09/10/2026
09:00-21:00printing festival
Printers' Speeches is back! Printers' Speeches is a one-day festival dedicated to small printing machines and DIY printing. Join us for a series of experimental workshops and a critical roundtable talk on the 9th of October between 09:00 and 21:00.
PROGRAM:
09:00-13:00 The Clumsy Bird - workshop by Juan Pablo Plazas
15:00-16:30 Is riso in/out? - roundtable discussion with Antoine Carcano, Milan Gillard, and Sudest + Gird (moderated by Gabri Molist)
17:00-18:30 We had a printer named Charlotte - workshop by L'Amicale des archives queer
19:00-20:00 (Pen)Plotter twist - experiment by Open Source PublishingRecently, artist and anthropologist Juan Pablo Plazas has been exploring ways to help people identify their needs and develop tools to address them.
In this workshop, JPP invites you to create a neighbourhood newspaper, The Clumsy Bird, dedicated to the needs of the neighbourhood. Together, we’ll turn the lives and stories of local residents into news and publish a newspaper documenting the neighbourhood as it is that day.
Juan Pablo Plazas
I was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, and I have been living in Brussels, Belgium since 2012.
As an artist I’m in a constant search for those instances where life feels like a book by writing a sequence of unexpected, interconnected moments. I love crossing situations, people, stories and things that make this reality seem magical, pre- written, and simply out of my hands. I create strategies to make myself available to unexpected moments.This often involves creating sculptures, performances, installations, videos, audio pieces, photographs, drawings or whatever other medium the circumstances of a project demands. Using a medium in my work involves often learning something new which in itself calls for an unexpected situation. This is why you will see me often collaborating with other people, performing outside the art world and switching between styles and ways of working. In 2011 I graduated from Anthropology and Art at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. In 2013 I graduated from the Master’s program at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. My work has been shown at SMAK, Gent, Belgium (2017), Mieke van Schaijk Galerie, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (2018), CAC, Vilnius (2020) La Centrale, Brussels (2021 - 2022), and Chauffeur Gallery in Sydney, Australia (2024). and Open Source Gallery, New York City, United States (2025). In 2021 I was a resident at the Frans Masereel Centrum, From 2021 to 2022 I was a resident at Hisk, Gent, Belgium, and in 2023 a resident at Lunga School in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
IS RISO IN/OUT?
roundtable discussion
with Antoine Carcano, Milan Gillard, and Sudest + Gird
moderated by Gabri Molist
15:00-16:30
(FREE)
The hype around riso printing might be behind us, but the merits of riso printing are still obvious. As a cheap, efficient and environmentally friendly way of printing, it remains a favourite among self-publishing authors and small print collectives.
In this roundtable discussion, Antoine Carcano from Atelier du Toner and Impression forte, Milan Gillard from the Masereel Fonds (and Gilbard, BARN, …), and the collective of independent publishers Sudest+Gird will reflect on the possible future of riso printing.
Gabri Molist, author and OG VROOM member, will moderate the conversation.
Antoine Carcano, born in 1993, is a Brussels-based artist. Sandwiched between two printers, Antoine Carcano moves back and forth between comics, video games, and print tests. Pretty sure that everything is connected, he constantly weaves together threads to blend printed images, video games, and comics into a single work. Fascinated by everything that has already been done, yet convinced that there are still an infinite number of possibilities with these mediums, Antoine Carcano discovers, experiments with, or seeks out unlikely connections to propose new imaginaries and new images. All the while hoping not to get stuck on an unknown error code.
Antoine Carcano trained at the Erg (School of Graphic Research) in Brussels in comics and storytelling, and at the Ateliers du Toner (cooperative and collaborative workshops dedicated to self-publishing and the printed image) since their founding in 2018.
Milan Gillard
Domesticity is a social and cultural space situated in Laken, where they organize activities around craft, neighborhood participation, and knowledge-sharing practices. Currently, it is organized by Aletta, Anna, Annelies, Jimena, Milan & Ward.
Next to their social and artistic activities, they also function as a space for experimenting with publishing in a do-it-yourself way, using limited and old machines gathered throughout Belgium from the second-hand market. This is an important aspect, since the print and publishing practice of Domesticity tries to be as accessible as possible, making it easy to get started with publishing in a difficult landscape.
In this spirit, they also organize an open call every year to publish a situated publication. The print shop is currently situated at Canape VZW in Laken.
Sudest+Gird is a collective of independent publishers based in Brussels for the past two years. Through layout, image research, and printing processes, their work brings to life publications inspired by popular culture and mass iconography. These publications offer a reflection on the image through its circulation, dissemination, and modes of representation. They explore internet imagery and the subcultures that permeate it, extending even to representations of animals, which reveal the power dynamics that shape modern interspecies relationships. Each item is designed, printed, and crafted in-house, ensuring their independence.
Gabri Molist (Barcelona, 1993) is a comic artist. After studying Arts and Design at Escola Massana in Barcelona, he completed a Master's in Fine Arts at LUCA School of Arts, Ghent. Since 2024, Gabri Molist holds a PhD in the Arts with his project "Lost in Hotel Penumbra. A Playful Study on the (Dis)appearance of the Character in (Post)comics" (LUCA School of Arts - KU Leuven). Gabri Molist is also a founding member of VROOM, an art space dedicated to experimental comics and contemporary drawing located in Anderlecht, Brussels.
WE HAD A PRINTER NAMED CHARLOTTE
workshop
by L'Amicale des archives queer
17:00-18:30
(FREE - SIGN UP HERE)
L'Amicale des Archives Queer is a collective of 5 graphic designers, researchers, authors, artists. United by their shared passion for queer history, exploration of archival collections and community narratives. Together, they publish their research, create workshops and diffuse their work during events and book fairs."
(PEN)PLOTTER TWIST
experiment
by Open Source Publishing
19:00-20:00
(FREE)
Drawing has a lot to do with rhythm, and rhythm boots the gesture. How can the mechanical arm of a pen plotter begin to produce different bpm and timbres? Depending on which lines, patterns or landscapes? Can you listen to shapes being plotted until you start dancing ? And how might one explore the musical genre of a text by listening it being mechanically lettered? Or even, how writing on a plotter can turn into a slow karaoke display?
As a follow-up to its Plotterstation series, the OSP collective would like to present an experiment exploring these twists and turns. Perhaps it will be danceable, perhaps it will simply be really unpleasant noise or delightfully asmr.
OSP is a graphic design collective based in Brussels. We work on typography, websites, web-to print tools and plotters. We exclusively use free and open source software (F/LOSS). Through our projects we question software as cultural objects and modes of collaboration between graphic designers, artists, cultural institutions and schools. We question the influence and affordances of digital tools through the practice of (commissioned) graphic design, teaching and applied research.