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From 15 June to 17 July our 2022 artist-in-residence Marianna Maruyama presents work developed during her research and production period in collaboration with Page Not Found. Slow processes of decay, ageing and transformation find their way into the project space. 

Over the past two years Maruyama has been moving – physically and imaginatively – between The Hague and Rome in search of what she calls  ‘termitic space’. Termites offer limitless ways of thinking about more-than-human intelligence by provoking questions about social life and the concept of the individual, blurring boundaries between the animate and inanimate, and mixing temporalities. Thinking alongside the works of Anna Tsing, Rosi Braidotti, Caitlin DeSilvey, Lisa Margonelli, and others, Maruyama is interested in how cultural heritage might be understood from the perspective of the insects that live off of it — and in it — in addition to the ones who produce it or conserve it. For Maruyama, termites offer different ways of thinking about loss, and prompt a deeper understanding of the life and death cycle of a publication.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a program of public events, opening up conversations from different perspectives around Maruyama’s research and artworks. On Friday 24 June artist Greta Desirée Facchinato presents a natural ink-making workshop, and on Saturday 16 July Maruyama will engage in a panel discussion with Virginija Januškevičiūtė, curator of CAC Vilnius and writer, artist, and cultural policy advisor Mirthe Berentsen.

Marianna Maruyama describes her multi-modal practice as translational, transformative, personal, and indebted. Since 2016, she has worked in close collaboration with the Sedje Hémon Foundation. Her work has been performed and exhibited in the CAC Vilnius (LT), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), documenta14 Parliament of Bodies, Kassel (DE), The Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam (NL), Manifesta 11, Zurich (CH), The Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL), and IMPAKT festival, Utrecht (NL), Lateral Roma (IT). Publications include: Performing Security (The Fifth Season, 2019); Translation as Method (Kunstlicht, 2017); Translation in The Dark (Casco/DAi, 2014); Three Movements (Casco/DAI, 2013); Farocki’s Living Room (Harun Farocki Institut, 2018). Her writing has been published in DEARS, Nero Editions, and Archive Books (forthcoming). 

The development of this exhibition is supported by the Makersregeling from de gemeente Den Haag.

The exhibition is open to the public during our regular opening hours from Wednesday through Sunday, 13:00-18:00. Entrance is free. 

On Friday 1 July the project space and exhibition will be closed for Keti Koti.

Where is the Internet? Can I make my own internet? How much power does it consume? Is it bad for the environment? Hackers & Designers does experiments to find out what a sustainable Internet of the future might look like. Want to join?

Are you between 7-12 years old* and would you like to make a scavenger hunt in and around Page Not Found and the Boekhorststraat? Find your favourite grown up and ask them to apply! We will make wearable wifi networks to hide digital clues. After making the scavenger hunt we will try out the hunt ourselves and look for the clues using our mobile phones!

What can you expect? Young participants will learn to design a scavenger hunt. The grown-up participants will learn how to make mini websites using HTML and put them on mobile wifi modules which we will use to create the digital scavenger hunt.

This event is part of the installation and workshop series “Figuring Things Out Together — Exploring the ‘Workshop’ as a concept and format for collective learning and publishing” organised by Anja Groten of Hackers & Designers.

The workshop is bilingual (Dutch/English), and takes place from 13:00 – 16:00.

What to bring: a laptop computer (plus usb adaptor if your computer requires it) and a smartphone. Bring a buddy! The workshop is set up to participate as a pair (one adult and one young person), and we will need both of your skills and imagination throughout the entire workshop!

Entrance is free. If you want to keep the Wifi Modules you can buy them from for their cost price (€17,00).

Sign up (before 1 June) via: anja@hackersanddesigners.nl – upon sign-up we will send you a more detailed set-up of the program.

*If you are older but think it would be fun and you are happy to work with the other kids, you are welcome too!

In this installation and workshop series Anja Groten from Hackers & Designers opens up her practice-based research with a special attention to the ‘workshop’ as a format for self-organized learning and publishing.

Manifold contexts shape articulations around workshops, different workshop meanings, materializations, practices, and legacies. The ‘workshop’ – an ambiguous yet popular format for time-boxed collaboration is co-opted frequently, crossing boundaries between art and activism, between different disciplines and institutions, between commercial and educational contexts. As a flexible format, the workshop seems to fulfil momentary needs and supposedly can be adapted to ‘any’ context, tackling ‘any’ issue. However, the workshop, in its temporary, semi-committed, ad-hoc utterances, needs to be considered also as a consequence of uncertain times, contingent and fragmented work and social relations. 

Drawing from the workshop-based practice of the Hackers & Designers collective this installation and workshop series focuses on the relation of workshops, collective practices and self-publishing, posing the question how collective practices can negotiate their socio-material conditions in critical, creative and conscious ways, and develop subtle but effective tactics to ‘stay in touch’ with each other and with the different environments they interact with.  

The installation (built with the fanfare display system) and workshop series are part of the artistic research project of Anja Groten at PhDArts (Academy for Creative and Performing Arts Leiden) and the Making Matters project. It is the first of a series of activities – a distributed, iterative publishing cycle that will materialize as an on and offline publication.

Workshop program:

Wednesday 1 June, 13.00-18.00 — ‘Workshop Chatter’ with Chattypub (Walk-in, no RSVP required)

Check out the installation by Hackers & Designers at Page Not Found and stop by for cookies, coffee, tea and a chat about workshops! Share your workshop anecdotes, unexpected insights, mundane observations, awkward interaction, and get introduced to Chattypub – a chat application, a design and publishing tool, a workshop, a collective practice. 

