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2025 One Night Stands at Giselle’s Books
26 February 2026
Montez Press Radio · Penearth Centre, London (online)

2025 One Night Stands at Giselle’s Books

26 February 2026, 3PM
Montez Press Radio · Penearth Centre, London (online)

One Night Stand is a series of nocturnal readings at Giselle’s Books, Marseille. Each session occurs once, in the theatrical sense of a one-night stand: a single engagement, without reprise. Drawing on the logic of early cabaret, literature is approached as something to be served as much as read. Texts are delivered aloud; drinks are composed for the evening by invited writers. Both are prepared for the moment and consumed in real time. Language and liquid passing through, then gone.

Mégane Brauer graduated from the Institut des Beaux-Arts de Besançon in 2018. Working with text and installation, her practice focuses on questions of class, transforming objects and situations associated with working-class life and granting them a presence they are usually denied.
Aurelia Guo is a writer and researcher based in London. She is a visiting fellow at London South Bank University. She is the author of World of Interiors (Divided, 2022).
Jess Cole (she/her) is a writer based in South London. She has written for Vogue, The New York Times, The Guardian, and is a regular contributor to MARFA. Her creative practice spans dramaturgy, performance pieces, and prose. Cole finds wit—especially when it’s quick and sharp—deeply sexy, a sentiment that pulses through her writing.
Wayne Koestenbaum has published 23 books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including Stubble Archipelago, Ultramarine, The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Circus, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). His next book, a novel, My Lover, the Rabbi, will be published by FSG (in the U.S.) and Granta (in the U.K.) in March 2026.
Slow Reading Club (SRC) is a semi-fictional reading group initiated and run by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen. Since 2016, in numerous contexts, they have rehearsed alternatives to the kinds of reading they were taught in school, actively suppressing semantic content through strobe lights, strange postures, sociality, and toxins. Operating at the contact zones between reader and text, text and text, reader and reader, they attempt to build a practice from within the unstable space of reading itself.
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Insula, Theo Casciani – Release
co-organized with Sissi Club
from 6PM, 21 February 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Convalescents)

Insula, Theo Casciani
A conversation with Lucas Ferraço Nassif
moderated by Francesco Leto

co-organized with sissi club
7 – 9PM, 21 February 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Convalescents)

Typography and confection by Marie-Mam Sai Bellier
Bergamot candy by Kévin Laouar (Confiserie Lefèvre Lemoine, Nancy)
Die-cut stamp by Thomas Noël
Photography by Tom de Peyret

Théo Casciani is an author. Born in 1995, he studied humanities and social sciences at SciencesPo. and mathematics at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, in Paris, before joining La Cambre, in Brussels, where he is now a lecturer. Retina, his first novel, was published by Éditions P.O.L in 2019 and will be out in English and Polish in 2026 on HELA Press. His fictions, translated into different languages and awarded several prizes, have been presented through multiple forms in France and abroad, including WIELS [BE], Reference.Point [UK], Kyoto Art Center [JP], Centre Pompidou [FR], Montez Press [US], Spielart Festival München [DE], Terranova [SP], Théâtre National de Chaillot [FR], KW [DE], Beyeler Foundation [CH], Goldsmiths [UK], Soto [JP], LG Arts Center [KR], Palais de Tokyo [FR], Göteborg Opera [SW], Actoral [FR], Lafayette Anticipations [FR], Trauma [DE], Spazio Maiocchi [IT] and the Louvre [FR]. He has also contributed to publications such as AOC, Kaleidoscope, Alphabet, Klima, Habitante, Possession Immédiate, 90antiope, Magma, Mouvement, European Review of Books and The Brooklyn Rail. These texts have led to various collaborations, for example for projects with Damien Jalet, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Arca, Jonathan Glazer and the Chair of Narrative Medecine at Bordeaux Hospital, residencies at Villa Médicis, Providenza or Hôtel Experimenta and a research seminar in Belgium, in 2021. His second novel, Insula, has been published by P.O.L in January 2026.

