Page Not Found and the Master Experimental Publishing (XPUB) at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, are happy to invite you to an online lecture by curator Ellef Prestsæter.

Can a magazine be seen as a game? And how did the situationists’ interest in pinball play out in different ways? In this talk Ellef Prestsæter will propose an itinerary through the heaps of material prepared for the unrealized Pinball Issue of The Situationist Times, ultimately taking aim at what one of its (male) contributors put forward as a question of utmost significance: What are the “motives of the passionate female pinball player”?

The Situationist Times was a magazine edited and published by the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong in the sixties. With only six issues, the Times became one of the most exciting and playful magazines of that decade, thanks to its multilingual, transdisciplinary, and cross-cultural exuberance. The never-realised seventh issue, destined to explore the game of Pinball, is the starting point of our collaboration with XPUB and artist Lídia Pereira. During the course of this semester, the students are tasked with imagining what the seventh issue could be if it were produced today, under the guidance of Lídia and the XPUB staff. Their works, gathered as a Special Issue,  will be launched at Page Not Found in April. To further this exploration, we are happy to invite you to a series of online lectures investigating how Situationism, games, and publishing reflect on each other.

We wholeheartedly thank Jacqueline de Jong for her kind interest and support in this collaboration.

Ellef Prestsæter (b. 1982) is a Norwegian art historian, curator and member of the Institute for Computational Vandalism. His exhibitions and publishing projects include Archival Arabesque (2019–2020), The Gutenberg Galaxy at Blaker (2013–2015), These Are Situationist Times! (2017–2019) and Rett Kopi Documents the Future: Manifesto (2007). Prestsæter is currently working towards a PhD in art history at the University of Oslo on Asger Jorn and the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism.

Starts at 17:00. Register for your free ticket here.

Page Not Found was thrilled to host Matt Pezier for the launch of the second issue of “Hollanditis”. This ongoing publishing project by Matt Plezier chronicles the visual culture of protest, past and present, in the form of a newspaper. During this event, Matt will discuss with his guests the necessity of disrupting (public) space and how poster-making is a relevant strategy for change. Protest posters, old and new, will be exhibited.

Matt Plezier is a self-taught Dutch visual artist based in The Hague. Under the label MonoRhetorik, he has self published zines, prints and art books, in true DIY spirit. MonoRhetorik is the recipient of the prestigious Shannon Michael Cane Award 2018.

Matt Plezier’s work reflects upon issues of alienation, anonymity, (in)visibility and ways of constructing and disseminating narrative, mirroring his own multi-cultural background. His publications provide viewers with a different narrative in an unambiguous and sometimes confrontational form.  His work has been shown at the DIY Cultures Fair (London, UK), Fruit Art book fair (Bologna, IT), Palais de Tokyo’s Ass Book Fair (Paris, FR), Offprint art book fair (Paris, FR), and the New York Art Book Fair (US). The themes vary from hardcore punk to urban photography, installation based work to queer apparel and zines.

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At the occasion of Museumnacht, Page Not Found screened a selection of works in which artists extended their visual work into a publication. In these cases the publication served either as a libretto to accompany the video (or play), or was seen as a symbiotic graphic production. This selection featured works by Guy de Cointet, Felix Salut, John Hey, Studio Laumes, and others. Next to the video screening, the audience was able to get acquainted with the related publications installed in a special vitrine designed by Pierre Chareau.

For Hoogtij#54, Page Not Found invited the public to discover the work of the third year students of the Graphic Design department of the KABK. An archive of communication tools they collectively assembled has now been turned into a collection of books, each edited and designed by a student. During this special evening, the archive is once again being brought to life through an ongoing live broadcasting of the collection. On top of that, the books were on display, and available for purchase. 

During the The Hague Contemporary Weekend 2018 (July 6-8) a series of artist talks took place at various museums, art spaces and galleries. Page Not Found was delighted to invite its audience to a conversation between Aimée Zito Lema and Vincent van Velsen, around her publication ‘Imprinted Mater/Materia Impresa’. The discussion was followed by a performance of her creation, where two dancers, mother and daughter, playfully explored the relationship between body and memory.

