This exhibition will mark the seventh edition of the long-term collaboration between the Master Artistic Research (MAR) of the Royal Academy of Art The Hague and 1646. We are happy to collaborate for the second year with 1646, to help celebrate the diversity of independent practices that the MAR nurtures in its students. The participating artists are: Mazen Alashkar, Esther Arribas Rovira, Leonie Brandner, Georgie Brinkman, Serene Hui, Lena Longefay, Juliana Martinez Hernandez, Daphne Monastirioti, Leos and Giath Taha. This year, 1646 is also collaborating with Ruimtevaart, to propose an exhibition located in three different locations. Our project space on Boekhorststraat 128 will host the presentation of Serene Hui.

The exhibition opens on Friday 19 at 18:00 and will close on Sunday 21 at 19:00. To make sure our visitors stay safe, booking a ticket is required to visit this exhibition. Tickets are for free. To get yours, please follow the link below, and select a date and a time slot. Thank you!

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Page Not Found is happy to invite you to a performative reading by artist Ariane Toussaint of her latest book “Chapter 2 – Claudine”. The performance will take place at 20:00, 21:00 and 22:00, in a decor created by the artist, including photographs and source material from the book.

Ariane Toussaint (b. 1996, France) is an artist based in The Netherlands. She works with textual and visual narratives rooted in personal stories. Her artistic practice is an investigation of the links between the word, image and materiality of objects aiming to render the power of fiction of rearranging one’s own narrative.

In the first half of 2020, Page Not Found’s program focuses on tangible photography. The dematerialization of the image created for some artists with a photographic practice a desire for tangibility, that is: for a materiality accessible by touch. Publishing appears in this context as a natural strategy to answer this desire and to reinstate the photographic image in its materiality. This program presents a large selection of publishing practices to show the diversity of their approaches.

“Chapter 2 – Claudine” is a story about family, love and loneliness narrated through a visual investigation of the hoarding disorder of Toussaint’s great-aunt Claudine. The book is built as a theater play, guiding the reader through layers of personal testimonies and history. Photographs and words weave the great tapestry of time in which the artist reconnects to forgotten paths, suppressed traumas and intimacy.

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Starts at 19:00.

We’re delighted to invite you to a reading by Dena Yago of Fade the Lure, her latest publication.

Fade the Lure is a collection of poems and photographs created between 2014 and 2017, during Dena Yago’s experience working and living alongside emotional support dogs in Los Angeles. In Yago’s words, poetry is sometimes “a form of communication created out of the desire to avoid, and an inability to engage in other forms of direct communication” with animals or humans. Fade the Lure explores the possibility for the poem to account for relationships that materialize and live beyond words, while being embedded in a consumerist society’s confined structures.

Dena Yago (born 1988, lives and works in NYC) is an artist, a writer and a poet. She was one of the founding members of K-HOLE, a trend forecasting group active from 2010 to 2016. Recent publications include Ambergris (Bodega) and Esprit Reprise (Pork Salad Press). Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and at Bodega in New York.

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Starts at 19:30.

In addition to our focus on tangible photography, Page Not Found organises in 2020 a new series of events entitled “New Territories in Publishing”, which aims at documenting the practices of artists, designers and makers who investigate publishing in itself.

Amy Wu and Clara Balaguer perform two publications that use transcription as a mode of generative documentation, enacting a theater that reveals the power of the secretariat. Ever since reading and writing were deemed permissible activities for women, menial secretarial tasks such as transcription, stenography (or shorthand dictation), and non-literary translation have largely been relegated to the realm of the feminine. This female secretariat has been considered lacking in agency, automatons faithfully reproducing the words of others. In this event, the publishers posit a different scenario: that of the secretariat having ultimate and final say in the shaping of narratives through (in)significant (in)fidelity to the source. For one night only, Amy Wu, Clara Balaguer, and an ensemble cast of friends perform two plays, or books, or transcriptions, or essays.

Play one The Choice of a Translator (Wu). A transcript reveals how an interpreter reshapes and depoliticises content, positioning the act of translation as a tool for censorship and steganography—the practice of hiding information in plain sight. The work is documentation of a live case of evasion tactics enacted during a talk about evasion tactics.

Play two Publishing as Bloodletting (Balaguer). Transcripts of social media conversations between friends reveal the informal genealogy of an essay on circulatory tactics in developing world megacities, circulatory ennui in European art schools, the circulation of knowledge from its vernacular producers to its institutional managers. With deceptively casual with LOLs and OMGs, an extended simile emerges on research content as a bodily humor, as blood in the body public.

Clara Balaguer is a cultural worker interested in the decolonization of cultural production most especially through the lens of contemporary vernacular. She founded The Office of Culture and Design in 2010, a platform through which she articulated research, residencies, and social practice projects in the Philippines. She explores collaborative authorship through the clandestine publishing of Hardworking Goodlooking, a cottage-industry fuelled imprint she co-founded in 2013. She has lectured at Walker Art Center, Harvard GSD, MIT, Strelka Moscow, MoMA PS1, Triple Canopy, Hanyang University Seoul, and University of the Philippines. Her work has been exhibited and performed at Asia Culture Center, Singapore Art Museum, Art Dubai, Hangar Barcelona, and La Capella.

Amy Wu Amy Suo Wu was born in China, grew up in Australia, and lives in The Netherlands as an artist and teacher. Wu has co-organised the annual zine festival Zine Camp in Rotterdam. She holds a Masters in Media Design and Communication from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. From 2013-2016, she co-ran Eyesberg, a graphic design studio motivated by conceptual and experimental approaches. She was awarded the Grant programme for Talent Development from Creative Industries Fund NL, as well as two studio residences at I: project space in Beijing and ZKU in Berlin. Recent solo and group exhibitions have been held at Artspace Ideas Platform, Sydney; Drugo More, Croatia; Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana; Seoul Mediacity Biennale; Espace Multimédia Gantner, France; and I: project space Beijing. She is currently a tutor and graduation supervisor at Experimental Publishing at Piet Zwart Institute and practice teacher in Cultural Diversity at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam. She published ‘A Cookbook of Invisible Writing’ through Onomatopee.