Francesco Leto is a writer and translator. The author of several novels published in Italy, he is notably the translator of the work of Guillaume Dustan, whose discovery he helped introduce to the Italian public. His work explores the sensitive territories of desire, memory, and language, with particular attention to bodies and minority voices.

Lucas Ferraço Nassif holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a researcher at the Cinema and Philosophy Laboratory, part of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, and a member of the Portuguese Center of Psychoanalysis. He is also the director and editor of the films Reinforced Concrete, Being Boring, and Unfamiliar Ceiling/The Beast; as well as the author of Missing Links, published by Barakunan, and awarded the Best Monograph of 2023 by the Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM) in Portugal. In 2025, his book Unconscious/Television was published by Becoming Press.

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The Column #1
by Emma Bombail
19 December 2025 – 18 February 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

The Column #1
by Emma Bombail

19 December 2025 – 18 February 2026
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

Emma Bombail
Explain Emotion, 2025
Digital color print, 30 x 45 cm
Edition of 5

The Column #1: Emma Bombail, Explain Emotion, 2025.
Installation view, Giselle’s Books (Korsec)
The Column #1: Emma Bombail, Explain Emotion, 2025.
Installation view, Giselle’s Books (Korsec)


Emma Bombail is an artist, writer, doubter, and co-organizer of the PROPAGANDA reading series. She is currently studying English-speaking literature in Paris, France.

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Giselle Salon 3
co-organized with Maria Jooyoung
19-21 December 2025
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

Giselle Salon 3

Giselle Salon 3
co-organized with Maria Jooyoung

with

51 Personae
Aprilsnow
Fold Unfold
Display Distribute
LIGHT LOGISTICS
Limestone Books
Loneliness
Manyi Chan
Mediabus
Moroyoung
Multiple Spirits
Nomad Papaya
Workroom

19 – 21 December 2025
Giselle’s Books · 10 Rue Maurice Korsec, Marseille.

Giselle Salon 3

Giselle Salon is back with an edition co-organized with editor Maria Jooyoung focusing on small publishing initiatives across Asia.

From Friday onwards, this will be a rare occasion to catch titles of a dozen publishers working across diverse formats, languages, and contexts. Bringing together independent presses from East and Southeast Asia, the edition highlights how small publishing operates as both a creative practice and a critical infrastructure -one that responds to local urgencies while remaining deeply interconnected.

The selection spans artist books, experimental print, theory, fiction, and hybrid publications that often circulate outside mainstream distribution channels. Through the lens of small-scale publishing, the salon foregrounds collaboration, translation, and alternative modes of circulation, offering visitors a chance not only to browse and purchase books, but also to encounter the ideas, communities, and labor behind them.

Limited quantities
All proceeds go to publishers 🫶

Giselle’s Books
10 Rue Maurice Korsec, Marseille

Friday 19th December from 6PM
Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st from 2PM

51 Personae

51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of “realism” in art as expressive actions.

Aprilsnow

Aprilsnow Press is a small publishing house based in Daegu, Korea. Launched in the year 2013, it publishes a small number of books per year, mostly photobooks. Run by design writer Kay Jun and book designer Jeong Jae-wan, Aprilsnow Press evolves around three keywords; photography, text and design. Having background in graphic design, both Kay Jun and Jeong Jaewan see publishing as part of their project of questioning the relationship between photography, text and design. Each book published by Aprilsnow Press is thus interpreted as a live platform of practicing the relationship of these three keywords.

Fold Unfold

Fold Unfold Press is a publishing house based in Taipei, Taiwan. It was created by Che Yeh with the intention of verbing publications, producing and distributing moments that printed matters fold and unfold themselves.

Occasionally, people will find them at bookfairs, in the neighborhood, curating shows and hosting gatherings.

