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Join us for the book launch of “First, Then… Repeat. Workshop Scripts in Practice” by Hackers & Designers!

“First, Then… Repeat. Workshop Scripts in Practice” is a on and offline publication that assembles self-published and unpublished workshop scripts that evolved in and around the collective ecosystem of Hackers & Designers. Hackers & Designers has been organizing workshops since 2013, and along the way has established social-technical affinities that are loose and stable, temporary and ongoing. The collective met and befriended many practitioners and sister organizations since, and got acquainted with manifold, peculiar pedagogical formats, and experimental approaches to working, learning, and being together. This publication derives from an enthusiasm for the various ways collective learning environments take shape. It grew out of a curiosity for the ways that such practices are shared across different localities, timelines, and experiences.

The book launch features presentations by Gabriel Fontana, Stefanie Wuschitz and fanfare, who all contributed to the publication. In parallel the publication will be presented at the SPRINT Art Book Fair in Milano.

Gabriel Fontana is a social designer. He is the initiator of Multiform, a tool that challenges and examines ideas of identity, community, and inclusion by proposing games for sport classes at schools, generating an openness and empathy that later on filter into wider society. Through a queer framework, Fontana investigates how daily social practices reproduce conservative values and reinforce power structures.

Stefanie Wuschitz works at the intersection of research, art, and technology, with a particular focus on Critical Media Practices (feminist hacking, open-source technology, peer production). She is founder of the feminist hacker space Mz* Baltazar’s Lab

fanfare is a platform and design studio for cross-disciplinary collaboration and visual communication. Through an active programme, fanfare generates, explores, and curates environments for visual interactions.

Anja Groten (1983, DE) is a designer, organizer and educator based in Amsterdam. Investigating collectivity-in-practice, her work revolves around the cross-section of digital and physical media, design and art education and her involvement in different interdisciplinary groups. In 2013 she co-founded the initiative Hackers & Designers, attempting to break down the barriers between the different fields and practices by enforcing a common vocabulary through education, hacks and collaboration.

This is a free event, no registration is required.

Starts at 17:00.

Be welcome at Page Not Found to celebrate the new Hackers & Designers publication “First, Then… Repeat. Workshop Scripts in Practice”, with a series of workshops!

Hackers & Designers will take this occasion to present, activate and reflect on workshop scripts in practice. The book will be on view and for sale, and Page Not Found will host several workshops that are open for visitors to join.

The publication, installation (built with the fanfare display system) and workshop program are part of the artistic research project of designer, educator and Hackers & Designers member Anja Groten at PhDArts, Academy for Creative and Performing Arts Leiden and the Making Matters project.

Workshop program:

Thursday 24 November, 13.00–18.00: Open House

Come check out the Hackers & Designers installation with the fanfare display system! The publication “First, Then… Repeat. Workshop Scripts in Practice” will be on view and for sale in our bookstore.

Friday 25 November & Sunday 27 November, 13.00–18.00: ChattyPub walk-in workshop

In this walk-in workshop participants can explore together with the workshop hosts the experimental and instant publishing tool ChattyPub. ChattyPub allows for the creating small publications collectively and on the spot. Participants can join the platform and work on their own devices (computers/tablets/phones) or use one of the computers that will be available at the location. There will be a thermal print station on which zine output can be printed instantly. The workshop will accommodate different levels of engagement. Participants may get involved in all layers of the publishing workflow (writing content, designing the publication with ChattyPub, coding the css styles that determine the design…) or choose to focus on just one aspect. You are welcome to stop by at any moment to join this hands-on session. No prior experience/skills are required. Find more information about the workshop here.

Saturday 26 November, 12.00–16.30: Workshop Emoji Proxies & Ghost Messengers

As an online visitor to cultural events, you can often do little more than ask a question in chat, and chat with other online visitors. How can online visitors feel seen, become more involved in or even have agency over what happens on-site? This is something we’re going to explore during this workshop. Together with The Hmm, Hackers & Designers developed a tool that makes use of standalone wifi hotspots (ESP32 modules) and live networking protocols (MQTT) that allows online input to be translated into something physical, and vice versa. For example, every time an online visitor opens the livestream page, a spotlight shines in the physical space. There are many use cases possible, but how can it help an event really be influenced by the presence of an online audience? This workshop doesn’t require knowledge of programming. It’s free to join, but registration is required. Find more information about the workshop here.

Disclaimer:

Please read the Hackers & Designers Code of Conduct before joining the activities.

