Pykë-Presje

Pykë-Presje [pü:k presye, Wedge-Comma] is an independent platform working mainly with printed matter and running an independent cultural space and bookshop in Prizren. Active since 2021, the platform produces experimental radical publications and organises exhibitions, discursive programs and workshops. Pykë-Presje is building an archive and library, emphasising local histories of people’s movements, emancipatory women's organizations and class struggles defying the nation-state narratives. The platform produced books and exhibitions about poems of a Muslim Sufi activist within the Yugoslav Communist Party in 1920, Anti-Fascist Women Front in Kosovo, Punk Fanzines in Turkey, Scratch Orchestra members' album on Albania, and 'Film as Political School' series using experimental film forms to engage with recent contradictory histories of Kosovo. Currently, Pykë-Presje works on an annotated bibliography of dissident writer Shkelzen Maliqi's writings from the eighties.