Noeud Gâchette
We are Noeud Gachette, a poetic zine and micro-publishing collective from Tiohtià:ke (Montréal, Canada), participating in the Canadian delegation to Berlin organized by Volume Mtl.
As a duo, under the pseudonyms Greta Ziegenhagen and Nina Shulman, we create hybrid book-objects blending poetic text and image. Since 2020, we've published 15 zines exploring screen printing, risograph, collage, photography, and drawing. We also publish other Tiohtià:ke women and non-binary artists, fully involving them in the zine-making process. We view literature and emotional crises as "trigger points" (Noeud Gâchette) where beauty, pain, and healing intertwine.
Our latest zine ! In this bilingual zine (french-spanish), Sayaka Araniva-Yanez attempts a "baby catechism" through poems that seek to make contact with God through a machine, to which they pay true mystical worship. The cover illustration (poster) is a collage by Greta Ziegenhagen. The cover-poster is detachable and foldable. Zine-poster printed in risograph in 3 colors.
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"Injures Douces" by Greta Ziegenhagen features poems of solitude and reflection after a romantic loss. Rather than succumbing to anger, the poems immerse in bittersweet melancholy within a gothic, refuge-like space filled with haunting yet wondrous imagery. This zine's unique triangular format and screen-printed illustrations have earned it a spot in the Grande Bibliothèque's archive in Montreal.
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These three Perzines, created by the co-founders of Noeud Gachette, emphasize the authors' intimacy:
-"Journal" (2022) by Greta Ziegenhagen: Poems painted on Montreal newspapers during the pandemic, exploring the intersection of personal diary and news journal within a backdrop of social panic.
-"Ce n'est rien" (2023) by Nina Shulman: A blend of suggestive love poems and erotic photographs, blurring the line between body and nature, with Risograph printing and hand-stitched binding.
-"Blau wie Berlin" (2022) by Greta Ziegenhagen: Poems and drawings from the poet's time in Berlin, contrasting imagined and real cities, with Berlin symbolized by the color blue.