Display Distribute & LIGHT LOGISTICS

Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, distribution service, now and again exhibition space, and sometimes shop operated by a roving cast of conceptual shop girls and co-conspirators. Seeping via the capricious circulation patterns of low-end globalisation into other subaltern networks and grammars, Display Distribute’s long-term, experimental infrastructure LIGHT LOGISTICS has recently delved into a ‘courier-torial’ approach to socio-material assembly and production, manifest via recent appearances with Winona (with LIN Yezi; Brussels, BE), Greylight Projects (with XIANG Junhao; Heerlen, NL), and lumbung Kios (with Krista JANTOWSKI; international). Elaine W. Ho was LIGHT LOGISTICS Courier of the Month for August 2016, and has been carrying ever since.

Limestone Books

Limestone Books is an art book shop, library, RISO printing workshop, publisher and community space, with a particular focus on non-Western perspectives and underrepresented voices. It was founded in 2022 in Maastricht, The Netherlands, by a curatorial collective consisting of Jhen Chen, Liang-Kai Yu, Emily Shin-Jie Lee, HSIEH I Hsuan, and Chang YuHsin. We envision ourselves as a bookshop, but not in the traditional profit-driven sense. Instead, we view the economic perspective as a focal point where we can practice radical experimentation within the art publishing sphere.

Loneliness

Loneliness Books is a bookstore and publishing house that collects books and zines from across Asia addressing queerness, gender, feminism, loneliness, and solidarity, with a focus on weaving together the small and often overlooked voices of the region. Its distinctive selection offers insight into Asia’s diverse cultures and social movements. By valuing individual voices and fostering encounters with the stories of unknown others, it seeks to create spaces and publications through which those experiencing loneliness may find a sense of warmth and solidarity.

Manyi Chan

An essay investigating the uncanny similarities between the process of ‘frying an egg’ and ‘taking a photograph’. Framed through sociologist Herbert Blumer’s theory of ‘symbolic interactionism’.

Mediabus

Mediabus is a small publishing house based in Seoul, founded in 2007 by designers and planners. It engages in publishing and distributing various forms of art-related publications while also organizing exhibitions, workshops, and other events. Since March 2010, it has been operating The Book Society, a bookstore and project space in Seoul. Through this platform, it not only sells independent publications but also hosts study programs, artist and designer talks, and other events. Since its inception, mediabus has participated in various art book fairs across Tokyo, New York, Berlin, Paris, London, Bangkok, Singapore, Shanghai, Taipei, and Sharjah, among others. Through these activities, it introduces and distributes Korean art books and independent publications internationally.

Moroyoung

“Moroyoung” is a publishing project founded in 2024 in Taiwan and focusing on the works of young Taiwanese creators in politics, landscapes, and unique scenic aesthetics of Taiwan and East Asia. The name “Moroyoung” is derived from the Taiwanese word “bô-lōo-iōng,” meaning “not useful,” a common criticism from elders towards young artists in Taiwan.

Multiple Spirits

Multiple Spirits is a bilingual queer feminist art zine based in and emerging from Japan. The term “queer” is used as a temporary umbrella, indicating a sense of discomfort with a society structured around heterosexual norms. This provisional usage reflects the aspiration to develop new languages and vocabularies capable of articulating spaces and possibilities that have not yet come into being but are nonetheless necessary.

The project situates itself within the historical continuum of feminisms and understands feminist thinking as a means of dismantling discrimination related to gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class within society. This approach seeks to counter narrowed interpretations of feminism that have been historically distorted in Japan and internationally by gender essentialism. Feminist thinking is not treated as a fixed or prescriptive identity; rather, it is understood as a practice aimed at dismantling historically and socially constructed identity fictions and fostering political yet fluid subjectivities.

Multiple Spirits functions as a space for practicing these ideas and for developing new languages for artistic expression. “Queer feminism” is approached as a site of boundary-crossing—across nations and sexualities—evoking a state of suspension, akin to waiting in an airport before departure, while remaining grounded in the physical and social realities of embodied existence.

Nomad Papaya

Nomad Papaya BOOKS is an art book and zine publishing house focusing on transition of culture(s) and identit(ies), based in Taiwan and Germany.
The founder started questioning the notions of identity & nationality but get really confused by himself, so he decided to make art books and collaborate with people, try (not) to answer and form new ideologies and relations.
What is changing when you cross the border, leaving your own history/home behind?
Can encounter form new Identities ?

