in between

It is time to give a short report about the first edition of EntreLasTierras, the publication of Brücke des Saturns, a selection of poems by Cristián Berríos. As announced we had our first presentation within the listening party I resist you! part II on December 8 at Schikaneder, Vienna, an event by aka|red that took place within human rights film festival this human world and took us onto a journey following diverse (sound)tracks of resisting voices, their narrations and narratives. It was the first occasion to get into touch with Brücke des Saturns, besides some little presales and impromptu presentations and was very successful all in all as it also laid path to our next steps..

The publication became a little rumour already before its actual appearance. That we realized, when suddenly an artist friend, whom we saw from a diners window, jumped out on the street and asked us for an issue. We were happy to have some with us, since we were heading towards Salon für Kunstbuch, an artistic social intervention rather than a book store run by Bernhard Cella. Go see yourself (and btw and between us: you will be able to purchase our wonderful first publication there)! www.salon-fuer-kunstbuch.at It is great to share a similar perspective, since we also asked another seemingly alternative space, who refused to take up Brücke des Saturns in its program (the reasons we will explain at a different point and in a more elaborate analysis of strategies and actual events).

The encounter with Bernhard led to the fantastic idea to have our first lecture at his place. Within his event Saturday Swing im Salon on September 12 www.salon-fuer-kunstbuch.at/salon/detail?id=69 we did it: 3 poems had been read in Spanish and German language. This triggered some most interesting discussion on the poems, their content and potential readabilities, poetry as such and its cultural values within diverse contexts, cultural exchange, transnationalism, diverse asymmetries at play, but also on publication and distribution systems, „independent“ and/or collaborative projects and financial as well as performative aspects about them. We recorded some parts of the lecture and discussion and will make them available at a given time about which we will have you informed.

The informal sale until now takes the biggest part within the distribution of Brücke des Saturns. It is the colportage on streets, among friends, artists, events like exhibition openings and concerts that are most successful since always combined with a "Mouth to Mouth" colportage of the making off and stories behind Brücke des Saturns and EntreLasTierras publication project, which we discovered people are most interested to listen. If you don’t come across Brücke des Saturns easily or accidently you can also find it at Song’s place www.songsong.at We are happy to inform you that we could already pay off the material production costs. Yesterday, on December 24, we sent the first two issues to Santiago de Chile with a first little installment of €20 = CLP14,601,94 (as per today on www.xe.com/ucc) to the author.