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Starts at 19:30.

In the first half of 2020, our program will focus on tangible photography. The dematerialization of the image created for some artists with a photographic practice a desire for tangibility, that is: for a materiality accessible by touch. Publishing appears in this context as a natural strategy to answer this desire and to reinstate the photographic image in its materiality. This program presents a large selection of publishing practices to show the diversity of their approaches.

To start our program, we invite you to discover the work of Daniel Walton via a talk about their photographic artistic practice and a display of their work on paper in our new project space.

Daniel Walton allows us into the world they are apart of. This event is a celebration and a home to the bodies that live in the identity of queerness and difference. You are invited to engage with the represented bodies of strength and power, the doors are open for all to take a visitation of the underground world that exudes resistance and flamboyancy.

Photographer Daniel Waltonn aka Flamboya Dior represents the queer and trans worlds of The Netherlands and South Africa, their home country. They work with subjects who embody tenderness and power, mirroring their personal experiences in life.

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Starts at 19:30.

We’re delighted to invite you to celebrate Page Not Found’s second birthday, on Saturday, 1 February. Since our foundation was created, two years ago, we organized almost 50 talks, readings, screenings, book launches, workshops… all aiming to bring artists’ publications to a wider audience. We received an incredible amount of interest, enthusiasm and support, and feel very grateful to our audiences!

You’re very much welcome to join us for drinks and music, from 17:00. This will be the time to look back and to look forward, as we will inaugurate our new project space — doubling the size of Page Not Found, for more publications, events and workshops in 2020. And our new website will be launched!

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Starts at 17:00.

To kick off the new season, we’re very happy to invite you to discover the gorgeous third issue of Baobab magazine, and meet some its contributors. Photographers and KABK alumni Olga Roszkowska, Nina Schollaardt and Tibor Dieters will present their work, and drinks will be served!

Baobab Magazine’s third issue, entitled “Content Union,” reflects on the state of our continent. 25 students from both the BA and the MA course portray a series of untold stories and off the radar identities. From the biggest fake-city turned into a military playground in Germany to the copycat architectural style of Romas in Macedonia, passing through the political stances of musical genres like Flamenco in Spain to Turbo Folk in Serbia.

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Starts at 18:00.

Kim? Contemporary Art Center in Riga recently celebrated 10 years of innovations in art and its discourse. To commemorate this event, Kim? and Page Not Found jointly organised a retrospective of Kim? multifarious publishing activities, including books by our very own Ola Vasiljeva. Opening in presence of Laima Ruduša, executive director of Kim? on Thursday 5 September at 17:00. Drinks will be served!

Kim? supports the development of emerging artists, theoreticians, curators, philosophers, translators and thinkers of various spheres aiming to provide a responsive context to their work and to make critical practices accessible to a wider audience. Since 2009, alongside its exhibition program, Kim? has also facilitated select exhibition catalogues, and numerous publications, that give voice to a specific range of essays and texts on art, art theory and criticism, and selected translations.

Over ten years Kim? Contemporary Art Centre has organised 700 events, 188 exhibitions in Latvia, 30 exhibitions abroad, has attracted around 600 000 visitors, and over the last five years made it possible for five artists to take part in international residences hosted by Kim? partner organisations.

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Starts at 17:00.

For its last event before the summer break, Page Not Found will receive Hamja Ahsan, founder and co-curator of the DIY Cultures festival of creative activism, zines and independent publishing. Hamja will present his publication “Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert”, heralded as a subversively funny hymn to introversion.

Drawing together communiqués, covert interviews, oral and underground history of introvert struggles (Introfada), the book is a detailed documentation of the political demands of shy people. Radicalised against the imperial domination of globalised PR projectionism, extrovert poise and loudness, the Shy Radicals and their guerrilla wing the Shy Underground are a vanguard movement intent on trans-rupting consensus extrovert-supremacist politics and assertiveness culture of the twenty first century. Shy Radicals are the Black Panther Party of the introvert class, and this anti-systemic manifesto is a quiet and thoughtful polemic, a satire that uses anti-colonial theory to build a critique of dominant culture and the rising tide of Islamophobia.

Hamja Ahsan is an artist, writer, activist and curator based in London. He was recently awarded the Grand Prize at the Ljubljana biennial 2019 for his current exhibition Aspergistan Referendum based on this book. He was shortlisted for the Liberty human rights award for campaigns on extradition and detention without trial under the War on Terror utilising art and film. His recent writing was anthologised in No Colour Bar: Black Art in Action 1960-1990. He has presented art projects at PS1 MOMA at New York Art book fair, Tate Modern, Gwangju Biennale, Staedelschule in Frankfurt, Shaanakht festival Pakistan and Shilpa Academy, Bangladesh. His practice encompasses all media: conceptual writing, building archives, performance, video, sound and making zines.

Page Not Found heartily thanks PrintRoom for suggesting and co-organising this event.

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Starts at 18:00.

Following their recent show at the Royal Academy of Arts, Page Not Found invited the graduates of Master Artistic Research to present their theses and the artistic interests underlying this two-year project. The event will also be the occasion to celebrate the graduation of Mel Chan, Arthur Cordier, Lucy Engelman, Matthew Lanning, Daisy Madden-Wells, Katrina Niebergal, Angel Orellana, and Helena Sanders. Drinks will be served!

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Starts at 20:30.