Workroom

Workroom Press is a publishing house and graphic design studio. Launched in 2006, it has mainly published books in the fields of art, design, literature, humanities, music, and fashion. Since 2013, it has run a joint imprint, Workroom Specter, with Sulki and Min.

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One Night Stand
with Slow Reading Club
from 6PM, 21 December 2025
Giselle’s Books · Marseille (Korsec)

One Night Stand

with
Slow Reading Club

21.12.2025 – from 6pm
Giselle’s Books · Marseille

Slow Reading Club (SRC) is a semi-fictional reading group initiated and run by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen.
Since 2016, in numerous contexts, they have rehearsed alternatives to the kinds of reading they were taught in school, actively suppressing semantic content through strobe lights, strange postures, sociality, and toxins.
Operating at the contact zones between reader and text, text and text, reader and reader, they attempt to build a practice from within the unstable space of reading itself.

Répondeur is an extensive account of SRC’s practice in collective reading sessions, exhibitions, and textual bootlegging. Imagined as a scroll, with a rhyme structure and typesetting by Will Holder, the book brings together facsimiles of SRC readers, a wide-ranging interview by Alicja Melzacka, new texts by Joyelle McSweeney and Bill Dietz, and visual work and translations by SRC. These discrete elements are interwoven into a complex, shimmering whole, delighting in the ruptures and elisions of one text’s move into the next.

Slow Reading Club: Répondeur, with Alicja Melzacka, Joyelle McSweeney, Bill Dietz, designed by Will Holder. 2025, Published by Occasional Papers.
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Bangkok Art Book Fair
5 – 7 December 2025
Bangkok Art & Cultural Centre · Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok Art Book Fair

5 – 7 December 2025
Bangkok Art & Cultural Centre · Bangkok, Thailand

Bringing together diverse voices at the intersection of artistic publishing, activism, academic research, and community practices, the Bangkok Art Book Fair aim to build a dynamic network; connecting independent publishers and art book enthusiasts across the region, fostering collaboration, and expanding the ways knowledge and creativity are shared. The 7th edition of Bangkok Art Book Fair is themed ‘You Can Sit With Us,’ recognizing that art books and independent publications are more than just print—they are spaces of gathering, exchange, and shared experience.

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Taipei Art Book Fair
21 – 23 November 2025
Huashan Creative Park · Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei Art Book Fair

21 – 23 November 2025
Huashan Creative Park · Taipei, Taiwan

Since 2016, Taipei Art Book Fair (草率季) has brought together creators, publishers, independent bookstores, and artists from around the world each year. The fair showcases a diverse array of printed materials, including magazines, photography collections, and art books, alongside creative works, artistic projects, and the unique spirit behind each creation. It is a large-scale collaborative platform that interweaves publishing, learning, art, space, and experience.

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Paris Internationale
22-26 October 2025
Rond-point des Champs Elysées · Paris

Reading of Retail Therapy, 2025, by Jess Cole with at Giselle's Books, Marseille, 07.09.2025.

Binds

with

Thomas Cap de Ville
Heike-Karin Föll
C. Heppworth
Martin Laborde
Simon Popper
Frederik Worm

