This year’s Rewire Reflections invited aspiring and early-career critics, writers, and researchers to join an intensive writing workshop led by María Mazzanti (editor, writer, architect, and educator specialising in editorial practices and publishing cultures), and to create a zine that was launched on the last day of the festival. Participants were given the opportunity to interview artists and speakers or to reflect upon the festival’s music, context and film programme, whether in traditional reviews, discursive essays or more experimental, playful forms of the writer’s own invention. A limited edition of copies of the zine were distributed during the festival, but for those who didn’t manage to get one, enjoy reading the zine via the link below.
María Mazzanti: “Rewire Reflections is a three-day writing workshop that takes place in the middle of the festival. A small group of writers and young critics come together to attend performances, share, and translate those experiences into words.
Within this workshop, writing becomes another way of listening, demanding a different kind of presence: to pause, to return, to stay with what was felt or heard. Even within the immediacy inherent to the production of the texts and the printing deadline, the writing process opened an invitation to pause and take time in the middle of the rush of the festival.
The texts gathered in this third edition do not aim to capture the festival in its entirety. What they offer is a set of partial, situated reflections that move between poetic writing, interviews, and critical observations. Printed overnight, the publication becomes a material trace of something inherently ephemeral: music, encounters and bodies. A small, collective archive formed in real time.
This year’s contributors include Aike Jansen, Haeyeon Jang, Willow Sommer, Eva Vanderstricht, and Sterre Boon, alongside a contribution by Zehra Eekhout from Rewire Transmissions and an additional text by “Reflections” co-editor Callum McLean. The publication was designed by Eva Zakamennykh, Melane Bohonos, Cliff Vonk, and Gulsum Bengisu Baltas.”
Rewire Reflections 2026 was edited and facilitated by María Mazzanti and co-edited by Callum McLean.