Page Not Found and the Reading Room are happy to invite you to a two-part online reading session around ‘repair’, with Cristina Cochior, amy pickles and Joana Chicau of Varia.

In this Reading Room session we will consider the modes in which our bodies interact with, are perceived by and operate through, with and against everyday communication technologies. This collective work will be carried out on an Etherpad, an open-source, web-based collaborative editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document and see all of the participants’ edits in real-time. What intimate relations are bound within our screens and machines? What does our body learn while flowing in these zones?

As a group we will look into practices of “annotating” text. We will make digital annotations as we read, digesting the words while we highlight, underline, write in the margin, look up meanings and take notes, making the text more accessible to the next person who encounters it. By creating new modes of accessing and countering text, reading together becomes a continuous re-reading.

The thoughts central to this reparative reading session are formed by scholar Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. In the essay, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You”, Sedgwick tells us that rearranging what we read can be a form of sustenance. Through sharing our differences in what is nourishing, we hope to recognise the limits of what can be read and what can be repaired.

Varia (NL) is a Rotterdam based initiative focused on working with, on and through everyday technology. At its core the initiative aims to be a social infrastructure from which to collaboratively facilitate critical understandings on the technologies that surround us. The initiative is a membership-based organisation striving to become a space for questions, opinions, modifications, help and action. 

Cristina Cochior is a Rotterdam-based researcher and designer. Her work revolves around situated feminist software, affective archival interfaces, digital infrapunctures, vernacular language processing and digital knowledge organisation and transmission. Together with other members of Varia, she works on collective, non-extractive digital infrastructures.

amy pickles is an artist and loosely formed educator. In her work, she experiments with ways to hold onto, and consider, pervasive colonial infrastructures we are a part of. In our work, redistribution (of knowledge, tools, finances) and collaboration are methodologies to refuse individual ownership.

Joana Chicau is a graphic designer, coder, researcher — with a background in dance — currently based in London. In her practice she interweaves web programming languages and environments with choreography. She has been actively participating and organizing events with performances involving multi-location collaborative coding, algorithmic improvisation, open discussions on gender equality and activism.

This online session takes place in two parts: the first part from 14:30-16:30 and the second part from 17:00-19:00. Participants can choose to attend one or both parts of the session.

While a small introduction will be held over Zoom, the session itself does not take place through video-call but through the interactive Etherpad document. 

Texts for this session will be provided in the moment and there is no need for reading in advance.

Please confirm your attendance for one or both parts of the session by sending an email to register@page-not-found.nl.

Page Not Found is excited to welcome you to the first of our Typographic Nights, curated by Trang Ha and Paulina Trzeciak.

Following new covid-measures, this Typographic Night has been rescheduled to take place in the afternoon of Saturday 4 December at 15:00!

“Typographic Nights” are a space for graphic designers and the public to gather around understandings and misunderstandings of the graphic design process. Audience members are asked to bring texts which they would like to see transformed into visual works. These could be either small pieces of their own writing, borrowed fragments, or hand-picked inspirational quotes. The invited designers and typographers will materialise these texts into beautiful printed matter on the spot, demonstrating their skills and knowledge. Works will be printed the same night, ready to take home. Together we will reveal the curiosity, fun, improvisation and care that are part of graphic design, from choosing a typeface to applying analog materials, and much more!

This Typographic Night features live design performances by Carmen Dusmet Carrasco, Marthe Prins & WRS_THG.

Trang Ha is a multidisciplinary designer/artist based in The Hague (NL). She uses the language of design to observe and address cultural complexities presented in modern society. Her frequent subjects are food, community, alternative knowledge, storytelling and ecology. In her practice, Trang underlines the importance of collaboration, an environment in which different thoughts can mingle and “contaminate” each other to achieve a more layered and inclusive outcome. Besides her personal works, Trang is also taking commissions in the field of creative coding and catering. She finished her BA Graphic Design at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (KABK) in 2020.

Paulina Trzeciak is a visual artist and designer with a wide range of artistic practices. Paulina is currently based in The Hague (NL), where she is finishing her BA Graphic Design at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (KABK). Paulina’s practice is highly influenced by her academic background, as seen in her frequent incorporation of social theories and political perspectives. In the field of design, her main interests are conceptual design, digital culture and curation. Besides these interests, she is equally fascinated by the use of fictional elements in design. She believes in its power to explore possible futures by creating speculative and alternative scenarios, shaping the complexity of the social-political landscape.

Carmen Dusmet is a video artist and graphic designer based in The Hague (NL). Her practice involves both the pursuit of research-based works and commissioned projects. When working with clients she mainly makes books (sometimes websites), with special care for typography and storytelling. Her artistic practice materialises through the moving-image, text and sound. Beginning from personal experiences, she focuses on how socioeconomic structures affect individual and collective identities. She understands her work as a contemplating lens of an uncertain future; a tool to speculate and reflect on the unpredictability of survival, growing up, ageing, change and hope. She is interested in exploring conditions for image consumption through formats and mediums. Currently, she is co-running Home Cinema, an online temporary video broadcast that responds to the question: what can we see together now that we cannot see each other?

WRS_THG is the creation of The Hague-based print-Lover, neon Enthusiast, and paper fetishist, Anna. The label is a mixture of the two cities that she sees as home; Warsaw and The Hague. For years, Anna has been addicted to screen printing and colour research. She graduated with two graphic design diplomas; the first from Fine Art Academy in Łódź, Poland (ASP – Akademia Sztuk Pięknych), and the second from The Royal Academy of Art in the Hague (KABK – Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten), The Netherlands.

