Page Not Found welcomes submissions to Open Letters 2022: an open call for artists and writers in The Hague to occupy our large storefront with messages of urgency and vulnerability.

Open Letters gives artists and writers room to publicly reflect on our current times.This project is inspired by Paul Maheke’s short essay ‘The year I stopped making art. Why the art world should assist artists beyond representation; in solidarity.’, published on the 18th of March 2020. In the essay Maheke channels voices of urgency from precarious figures who practice their art without structural support, ranging from the witch to the single parent to those struggling with mental health issues. “The Year I Stopped Making Art.” was the first Letter published in our storefront and was followed by five Letters by The Hague artists in 2021.

The Open Letters are published in the front window of Page Not Found’s project space using vinyl lettering, which can vary in size, color and font type. Textual and graphical contributions are welcome. However, the execution does not need to stay limited to just that and we invite artists to share their message in additional ways that seem fitting to the cause.

The authors of the selected proposals will receive a fee of €500. Our team will take care of installing the Open Letters on the window. Each Open Letter is displayed for four weeks. The first Open Letter will be unveiled in June 2022.

Submission deadline: Sunday, 15 May 2022 at 23:59.

Submit your proposal here.

Please note that only artists and writers who live or work in The Hague are eligible to apply. Submissions will be reviewed by the Page Not Found team and selected artists/writers will be notified by the end of May 2022.

Join our last Page of Possibilities kids workshop for this spring season!

This special session is led by Eva Örk, and will reflect on the current exhibition “Six Blue Things” by artist Marianna Maruyama. Participants will experience the installation in our project space under Eva’s guidance. Afterwards they will make a small book inspired by Maruyama’s fascination for termite colonies. What kind of colors do termites like?

Eva Örk graduated with a BA in Art History: Arts, Media and Society from Leiden University. She has been developing educational workshops and making art with kids at Kunsthal 44Møen in Denmark (in collaboration with Rosa Zangenberg) as well as during previous Page of Possibilities workshops at Page Not Found. 

The Page of Possibilities workshop playfully introduces children ages 4-12 to self-publishing. Young participants are invited to discover the magical world of artists’ books and to learn how to make their own publications. Sessions are led by an artist and art teacher with a broad experience in educative projects, combining children’s play with art and DIY graphic techniques to stimulate creative exchange and collaboration.

The workshop takes place from 15:00 until 16:30, in our project space located at Boekhorststraat 128.

Entrance is free, but reservation is required due to the limited number of participants. To reserve a spot for the workshop please write to register@page-not-found.nl.

The collective ‘Artist in Retreat’, consisting of Xenia Klein, Elisa Cuesta, Rosa van Walbeek, Victoria de la Torre, Haevan Lee and Serene Hui, presents the publication “Birds don’t take the train, but we do” at Page Not Found.

At the invitation of Xenia Klein a group of artists traveled to Blekinge – a small archipelago region in the south of Sweden – to create a residency relevant to their surroundings. Together they explored bird migrations, eel fishing, stone carvings, personal childhood memories and distinct food customs within the context of Blekinge’s archipelago culture. The project “Birds don’t take the train, but we do” shape-shifted into an archival exercise and an artistic display of the everyday, made accessible through an online living archive.

Now a portable exhibition has materialised, taking the form of a box: a treasury filled with found gold. This publication will be shared with the public alongside Artist in Retreat’s online archive. Afterwards the box journeys back to Blekinge.

Elisa Cuesta is an artist and designer working around the integration of technology within society and nature, addressing themes such as the value of data, information infrastructures, and the figure of the diagram as a tool for speculation and knowledge generation. Her work has been exhibited at Science Gallery Dublin, Quartair (The Hague), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón), Sala de Arte Joven (Madrid), or Sala Borrón (Oviedo). She has been awarded the Asturias Joven 2019 Award to Young Visual Artists and the XI LABjoven_Los Bragales Production Prize. 

