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Page Not Found has invited artists to occupy the current surreal intermission with a soundtrack loosely based on literature, spoken word, poetry, storytelling.

«THIS COULD BE A LOVE STORY» was developed in the context of Julie Béna’s solo exhibition “Les lèvres rouges”  at Kunstverein Bielefeld (February 15 – July 5, 2020) and  was originally published on Montez Press Radio.

Please visit our Soundcloud to listen.

Julie’s book “It Needed to be Tender and to be Whipped”, published by Montez Press is available at Page Not Found.

Page Not Found has invited artists to occupy the current surreal intermission with a soundtrack loosely based on literature, spoken word, poetry, storytelling. The first guest is The Oceans Academy of Arts (OAOA) with “O instead of 0” based on Vladimir Nabokov’s “Signs and Symbols”.

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The Oceans Academy of Arts (OAOA) was founded in 2008 as an experimental educational platform under the umbrella of contemporary art. This semi-fictional institution presents itself as real, yet plays with its own illusive image and approaches the exhibition space, the work of art and the role of the artist as reflections of the same body.

Page Not Found has invited artists to occupy the current surreal intermission with a soundtrack loosely based on literature, spoken word, poetry, storytelling.

This week’s Intermission introduces a sound piece by the legendary experimental film director Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), who lived and worked in The Hague most of his life. 

Frans Zwartje’s music archive was recently released by Trunk Records as well as purge.xxxPt.2 appears on ZWARTJES TAPES 1 LP, which is available at Page Not Found as well as a publication embracing his practice “The Holy Family”.
Visit our Soundcloud to listen.

Thank you to Trunk Records for the permission to share the audio.

“Far Closer”, presenting works of our dear volunteers is on view in our window at Boekhorststraat 128 until January 14.
If you happen to stroll around, please come and peek into our witch bottle, populated by mythical beings, drowned in melancholic shades.
The exhibition presents a staged family portrait of sorts, inviting distant relatives and other enigmatic characters around the table — Anubis Dog with pearl teeth, a Rabbit chased by arrows, a Grass Pillow, Found Gloves reading haikus and rolling poetry cigs with X–2020 QOX ÆDOX, amongst others.

With works by Anna Moschioni and Brechje Krah, Daisy Madden-Wells, Ella Wang Olsson, Kamila Sipika, Paulina Trzeciak, Shana de Villiers, Silke Riis, and Xenia Klein.

❗️Please note that due to the newly announced restrictions, Page Not Found is closed until further notice, but the exhibition in the window display is freely accessible at all times.

In the framework of Hoogtij#64 Online edition Page Not Found proposes a poetic close-up into one of our favourite publications: “A Picture, A Thousand Words” by Barbara Bloom. 

The book was published on the occasion of Bloom’s exhibition at David Lewis Gallery in 2017. The inspiration comes from a Roberto Bolaño short story, called “Labyrinth”. The story consists of  Bolaño’s meandering and speculative extrapolations upon an anonymous photograph of eight French intellectuals seated at a cafe table: Jacques Henric, Philippe Sollers, Julia Kristeva, Pierre Gyotat  and Marc Devade. A picture. A thousand words. Barbara Bloom likewise extrapolates from fragmentary evidence and discusses a mystical selection of seven photographs.

Barbara Bloom (1951, USA) is a visual artist whose conceptual practice relies mainly on photography and installation. Beginning in the 1970s, Bloom has created work in a variety of different mediums including photography, installation, film, and books.

In conversation with Susan Tallman, Barbara Bloom has referred to herself as a “novelist who somehow ended up in a ‘visual artist’ queue”. Bloom has often compared herself, and the viewer of her work, to a ‘detective’ who is confronted with disparate clues and is asked to form some kind of visual narrative. Her work is often about the nature of looking. She engages her viewer, seducing him/her into a beautifully constructed visual world, one that is underlaid by subversive wrenches thrown in.

