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16 March, 2023, 11:00 -16:00 Free entrance

1646 and Page Not Found invite you for an experimental writing workshop by writer, artist and artist-book publisher Anna M. Szaflarski!

Commingling, harmonic behaviour and immaculately slimy conception are themes drawn from Paul DD Smith’s current exhibition The Chiral Gate at 1646. They are also the jump-off point for this special edition of Anna M. Szaflarski’s writing workshop, titled Morphogenesis. Morphogenesis is the cellular process that creates and determines form. Participants of the workshop are invited to take part in, as well as shape a choreography of exercises inspired by a blend of somatic, surrealist and dada writing exercises, improvised theatre, and for this occasion, the growth, movement and communication patterns found in nature. A cognitive space will form untethered from inhibition and pretension, allowing for the generation of text individually and collaboratively.

All are welcome! The workshop will be held in English, but fluency in the language is not necessary. There’s space for 15 participants, so sign up by sending an email to register@page-not-found.nl. The workshop is free of charge.

That evening, 1646 will be open for Paul’s Background Evening. Paul will give a short introduction to the exhibition and later, Paul and Anna will talk about the workshop and about how Anna’s practice has informed Paul’s practice. Find more information on the Background Evening here!

The workshop takes place in our space on Thursday March 16th from 11:00 to 16:00.

Caption image: “The Hills” by Anna M. Szaflarski.

Kino Nights is a new program series at Page Not Found, tailored to present the works by the artists, whose practice encompasses film or video productions as well as publishing. Film, video and other moving images are screened alongside a carefully curated selection of publications and other printed matter by the artist. The diversity of practices ​​of the contributors often escapes disciplinary categorization, therefore makes this series particularly layered and immersive.

For the first Kino Night this year it is our honour to screen “Denim Sky” (2018-2022) by Rosalind Nashashibi alongside an enigmatic complilation of printed matter around the artist’s practice.

Made between 2018-2022 across different time scales in London, Lithuania and Scotland. Denim Sky is a feature film in three parts. Together this trilogy is a playful exploration of non-nuclear family and community structures, the theoretical effects of non-linear time travel on human relationships, and how this could aid or problematize communication. The narrative is based on a fiction about a spaceship crew brought together in order to develop a crew mentality, so that they can be used to test a new form of space travel that uses non-linear time. Throughout, the light humour and fraternal mood of the group are disrupted by unsettling and unexpected events. 

The screening will take place during Hoogtij#72, starting at the following time slots: 19:10, 20:30, 21:50.

Rosalind Nashashibi is a London-based filmmaker and painter of Palestinian and Northern Irish origin. Her films use a language that is both documentary and speculative, based on the observation of her own life and the world around her in dialogue with elements of fiction or science fiction, often proposing models of collective life. Her paintings also evoke real or more dreamlike spaces where people or animals may appear, often sharing the picture plane with signs and apparitions. Her films are shot at eye level, drawing an intimate space. They become a living material with an active surface made of pulsation and light. Bodies, objects, glances, landscapes share the same sensitive space. 

Nashashibi became the first artist in residence at the National Gallery in London (UK), after the program was re-established in 2020. She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017, and represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Her work has been included in Documenta 14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah 10. She was the first woman to win the Beck’s Futures prize in 2003. 

Image Caption: Still from Rosalind Nashashibi’s “Denim Sky”(2022), courtesy of the Artist.

To conclude the exhibition celebrating a hundred publications by the Estonian publisher Lugemik, Page Not Found is delighted to present a work by the celebrated Estonian artist Marge Monko. She is a long-time collaborator of Lugemik, with whom she published “Don’t Wind It Up, Turn It On” (2016), “(WoW) Women of the World, Raise Your Right Hand” (2018) and “Flawless, Seamless” (2022).

Marge’s impressive wall installation ” Display, Service. Retail” can be viewed from Wednesday 1 till Sunday 12 February, during Page Not Found’s regular opening times, Wednesday through Sunday, 13:00-18:00.

Marge Monko (b. 1976) is a visual artist who lives and works in Tallinn. She has studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts, University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Higher Institute for Contemporary Art (HISK) in Ghent. Monko works with photography, video, and installation. Her works are inspired by historical images and theories of psychoanalysis, feminism, and visual culture. She works as a professor in the Department of Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

We are honoured to welcome Hettie Judah for a two-part event composed of a talk and a reading group on Friday, February 3 at 11 am!

