Hanako Emden

my (w)hole is in search for a language of devouring. Written in fragments, the essay traces a path between desire and writing. Hunger as a ritual of inscription into a tradition of writers who could not carry on their tongue, and had to hold the pen instead. Writing as hand-holding, typography as the polyphony of translation. I’ll show you mine if you will show me yours, together we will mourn our lack. “Seeing my hole, I know my whole.” (Anne Carson) The publication was accompanied by a performative reading. Spoken in choirs and with the voices of loved. The publication includes: - The essay, printed in a custom offset color on black paper - A translation card - A zine with notes and image references/collages - A print of the Poem “I want ( )” The text is typeset with original text-fragments from all quoted sources including personal notes, underlinings and varieties of image based/spoken and written/printed sources. Thank you to Sebastian Cewe, for all the help with producing the publication. <3 The (w)hole edition is bound by hand (some of them from the comfort of my bed). Edition of 115 Offset Print, Riso Print, Digital print 238 x 158 x 10 56 Pages This publication was self published in the first half of 2025 as part of my diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. If you want to own one — dm me or send me an E-Mail 26€ + shipping 🕳️

„I want ( )“ My rendition of Zoe Leonards Poem „I want a Dyke for President“ from 1992. Written as part of the publication „my (w)hole.“ Riso printed and included in the publication. Also available to purchase in its own.

The zine acommpanying the publication „my (w)hole“ 
Image references, collages, notes. Digital Print 238 x 158

Exhibition text for the exhibition Can‘t Wait at @cc.cc.cc.cc.cc.space with works by @dana.mlk and @tloureir I had lovely conversations with Dana and Tomás about their work! Thank you @tobiasbertz & @yolabror for inviting me. This was a lot of fun <3

Das Ephemere an Orten des Alltags Kay Lotte Pommer Published in a tiny edition in 2025. With stains from old tulip leaves that were scanned and scattered into the text.

a poem I contributed to 180 No.3 »Strategies« in 2023. written in Rome on a hotel notepad while visiting my darlings @sphflrn and @brot.24 🤍

The Goddess was a Shapeless Mass! I feel so blessed to be part of this wonderful project! Thank you @olgaravn for having me 🤍 To create the font I used for the title, I digitized a photo I took in an exhibition in Leipzig Stadtbibliothek by »Arbeitskreis Aufarbeitung Hexenverfolgung Leipzig« with @frauenkultur_le about the witch persecution in and around Leipzig. The piece of cloth belonged to a woman named Sybille Müller. Sybille was accused of witchcraft in 1618 in Leipzig. I digitized the little corner of the letter seen in the photo and puzzled together the title of the performance. The letter was written by Sybille. Here is a little note I wrote down about the cloth: Sybille Müller was probably a human woman. She had a husband and a teal colored dress. Maybe it was a jacket. They lived in Leipzig. In 1618 Sybille gets accused of witchcraft, and before her it was an unknown woman and before her it was a woman with the intitals E.S. and before her it was a woman named Regina Posser and her husband who was the grave digger of Groß-Zschocher, and before them it was an unknown woman and before her it was an unknown woman and before her it was a woman who everyone called die Slezieryn und man peitschte sie an den Wangen mit Birkenzweigen und Scherben und verwies sie des Landes.They found a piece of cloth sewn onto the inner sleeve of a neighbors jacket. They saw Sybille in her teal colored dress, her teal colored skirt, her teal colored vest, and they thought surely this woman has danced with the devil.

“We can build this thing together—a call and answer poem for two” We wrote a little (big) love letter, a chat that started in our shared notes on the phone and made it to the big wall. A love letter – our favourite medium – to each other, to this town, to friendship, and to the voices we have read and borrowed. If you are at Spinnereigelände in Leipzig in the coming months, have a look 💗 thank you to @markusdressen for inviting us!

New book by @katerinalymar - It’s Funny How I Met This Horse (available on ryderbooks.org link in bio) t’s Funny How I Met This Horse contains photographs taken by Kateryna Lymar from the imaginative point of view of a newly hatched insect, just emerging from the ground and taking its first walk. The work explores perception at its most fragile and imaginative state. Underexposure, overexposure, blur, and extreme close-ups test the limits of the camera uncovering a newly found intimacy with the natural world. Guided by a pair of eyes emerging from the ground and taking their first steps, the images unfold like fragmented glimpses. With fleeting sharpness overlapping impressions are guiding the viewer into a dreamlike state. A hesitant journey through the unfamiliar. Text by @han_ako Designed and edited by @charmschooldroppout & @baseule 100 pages / 24 x 33 cm / ISBN 9789083416540 ryderbooks.org For distribution [email protected] 🐝

lesen22 is a weekly reading circle at Bistro 21 in cooperation with Florian∞Emden. This time, we are reading Frankenstein by Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley!! We will meet on 6 occasions during the winter to read and discuss the novel and accompanying literature. In the first block and during the Christmas break, our focus will be on the novel. In the second block, we would like to collect, read, and discuss literature that deals with the cultural perception and themes of the novel. (Keywords: monstrosity, othering, Gothic literature, authorship, fabulation, etc.). Just as the last time, the reading circle will be shaped by it’s readers — we built the monster and you will breathe life into it. The number of participants is limited. Please check the scheduled dates before registering. The meetings are scheduled for 6 pm. Time arrangements can be discussed on a weekly basis within the group. We will read the novel in its original English language. (English Level: A2-B2). Discussions will take place in German and/or English, depending on the group. ——— Every thing must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindus give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. (Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley, London, 15 October 1831) ——— 1. Half Di, 25.11. 18.00 Di 02.12. 18.00 Di 09.12 18.00 ☆NEW YEAR☆ 2. Half Di 06.01. 18.00 Di 13.01. 18.00 Di 20.01. 18.00 First come, first read!🧌 Registration at: [email protected]

not me A scorebook for a performance and a poem written from collected text fragments. The book comes with typographic instructions on how to read it out loud and can be reproduced with an A4 printer and a double staple bind. 160 pages 210x297 Produced in 2023 during my stay in Amsterdam in the design course with @jossepyl . & still one of my favorite books I have ever made <3

I really like things I don’t understand. Our contribution to @pseudopress Book‘o‘Mark [a book pf bookmarks] 💛 A yellow and bronze striped notepad to write done all the things and words you don’t understand! xx