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At the occasion of Museumnacht, Page Not Found screened a selection of works in which artists extended their visual work into a publication. In these cases the publication served either as a libretto to accompany the video (or play), or was seen as a symbiotic graphic production. This selection featured works by Guy de Cointet, Felix Salut, John Hey, Studio Laumes, and others. Next to the video screening, the audience was able to get acquainted with the related publications installed in a special vitrine designed by Pierre Chareau.

For Hoogtij#54, Page Not Found invited the public to discover the work of the third year students of the Graphic Design department of the KABK. An archive of communication tools they collectively assembled has now been turned into a collection of books, each edited and designed by a student. During this special evening, the archive is once again being brought to life through an ongoing live broadcasting of the collection. On top of that, the books were on display, and available for purchase. 

During the The Hague Contemporary Weekend 2018 (July 6-8) a series of artist talks took place at various museums, art spaces and galleries. Page Not Found was delighted to invite its audience to a conversation between Aimée Zito Lema and Vincent van Velsen, around her publication ‘Imprinted Mater/Materia Impresa’. The discussion was followed by a performance of her creation, where two dancers, mother and daughter, playfully explored the relationship between body and memory.

Visual artist Aimée Zito Lema (born in Amsterdam, 1982, grew up in Buenos Aires) investigates the way events are remembered, recorded, and how they influence the future. She studied at the University of the Arts, Buenos Aires, The Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, and followed the Master Artistic Research program of the Royal Academy in The Hague (2009 – 2011). She attended the Artist-in-residency program at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam, 2015 – 2016. Salient projects include: Solo exhibition ’13 Shots’ at the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2018), Idiorritmias and Muestreo #1, both at MACBA Barcelona (2017), Eleventh Gwangju Biennale, The Dorothea von Stetten Award exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn (2016), ‘L’art de la Révolte – Hors Pistes’ at Centre Pompidou Paris (2016), the long-term-research project ‘Body at Work’, at Casco, office for art design and theory, Utrecht (2013 – 2014).

Vincent van Velsen (1987) is a writer, critic and curator with a background in art and architectural history. He regularly writes for individual artists, institutions and magazines; amongst which Frieze, Flash Art and Metropolis M – where he also holds a position as contributing editor. He curated exhibitions for Castrum Peregrini, Framer Framed, Kunsthuis SYB and Museum Flehite, among others. In collaboration with Alix de Massiac, he won the second edition of the curatorial prize of the Dutch Association of Corporate Collections (VBCN, 2014). In 2015/16 he was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht. Currently he is working on forthcoming exhibitions for TENT, Nest, and De Brakke Grond. Van Velsen is a board member at Frontier Imaginaries and De Appel.

The publication ‘Imprinted Mater/Materia Impresa’ has been initiated and published by Looiersgracht 60, at the occasion of Aimée’s first major institutional exhibition in the Netherlands. As well as being a non-profit exhibition space, Looiersgracht 60 is an independent publishing house, regularly producing limited-edition paperbacks to accompany its exhibition programme. Each volume is a bespoke, limited edition pocket book, designed by the London-based Studio Veronica Ditting. The collections of essays by specialist writers from a variety of cultural, creative and academic backgrounds furnish each book with a multidisciplinary and integrative context that underpins the featured artist’s work. The books are a supplement to their exhibitions, while also being an autonomous interpretation of the artist’s oeuvre.

During The Hague Contemporary Weekend, and to celebrate his Gesamtkunstwerk in Page Not Found, Helgi Thorsson took over the whole street where our foundation is located. He judiciously placed works — his signature ceramics and paintings — in various shop vitrines of the Boekhorststraat, be it of a carpet shop, a computer outlet, or a frame maker. For the passerby, Helgi’s work might stand out incongruously in its vitrine, especially given its strong, humorous personality. But shop after shop, these works form a community — the community of the odd ones. This installation hints at the social bonds in the street, and celebrates its heterogeneity, in a colorful and generous gesture that characterizes Helgi’s practice.