In her book “How Not To Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents)” Hettie Judah unpicks a culture that alienates cultural workers with children and argues that a paradigm shift is needed within the art world to take account of the needs of artist mothers (and other parents: artist fathers, parents who don’t identify with the term ‘mother’, and parents in other sectors of the art world).

Hettie proposes a two-part event Starting at 11 am on Friday. The first session will introduce her practice and the book, followed by a reading group, which will look into Carolee Schneemann, “Anti Demeter: The More I Give the More You Steal / The More You Give the More I Need”  and Mary Jirmanus Saba, “Boston June 2019(Or “Artistic Genius is a Myth of the Colonial Patriarchy: Part One)” (from “Why Call it Labor?” Mophradat, 2020).

Please e-mail us at register@page-not-found.nl in order to receive the texts on time. The event is free for everyone and commences Page Not Found’s cycle Mother Reader, which addresses the issues of parenthood within the cultural world.

Hettie Judah is chief art critic on the British daily paper The i, a regular contributor to The Guardian’s arts pages, and a columnist for Apollo magazine. She writes for Frieze, Art Quarterly, Art Monthly, ArtReview and other publications with ‘art’ in the title, and is a contributing editor to The Plant magazine. Following publication of her 2020 study on the impact of motherhood on artists’ careers, in 2021 she worked with a group of artists to draw up the manifesto How Not To Exclude Artist Parents, now available in 15 languages. In 2022, together with Jo Harrison, Hettie co-founded the Art Working Parents Alliance – a supportive network and campaigning group for curators, academics, gallerists, technicians, educators and others working in the arts. 

25 January – 26 February 2023

To close this edition of Open Letters, we are happy to unveil “Caspia Cassiopeia” by Haider Mukhit on Wednesday 25! The Open Letters project invites The Hague artists to occupy our large storefront window with messages of urgency and vulnerability.

Haider’s poem and mini-installation called “Caspia Cassiopeia” speaks about the duality of water conflicts, one side being The Netherlands, where there is a risk of drowning and water overflow, and the other Kazakhstan, where there is a huge problem with drought and desertification. He finds these two extremes opposed and at the same time related to each other, considering the various extractive business ventures that tie the two countries together.

The urgency of this vulnerable message lies in the various ecological tragedies that happened and continue to happen in the Caspian Sea (as one instance), where the Kashagan oil reserve is based. Recently, there were numerous dead seals found on the shores of the Caspian coast of Kazakhstan. Other events, such as a major city-wide tasattyq (a practice of praying for water), also point to the alarming environmental situations caused by drought and oil extraction in the region.

Haider Mukhit is an artist and graphic designer from Kazakhstan, currently based in The Netherlands, with a background in literature and philosophy. As an artist, Haider combines and works between his favorite mediums of audio-visual films, typography, and textile. Much of his work engages with elements and themes of body horror, the environment, theology and folklore. Recent work includes an ongoing project on the multi-script nature of Kazakh typographical history and presenting a lecture on this topic. 

“Caspia Cassiopeia” is on view in our front window for the duration of a month, and is freely accessible from the street at any time.

It’s a new year and what better way to start off 2023 than with the launch of a new book by our friends at Lugemik, and a new installation in our project space!

Dear Friend is a monthly snail mail project initiated in 2019 by Sandra Nuut and Ott Kagovere at the Department of Graphic Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts. The letters were born with the idea to cultivate design writing culture and connect with our community at home and abroad. The publishing project dedicated itself to covering ideas, events, and more in design and visual culture in a letter format bringing together various authors. The edition was in the beginning 100 to later 200 letters each month, which were riso-printed and hand-folded in a collaborative manner. Half of the edition was distributed locally and another half globally, traveling to design institutions, schools, and professionals.

At the occasion of the launch of the Dear Friend Catalogue, our on-going exhibition celebrating 100 books by publisher Lugemik will welcome an installation of all the Dear Friend letters from 2019 till 2022.

Starts at 18:00. Entrance is free, no reservation is required.

The installation can be viewed from Saturday 14 till Thursday 19 January, during our regular opening times, Wednesday through Sunday, 13:00-18:00.

About Lugemik

Lugemik is an independent publishing initiative based in Tallinn, Estonia, founded in 2010 by graphic designer Indrek Sirkel and artist Anu Vahtra. In 2013, Lugemik opened its first bookshop on the premises of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) and in 2020, its second location under Tallinn Art Hall.

