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“AT THE MOUTH OF THE SUN I BEGIN” by Ica Sadagat
Statement/Description
AT THE MOUTH OF THE SUN I BEGIN was born out of ritual communion. It started as weekly annotations recorded by a body noticing particular language from sparring, bruising, newfound survival, material recovery, native loss, classed labor, separation, and felt closeness while living in Lënapathòkink and Philadelphia. These writings—often made during or immediately following martial arts training or surfing or cooking or teaching or organizing—later materialized as an untitled poem for a global solidarity reading for Palestine in 2023. Now titled AT THE MOUTH OF THE SUN I BEGIN, the text continues as an ongoing score, chapbook, dispatch, and map toward urgent intimacies, memories, and return.
About the Artist/Author
Ica Sadagat attends to text as material and to material as a collective labor and practice. A trained community worker, perpetual editor, and former crisis counselor, Ica started Sadagat School of Motion & Text in 2022 to offer more sites for embodied learning, close listening, and guerrilla poetics. She has taught and performed in plenty spaces; some of her work can be found. Beyond all of this, Ica surfs and spars.
Details: 5 × 7 in. • Blue and black ink • Saddle-stitched risograph printed zine • Published by Matiz Press, 2026
❤️🔥🔜 My first chapbook AT THE MOUTH OF THE SUN I BEGIN will be published by @matizpress this summer through the 2026 Matiz Press Publishing Program. I have been thinking with this language since early 2023–almost exactly 3 years ago—and I’m glad + grateful that it can be a bit more widely shared. 🌀 There will be a very limited first edition run of 50 copies: 20 sold by Matiz Press and 30 in my hands, 20 of which I will sell on a sliding scale toward mutual aid and myself. The other 10 is my business :} Might consider doing a second run, but for now: no. Pero maybe later…
Be sure to learn more about Matiz Press and the other publishing artists + writers then go support their work ♾️
foto from @pocoapocoapoco by @paulinarubio_34 and s/o to @ferarmadah for plugging me in while I was offline!! 🎣 Community >
Ica Sadagat @___i_ca se ocupa del cuerpo como texto, del texto como material y del material como trabajo y práctica colectivos. Organizadora de formación, editora perpetua y antigua consejera de crisis, Ica fundó la Sadagat School of Motion & Text en 2022 para ofrecer más espacios de aprendizaje corporal, escucha atenta y poética de guerrilla. Ha impartido clases y actuado en multitud de espacios; se pueden encontrar algunos de sus trabajos. Más allá de todo esto, Ica practica el surf y el sparring. Más información: icasadagat.co
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Fotos de su taller “pelear en ritmos, prendiendo a esperar”
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TALLERES PÚBLICOS, GRATUITOS Y BILINGÜES
24-28 de noviembre 2025
*Calendario completo en el ultimo imagen*
Guiados por nuestros residentes @___i_ca@ferarmadah@heymmay@comunal.futures@sontenish & Noemí Domínguez
Inscríbete en [email protected]
Envía tu nombre y el nombre del taller.
🔜 public registration for (( GUERRILLA POETICS I )) closes tomorrow, may 16. link + email in bio to sign up or inquire. all i am trying to say is sensitivity is a skill. feel, reflect, respond. separating “the mind” from “the body” was one of western europe’s greatest violences; quell it ❤️🔥 greater thinking is available. see you at practice! NO OPS NO CORP DOLLS WITHOUT DI$TRIBUTION
🪭 PHILLY: TOMORROW NIGHT. FRIDAY. eye will be reading some stuff. come.
1. Fence flyer with my face and words on it.
2. Fence video still. Issue Release Party / Wanderlife Gallery 2231 S 13th St. May 19 Friday. 7:30-10:00PM.
3. Artwork by Ed Reika. “Attention is the purest form of generosity.”
4. Me on Zoom zooming with a look on something. Or, someone.
5. Lol meme. “Dead inside but still horny.”