Xenia Klein are an artist based in The Hague (NL), Torhamn (Blekinge) and Stockholm (SE). We work with the materials and mediums of words, graphic prints, alternative photography, book binding, writing, conversing and reading. As a visual artist we try to make artworks and exhibitions flowering fantasies about the flight from trauma (childhoods are a pain in the ass). As a writer and researcher we try to make understandings around the Evil, since evil is unconditionally existing in every life. As a freelancing journalist, producer and editor we try to create innovative, creative and subversive content through podcasting and journalistic writing.

Haevan Lee (b.Republic of Korea) is a contemporary artist who expresses the regional context of specific places through various forms including painting, installation and video. Her DMZ Landscape Series turned restricted or photography-prohibited areas into paintings. She is producing Dopa+Project, a collaborative project which explores the sustainability of collectives across borders by collaborating with multinational artists and researchers. She has contributed to various exhibitions including Bangkok Art Biennale (2020) and Venice Architect Biennale Korean Pavilion(2021

Rosa van Walbeek is an artist specialising in multi-sensory work, who investigates how different disciplines and senses relate by composing them as one. Her work questions our relation to the natural world. As an instrumentalist, performer and assistent she worked with JeugdOrkestNederland, Eelt theater collective and Sounds of Change.
Currently she is working as a performer and vocalist with Iris van Peppen and conducts a philosophical reading class at the Utrecht Conservatory.

Victoria de la Torre is an artist working on the intersection between art and design. In 2019 she co-founded Macedonia, a research-based design studio focused on finding meaningful solutions through collaborative and creative processes. In her latest project, A.I.R., the outcome of an artistic residency hosted by The Dock Accenture and the Science Gallery Dublin, she, as part of the collective Multiplay, has explored the notion of human agency and its behaviour in systems in flow.

Serene Hui’s research-led practices reframe and rethink conditions of the contemporary through politically driven art-making and inquiry. At the intersection of art, theory, and politics, she addresses obscure issues often by creating an ontological shift of displacement in her works. Through juxtaposing and converging dissimilar situations, sometimes dilemmas, in the same space-time, the works raise questions such as how do one respond to, or what could one possibly get out of, the moment of conflict, estrangement or resistance.

This project was made possible with the kind support of Region of Blekinge, Municipality of Karlskrona and the art foundation ‘Konst i Blekinge’.

The event can alternatively be followed online here.

Starts at 18:00.

This is a free event.

We are thrilled to announce the third Typographic Night at Page Not Found, curated by Trang Ha and Paulina Trzeciak.

“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 Céline Hurka, Katharina Nejdl and Lotte Lara Schröder.

Type and graphic designer Céline Hurka gained a Master’s degree in Type and Media from the KABK in The Hague. In her practice, she is involved in type design, lettering, book design, photography, writing, and research. For her, typography is what connects these disciplines. She pursues an experimental and research-based approach, using new technologies to explore and question typographic conventions. Currently, she is building her foundry catalogue. Some of her previous projects are available on Adobe Fonts, DaFont and WiseType. She has been lecturing at various academies such a the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague and Konstfack Stockholm and presented her work at international conferences like AtypI Tokyo and Typographics New York. 

Lotte Lara Schröder (Amsterdam, 1988) navigates the study of ecological natural phenomena through a narrative voice emanating from the realm of personal experience. Balancing her practice on the border of pragmatic and poetic, her works manifest as drawings, printed matter, soundworks/installation and video. Touching upon her background in design, her works are often underpinned by graphical frameworks and formats. She is the founder of design studio Speculative Press.

Katharina Nejdl studied at Sandberg Instituut, UdK Berlin and ZHdK. In 2019 she co-founded ­ magazine, a digital literature magazine exploring new ways of digital reading, writing and publishing. She lives and works between Amsterdam and Berlin. What does a digital publication look like? How does reading on the web become interactive? What do participatory posters look like? How does logo design become generative? Can AI design posters? Katharina Nejdl deals with these and other questions in her work. As a graphic designer and developer, she is interested in using digital technologies – such as web, AR and AI – as graphic tools.

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.

Starts at 18:00. Entrance is free and on a walk-in basis, no reservation is required.

