Dear friends,
It’s been a while. July was not quite the cruelest month, but still demanding—and at times a little hostile. All the more reason I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s gathering: makam will be hosting WOMANWOOD: the smut gazette, launching their third issue, devoted to Venus Cloacina, goddess of the Roman sewer. You’ll find the editors’ full invitation and details below.
This will also be our last event before makam takes its very first summer break in August. We’ll return in the autumn with two reading groups, an exhibition, and a film evening. But more on those soon.
Warmly,
Seda
/////WOMANWOOD #3 from Venus Cloacina's mouth/////
Join us at MAKAM, a newish space run by Seda Mimaroglu
/// more info: makam-berlin.org ///
Readings from WOMANWOOD #3 in print and in ether ///
from the mouth of Venus Cloacina /// from the imitable mouths of
Tess Brown-Lavoie
Rachel Pafe
Daniela Petrosino
Syd Ramirez
Lotta Thießen
((( Plus prints by Martin Duthey &
a Violette Leduc score by Mic Brinsley &
centerfold sock broadsides by Daniela Petrosino )))
The first issue featured theories of finger-to-mouth translation, orgasmic devices, and an encounter with a lesbian saint (Saint Agata). The second issue had a thread of expanding neural pathways for pleasure while fumbling through these woods.
The third issue holds depths and currents, wigs and octopuses from:::: Micaela Brinsley 🦋Ash(ley) Michelle C.🦋Martin Duthey🦋Mona Gendron🦋Daniel Gianfranceschi🦋Rachel Pafe🦋Robin Percyz🦋Daniela Petrosino🦋Syd Ramirez🦋Ilias Tsagas
An excerpt from the introduction by the editors, a bit of aftercare in advance:
At the entry of the Cloaca Maxima, the “Great Drain” of Ancient Rome, there was a shrine to Venus: the Venus Clocina, goddess of the sewer. People knew that beauty is reliant on shit and that the divinity of the sewage system needed the blessing of the great goddess of pleasure. Hotter compost, brighter roses. Another thing the Romans knew: the “mouth of truth,” an ancient marble mask, said to bite off any liar’s hand, was also an entrance to the sewage system - our shit is the most honest thing we have.
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