The space of Page Not Found is mostly wheelchair accessible with the exception of the rest room. Please let us know if you have any access needs that should be taken into consideration.

Page Not Found presents “Cultural Remittance Pawnshoppe”, a new cycle of events curated by Clara Balaguer and Meenakshi Thirukode (Instituting Otherwise). The third episode of the cycle welcomes Bea Misa-Crisostomo and Malini Kochupillai for an online gathering, unfolding their archetypes ‘The Wartime Merchant’ and ‘The Tenacious Bee’.

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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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Bea Misa-Crisostomo is the owner and founder of Ritual, a sustainable general store that deals in wholesale and retail. This zero-waste, counter-hierarchical enterprise is an experiment in bio-cultural diversity and waste reduction. It pays special attention to underutilized plants, food history, and ingredients. Bea prototypes models for more sustainable commodity systems through agroforestry, with a specialization in developing agricultural post-harvest processes.

Malini Kochupillai is a Delhi based photographer and curator whose practice examines the public realm of cities as an alt site for art interventions and social engagement. She develops site-specific projects, primarily in collaboration with like-minded artists and curators, that engage with artists to create accessible, relatable and compelling works that aim to spark new conversations and ideas. Her work is driven by the firm belief that thoughtful creative practices can offer an increasingly volatile world a moment of pause and self-reflection. She is involved in projects such as the Tenacious Bee Collective and the Khirkee Voice.

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This event takes place online. Join the livestream here.

Starts at 16:00 The Hague time, 20:30 New Delhi time, 23:00 Dumaguete time.

Together with the Master Non Linear Narrative at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, we welcome you to the launch of “How Would You Like to Get Lampooned, My Lord?”, a new publication composed by the students of the department.

The Master Non Linear Narrative merges investigative methods of journalism and forensics with computer technologies and visual arts. These disciplines come together in a progressive approach of graphic design, with a focus on creating non-linear stories.

Each year, a small group of master’s students undertake field research in collaboration with external partners, which are mainly governmental and non-governmental organisations. From January to July 2022, the department collaborated with KB, the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, to scrutinise the book as a publishing platform and create new, compelling narratives that link the alba amicorum (friendship books) to immediate issues affecting us today. “How Would You Like to Get Lampooned, My Lord?” is the publication resulting from this year’s collaboration with the KB. 

The publication is composed by MA students Lisette Alberti, Lode Dijkers, Leonie Gores, Daniel Gremme, Shouyi He, Alicja Konkol, Eszter Nagy, Camille de Noray, Julija Panova, and Karolina Uskakovych, and supervised by Linda van Deursen (MA Non Linear Narrative), Mijke van der Drift (MA Non Linear Narrative), Rianne Koning (KB, National Library of the Netherlands), Katrin Korfmann (MA Non Linear Narrative), Niels Schrader (MA Non Linear Narrative), and Jeroen Vandommele (KB, National Library of the Netherlands).

Starts at 18:00.

We are happy to unveil “exercise in mediumship #3: genealogy of refusal” by Adele Dipasquale, the fourth chapter in our new series of Open Letters!

The Open Letters project invites The Hague artists to occupy our large storefront window with messages of urgency and vulnerability.

“exercise in mediumship #3: genealogy of refusal” consists of the reproduction of a ‘ouija board’—the object used to communicate with spirits during seance—where all the letters have been crossed and the only possible remaining reply is ‘no’. Eventually, inside the board there are some of the answers given by Joan of Arc during the trial in 1431 when asked about the nature of her ‘voices’. When forced to speak with the binary language of the patriarchal inquisition, Joan of Arc refuses its grammar. The work engages with forms of defiant silence and refusal and is inscribed in an ongoing exploration of practises of mediumship in a (his)story of silenced women. The project reflects on using one’s own body (or one’s own body of work) as a physical vehicle for someone else’s voice. What does it mean to be a channel for somebody else’s voice? To literally embody someone else’s voice as during seance? Then, are feminist practices forms of mediumship practices?

Adele Dipasquale (IT, 1994) is a visual artist based in The Hague. Working across various mediums as moving images, analog film, voice experimentations and writing, their work explores the politics of language and the relationship between magic and words. Their latest research is investigating forms of silence, acts of defiant mutism and practices of mediumship in feminist genealogies. They currently are artist in residency at Cripta747 (Turin, IT) where they are working on a film on how to lose your voice with a group of young children.