22 – 26.10.2025
Paris internationale · Rond Point des Champs-Élysées, Paris

Installation view, Binds, with Thomas Cap de Ville, Heike-Karin Föll, C. Heppworth, Martin Laborde, Simon Popper, Frederik Worm Giselle’s Books at Paris Internationale, Rond-Point des Champs Élysées, Paris, 22-26 October 2025.
Thomas Cap de Ville, Book 8, 2020. 11 x 24 x 10 cm, mixed media.
Heike-Karin Föll, reference as form, 2025. 29,5 x 21,5 x 3,5 cm, paper, cardboard, fabric.
C. Heppworth, Yes, 2012-2025. 29 x 1003 x 0,3 cm, paper, tape.
Martin Laborde, Reloaded and combinatory (Magazine #2), 2024. 24 x 32 x 1 cm, mixed media.
Martin Laborde, Reloaded and combinatory (Magazine #7), 2024. 21 x 28 x 2 cm, mixed media.
Simon Popper, Disappointing Circles, 2025. 26 x 33 x 0,5 cm, acrylic, paper. Edition of 10.
Frederik Worm, Intimacies of a Continent, 2024. 23 x 30 x 4 cm, paper.
Frederik Worm, Rest No Friend (for Rune), 2025. 17 x 26 x 12 cm, paper, plastic.

Thomas Cap de Ville

Thomas Cap de Ville, lives and works in Paris.
His practice draws from the notion of inner worlds and the collection of objects as an obsession. Traces are what constitutes the primary ressource of his work to pay tribute to teenage years and young adulthood of the late nineties and early 2000 counter-culture. Accumulating souvenirs, keeping and reminding them is a way of romanticizing his own existence and celebrate life. The artist tells us in his work stories of fraternity, erotic adventures and trips under the influence. His books, photographies, drawings and movies forms his life’s archives. His installations take the form of altars, gathering these small objects that became talismans and illustrate the social organisation of a generation. His videos of nocturnal walks put on the appearence of ritual dances.
Thomas Cap de Ville started out in fashion and created videos in collaboration with various musicians such as La Chatte. His work was then part of collective projects such as at the Fondation Cartier (Paris, 2011). He inaugurated his first solo shows at Goswell Road (Paris, 2017 and 2019). In 2020 he was an artist in residence at Confort Moderne (Poitiers) where he presented his first institutional personal exhibition. His work has been shown since in solo exhibitions at Exo Exo
(Paris, 2021 and 2022) ; Galeria Miroslav Kraljevic (Zagreb, 2022) and in institutional group exhibitions at CRAC Alsace (Altkirch, 2024) ; CRÉDAC (Ivry-sur-Seine, 2024) ; Kunsthalle Praha (Prague, 2023) ; FRAC Corsica (Corte, 2023) and group shows in galleries, at Mendes Wood (Brussels, 2022) ; Colette Mariana (Barcelona, 2022) ; Galerie Hussenot (Paris, 2020).

Heike-Karin Föll

Heike-Karin Föll is a Berlin-based artist. She works with the materiality and mechanics of painting and language, treating textuality as equally a vehicle of content, a visual motif and a material form. Heike-Karin Föll’s work investigates the dissemination of visual art focusing on new media dispersion methods that aim to make her work widely accessible. Her practice includes paintings, books, prints and texts. Her work is held in several international public collections, including Museion Bozen and Fonds d’art contemporain, Paris. Her work is represented by Oskar Weiss Gallery, Zürich and Emanuela Campoli, Paris and Milano. Heike-Karin Föll is professor for Contemporary Art in Theory and Practice at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). After having degreed Fine Arts at Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and UdK Berlin, she contributed to several major exhibitions, as artist, author and curator, including documenta X in Kassel, DE (1997). She taught at Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Merz Academy Stuttgart, Freie Universität Berlin (FU), and UdK Berlin.

C. Heppworth

C. Heppworth is an artist working with magazines. 

Martin Laborde

Martin Laborde lives and works in Nice, France.
From 2017 to 2024, his studio located in Lisbon, was hosting episodic instalments of Ampersand – a program he co-founded which has been kept in operation fostering friendships and numerous collaborations. Ampersand is currently itinerant (Ana Jotta, Marian Goodman, 2025; Jean Painlevé, Culturgest, 2024).  He is also among the three editors of the journal octopus notes.
His work has been presented recently at Mala and FarO (Lisbon), Treize (Paris) as well as with gallery Air de Paris (Romainville and Monaco). He is currently working on a publication gathering years of collages to be published by Dope Press (Los Angeles), Giselle’s Books (Marseille) and Daisy (Paris) including, among others, texts by Wayne Koestenbaum, Oscar Tuazon, and Marie Canet.