Visual artist Aimée Zito Lema (born in Amsterdam, 1982, grew up in Buenos Aires) investigates the way events are remembered, recorded, and how they influence the future. She studied at the University of the Arts, Buenos Aires, The Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, and followed the Master Artistic Research program of the Royal Academy in The Hague (2009 – 2011). She attended the Artist-in-residency program at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam, 2015 – 2016. Salient projects include: Solo exhibition ’13 Shots’ at the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2018), Idiorritmias and Muestreo #1, both at MACBA Barcelona (2017), Eleventh Gwangju Biennale, The Dorothea von Stetten Award exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn (2016), ‘L’art de la Révolte – Hors Pistes’ at Centre Pompidou Paris (2016), the long-term-research project ‘Body at Work’, at Casco, office for art design and theory, Utrecht (2013 – 2014).

Vincent van Velsen (1987) is a writer, critic and curator with a background in art and architectural history. He regularly writes for individual artists, institutions and magazines; amongst which Frieze, Flash Art and Metropolis M – where he also holds a position as contributing editor. He curated exhibitions for Castrum Peregrini, Framer Framed, Kunsthuis SYB and Museum Flehite, among others. In collaboration with Alix de Massiac, he won the second edition of the curatorial prize of the Dutch Association of Corporate Collections (VBCN, 2014). In 2015/16 he was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht. Currently he is working on forthcoming exhibitions for TENT, Nest, and De Brakke Grond. Van Velsen is a board member at Frontier Imaginaries and De Appel.

The publication ‘Imprinted Mater/Materia Impresa’ has been initiated and published by Looiersgracht 60, at the occasion of Aimée’s first major institutional exhibition in the Netherlands. As well as being a non-profit exhibition space, Looiersgracht 60 is an independent publishing house, regularly producing limited-edition paperbacks to accompany its exhibition programme. Each volume is a bespoke, limited edition pocket book, designed by the London-based Studio Veronica Ditting. The collections of essays by specialist writers from a variety of cultural, creative and academic backgrounds furnish each book with a multidisciplinary and integrative context that underpins the featured artist’s work. The books are a supplement to their exhibitions, while also being an autonomous interpretation of the artist’s oeuvre.

During The Hague Contemporary Weekend, and to celebrate his Gesamtkunstwerk in Page Not Found, Helgi Thorsson took over the whole street where our foundation is located. He judiciously placed works — his signature ceramics and paintings — in various shop vitrines of the Boekhorststraat, be it of a carpet shop, a computer outlet, or a frame maker. For the passerby, Helgi’s work might stand out incongruously in its vitrine, especially given its strong, humorous personality. But shop after shop, these works form a community — the community of the odd ones. This installation hints at the social bonds in the street, and celebrates its heterogeneity, in a colorful and generous gesture that characterizes Helgi’s practice.

Thórsson (b. 1975 Iceland) is a visual and sound artist. He studied Sonology at The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, received his BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2002 and an MFA from the Sandberg Institute in 2004. Thórsson was part of the artist initiative Kunstschlager in Reykjavik and ABC Klubhuis in Antwerp. As well as having handled his brush and chisel for the past decades, Thórsson is a member of the bands Stilluppsteypa and Evil Madness.

Exhibition in Boekhorststraat is on view July 6 through July 8.

Page Not Found hosted the launch of <English(100 indexes)>, Dongyoung Lee’s latest publication. Dongyoung Lee uses graphic design to create autonomous forms. The artist talk was followed by a sound performance by Martijn in’t Veld, who wrote the preface, and a slides installation by Martin La Roche, who created its endnotes.

<English (100 indexes)> is a book about index pages. Indexes are a brutally simplified version of its contents. The words from indexes are selected very carefully by its authors but they will never be a perfect representation of its contents. Because of this failure, a possibility of index page as a poetic or darkly humorous text is created.

Page Not Found happily hosted the launch of the second issue of Baobab Magazine, entitled “Lethargy”. Baobab is a new magazine featuring work from photography students at KABK. The new issue is an exploration of more than 30 photographic works, carried the essence of a riddle. The photographers featured in this issue presented their work, engaged in a peer discussion and shared their experiences of working on the projects.

The event attracted a large amount of Photography and Fine Arts students of KABK.