Lugemik is currently run by Indrek Sirkel. Indrek Sirkel (b. 1984) is a graphic designer, educator and publisher based in Tallinn. In 2015, he became the head of the Department of Graphic Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) and in 2020 was elected to be the professor of Graphic Design. Since September 2022 he is a junior researcher and a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of EKA.

About the Artists

Ott Kagovere (b. 1983) of Dear Friend is a Tallinn-based graphic designer and the head of the Department of Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Sandra Nuut (b. 1987) of Dear Friend is a curator at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (ETDM). Her work includes writing, lecturing and curatorial projects in the design field. Previously she worked at the Estonian Academy of Arts and New York based gallery Chamber.

Page Not Found presents the final chapter of “Cultural Remittance Pawnshoppe”, a cycle of events curated by Clara Balaguer and Meenakshi Thirukode (Instituting Otherwise). For this last online gathering we welcome Mimi Mondal and Bharathy Singaravel, who will unfold their archetypes “The Moon” and “The Shapeshifter”.

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To Be Determined (Primary Cell: Meenakshi Thirukode and Clara Balaguer) build a series of long distance remittance sessions at Page Not Found, featuring people who are intimate with migratory realities as a lifestyle that begets archetypes for a practice. Whether by fleeing further South, draining towards the North, or exiting contested “centers” and “canons,” their work explores what exists on the margins, not because it lacks value but because it has been grossly misclassified—by empire, patriarchy, casteism, or any other intersectional oppressions—as unremarkable.

In the spirit of informal remittance, both Balaguer and Thirukode have proposed a series of conversational alchemies, mixing guests across their personal networks in India and the Philippines. They ask each guest to present their work in light of an archetype they are practicing, researching, or becoming that is somehow made possible by the modes of flight described by migration. A casual publication will be gathered from notes and references shared for each session.

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Mimi Mondal is a Hugo- and Nebula Award-nominated author of science fiction and fantasy and a columnist writing about history, politics, technology and futures. Her novelette “His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light” was shortlisted for the Nebula Award in 2020. Her first book, “Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler”, co-edited with Alexandra Pierce, received the Locus Award in Non-fiction and was shortlisted for the Hugo Award in Best Related Work and the British Fantasy Award in Non-fiction, among others, in 2018. Mimi has also been the Poetry and Reprint Editor of Uncanny Magazine, a three-times-Hugo-Award-winning magazine of science fiction and fantasy, and an editor at Penguin Random House India. Mimi is also a Founding/Board Member of Plurality University Network and a juror for the Crawford Award. She is the recipient of the Immigrant Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2017; the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship for the Clarion West Writing Workshop in 2015; a Commonwealth Shared Scholarship at University of Stirling in 2013; and the Poetry with Prakriti Prize in 2010. She currently lives in New York.

Bharathy Singaravel is a reporter for The News Minute. She covers caste and Tamil Nadu politics besides writing features on Tamil cinema. She has previously written for The Wire, Scroll, Caravan, The Fedaral, TNM, Newsclick and others.

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This event takes place online. Join the livestream here.

Starts at 17:00 The Hague time, 11:00 New York time, 21:30 New Delhi time.

Image: portrait of Mimi Mondal

The first year students of the Graphic Design department at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague present “I see you! I love you! I know you! I hate you!”, a book bringing together the thoughts of twenty different minds. 

Over the past few months the students have been collecting their thoughts about the things they love, hate, see and know. These observations have been assembled into a publication, which will be presented alongside a uniquely curated performance. 

Starts at 18:00.

We welcome you to the fifth 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 Bart De Baets, Elisabeth Klement and Frank Grießhammer.

Bart de Baets (Knokke, 1979) is a graphic designer based in Amsterdam. His design for Sandberg Institute’s temporary master programme The Radical Cut Up was nominated for a Dutch Design Award. PostNL commissioned him to design a series of stamps which he titled “Talk to the Hand”. He, together with Sandra Kassenaar designs the next ten issues of Forum, a magazine published by AetA, the Dutch architects’ society. The two also design the graphic identity of Kunstmuseum Bochum. He is the designer of “On the Necessity of Gardening. An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation”, which has been published by Valiz Publishers as part of the exhibition “The Botanical Revolution” in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht. In 2022, the book received the prestigious Goldene Letter award from the Stiftung Buchkunst. Bart has been teaching design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague since 2009.

