From 31st March 2022 - 2nd April 2022 at new experimental warehouse venue Testbed, informed by her Jewish history, artist Rachel Mars will be making an exact replica of the 100kg steel ‘welcome gate’ which was stolen from the Dachau concentration camp. Accompanied by a live sound-scape by sound artist Dinah Mullen, audiences are invited to watch as Rachel welds a replica of the replica gate over the course of three days.

#23PRESS is a community publishing platform based in LS6, commissioned by LEEDS 2023 Year of Culture. We’re exploring how books get published, how audio work is created and how text-based artwork is exhibited.

Everywhere we go, people share their ideas for books we could publish. So, to capture this, we’re officially inviting people across our city-wide Leeds community to send us their ideas for books that could be published.

We want to collect all these ideas and put them into a book, an anthology of ideas! 

So, tell us…