Printing Plant: Sunday - Public Programme
24 November 2019

Printing Plant 2019 is accompanied by an exciting public programme. This year’s programme includes a varied line-up of talks, lectures and workshops, thematically divided into two general categories: Politics of Publishing and (Dis)appearance. The first theme touches on the symbolic importance of publishing, as a practice and as an industry, due to its role in the legitimization of cultural creation, standardization of discourse and as a platform for self-expression. The second relates to the concepts of creation and erasure in an increasingly globalized, industrialized and digitized world. We look forward to opening up the world of art-book publishing to the general public whilst affording industry professionals the opportunity to encounter fresh perspectives.

*Please note there are limited places available for each event. To make a reservation please email us at info@looiersgracht60.org. Tickets are 4,50€ each and are available on our website and at the door prior to the event.

‘Building an Archive of a Disappearing Landscape’
A conversation with Miriam Sentler, Mariam Zulfiquar and Prof. dr. Kees van Oers
12:30 – 13:30, auditorium (theme 2)
Miriam Sentler’s ‘Building an Archive of a Disappearing Landscape’, deals with the historicity of matter, trans-generational memory, and site-specificity. The narrative is centered around her grandfather’s native village, illustrating the long-term consequences of industrial development on all parties involved––humans, animals, and matter alike. She emphasizes the uncontrollability of the landscape and the unforeseen consequences of the actions of men–– surreal situations like the appearance of a new animal population or the poisoning of lakes from industrial refuse.

Artist Miriam Sentler is joined by Mariam Zulfiqar, the Deputy Director and Chief Curator at UP Projects, and the ecologist Prof.dr. Kees van Oers (Professor at KNAW, specialized in animal behavior) for a discussion about the intersection of artistic practice and environmental issues.

Tickets available here.

Posture Editions presents ‘Morning Change’
A launch and artist talk with Heide Hinrichs and Nikolaas Demoen
14:00 – 15:00, auditorium (theme 2)
‘Morning Change’ is a book on movement, location and nomadism in the oeuvre of the artist Heide Hinrichs (DE) interwoven with an essay by Elizabeth Haines. It is an invitation to follow different lines that are directed east of Kassel, east of Busan, east of Seattle, east of London. The lines are drawn over continents and oceans, against the Earth’s own movement we unconsciously witness with each sunrise. The publication brings together three groups of works, developed between 1999 and 2018, exploring the artist’s recurring interest in these topics. For 'Printing Plant', Hinrichs and publisher Nikolaas Demoen from Posture Editions will redraw the lines between the three groups of works: ‘The Horse’, ‘Silent Sisters / Stille Schwestern’ and ‘On Some of the Birds of Nepal (Parting the Animal Kingdom of the East)’.

Tickets available here.

‘A Nomadic Magazine: Flaneur, Fragments of a street’
A conversation with Fabian Saul and Johannes Conrad
15:15 – 16:15, auditorium (theme 2)
Flaneur is a nomadic, independent magazine which focuses on one street in each of its issues. The magazine delves deeply into the history of the street and digs into human stories on the local level. Artists of all disciplines produce content with and for the magazine while spending two months on location. Their latest edition is dedicated to a street in Taipei. In an interdisciplinary, collaborative effort the axis of Kangding Road and Wanda Road is mapped out from different angles, revealing its complexities, its colonial legacy, and its unvoiced stories. Fabian Saul and Johannes Conrad, the editor-in-chief and a designer for Flaneur, will present the Taipei issue and discuss the creative process of a magazine that aims at connecting local storytelling with international discourse.

Tickets available here.

‘The Eriskay Connection: Lost Among Pictures of Trees’
A conversation with Karianne Bueno, René Put and Brigitte Gootink
16:30 – 17:30, auditorium (theme 2)
Visual artist, Karianne Bueno (NL) will present an excerpt from her photo book ‘Doug's Cabin’, which offers us a glimpse into the secluded lifestyle of Doug, a man that has been living alone for 47 years on a remote campsite in the forests of Vancouver Island, Canada. Bueno set out on a quest that, after six years, resulted in a labyrinth of stories, transcending multiple layers of time. With tranquil photographs, diary fragments and found footage, she takes us deeper into the forest, away from our hectic urban environments, and asks us to wonder: do we actually have control over our lives?

For 'Printing Plant', Bueno will reconstruct the journey in an intimate, reflective dialogue with designers PutGootink. She will discuss the careful job of documenting a life that doesn’t want to be seen, a forest that seems to exist to get lost in, a huge pile of historic material, and a photographer’s doubts and thoughts along the way.

Tickets available here.