“We reject the library as a space of silence. The fixity of printed word is made alive by the spoken word, the sounds where resonance of the body is present.”1

the wreading library is an ever-growing collection of books, assembled by a few of the many hands involved in Guilherme Maggessi and Rafał Morusiewicz’s ongoing artistic-research project W/ri/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research (PEEK AR716). For the occasion of Volkskundemuseum’s second micro festival, we bring together printed matter that provides resources for practices of resistance or their documents.

The title of our library is inspired by the idea of wreading, conceptualized by American scholar Jed Rasula as “the collaborative momentum initiated by certain texts … in which the reader is enlisted as an agent of the writing.”2

The library’s contents were curated by Maggessi, Morusiewicz, and Ruby Sircar in the context of their seminar An overhead shot of gloved hands opening an acid-free box (Master in Critical Studies, SS 2025). While some of the books stem from Maggessi & Morusiewicz’s project library, most of them were handpicked by Siddhartha Lokanandi (Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin) for the course. A few of the books stem from the project’s cooperating institutions (queerANarchive and QWIEN – Zentrum für queere Geschichte), as well as from collaborating artist Claire Lefèvere, who provided the library with some of the books used in her stage work “FULL MELT DOWN.”

• ARTZINES #17, Bibliography. antoine lefebvre editions, 2023.
• ARTZINES #15, Print It Yourself!. antoine lefebvre editions, 2021/2022.
• Batalić, Tonči Kranjčević, Guilherme Maggessi, and Rafał Morusiewicz. Album tijelo album i priča / An Archive, a Body, and Album, and a Story. queerANarchive, 2024.
• Batalić, Tonči Kranjčević. Karol Radzieszewski. QAI/CE. queerANarchive, 2019.
• Batalić, Tonči Kranjčević. Meduprostori [pederluka]. queerANarchive, 2016.
• Batalić, Tonči Kranjčević. (Ne)Vidljivi Tragovi. queerANarchive, 2017.
• Bismarck, Beatrice von. Archives on Show. Revoicing, Shapeshifting, Displacing. A Curatorial Glossary. Archive Books, 2022
• Bolyos, Lisa, and Tomash Schoiswohl. Immo Grief. Für eine kollektive Kultur des Trauern um ein Zuhause. Published in the context of WienWoche, 2022.
• Brunner, Andreas. Als homosexuell verfolgt. Wiener Biografien aus der NS Zeit. Mandelbaum Verlag, 2023.
• Burnett, John. Destiny Obscure. Autobiographies of Childhood, Education, and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s. Penguin Books, 1984.
• Campt, Tina M.. Listening to Images. Duke University Press, 2017.
• Eburne, Jonathan P., and Judith Roof. The Year’s Work in the Oddball Archive. Indiana University Press, 2016.
• Graziano, Valeria, Marcello Mars, and Tomislav Medak. Pirate Care. Acts Against the Criminalisation of Solidarity. Pluto Press, 2025.
• Gupta, Akhil. Red Tape. Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India. Duke University Press, 2012.
• Hinrichs, Heide, Jo-ey Tang, and Elizabeth Haines. shelf documents: art library as practice. b_books, 2020/2021.
• Hull, Matthew S.. Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan. University of California Press, 2012.
• Hussayne, Êvar. The Cries of Inanna. 2013.
• International Women Space. In Our Own Words. Refugee Women in Germany Tell Their Stories / In Unseren Eigenen Worten. Geflüchtete Frauen in Deutschland erzählen von ihren Erfahrungen. 2015
• James, Robin. Cassette Mythos. Autonomedia, 1992.
• Kahn, Lin Shi, and Tony Perez. Scottsboro Alabama. A Story in Linoleum Cuts. New York University Press, 2002/2003.
• Kazeem-Kamiński, Belinda. H(a)untings – Heimsuchungen. Sternberg Press, 2023.
• Klitsch, Marion. Ästhetik der Zensur. Niggli, 2017.
• Kopenawa, Davi, and Bruce Albert. The Falling Sky. Words of a Yanomami Shaman, trans. Nicholas Elliot and Alison Dundy. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
• Kumar, Radha. The History of Doing. An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990. kali for women, 1993.
• Layiwola, Peju, and Sola Olorunyomi. Benin1897.com: Art and the Restitution Question. WyArt Editions, 2010.
• Lorde, Audre. Your Silence Will Not Protect You. Silver Press, 2017.
• Luz, Luïza. Beneath the Surface. Deep Listening, Buried Narratives, and Embodied Resistance. Archive Book, We Make It, 2024.
• Mamedov, Georgy, and Werker Collective. Werker 2 / A Gestural History of the Young Worker. Spector Books / Werker, 2023.
• Mersal, Iman. Archives & Crimes. Kayla ta/Archive Books, 2022.
• Metahaven. Black Transparency. The Right to Know in the Age of Mass Surveillance. Sternberg Press, 2015.
• Meyerding, Marie. Sights of Struggle. The History of the Tambo Village Women. Lecturis, 2023.
• Milk, Natalie, and Virginia Arce. The Invisible Archive. Los Angeles. Goodbye Books, 2019.
• Mitchell, Larry. The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions. Nighboat Books, 2022 [Calamus Books, 1977].
• Monorhetorik. From: Gay To: Crime. Mono 79. 2025.
• Nogueira, Thyago. Corpo a corpo: a disputa das imagens, da fotografia à transmissão ao vivo / Body Agains Body: The Battle of Images, from Photographed to Live Streaming. IMS, 2017.
• Perryer, Sophie. Personal Affects. Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art. Museum for African Art / Spier, 2004.
• Perryer, Sophie. Personal Affects. Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art. Volume II. Museum for African Art / Spier, 2004.
• Records as Portable Exhibitions and Interactive, Participatory Objects. Temporary Services, 2013.
• Rosenfeld, Elske, and Suza Husse. Wild Recuperations. Materials from Below. Dissident Stories from the GDR and p0stdeutschland #1. District*School without Center / Archive Books, 2019.
• Schaber, Ines. Obtuse, Flitting By, and In Spite of All — Image Archives in Practice. Archive Books / Camera Austria, 2018.
• Shibli, Ahlam, T. J Demos, Bartomeu Marí, and Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Ahlam Shibli. Phantom Home, exhibition catalogue. Hantje Cantz, 2013.
• Varela, Maria do Mar Castro, and Bahar Oghalai. Freund*innenschaft. Dreiklang einer politischen Praxis. Unrast Verlag, 2023
• Willis, Deborah. Picturing Us. African American Identity in Photography. The New Press, 1994.
• Zaayman, Carine. Anarchival Practices. The Clanwilliam Arts Project as Re-Imagining Custodianship of the Past. ICI Berlin Press, 2023.
• Ziff, Trisha, 101 Tragödien von Enrique Metinides. Kehrer Verlag, 2012.