Simon Popper

Simon Popper lives and works in San Francisco, USA.
His selected solo exhibitions include Artist of the Day, selected by Rut Blees Luxemburg, Flowers Gallery, London (2018); [ear for EAR], FILET, London (2015); Mistaking Your Finger for the Moon While Pointing at It, 4 Cose, London (2014); Double show with Alessandro Raho, Hats Plus, London (2009); The most, the best, we can do, we believe (wanting to give evidence of love), is to get out of the way, leave space around whomever or whatever it is. But there is no space!, Rachmaninoff’s, London (2008); For the Birds, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome (2008); Park Night with Céline Condorelli, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London (2008); Funguys, White Cubicle Toilet Gallery, London (2008).
Selected group exhibitions include: The Protagonist, Belmacz Gallery, London (2025); Blank. Raw. Illegible… Artists’ Books as Statements (1960-2022), Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany (2023); Mushroom, Somerset House, London (2019); Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989-2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2017); Bodikon, Belmacz Gallery, London (2016); Das wäre doch nicht nötig gewesen, Baeckerei, Berlin (2016); Everything is About to Happen (Porto): Artists’ Books and Editions, curated by Gregorio Magnani, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2016); Accadrà Domani, curated by Gregorio Magnani, Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2015); The Library Vaccine, Artists Space, New York (2014); Paper, curated by Keith Coventry, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town (2014); Puppet Show, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (2014); Everything is About to Happen, curated by Gregorio Magnani, greengrassi, London (2014); Puppet Show, curated by Tom Bloor and Céline Condorelli, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2013).

Frederik Worm

Frederik Worm is a visual artist and photographer whose practice frequently involves collaboration with other artists, writers, and musicians. His work explores the conditions under which art is produced, owned, and distributed, often challenging traditional modes of authorship and presentation. Worm works across a range of formats including slideshows, live performances, and printed matter. His recent presentations include Kunsthal 44Møen (DK, 2025), Haus am Waldsee (DE, 2025), New Theater Hollywood (US, 2025), UKS – Unge Kunstneres Samfund (NO, 2024), Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art (DK, 2024), Berlin Atonal (DE, 2023), and Cafe Oto (UK, 2023).

Giselle’s Books would like to extend its gratitude to Galerie Oskar Weiss, Exo Exo and Paris Internationale.

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[APPLICATIONS CLOSED] Research & Writing Getaway
20 November – 10 December 2025
Giselle’s Books · Marseille

Giselle's Books Open Call

Open Call — Research & Writing Getaway

 Giselle’s Books · Marseille

Dates: 20 November – 10 December 2025
Applications Closed

Giselle’s Books invites curators, writers, and artists working with text-based practices to apply for a three-week Research & Writing Getaway in Marseille’s winter light.
 
This time offers a quiet space for reflection, writing, and exchange within the context of Giselle’s Books, a research project dedicated to editorial formats extending through public programs, exhibitions, a physical archive, as well as publishing activities.
 
 
What we offer
 
· A welcoming environment to focus on your project
· Access to Giselle’s library resources
· Contextual support (introduction to Marseille’s art and publishing community, recommendations for local resources)
· Accommodation (fully furnished apartment, bedroom, kitchen area, bathroom, basic amenities).
· Work Resources: Wi-Fi, printer, table, basic stationary and the library’s collection 
 
Please note that Participants are responsible for their travel and daily expenses.
 
 
Who can apply
 
We welcome proposals from curators, artists, researchers, and practitioners working in the expanded field of publishing and text. Applications are open internationally and can be submitted in English or French.
 
Child-friendly & pet-friendly: Residents are welcome to come with children or their non-human companions.
 