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

As part of Rewire’s discourse programme RITUAL at Page Not Found artist M Lamar will facilitate a reading from ‘We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity’ by cultural theorist, bell hooks, to think through rituals of dominance and power and how we can turn to the prolific writing of bell hooks as a starting point on a journey of healing and love.

M Lamar is a composer who works across opera, metal, performance, video, sculpture and installation to craft sprawling narratives of radical becomings. Fully embodying his Afro Gothic aesthetic, M Lamar creates stylistically bold works that critically engage with the status quo. His latest of academically-informed modern opera pieces Lordship And Bondage: The Birth Of The Negro Superman combines modern classical music with black and doom metal to reflect on the African Americans’ experiences of enslaved and liberated consciousness. During Rewire the artist will also premiere a new work called Machines and Other Intergalactic Technologies of The Spirit, a piece that is heavily inspired by Sun Ra’s retro-futurist sci-fi projections on the mind and spirit.

All Rewire events at Page Not Found are free and open to the public. No festival ticket is needed to attend.

The reading takes place on Sunday 10 April from 14:00-14:45.

Besides performing his music at Rewire Festival, sound artist FUJI|||||||||||TA will also present his film ‘soramimi’ as part of the RITUAL discourse programme at Page Not Found.

FUJI|||||||||||TA creates unique sound art and music which takes various natural phenomena that respond to his interest in wanting to hear unheard sounds and noises. Quoting the artist on his film: “soramimi means “mishearing” in English. It means that you hear a sound that is not actually being made. My days are filled with soramimi. Searching, Searching, Searching, But it is rarely found.” 

‘soramimi’ was recorded at FUJI|||||||||||TA’s house and in his neighborhood. The film is edited by Tatsunori Kasai. The work was commissioned by VIRTUALLYREALITY.

All Rewire events at Page Not Found are free and open to the public. No festival ticket is needed to attend.

‘soramimi’ will be screened on Friday April 8 & Saturday April 9 from 14:00-17:00, and on Sunday April 10 from 15:00-18:00.

Throughout Rewire’s festival days, Brandon LaBelle will host a series of gatherings at Page Not Found, with each session talking through an aspect of resonance. The three seminars will discuss how resonance operates in experiences of cooperation and communal effort, as well as its place within expressions of social recognition. By gathering and reflecting together, the seminars aim to nurture a performative scene of resonant creation.

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer and theorist living in Berlin. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, pirate culture, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and para-institutional initiatives, including: The Listening Biennial and Academy (2021-), Communities in Movement (2019-), The Living School (with South London Gallery, 2014-16), Oficina de Autonomia (2017), The Imaginary Republic (2014-19), Dirty Ear Forum (2013-), Surface Tension (2003-2008), and Beyond Music Sound Festival (1998-2002). In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project supporting work in sound art and studies, performance and poetics, artistic research and contemporary political thought. His publications include: The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (2014), Acoustic Territories (2010, 2019), and Background Noise (2006, 2015). His latest book, Acoustic Justice (2021), argues for an acoustic model by which to engage questions of social equality. 

All Rewire events at Page Not Found are free and open to the public. No festival ticket is needed to attend.

Resonance by Brandon LaBelle takes place on Friday April 8, Saturday April 9, Sunday April 10, from 13:00-13:45.

Curated by Rewire in collaboration with media researcher and musician Katía Truijen, the discourse programme RITUAL functions as a multitude of compositions for cohesion and community. While often described as spiritual and transcendent, rituals equally ground us into our daily lives and help us connect with our surroundings, each other, and ourselves. 

RITUAL shares a zine designed by Fallon Does, which includes contributions from M Lamar, Brandon LaBelle, artist Grouper, poet Momtaza Mehri and FUJI|||||||||||TA. The zine is freely available during all RITUAL programmed events and will be launched at Page Not Found on Friday 8 April with a series of sonic meditations shared by composer and vocalist Kristin Norderval. 

All Rewire events at Page Not Found are free and open to the public. No festival ticket is needed to attend.

Starts at 16:00.