“exercise in mediumship #3: genealogy of refusal” is on view in our front window for the duration of a month, and is freely accessible from the street at any time. 

Image credit: Spirits talks n.1 (video still), 2022, by Adele Dipasquale.

Page Not Found presents “Cultural Remittance Pawnshoppe”, a cycle of events curated by Clara Balaguer and Meenakshi Thirukode (Instituting Otherwise). The second episode of the cycle welcomes artists Ming Lin and Renan Laru-an for an online gathering.

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Artist, publisher, curator, and researcher Ming Lin (aka Canal Street Research/Shanzhai Lyric) presents her work through the archetype of The Hamlet, upending notions of authorship, borders, and property as constructed categories, not only from the lens of Shakespeare’s legendary play—a script that may have been bootlegged by an “author” who may not even have existed at all. Curator Renan Laru-an presents his work through the archetype of The Exhibition, thinking through what exhibitions could be without art history, without artists and curators, as artistic experiments or curatorial correctives, as transmissions of heritage outside of the exhibitionary complex, as miracles.

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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.

Balaguer and Thirukode have proposed a series of conversational alchemies between India and the Philippines. They ask each guest pairing to present their work in light of an archetype they are practicing, researching, or becoming. A publication will be printed and pawned at the close of these conversations.

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Cultural Remittance Pawnshoppe is made possible by a generous institutional consortium between Page Not Found, the Collecting Otherwise research group at Het Nieuwe Instituut and PrintRoom.

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Renan Laru-an is a researcher and curator working from the Philippines and in Southeast Asia. He is the Public Engagement and Artistic Formation Coordinator at the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN). He studies ‘insufficient’ and ‘subtracted’ images and subjects at the juncture of development and integration through long-term projects, such as Promising Arrivals, Violent Departures, Lightning Studies: Centre for the Translation of Constraints, Conflicts and Contaminations (CTCCCs) (2016); among others. Laru-an (co-)curated the 6th Singapore Biennale: Every Step in the Right Direction, Singapore (2019); Motions of this Kind, SOAS, London (2019); A Tripoli Agreement, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2018); the 8th OK. Video – Indonesia Media Arts Festival, Jakarta (2017) with ruangrupa; among others.

Ming Lin uses both Canal Street Research Association and Shanzhai Lyric as her professional aliases. Canal Street Research Association is a temporary center of operations for itinerant research unit Shanzhai Lyric. Bringing their roving investigation of bootleg goods to the epicenter of counterfeit culture in New York City, Shanzhai Lyric repurposes 327 Canal Street, a branch of Wallplay’s On Canal, as space for gathering ephemeral histories, mapping the major thoroughfare’s lore, past and present, and tracing the flows and fissures of global capital. The project is the first phase of a larger body of work examining counterfeit culture in relation to contemporary notions of property. 

Meenakshi Thirukode is a writer, researcher, educator and feminist killjoy based in NewDelhi, India. Her areas of research include the role of culture, collectivity and micro-politics from the POV of a queer femme subjectivity, located within the realm of a trans-nomadic, transient network of individuals and institutions. She runs ‘School of IO’, which is a space of unlearning, dedicated to navigating ‘study’, as a radical tool of political agency.

Clara Balaguer is a cultural worker and grey literature circulator. Frequently, she operates under collective or individual aliases that disclose her stewardship in any given project, the latest of which is To Be Determined.

To Be Determined is a loosely organized structure for leaking access to cultural capital, recently migrated to Rotterdam from Parañaque City. TBD is a network of sleeper cells curious about models of non-extractive research, diasporic remittance flows, rehabilitating the body public/published body, mutual industry, and secretarial agency.

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This event takes place online. Join the livestream here.

Starts at 15:00 The Hague time, 9:00 New York time, 21:00 Manila time.

Image credit: Window view of the temporary space of Canal Street Research Association on 327 Canal Street, New York City, November 4th – December 31st, 2020 

Please join us on October 8 — for the Iran Solidarity Gathering, held at Page Not Found! The program for the evening, includes talks and screenings of works by Iranian artists, including:

1. – A short film “Sediment”, with introduction by the artists Vida Kasaei and Amir Komelizadeh (VidAmir).
2. – A talk about the current situation in Iran, as well as how non-Iranians can help.
3. – Presentation of Newsha Tavakolian‘s audio-visual collection “Listen”.
4. – A collection of artistic content produced in this short urgent time by Iranians inside and outside Iran.