Marthe Prins is an artist, researcher and activist based in Amsterdam. They study the visual languages that shape sites of knowledge production, seeking to steer the course of its validation away from oppressive ‘enlightened’ patriarchal practices. Materialised in exhibition spaces, through writing and by performing bodies home and abroad — their recent works plea for gossip as political practice, target the visual rhetorics of privatised border security, stage a linguistic PA singing songs to ‘semio-capital’, quantify individualised spiritual labour and, point towards ‘indexing diagrams’ as key figures in the rise of a sophio-fascism. Prins teaches artistic research and performance at eminent academies both in and outside the Netherlands and works as researcher bridging the arts and academia.

Event starts at 15:00. Entrance is free.

If you have written materials (quick notes, midnight ideas, observations, poems, lyrics, etc!) which you’d like to see designed and printed, please bring them along.

Please note: This is a seated event. We kindly ask you to show a valid proof of vaccination, recovery or negative test result at the entrance. Our shop will be open for book browsing.

Page Not Found welcomes you to the third event in the Solitary Solidarity cycle, curated by activist and writer Hamja Ahsan. We present a special screening of the documentary film ‘‘Herman’s House’’, directed by Angad Bhalla and based on Jackie Sumell’s project “The House That Herman Built.”

‘‘What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?’’ This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, part of the ‘Angola 3’ chapter of the Black Panther Party who spent over four decades in solitary confinement, and artist and abolitionist Jackie Sumell. 

Jackie Sumell is an American multidisciplinary artist and activist whose work interrogates the abuses of the American criminal justice system. She is best known for her collaborative project with the late Herman Wallace entitled “The House That Herman Built.”

The screening will be accompanied with a display of publications by artist Marc Fischer of Public Collectors, including ‘Quaranzine’, a one-page zine published as a daily response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Marc Fischer is the administrator of Public Collectors, an initiative he formed in 2007. Public Collectors aims to encourage greater access and scholarship for marginal cultural materials, particularly those that museums ignore. 

Marc Fischer’s publications will be on display between 13:00-18:00. The screening of ‘‘Herman’s House’’ takes place at 15:00. 

The cycle Solitary Solidarity centers on strategies of surviving isolation through publishing practices. This program in three acts centers on a consideration of solitary confinement through the prison system, psychiatric care and quarantine, and inquires how we can learn from each other while placed under different restraints.

This event is part of Hoogtij #67.

Please note: we kindly ask you to show a valid proof of vaccination, recovery or negative test result for the entrance to this event. For further information, please visit this website. A facial mask is required to enter the bookstore, however a proof of vaccination is not mandatory.

Page Not Found welcomes you to the second event in the cycle ‘Reverberations’. Musicians and publishers James Hoff and Félicia Atkinson present vibrant printed matter alongside sonic performances.

UPDATE COVID-MEASURES:

-The event will take place from 19:00 as planned. As the new covid measures make an exception for cultural events, we will be able to gather past 20:00.
-As audiences must be seated for cultural events, space is limited. Be sure to arrive on time to secure a spot!
-At the door we will ask for your QR-code and do a health check. We will adhere to 1,5m distance and stay seated throughout the event. If you’re not feeling well or have covid-related symptoms, please stay home (even if you’re vaccinated!)

During the evening, James Hoff will share new audio works that are composed from musical ‘earworms’ and tinnitus. Both are auditory phantoms that are antagonized by or echoing from ambient media. The works are biographical to the artist’s experience and aesthetically resemble a cinematic soundtrack utilizing chamber instruments. Félicia Atkinson will read from her book A Forest Petrifies. Inspired by the Petrified Forest in Arizona and its ability to change over time from an organic to a mineral state, this story was conceived over the past five years, while its on-going writing has been the starting point of many of Atkinson’s music lyrics and recent records and exhibitions. To conclude James and Félicia will join in conversation.

Reverberations explores the vivid intersection between visual and sonic arts and presents artists and musicians whose practice equally embraces music, publishing and contemporary art. Such rich cross-disciplinary practices often echo from self-organised initiatives like music labels or press houses, which allow spontaneity, experimentation and independency from corporate structures. 

James Hoff is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, N.Y. His work encompasses a variety of media, including painting, sound, and performance, as well as a publishing practice with the organization Primary Information, which he co-founded and edits. In recent years, his work has focused on language and ambient media at the intersection of developing technologies and networked communication in relation to social/political space. He has released two records on PAN (How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away and BLASTER) as well as the audio visual project HOBO UFO (v. Chernobyl), which will also be released as a book and record in 2022.

Félicia Atkinson is a French musician and artiste and the co-founder of the independent record label / publishing platform Shelter Press together with Bartolomé Sanson. Shelter Press builds up dialogues between contemporary art, poetry and experimental music through printed publications and records. Image Language is the name of Atkinson’s upcoming album and new live set. Her music is a whirl of electroacoustic/MIDI sounds, field  recordings, improvised  text, grand piano and Fender Rhodes, defining a mental landscape composed of abstract and figurative narratives. Her latest releases are Everything Evaporate ( Shelter Press 2020) and Echo (Boomkat Editions 2020). She has played since 15 years in various contexts such as Atonal Berlin, Unsound Krakow, Ultima Oslo, Issue Project Room New York, Semi Breve Braga, The Barbican London, Le Guess Who Utrecht, Rewire Den Hague, La Philharmonie de Paris and Presence Electronique GRM. Her musical work is published by Mute Song. 

Event starts at 19:00. Entrance is free.

Please note: for seated events we kindly ask you to show a valid proof of vaccination, recovery or negative test result at the entrance, as Page Not Found follows the COVID-19 regulations of the Dutch government. For further information, please visit this website.