1930s and 1940s, which provide insight into the conditions under which these publications were produced. A text by Sezgin Boynik presenting the results of the research will be published in the new essay series What is Critical Publishing? in the online magazine Brand New Life.

Sezgin Boynik (or Sezgin Bojnik, 1977, Prizren, Kosovo) is a theorist and publisher. He founded Rab-Rab Press in 2014 in Helsinki, an independent publishing platform for books on experimental art and left-wing politics. He is also co-founder of Pykë-Presje in Prizren, Kosovo, and holds a PhD from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland on the cultural politics of Novi Film between 1963 and 1972.