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nulla 0, a monolith

NULLA 0, a monolith first shown July 2nd 2021 at Rich Mix, part of Open Call x Spitalfields Music Festival 2021

NULLA 0, a monolith is a rich collaborative oral archive & publication - a record and artefact of an otherwise ephemeral assembly of 9 participants and their English speaking voices who identify across non-binary, womxn and women (cis/trans), and were either born in London or moved to the city for a duration of time.

The book and the project it was born from is about agency - amplifying voices that are often othered while sharing narratives which have typically been omitted from our collective histories. Together, contributors challenge the word ‘neutral’ - a term regularly associated with whiteness, middle class and binary voices, casually employed to flatly describe the voices of AI personal assistants who maintain their coded interactions in a master/slave role play.

Initially meant as a series of in-person group workshops, the pandemic changed the landscape of the project by shifting discussions onto a digital platform. Here, strangers launched into an incredibly intimate and vulnerable subject - the voice. Following the first exchange contributors attempted to write a manifesto which could hold and celebrate our difference. The result is the publications of NULLA 0, a monolith.

Published 2021, London
Lola de la Mata (project concept, digital images, sound, workshop leader)
Copyright Lola de la Mata, authors and participants © 2021.

With Special Thanks to:
Participants: Adèle Morand / Geaola Oluwakemi Adeyemi / Sven Ironside / Jasmin Kent Rodgman / Ruari Paterson-Achenbach / Kendall Perry / Shannon Latoyah / Joanna M Ward / Hannah Doucet

Preface by: Lola Olufemi

Collaborators: Sculptor - Grace Woodcock / Glass Blower - Marcin Czepiga / Publication - Samantha Whetton

Mentors: Niloo Sharifi / Mira Calix

Quote on title page: Sadie Plant, Zeros + ones : digital women + the new technoculture. Fourth Estate 1997

Layout: designprintbind.info
Typeset in Avara by Raphaël Bastide + Wei Huang + Lucas Le Bihan + Walid Bouchouchi + Jérémy Landes and Cantique by Sébastien Hayez + Ariel Martín Pérez, both from velvetyne.fr
Authentic Sans by Christina Janus and Desmond Wong Print

Printed and bound in the UK
This publication was made possible with support from Spitalfields Music Festival 2021 and Help Musicians UK.
The Open Call Showcase is presented in partnership with Rich Mix.

the publication is being sold at the following places: >London - Cafe OTO / The World of Echo / Libreria
>Manchester - PINK MCR
>Liverpool - News From Nowhere
>Glasgow - Good Press

*photographs with hands from Good Press

SOMESUCH STORIES 5

SOMESUCH STORIES, AN ANNUAL PUBLICATION PACKED WITH EXPERIENCES OF CULTURE, NATURE, SEX AND IDENTITY.

Publication edited by Suze Olbrich and art direction by Lydia Garnett.

It includes a series of texts gorgeously illustrated by Olivia Norris’ paintings, reworked from a performance I gave on AI personal assistants and the use of female voice in 2017 with Young Blood Initiative, curated by Candy Choi.

'UNKNOWN FORM'

Poem PUBLISHED IN QUEER ZINE DICTIONARY
FEMINIST LIBRARY, London, 2021

To celebrate Pride we are making available our wonderful Queer Dictionary Zine, available for the first time in printed form! 

This new publication from the Feminist Library has contributions from over 40 artists exploring the idea of a ‘queer dictionary’ through original artworks and texts. Within these pages you’ll find illustrations, poetry, reclaimed words, but – most importantly – a space to exist within a queer, feminist family.

So, why a queer dictionary? As we know, language is important (fabulous). Language defines how we are categorised and treated by society, as constructed political beings. Language is slippery. It is reshaped over space and time as words and worlds evolve beyond their original conception. This reshaping is our power. We will continue to struggle and support each other as we strive to be defined how we choose, and we hope this (very queer) dictionary acts as a source of strength, reminding you (us) that we’re here together, as a queer community.