Elisabeth Klement is an Estonian graphic designer, teacher at Gerrit Rietveld Academie and initiator of San Serriffe (with Pieter Verbeke).

Frank Grießhammer (Nuremberg, 1983) studied graphic design at HBKsaar in Saarbrücken, Germany, and at ISIA in Florence, Italy. In 2010, he graduated from Type & Media Master program at KABK The Hague. After TypeMedia, he worked with FontShop International in Berlin, and in 2011, he relocated to California to be part of the Adobe Type Team. In 2018, Frank returned to The Hague, to continue working for Adobe, from the cozy P104 Studio. Frank works at the intersection of code and design. He is periodically teaching workshops in type design programs across Europe. Several of his typefaces have been recognized by international awards.

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.

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

Hooray! At Page Not Found we celebrate 100 publications by the Estonian publisher Lugemik with a brand new exhibition!

The exhibition presents all the 100 titles published by Lugemik in 2010–2022. On the occasion of the show Lugemik publishes its 100th book – a catalogue consisting of one page from each title Lugemik has published so far. Every week an artist from the recent publications by Lugemik will transform the project space of Page Not Found. A program of book launches by the contributing artists takes place correspondingly.

The shapeshifting exhibition presents work of the artists:
Kristina Õllek, 2–8 December 2022
Lene Baadsvig Ørmen, 9–23 December 2022
Dear Friend, 14–19 January 2023
Erika Hock, 21–29 January 2023
Marge Monko, 1-12 February 2023

On 2 December we open the exhibition and kick off with the book launch of Kristina Õllek’s newest publication “Filter Feeders, Double Binds and Other Blooms”. On 14 January Sandra Nuut and Ott Kagovere of Dear Friend launch the “Dear Friend Catalogue”, and on 21 January we present a double book launch of Erika Hock’s “Functionality and Fiction” and “Female Fame”.

About Lugemik

Lugemik is an independent publishing initiative based in Tallinn, Estonia, founded in 2010 by graphic designer Indrek Sirkel and artist Anu Vahtra. In 2013, Lugemik opened its first bookshop on the premises of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) and in 2020, its second location under Tallinn Art Hall.

Lugemik is currently run by Indrek Sirkel. Indrek Sirkel (b. 1984) is a graphic designer, educator and publisher based in Tallinn. In 2015, he became the head of the Department of Graphic Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) and in 2020 was elected to be the professor of Graphic Design. Since September 2022 he is a junior researcher and a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of EKA.

About the Artists

Kristina Õllek (b. 1989) is a visual artist based in Tallinn. She works in the field of photography, video, and installation, investigating representational processes, geological matter, aquatic ecosystems, and the human-made environment. Õllek’s works have been exhibited at A Tale of A Tub (Rotterdam), Laurel Project Space (Amsterdam), Le Lieu Unique (Nantes), and Screen City Biennial (Stavanger), amongst others.

Marge Monko (b. 1976) is a visual artist who lives and works in Tallinn. Monko works with photography, video, and installation. Her works are inspired by historical images and theories of psycho-analysis, feminism, and visual culture. She works as a professor in the Department of Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Lene Baadsvig Ørmen (b. 1984) lives and works in Oslo. Solo exhibitions include: Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2020), Billedhoggerforeningen, Oslo (2019), Gallery Augusta, Helsinki (2016), Kunstnerforbundet (2016), UKS (2015), Kunsthall Stavanger (2015), and Another Space, Copenhagen (2014).

Erika Hock (b. 1981) examinates the physical and the socio-cultural function of temporary architectures. Her mostly spacious installations are exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions and have been shown in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Marta Herford, WIELS Brussels, Loop Seoul and the Salzburger Kunst-verein, among others.

Ott Kagovere (b. 1983) of Dear Friend is a Tallinn-based graphic designer and the head of the Department of Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Sandra Nuut (b. 1987) of Dear Friend is a curator at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (ETDM). Her work includes writing, lecturing and curatorial projects in the design field. Previously she worked at the Estonian Academy of Arts and New York based gallery Chamber.

Visit

The exhibition runs from 2 December 2022 to 29 January 2023, and is open for visits during our regular opening times, Wednesday through Sunday, 13:00-18:00.