We don't want to be stars (but parts of constellations) Publication
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We don’t want to be stars (but parts of constellations) is the final outcome of the collaborative process of the same name, developed by Eesti Kaasaegse Kunsti Muuseum, the Faculty of Things That Can’t Be Learned, and Suns and Stars. The book functions both as a trace of the three collaborative years and as a refusal to fully resolve into documentation. Acknowledging the project as a complex ecosystem of artistic practices, organisational partnerships, and collective study, the publication foregrounds the incomplete and ongoing nature of collaboration: its frictions, negotiations, and moments of profound connection that emerge through dispersive collective work. Throughout the project, the common was approached not as a fixed identity, but as something continuously assembled through practice. It took shape through relations of responsibility and the act of spending time together: in how participants met, deliberated, worked, and made decisions. These processes form the very material from which the book departs. Environmental and logistical conditions such as weather patterns, available spaces, institutional rhythms, fundamentally shaped what forms of collective practice could emerge. A storm might disrupt travel plans; unexpected sunshine might shift a discussion outdoors. These conditions became integral to the making of the common itself, how the project developed and the way this book came into its (final) form.
Suns and Stars invited Stefano Harney, who had previously participated in the symposium in Amsterdam, to return for a conversation within the publication. FR~U invited Ala Younis, whose practice resonates closely with their own, and whose contribution enters into dialogue with the text by Ivana, curator of the Skopje programme. EKKM invited Mia Maria Rohumaa to write a poetic reflection on the exhibition they organised, which is accompanied by drawings by Liisa-Lota Jõeleht.
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We don’t want to be stars (but parts of constellations)
Authors: Ala Younis, Anastasija Pandilovska, Ivana Vaseva, Liisa-Lota Jõeleht, Margit Säde, Marjoca de Greef, Mia Maria Rohumaa, Stefano Harney
Graphic design: Anastasija Pandilovska
Editors: Anastasija Pandilovska and Marjoca de Greef
Printing and binding: Drukkerij Raddraaier SSP, Amsterdam
Paper inside: Amber Graphic 100 grs
Paper cover: Munken Lynx 300 grs
Fonts: Freight Sans, Kepler Std, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro
Published by: Suns and Stars, Amsterdam
Publishing date: April 2026
Copies: 300
ISBN: 9789090421612
© Suns and Stars and the authors
Download here your digital version of WdwtbS Publication in full colour
We don’t want to be stars (but parts of constellations) is the final outcome of the collaborative process of the same name, developed by Eesti Kaasaegse Kunsti Muuseum, the Faculty of Things That Can’t Be Learned, and Suns and Stars. The book functions both as a trace of the three collaborative years and as a refusal to fully resolve into documentation. Acknowledging the project as a complex ecosystem of artistic practices, organisational partnerships, and collective study, the publication foregrounds the incomplete and ongoing nature of collaboration: its frictions, negotiations, and moments of profound connection that emerge through dispersive collective work. Throughout the project, the common was approached not as a fixed identity, but as something continuously assembled through practice. It took shape through relations of responsibility and the act of spending time together: in how participants met, deliberated, worked, and made decisions. These processes form the very material from which the book departs. Environmental and logistical conditions such as weather patterns, available spaces, institutional rhythms, fundamentally shaped what forms of collective practice could emerge. A storm might disrupt travel plans; unexpected sunshine might shift a discussion outdoors. These conditions became integral to the making of the common itself, how the project developed and the way this book came into its (final) form.
Suns and Stars invited Stefano Harney, who had previously participated in the symposium in Amsterdam, to return for a conversation within the publication. FR~U invited Ala Younis, whose practice resonates closely with their own, and whose contribution enters into dialogue with the text by Ivana, curator of the Skopje programme. EKKM invited Mia Maria Rohumaa to write a poetic reflection on the exhibition they organised, which is accompanied by drawings by Liisa-Lota Jõeleht.
Contents
Gatherings in the incomplete, part 1
– Stefano Harney interviewed by Marjoca de Greef and Anastasija Pandilovska
Gatherings in the incomplete, part 2
– Marjoca de Greef and Anastasija Pandilovska
Not-yet-ruin
– Ivana Vaseva
Plan (fem.) for Greater Baghdad: Architecture, Power and the Scale of Memory
– Ala Younis
Igal pool
– Mia Maria Rohumaa, with drawings by Liisa-Lota Jõeleht
10 773 characters / 1952 words
– Margit Säde
– Stefano Harney interviewed by Marjoca de Greef and Anastasija Pandilovska
Gatherings in the incomplete, part 2
– Marjoca de Greef and Anastasija Pandilovska
Not-yet-ruin
– Ivana Vaseva
Plan (fem.) for Greater Baghdad: Architecture, Power and the Scale of Memory
– Ala Younis
Igal pool
– Mia Maria Rohumaa, with drawings by Liisa-Lota Jõeleht
10 773 characters / 1952 words
– Margit Säde
We don’t want to be stars (but parts of constellations)
Authors: Ala Younis, Anastasija Pandilovska, Ivana Vaseva, Liisa-Lota Jõeleht, Margit Säde, Marjoca de Greef, Mia Maria Rohumaa, Stefano Harney
Graphic design: Anastasija Pandilovska
Editors: Anastasija Pandilovska and Marjoca de Greef
Printing and binding: Drukkerij Raddraaier SSP, Amsterdam
Paper inside: Amber Graphic 100 grs
Paper cover: Munken Lynx 300 grs
Fonts: Freight Sans, Kepler Std, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro
Published by: Suns and Stars, Amsterdam
Publishing date: April 2026
Copies: 300
ISBN: 9789090421612
© Suns and Stars and the authors
