From 2021 to 2023, I was a member of the editorial board of Simulacrum, where I contributed to curating issues a special issue on documenta fifteen in 2022, and worked on the themes of re(kin)dling, dirt, and water. I also work with publishing academics and researchers to shape manuscripts, sharpen arguments, and navigate interdisciplinary methods—especially within politically engaged and experimental formats.
Studio Imaginalis was born out of a desire to help bring into the world projects through an attunement to what Ibn ʿArabi called ‘the imaginal world’ (ʿalam al-khayal)—a real, ontological space of images and meanings existing between the material and the spiritual. Developmental editing is the signature of our studio, where editorial work is approached not (just) as polishing, but as a speculative, collaborative practice that supports the emergence of text as a majeutic practice.
Mother’s Milk (re)constructs the story of Ilse, the author’s grandmother. Alienated in the psychiatric hospital of La Timone, in Marseille, Ilse resided there from 1952 until her death in 1983.
Bringing together archival material, correspondences and conversations narrated via documentary poetry, Marie Ilse Bourlanges assembles the fragments of a family history hiding in plain sight.
In the ‘Introduction’ to Mother’s Milk, editor Marta Pagliuca Pelacani calls this a work of archival fiction, a compound inspired by the work of Prof. Gil Hochberg on the idea of an ‘archival imagination’.
Bringing together archival material, correspondences and conversations narrated via documentary poetry, Marie Ilse Bourlanges assembles the fragments of a family history hiding in plain sight.
In the ‘Introduction’ to Mother’s Milk, editor Marta Pagliuca Pelacani calls this a work of archival fiction, a compound inspired by the work of Prof. Gil Hochberg on the idea of an ‘archival imagination’.
Mother’s Milk
by Marie Ilse Bourlanges
(JapSam Books, 2023)
ISBN: 978-94-92852-74-8
design: Alix Chauvet
edited by: Marta Pagliuca Pelacani
Press:
Metropolis M https://www.metropolism.com/nl/features/48884_telling_someone_else_s_story_in_conversation_with_marie_ilse_bourlanges_on_intergenerational_trauma
by Marie Ilse Bourlanges
(JapSam Books, 2023)
ISBN: 978-94-92852-74-8
design: Alix Chauvet
edited by: Marta Pagliuca Pelacani
Press:
Metropolis M https://www.metropolism.com/nl/features/48884_telling_someone_else_s_story_in_conversation_with_marie_ilse_bourlanges_on_intergenerational_trauma
Ph. The Book Photographer.
Honeycombing - Book Launch of Mother’s Milk, moderated by Marta Pagliuca Pelacani - Jan. 19 2023 - Looiersgracht 60.
Ph. *tba*
Simulacrum is quartlerly arts and culture magazine based in Amsterdam, NL.
Since 1993, we have been fostering a space for emerging and established authors to reflect together on contemporary art and society.
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Simulacrum Magazine
Each issue of Simulacrum is the result of a collaborative curation by three or more editors.
As part of an ‘inhoudelijke redactie’, editors choose the theme of the issue, curate its content, and programme thematic film screenings.
All editorials are written collaboratively by the inoudelijke redactie.
Find us at: https://www.simulacrum.nl/bookshops
Simulacrum Magazine
Each issue of Simulacrum is the result of a collaborative curation by three or more editors.
As part of an ‘inhoudelijke redactie’, editors choose the theme of the issue, curate its content, and programme thematic film screenings.
All editorials are written collaboratively by the inoudelijke redactie.
Find us at: https://www.simulacrum.nl/bookshops
The Documenta Issue: special issue
Inhoudelijke Redactie: Niels Noot and Marta Pagliuca Pelacani
Design: Kenneth Geurts
https://www.simulacrum.nl/shop/p/the-documenta-issue
Re[kin]dling: jrg. 31 no. 2
Inhoudelijke Redactie: Anna Tchitcherine, Elena Oehrlich, Marta Pagliuca Pelacani
Design: Kenneth Geurts
https://www.simulacrum.nl/shop/p/rekindling
Dirt: jrg. 30 no. 2
Inhoudelijke Redactie: Merav Krone, Anne Schenkels, Marta Pagliuca Pelacani
design: Ruby van Vlugt
https://www.simulacrum.nl/shop/p/dirt