“Door Jam. Photo: Elliott Erwitt. 1962. Sofia Lauren and Anthony Perkins dancing in Paris during the filming of ‘Five Miles to Midnight’. Sofia and Anthony are dancing together but they are in separate worlds even though they are in the same room. Sofia is voluptuous and three-dimensional; Anthony appears miniaturized, two-dimensional. This awkwardness mirrors their public personas and personal relationship. The door jamb extends and re-enacts this scenario: you encounter the photograph in the mirror.”

5 March, 2021, from 7pm

Hoogtij

Page Not Found and the Master Experimental Publishing (XPUB) at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, are happy to invite you to an online lecture by digital media scholar Kishonna Gray.

From #solidarityisforwhitewomen to #MeToo, gaming culture provides an interesting case study to explore the experiences of women within the transmediated spaces of gaming. Drawing from ethnographic observations of gamers and games, this talk will trouble what it means to be a woman inside gaming as well as what feminist contributions to gaming can look like.

The Situationist Times was a magazine edited and published by the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong in the sixties. With only six issues, the Times became one of the most exciting and playful magazines of that decade, thanks to its multilingual, transdisciplinary, and cross-cultural exuberance. The never-realised seventh issue, destined to explore the game of Pinball and its female player, is the starting point of our collaboration with XPUB and artist Lídia Pereira. During the course of this semester, the students are tasked with imagining what the seventh issue could be if it were produced today, under the guidance of Lídia and the XPUB staff. Their works, gathered as a Special Issue, will be launched at Page Not Found in April. To further this exploration, we are happy to invite you to a series of online lectures investigating how Situationism, games, and publishing reflect on each other.

We wholeheartedly thank Jacqueline de Jong for her kind interest and support in this collaboration.

Dr. Kishonna L. Gray is an interdisciplinary, intersectional, digital media scholar and digital herstorian whose areas of research include identity, performance and online environments, embodied deviance, cultural production, video games, and Black Cyberfeminism. Dr. Gray is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois – Chicago. She is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She also previously served as a MLK Scholar and Visiting Professor in Women and Gender Studies and Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Dr. Gray is completing a manuscript, tentatively titled Intersectional Tech: The Transmediated Praxis of Black Users in Digital Gaming (LSU Press, 2020). She is also the author of Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live (Routledge, 2014) and the co-editor of two volumes on culture and gaming. Feminism in Play (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018), which focuses on women as they are depicted in video games, as participants in games culture, and as contributors to the games industry, and Woke Gaming (University of Washington Press, 2018) which illustrates the power and potential of video games to foster change and become a catalyst for social justice.

Starts at 16:00. Reserve your free ticket here.

Page Not Found and the Master Experimental Publishing (XPUB) at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, are happy to invite you to an online lecture by Anne-Marie Schleiner.

In this talk, returning to previous ludic inspiration found in the playful gambits of Situationist architects, thinkers and activists, Anne-Marie Schleiner accepts an exciting invitation to imagine hypothetical games and feminist tactics for the unfinished last issue of Jacqueline de Jong’s Situationist Times: the Pinball Issue. Schleiner will present examples of  what could be described as a ”Games within Games” feminist tactic, drawing from her own game designs, activist art practice, and experience with educational children’s games. The talk will move from the bouncy echo chambers of Pinball arcades, to the fraternal sharing of (Mine)crafting knowhow on YouTube amongst gaming “bros”, and will touch upon experimental Art Games, children’s games like hopscotch, politically engaging and environmentally minded mobile games, and other games that run along or against the business of gameplay as usual. A Situationist feminist tactic of “Games within Games” is one that builds forth on Situationism, while also critiquing its complicity with systems the movement allegedly opposed.

The Situationist Times was a magazine edited and published by the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong in the sixties. With only six issues, the Times became one of the most exciting and playful magazines of that decade, thanks to its multilingual, transdisciplinary, and cross-cultural exuberance. The never-realised seventh issue, destined to explore the game of Pinball, is the starting point of our collaboration with XPUB and artist Lídia Pereira. During the course of this semester, the students are tasked with imagining what the seventh issue could be if it were produced today, under the guidance of Lídia and the XPUB staff. Their works, gathered as a Special Issue,  will be launched at Page Not Found in April. To further this exploration, we are happy to invite you to a series of online lectures investigating how Situationism, games, and publishing reflect on each other.

