About this Event
Parapraxis is a critical theory of publishing developed by Aurélia Niat Toundji and Salwat Idi, founders and directors of cahiers manufactoriel. It treats publishing not as the end of research, but as a mode of exploration in which editing, assembling, and sequencing produce knowledge in circulation. Rooted in African oral and performative traditions, parapraxis understands knowledge as relational and in motion rather than fixed. It embraces non-linear and rhizomatic thinking, where meaning emerges through constellations of texts and images.
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Founded by Aurélia Niat Toundji (based in Garges-lès-Gonesse, France) and Salwat Idi (based in Moroni, Comoros), manufactoriel is a France-based research bureau dedicated to African and Black visual cultures, contemporary art, and style. It brings together critical, editorial and artistic research. Its publishing house, cahiers manufactoriel, produces artists' books, theoretical works, and experimental publications. An editorial gallery (an exhibition and research space where publishing meets museography) is in development, and its practice is extending toward museography, museology, and design.
– Aurélia Niat Toundji is an artistic director, writer, and curator based in Garges-lès-Gonesse, France. She is co-founder and co-director of manufactoriel and cahiers manufactoriel. Her practice combines critical research, writing, publishing, and curatorial work, exploring the relationships between images, objects, archives, and cultural discourses. She contributed a text to Phaidon's monograph on Sanlé Sory and collaborated on the Cameroon Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.
– Salwat Idi is an architect, artist, researcher, and curator based in Moroni, Comoros. She is co-founder and co-director of manufactoriel and co-founder of cahiers manufactoriel, her work investigates the intersections of architecture, spatiality, materiality, and publishing. She is the author and designer of the artist's book Zingatia, published by cahiers manufactoriel, and recently collaborated on the Cameroon Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.
SATURDAY 28 NOV
7.00 PM ⭢ start on time 👀 😱⏱️
📍Dropcity
Via Sammartini, 64
The talk – in English – is part of the Public Program of SPRINT Milano Art Book Fair | 27–28–29 NOV 2026 ⭢
is a non-profit, artist-led organization, produced by the associations O’ &
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Dropcity, 64 Via Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Milano, Italy
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