MASTER CLASS "THE READING OF PLEASURE

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MASTER CLASS "THE READING OF PLEASURE #2" with Henry Andersen & Lars Kwakkenbos

19.01 —22.01.2026 (Montavoix, FR) + 16.03—20.03.2026 (Malesherbes, FR)

NOTE: THIS MASTER CLASS IS ORGANISED BY THE MASTER IN GRAPHIC DESIGN (2 PLACES ONLY)

keywords Reading, editing, the novel, 19th century, France, bookmaking, printing

This masterclass takes place in two peripheries and involves the editing and production of a small publication about the novel, the police, and the culture of reading in 19th century France. We want to follow the complete process of making a book: from editing, designing, printing, folding and binding, all as a collective operation. The publication and workshop emerges from a larger research lead by Henry Andersen and Lars Kwakkenbos on the histories of reading and their connection with print technologies and images of the virus. Each year, we’ll focus on a different moment in the history of reading and each year we’ll experiment with a different print technology with which we are still unfamiliar.

Like the early novel, this masterclass will come in instalments and will contain a host of changing characters. The first part, 19-22 January 2026, will take place in collaboration with architect/forester Wim Cuyvers in his semi-legendary refuge “Montavoix” in the Jura mountains. Here, we will work without electricity, planning the publication through reading, discussion, tests of binding and printing. The second part 16-20 March 2026, will take place in the L’Atelier-Musée de l’imprimerie des Malesherbes, on the periphery of Paris. Here, together with designer Alex Balgiu and printers from the atelier, we will print, produce and bind the publication on a manual offset press. The aim is not to perfect the machine, but to understand how it works enough that we can use it and intervene in it in experimental ways.

Note: KASK will cover the costs of accommodation and food for both workshops, but students are asked to organise travel themselves. Organised well and collectively, this can be relatively cheap, so let’s do it together.

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