We wholeheartedly thank Jacqueline de Jong for her kind interest and support in this collaboration.

Anne-Marie Schleiner is engaged in gaming and media culture in a variety of roles as a critic, theorist, activist, artist, and game designer. She has exhibited in international galleries, museums and festivals. Documentation of her performative culture work is available on the Video Data Bank. She holds a doctorate in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. She has taught at universities in the United States, Mexico, and Singapore, and is an instructor at the University of California, Davis. Her doctoral thesis, entitled “The Player’s Power to Change the Game: Ludic Mutation”, is published by Amsterdam University Press. Her second book, “Transnational Play”,  looks at the industry of  mobile and casual games played around the globe.

Starts at 18:30. Reserve your free ticket here.

Page Not Found and the Master Experimental Publishing (XPUB) at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, are happy to invite you to an online lecture by curator Ellef Prestsæter.

Can a magazine be seen as a game? And how did the situationists’ interest in pinball play out in different ways? In this talk Ellef Prestsæter will propose an itinerary through the heaps of material prepared for the unrealized Pinball Issue of The Situationist Times, ultimately taking aim at what one of its (male) contributors put forward as a question of utmost significance: What are the “motives of the passionate female pinball player”?

The Situationist Times was a magazine edited and published by the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong in the sixties. With only six issues, the Times became one of the most exciting and playful magazines of that decade, thanks to its multilingual, transdisciplinary, and cross-cultural exuberance. The never-realised seventh issue, destined to explore the game of Pinball, is the starting point of our collaboration with XPUB and artist Lídia Pereira. During the course of this semester, the students are tasked with imagining what the seventh issue could be if it were produced today, under the guidance of Lídia and the XPUB staff. Their works, gathered as a Special Issue,  will be launched at Page Not Found in April. To further this exploration, we are happy to invite you to a series of online lectures investigating how Situationism, games, and publishing reflect on each other.

We wholeheartedly thank Jacqueline de Jong for her kind interest and support in this collaboration.

Ellef Prestsæter (b. 1982) is a Norwegian art historian, curator and member of the Institute for Computational Vandalism. His exhibitions and publishing projects include Archival Arabesque (2019–2020), The Gutenberg Galaxy at Blaker (2013–2015), These Are Situationist Times! (2017–2019) and Rett Kopi Documents the Future: Manifesto (2007). Prestsæter is currently working towards a PhD in art history at the University of Oslo on Asger Jorn and the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism.

Starts at 17:00. Register for your free ticket here.

Page Not Found was thrilled to host Matt Pezier for the launch of the second issue of “Hollanditis”. This ongoing publishing project by Matt Plezier chronicles the visual culture of protest, past and present, in the form of a newspaper. During this event, Matt will discuss with his guests the necessity of disrupting (public) space and how poster-making is a relevant strategy for change. Protest posters, old and new, will be exhibited.

Matt Plezier is a self-taught Dutch visual artist based in The Hague. Under the label MonoRhetorik, he has self published zines, prints and art books, in true DIY spirit. MonoRhetorik is the recipient of the prestigious Shannon Michael Cane Award 2018.

Matt Plezier’s work reflects upon issues of alienation, anonymity, (in)visibility and ways of constructing and disseminating narrative, mirroring his own multi-cultural background. His publications provide viewers with a different narrative in an unambiguous and sometimes confrontational form.  His work has been shown at the DIY Cultures Fair (London, UK), Fruit Art book fair (Bologna, IT), Palais de Tokyo’s Ass Book Fair (Paris, FR), Offprint art book fair (Paris, FR), and the New York Art Book Fair (US). The themes vary from hardcore punk to urban photography, installation based work to queer apparel and zines.