Book launch of 'Baroness Elsa's em dashes', a publication made by graphic designer Astrid Seme, in connection to the exhibition 'She is the future. An exhibition ignited by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven at Kunstverein Langenhagen. During the book launch, Astrid Seme will talk about her practice as a designer in connection to dashes in general, historically, and to Elsa's dash marks in particular. See below for more information. The book launch is followed by a performance with music and words by Urara Tsuchiya, in which she will perform her 'Ghost story', part of the exhibition, in a live form.

 Baroness Elsa’s em dashes. - The purpose of the em dash is wide-ranging —as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space. The anthology 'Baroness Elsa's em dashes' zooms into the pointed use of em dashes in the poems of pioneering Dadaist artist, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. The reader will find her works in conversation with the likes of well-known dashers such as Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Sterne, Heinrich von Kleist or Emily Dickinson.
 Astrid Seme is an independent graphic designer and dash autodidact based in Vienna. This, her latest publication, unfolds generations of printed and spoken content made in connection to a single punctuation mark; and is derived from explorations into bibliography, book history, literature, sociology and typography.