We kindly thank Fatemeh Asgharzadeh for helping to organise this event as well as all the contributors! This event is taking place during the Museumnacht in The Hague! We are looking forward and hope to see you there!

Starts at 19:00.

Image Credit: Still from “Sediment” (2019) by VidAmir

We are excited to unveil “It Smells Like a Village” by Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh, the third chapter in our new series of Open Letters!

The Open Letters project invites The Hague artists to occupy our large storefront window with messages of urgency and vulnerability.

“It Smells Like a Village” comes from a memory Mac Cárthaigh has of their father teaching them how to keep a domestic septic tank healthy. The text follows a recipe like a sourdough starter; but this fermenting mother prefers to gobble up things such as dead piglets. Alongside images of dark pits, roadkill, and sewage, the reader is brought along the emotional connection to rural scenes, which might feel grotesque for some, but familiar and mundane for others. Can a realistic image of rural existence be portrayed in this way as an act of bringing together? Having reached a point beyond urgency with their research, Mac Cárthaigh writes down these recipes not to pass on cyclical and non-destructive methods, but to make sure they are remembered at all.

Maitiú Mac Cárthaigh is an artist whose research practice navigates a departure from the Land by exploring the ever-widening divide between traditional farming and contemporary industrialised agriculture. They grew up in what they fondly call, the Back Ass of Nowhere in Ireland. Mac Cárthaigh spent most of their childhood on a pig farm as the eldest of four sons, helping their parents care for animals to slaughter. Here they learned the older methods of farming: systems and techniques which rely on what is to hand as a means to nourish. Mac Cárthaigh has previously completed a BA in Fine Art in Ireland. Currently they are in their second year of study at the Master Artistic Research at the KABK. 

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

We welcome you to the fourth 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 Tatjana Stürmer, Jules Janssen and Full Auto Foundry (Benjamin McMillan).

Tatjana Stürmer (born 1993 in Darmstadt) lives and works in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. From 2013 to 2020 she studied communication design, media art and art theory at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe.Her work hovers around an interest in the performative aspects of visual language and how they influence and transform our immediate social and political experiences. Works move between various media and materials and range from graphic formats such as publications to multimedia installations. Looking back to the past, often the early Middle Ages, it serves to narrate a sustainable, feminist and decelerative speculation of the future.

Jules Janssen (1995) is a graphic designer & illustrator from The Netherlands who is in constant occupational therapy through self-referential home crafting. Jules likes to make do with everyday cute tools and minimal cute effort. By being desperately dedicated to mistakes he likes to assume that swimming against the current can help, or at least entertain, the community. Jules also does serious branding, printed matter, web design, illustration & animation as he works with clients in the arts, fashion, media and music. He freshly finished a BA in Graphic Design at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

Full Auto Foundry (Benjamin McMillan) is a graphic designer and type designer based in Amsterdam, hosting as well as running Full Auto Foundry, an experimental workshop based type foundry that explores how processes of automation can influence type design in form and method through a series of physical tools and digital scripts. Furthermore he works as assistant designer for the Dutch art magazine Metropolis M and as a studio assistant for MacGuffin Magazine.

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.

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.

We are delighted to invite you to the festive launch of Marianne Vierø’s latest artist book “A Selection of Unrealized Sculpture for the Small Pocket or A Pocket Book of Thoughts in Three Dimensions”, published by Page Not Found.

Documenting the unrealized and collapsing time, the publication weaves together images and text in a volume that balances between potential and loss. Setting askew the relationship between classic elements such as format, page numbers and font size this publication is modest in size but permeated by grand gestures.

Marianne Vierø works with installation, sculpture and print in a process driven by equal parts intuition and analysis. She investigates existing premises and hidden biases in our systems of understanding and considers the transformative potential of materials, methods and gestures. Taking inspiration from the structures of language her practice involves a continuous process of translation that places her work in a constant state of becoming.

Marianne Vierø lives and works in Copenhagen and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. She was a resident at Triangle Arts, NYC, 2011; the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 2008-2009; and at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D) in 2007. Selected solo exhibitions include ‘Drawing Nude’ and ‘Figure Bold’ both at Rita Urso Gallery, Milan (IT); ‘Dunk’ and ‘Great Transformation’ at Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam (NL); and ‘Zeppelin Bend’ at PAKT, Amsterdam (NL). Her work is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

This event is part of Hoogtij #70.

Starts at 19:00.

This is a free event.