 
How to apply
 
Please send a single PDF including:
1. A short description of your project (maximum 500 words)
2. A brief bio (maximum 200 words)
3. A selection of relevant work samples (maximum 10 pages / links)
 
Send your application to getaway@gisellesbooks.com
Subject line: NAME_Research & Writing Getaway Application
 
Deadline: 30 September 2025  (12 am CEST)
Applicants will be notified of the results by mid-October 2025.
Giselle’s Books invite commissaires, écrivain·es et artistes travaillant avec des pratiques basées sur le texte à postuler pour un Research & Writing Getaway de trois semaines dans la lumière hivernale de Marseille.
 
Cette période offre un espace calme pour la réflexion, l’écriture et l’échange dans le cadre de Giselle’s Books, un projet de recherche dédié aux formats éditoriaux s’étendant à travers des programmes publics, des expositions, un archive physique ainsi que des activités de publication.
 
 
Ce que nous proposons
 
· Un environnement accueillant pour se concentrer sur votre projet
· Accès aux ressources de la bibliothèque de Giselle’s Books
· Accompagnement contextuel (présentation de la scène artistique et éditoriale de Marseille, recommandations de ressources locales)
· Logement (Appartement entièrement meublé avec chambre, coin cuisine, salle de bain et équipements de base)
· Ressources de travail (Wi-Fi, imprimante, table, fournitures de bureau de base et accès à la collection de la bibliothèque)
 
À noter – les participant·es sont responsables de leurs frais de déplacement et de leur vie quotidienne.
 
 
Qui peut postuler
 
Nous accueillons les propositions de commissaires, artistes, chercheur·es et praticien·nes travaillant dans le champ élargi de l’édition et du texte. Les candidatures sont ouvertes à l’international et peuvent être soumises en anglais ou en français.
 
Enfants et animaux bienvenus – les résident·es peuvent venir avec des enfants ou leurs compagnons non-humains.
 
 
Comment postuler
 
Merci d’envoyer un seul PDF comprenant :
1. Une courte description de votre projet (maximum 500 mots)
2. Une brève biographie (maximum 200 mots)
3. Une sélection d’œuvres pertinentes (maximum 10 pages / liens)
 
Envoyez votre candidature à getaway@gisellesbooks.com
Objet : NOM_Research & Writing Getaway Application
 
Date limite : 30 septembre 2025 (00h00 CEST)
Les candidat·es seront informé·es des résultats mi-octobre 2025.

This program is produced independently, without financial or logistical support from any state, territorial authority, or public institution.

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One Night Stand with Wayne Koestenbaum
from 6:30PM, 28 September 2025
Giselle’s Books · Marseille

Reading of Retail Therapy, 2025, by Jess Cole with at Giselle's Books, Marseille, 07.09.2025.

One Night Stand

With Wayne Koestenbaum
& Selected Night Caps

28.09.2025 – from 6:30pm
Giselle’s Books · Marseille

On the occasion of the closing of WISHLIST by Martin Laborde.
Billboard design by Claude Eigan for Giselle’s Books, 2025.

Wayne Koestenbaum has published 23 books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including Stubble Archipelago, Ultramarine, The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Circus, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award).

His next book, a novel, My Lover, the Rabbi, will be published by FSG (in the U.S.) and Granta (in the U.K.) in March 2026.

He has exhibited his visual art in solo shows at White Columns, 356 Mission, the University of Kentucky Art Museum, Millennium Film Workshop, and Gattopardo; in two-person shows at Essex Flowers and the Wege Center for the Arts; and in many group shows, including Air de Paris, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Gordon Robichaux, Klaus von Nichtssagend, Yossi Milo Gallery, FIERMAN, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. His first piano/vocal record, Lounge Act, was released by Ugly Duckling Presse Records; he has given musical performances of improvisatory Sprechstimme soliloquies at The Kitchen, REDCAT, Centre Pompidou, The Walker Art Center, The Artist’s Institute, the Renaissance Society, the Hammer Museum, The Poetry Project, and the Francis Kite Club.
His first feature-length film, The Collective, premiered at UnionDocs (New York) in 2021. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Whiting Award. Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired his literary archive. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Film projection during One night Stand with Wayne Koestenbaum at Giselle's Books, Marseille, 28.09.2025.
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