Thórsson (b. 1975 Iceland) is a visual and sound artist. He studied Sonology at The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, received his BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2002 and an MFA from the Sandberg Institute in 2004. Thórsson was part of the artist initiative Kunstschlager in Reykjavik and ABC Klubhuis in Antwerp. As well as having handled his brush and chisel for the past decades, Thórsson is a member of the bands Stilluppsteypa and Evil Madness.

Exhibition in Boekhorststraat is on view July 6 through July 8.

Page Not Found hosted the launch of <English(100 indexes)>, Dongyoung Lee’s latest publication. Dongyoung Lee uses graphic design to create autonomous forms. The artist talk was followed by a sound performance by Martijn in’t Veld, who wrote the preface, and a slides installation by Martin La Roche, who created its endnotes.

<English (100 indexes)> is a book about index pages. Indexes are a brutally simplified version of its contents. The words from indexes are selected very carefully by its authors but they will never be a perfect representation of its contents. Because of this failure, a possibility of index page as a poetic or darkly humorous text is created.

Page Not Found happily hosted the launch of the second issue of Baobab Magazine, entitled “Lethargy”. Baobab is a new magazine featuring work from photography students at KABK. The new issue is an exploration of more than 30 photographic works, carried the essence of a riddle. The photographers featured in this issue presented their work, engaged in a peer discussion and shared their experiences of working on the projects.

The event attracted a large amount of Photography and Fine Arts students of KABK.

Page Not Found hosted series of Sunday workshops for children, which were choreographed by The Oceans Academy of Arts. The Oceans Academy Of Arts (OAOA), founded by Ola Vasiljeva, is an anonymous and hybrid art collective, which functions as a platform for ideas about art, culture and their representation thereof. As part of OAOA, Vasiljeva has been annually publishing zines and other printed matter since 2008. This way publishing became an important part of her creative practice. OAOA’s printed matter varies between zines, small silkscreen editions, newspapers, letters, posters and other ephemera.

Children, aged 4-8, were invited to join and participate in making books, prints and imaginary barricades. The workshops questioned what one might call a book or a publication, whether it could be a letter or a napkin or a collection of notes. The participants experimented with silkscreen, risograph and carbon paper prints.

Page Not Found was delighted to host a talk by Evita Vasiljeva about her publication “If You Can’t, Engage”. She introduced the way how she worked on this book as a sculpture, together with designer Mislav Žugaj. For this project, she says, “Photoshop was my studio, toolbox and exhibition space”. This talk will also delve into the physicality of the book-medium. Evita explored the tension between producing a defined, serialised object, as mandated by book publishing, and creating uncertain, dismantled forms, to which her practice tends to.

Evita Vasiljeva (1985, Riga, LV) lives and works in Amsterdam and Riga. In 2013 she graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and, from 2014 to 2016, she was artist-in-residence at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Recent solo shows include “Manhours in Headquarters”, P/////AKT, Amsterdam (NL); “Gut House on The Print Level”, kim?, Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (LV); Nothing Lost, Nothing Found, gallery 427, Riga (LV); and “Potlatch”, De Ateliers end show, Amsterdam (NL).

Mislav Žugaj is a designer, teacher and medical student. He often  works with Gaile Pranckunaite as Sprawl, which investigates climate change, and the use of design as ethnographic tool.

Page Not Found was delighted to invite our audiences to a talk by Bernice Nauta in collaboration with Alexandra Martens Serrano, with a guest performance by Jip Piet Hilhorst. 

Bernice Nauta recently returned from a working period in Mexico City where she created a radio show and published a zine in collaboration with Alexandra Martens Serrano. The show is narrated by two characters known only as ‘A’ and ‘B’. They will place a third element ‘Mister C’ under examination. The radio show and the performance were accompanied by the sculptures of these characters, which occupied the floor of Page Not Found.