Library-in-Residence
Workshop

Library Transmission: The Collaborations We Map

Moses März with The Otolith Collective

Date and Time:: Wednesday 25 Mar, 2–5pm
Friday 27 Mar, 2–5pm
Location:: Iqra

Experimental Cartography Workshop with Moses März.

How do collaborations shape artistic creation, and how can we trace the relationships that sustain them?

This two-day workshop introduces experimental cartography as an artistic research method for mapping the collaborative networks behind artistic work. Moving beyond conventional academic approaches, where acknowledgements and bibliographies often obscure as much as they reveal, experimental cartography offers a visual and relational way of thinking through creative production.

As an artistic research method, experimental cartography offers an effective medium to trace and figure out some of the connections that generate and shape artistic work. Deriving from a desire to share knowledge in an intuitively accessible and inclusionary manner, it is a method that freely merges approaches from the visual arts, human sciences, storytelling and political activism.

Drawing on the relational philosophy of Édouard Glissant and Chimurenga’s “Method After Fela”, Moses März presents mapping as a practice that combines visual art, human sciences, storytelling and political thought.

Through presentations and practical exercises, participants will develop their own maps exploring the collaborative dimensions of writers, artists, musicians or filmmakers of their choice.

Application information:

To participate in the Workshops, please submit the following to otolitheventsbooking@gmail.com

Name and contact details
A short paragraph describing the particular collaboration you intend to map, and your creative discipline(s) or research background.
Work Sample showing your creative work or research work as a pdf or link to a website, video, audio or other work.

Please make the subject line: [your name] The Collaborations We Map

The deadline for applications is Friday 13 March 2026. Successful applicants will be notified by Wednesday 18 March 2026.

We invite participants who:

Have an interest in African literature, philosophy or intellectual history
Are open to close reading and collective discussion
Are committed to participating across both study sessions

No prior experience in cartography is required. All mapmaking materials will be provided.

Moses März is a researcher and mapmaker based in Berlin. His maps visualize geographies of knowledge by using a methodology based on the relational philosophy of Édouard Glissant, and the editorial practice of the Chimurenga Chronic. He currently works as principal investigator in the Research Unit Collaborations at the University of Potsdam.

The Otolith Collective is a long-standing artist led organisation supporting intergenerational and intragenerational art practices, research-led projects, writing and process-based forms of development. They create environments that nourish discourse and discussion, co-commission artists, and curate exhibitions and programmes with a wide range of collaborators, organisations and institutions here and elsewhere. Theirs is an international project based on transnational and translocal vision who are committed to maintaining and animating an experimental and worldmaking approach. Performing across disciplines such as visual art, performance, new music, film and video, new technology and critical writing, we draw a diverse range of audiences. The OC has curated seminal exhibitions and platforms on the work of figures such as Black Audio Film Collective, Mark Fisher, Harun Farocki, Bahar Noorizadeh, The Chimurenga Library, Chris Marker, to name but a few.