Thursday 2 June, 10:00-13:00 — ‘Workshop / Werkstatt / Werkplaats: Workshop site and situation’ (On-site workshop, RSVP required)

An on-site workshop in collaboration with Fabulous Future (Naomi Credé) and fanfare.

What is physical publishing? How do we imagine a workshop space? How can a display activate space? 

With the installation at Page Not Found, you are invited to collectively imagine and construct the modular system as a workshop space. The workshop and structure will be built with the playful modular fanfare display system, which assists in modifying, activating and claiming space. During the workshop, fanfare, Fabulous Future and Hackers & Designers will join forces to challenge/expand/enhance/continue the display system together with the workshop participants.

Friday 3 June, 10:00-12:00 — ‘Forkshop’ (hybrid workshop on- and offline, RSVP required)

The unspecificity of the workshop format makes it difficult to describe and critique. This ‘Forkshop’ is an invitation to regard the workshop itself as a medium, something that can be externalized, iterated, opened up to others. 

This workshop starts at 10:00 for those joining in person and at 10:30 for those joining online.

Please specify whether you join in person or online when you RSVP.

Friday 3 June, 19:00-20.30 — ‘Workshop scripts’, talk by Anja Groten (Walk-in, no RSVP required)

This talk by Anja Groten contextualizes the ‘workshop’ in relation to the collective practice of Hackers & Designers. An important question to raise when addressing workshops ‘as such’ is: How to self-organize temporary collective learning environments, while also developing relationships that are committed and long-term, thus, counterbalance flexibilization and fragmentation of our work and lives (which the pervasiveness of workshops may be a manifestation of)?

Over the years, the H&D collective developed social and technical conduct that could be compared to workshop instructors who learn to take care of their workshop space and their tools, establishing some house-rules and practices of hospitality. The workshops H&D organize seem instantaneous but there are aspects of continuity and long-term commitments that evolve alongside.

In this talk Anja will introduce aspects of H&D experimental publishing practice, specifically looking at the format of the ‘workshop script’ as an attempt to explicate, iterate and distribute collective workshop-based practices.

Saturday 4 June, 14:00-18:00 — ‘Workshop scripts’ (On-site workshop, RSVP required)

This on-site workshop will pay attention to narrative and the discursive potentials of pedagogical documents such as workshop scripts, instruction and install manuals, readme’s, scores, how-tos, gameplay, exercises, and prompts.

Sunday 5 June, 13:00-16:00 — ‘Solarpunk Kids (Bring Your Own Grown-up)’ (On-site workshop, RSVP required)

Find more information about this workshop in the separate event description on the bottom of this page.

RSVP information:

To participate, please RSVP via email to anja@hackersanddesigners.nl by 31 May, with subject ‘H&D RSVP’, your name, and mention of the activities of your choice. You will receive a confirmation and more detailed information by June 1st. You can also stop by Page Not Found on 1st of June and sign up in person.

All workshops are free of charge.

Disclaimers:

Each workshop will have a different focus and takes a different approach (thus attending more than one will not be boring!)

The workshops will depart from and take into consideration the experiences and interests of the group of workshop participants. Upon sign-up you will receive a confirmation email with more details and what to bring or prepare (preparation will not take more than 10 minutes of your time) 

Please read the H&D Code of Conduct before joining the activities.

The space is mostly wheelchair accessible with the exception of the rest room. Please let us know if you have any access needs that we should take into consideration.

About Hackers & Designers / Anja Groten

Hackers & Designers is a non-profit initiative organizing workshops at the intersection of technology, design and art. By creating shared moments of hands-on learning H&D stimulates collaboration across disciplines, technological literacy, and different levels of expertise. Since 2015 H&D organizes the annual H&D Summer Academy in Amsterdam, an experiment in non-hierarchical learning and making. Tutors become participants, participants become workshop tutors—everyone is taken on the collective venture of shared responsibility, bringing in their own expertise, urgency and experience.

Current members of the H&D collective are Loes Bogers, André Fincato, Selby Gildemacher, Anja Groten, Heerko van der Kooij, Juliette Lizotte, Karl Moubarak, Christine Kappé, and Pernilla Manjula Philip.

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.

Anja is a PhD candidate at PhD Arts, and the consortium Bridging Art, Design and Technology through Critical Making, and since 2019 the course director of the design department at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, Master of the Rietveld Academie.

Ten bachelor and master students of the ArtScience department at the Royal Academy of Arts present ten performative readings from ten theses fresh off the printer! Participating artists are: Amos Peled, Anne-Florence Neveu, Armand Lesecq, Bjarte Wildeman, Charlotte Chung, Leon Lapa Pereira, Max Baraitser Smith, Robbi Meertens, Valentin Kellein and Yujia Wu.

The ArtScience department focuses on new technology and the development of art forms, investigating how these interrelate with society and artistic practices. Working across different art practices, the department fosters a curiosity-driven approach to art-making. 

This event is organised in the framework of ArtScience’s exhibition-festival Chronic Now.

Thesis readings take place from 14:00 to 20:00 with breaks in between.

This is a free event.

As part of Hoogtij#69 and concurrent with The Other Book Festival, we present a book presentation of “Moving Dots Speaking About Dots #2”- a collaboration between Knust Press, Corners Studio (Seoul) and artists Rogier Arents (NL) and Bird Pit (KR). 

For this publication both designers have reflected upon the core theme of the dot. Bird Pit transformed the dots into characters of his coloured pencil illustrations. Arents’ dots reflect the movements of the moon and its trajectory. The result is a playful publication that can be browsed in any direction and orientation.

Starts at 19:00.

This is a free event.

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.