Incredibly excited to announce our first collaboration with Morehshin Allahyari, a longtime friend of Irrelevant Press and an admired artist and educator.

Morehshin Allahyari (Persian: موره‌شین اللهیاری‎), is a Bay Area based Iranian-Kurdish artist and an assistant professor of Digital Media Art at Stanford University. She uses 3D simulation, video, code, sculpture, and digital fabrication as tools to re-figure myth and history. Through archival practices and storytelling, her work weaves together complex counternarratives in opposition to the lasting influence of Western technological colonialism in the context of MENA (Middle East and North Africa).

Majlis al Jinn (Arabic: مجلس الجن) is the published product of five years of research and collection of books, manuscripts, and images as part of Morehshin Allahyari’s She Who Sees The Unknown series (2016–2021) – a multi-faceted art project in which the artist uses digital modeling, sculpture, installation, and moving image to create new stories about female and queer monstrous, specifically Jinn, figures of Islamicate origin. Morehshin uses the myths associated with them to explore the catastrophes of colonialism, patriarchism, and environmental degradation in relation to the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) region.

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Printed and published by us at Irrelevant Press

1st edition of 100 copies
8×8’’, 74 pgs
Perfect-bound

Risograph printed in light grey on Eclipse Black Astrobrights text and coverstock
Screen-printed cover slip on mirrored silver cardstock