Can mediumship be considered a methodology and an ethic within artistic practice? How, through one’s own body or body of work, can one serve as a vehicle for another voice, channel it, and become a sounding board? Mediumship can be understood as a mode of embodied and relational knowledge, enabling a form of communication across different temporalities—with the more-than-human, the unseen, and those who speak a different language.

Hosted by Adele Dipasqualem, in this reading session, various techniques such as creative reading, cut-up, and automatic writing chains will be applied. Through these practices, the workshop explore various texts written by feminist authors on the politics of voice production, on the disciplinary technologies of silence, and on forms of multilingualism and polyphony. By examining forms of writing that assert plurality, challenging the notion of authorship in favor of collective and relational practices, forms of homage and citation, and modes of writing that make space for a multiplicity of voices.

At PAV, the workshop will channel voices that have fought against classifications and definitions, that have torn words apart, recombined them, and created new languages. By using the texts as a starting point for collective discussions and reflections, the session will conclude with the production of a collective zine.

Free admission; reservations are required for a maximum of 15 participants.

Adele Dipasquale (Turin, 1994) is a visual artist who lives and works between Italy and The Hague, Netherlands, where she earned a Master’s degree in Artistic Research from the Royal Academy of Arts KABK in 2020. In her practice, she employs various media—moving images, analog film, vocal experiments, and writing—to give form and representation to the politics of language. Her work has been exhibited at various art institutions and film festivals, including: Fondazione Elpis (IT, 2025); Institute for Postnatural Studies (ES, 2025); Art Rotterdam (NL, 2025, 2024); London Short Film Festival (UK, 2025); Rotterdam International Film Festival (NL, 2024); Bologna Art City (IT, 2024). Her work has been supported by research grants and awards from institutions such as Mondriaan Fonds (NL), Cripta747 (IT), Stroom Den Haag (NL), and Creatività Contemporanea Mic (IT). She recently participated in residencies at Nuovo Forno del Pane MAMbo, Bologna (IT), Artistes en Residence, Clermont-Ferrand (FR), and Casino Display, Luxembourg. She is also part of the 16mm analog film collective and workshop Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam.