19-21 October 2026, Indecis artist run, Bastion 3, Timișoara
Applications close 9 October · selected participants announced 10 October
10 places · free participation · no previous experience required
Perhaps one that does not begin with urgency, accumulation, or the constant demand for more. Ana Labudović invites us to think of the book as a living structure — something that grows, folds and opens towards the light, much like a plant. Its form carries the traces of the process that shaped it and of the materials it was made from.
Working with zines and artist-book formats, the workshop introduces the idea of autotrophic thinking: the possibility of making from what is already around us — found materials, time, attention, things recovered, overlooked or left unused. It is an approach that acknowledges its own limits and tries not to exhaust the materials, the environment, or the person doing the work.
Here, walking becomes part of the work. So do searching, gathering, writing a fragment, choosing an image, printing, folding and binding. Small gestures that rarely remain visible in the story of the finished object begin to determine its form. A publication made from gathered materials and shared freely can become a quiet form of resistance to the idea that producing must always mean extracting, accumulating and making more.
Over the course of the workshop, collective research, image-making, writing and bookbinding come together in a process through which each participant will make a small publication by hand. Rather than simply documenting what happened, the book will carry within it the rhythm and conditions of its own making.
Ana Labudović is a designer and publisher based in Rijeka, working across Risograph printing, digital media and independent publishing. In 2019, she founded Riso and Friends, a platform centred on sustainable print practices, collaboration with artists and authors, and the publication as a space for encounter and exchange. Since 2024, she has also been developing an artist residency programme, extending this practice towards research, collective work and modes of production that are more attentive to the resources they depend on.