Sarah
Shin

Sarah Shin is a publisher, editor, curator and writer. Through exploring alternative epistemological frameworks, her work seeks to offer cultural and embodied perspectives and practices drawing on feminist, anti-colonial, holistic and polycentric traditions. Her practice is often collaborative and is concerned with translation across languages and modes of expression. After almost a decade in independent publishing at Verso Books, she left traditional publishing in 2019 to focus on Silver Press, a feminist press co-founded with Alice Spawls and Joanna Biggs in 2016, and Ignota Books, an experimental publishing platform co-founded with Ben Vickers at the intersection of technology, myth-making and magic, in 2017. In 2018, Sarah founded the curatorial project New Suns. New Suns: A Feminist Literary Festival has been held in 2018 and 2019 at the Barbican Centre in London; the third edition was hosted by the Barbican online in March 2021. New Suns has also curated programmes at Somerset House Studios around the body and gender, and The Tender Interval at the ICA, exploring time as material and the transformational qualities of sound and dance practices. In 2020, Sarah curated Carrier Bag Fictions, a series of sonic fictions inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (Ignota, 2018), for Camden Art Centre in collaboration with Haus Kulturen der Welt, with whom she continues an evolving dialogue around the Carrier Bag as a tool for thinking. Her curatorial and publishing practice has dovetailed with scriptwriting and writing to create Instructions for Living a Life at Block Festival, a podcast bringing together sound, poetry, and instructions to explore the coincidence of psychic, geometric and embodied spaces, and Deep Deep Dream, a television show by Ignota Books for Transmissions, a palindromic journey through a series of rituals. Her creative writing includes The Wanderer for Focal Point Gallery, a collagic sound and text work exploring Le Guin’s theories of narrative, animism, dreams and multiple realities, and fiction-in-progress based on similar ideas and methods of wandering and gathering.