A corner of Cape Town's Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa has been turned over to the working life of independent publishing. IMPRINT, an artist-led studio residency that opened on 2 October, installs three Cape Town publishing collectives inside the museum's Koyo Kouoh Atelier for a programme of three six-month residencies running through 2 April 2028. The first intake convenes (B)and Wi(d)th, Medupi Publishing and Creative Knowledge Resources. Conceived by curators Nathalie Viruly and Dr Greer Valley, with support from Bulelwa Kunene, Angela Muritu and Emme Pretorius, the project treats publishing as the engine of artistic practice rather than a by-product. The atelier becomes a visible studio where research, production and circulation unfold in front of visitors, and its idea of publishing stretches beyond the bound book to include sound, performance and printed matter of all kinds. The residency grew out of histories of self-publishing as a tool for organising and dissent, and draws on the 2026 University of the Western Cape and Zeitz MOCAA fellows for an accompanying public programme. Two satellite moves extend the idea further. For the first time, the museum is opening its African Resource Centre — a working reference library normally kept behind the scenes — to the public on staffed weekday mornings, and it has launched an online publication, Everything But The Exhibition, focused on the small, overlooked gestures that shape experimental institutions. Visitors will be able to drop into scheduled conversations with the resident publishers during their stays. IMPRINT anchors the museum's 2026–27 season, framed around experimentation and new forms of public engagement across Africa and its diaspora. It will be joined in December by Turning Towards the Sun, a multimedia exhibition of six newly commissioned films by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, Mati Diop, Robin Coste Lewis, Jim Chuchu, Wanuri Kahiu and the Otolith Group, assembled through the African Film and Media Arts Collective led by Julie Mehretu and Mehret Mandefro and presented with BMW. The IMPRINT residency is supported by the Mellon Foundation.