Manifold
Books
Kraijenhoffstraat 34, 1018RL Amsterdam.
Please
note: the entrance is located in the corridor between number
30 and 32
~NB: For the moment we are closed. It is our intention to extent the
current exhibition as soon as the current lockdown ends. Please check the
information below for updates on our activities and planning~
Dear reader,
We
are happy to invite you to Between the Teeth. Between
the Teeth is a collaboration between Isabelle Sully
and Matt Hinkley (Unbidden Tongues) that will showcase diverse
material from the legacy of Korean-American artist and writer
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Busan 1951 - New York 1982) in
partnership with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive. Her multilingual oeuvre includes
artists’ books, mail art, performance, audio, video, film and
installation, based on an embodied thinking about mother tongue
and forced migration. Her non-conformist experimental novel Dictée is
an influential work in the context of identity, ethnicity and
gender.
At
Manifold Books
we
will host two
reading group sessions,
on
December 10 and January 21, organised
by Arnisa Zeqo and Sara Giannini with a number of special
guests. Lineages begins with a close reading of
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s novel Dictée. It acts as
a common thread that binds the presentation of Unbidden
Tongues to a forthcoming project taking place at Rongwrong
in the spring of 2022, curated by Sara Giannini and Arnisa
Zeqo. This project, also titled Lineages, aims
to revive the legacy of Cha in Amsterdam, where she lived
and exhibited in the late 1970s.
Looking forward to seeing you soon,
Manifold Books
Manifold Books #14 &
Unbidden Tongues #5
Between the Teeth
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
28/11/2021 – 22/01/2022 ~Update:
new
end date to be announced asap!~
Opening 28/11/2021, 3–5 pm
open on Thu-Fri 1-5 pm
& by appointment
location: MAP
Lineages reading
group
organised with Arnisa Zeqo and Sara Giannini
10/12/’21, 3-5 pm
21/01/’22, 3-5 pm ~Update:
event canceled, new date & time to be announced asap!~
Fundraiser limited edition Ex Libris stamp
designed by Isabelle Sully and Matt Hinkley (Unbidden Tongues)
Sponsored by Koninklijke
Fabrieken Posthumus B.V.
Available at Manifold Books
and via e-mail
€ 100,- each, edition of 25
In 1978, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha created a stamp titled Mot Caché (Hidden Word) for the International Rubber Stamp Design Exhibition at Stempelplaats, held in Amsterdam and speculated to have been organised by Ulises Carrión. Drawing on a connection between Cha and Koninklijke Fabrieken Posthumus B.V.—a long-running family business of stamp makers in whose shop the Stempelplaats was held—Isabelle Sully and Matt Hinkley designed a stamp on the occasion of Between the Teeth, produced in an edition of 25. Funds raised from the sale of the stamp will support Manifold Books’ programme for the coming year, while also providing the purchaser with a small dedication—to whoever they wish to gift a book, and to unbidden tongues everywhere, Cha’s included.
Film
screening
organised as part of Playbill by Martha Jager
and Isabelle Sully
25/02/’22 ~Please
note: date & time to be confirmed!~
Torpedo
Theater
location: MAP
The film screening at Torpedo Theater is part of Playbill (a
new series of events curated by Martha Jager and Isabelle Sully).
Focusing in on Cha’s video works, the screening will draw on a
letter written by Cha that was found in de Appel archive by Martha
Jager.
Between
the Teeth is part of a new series of exhibitions
running until the summer of 2022. The title of this
sequence, Inwardly luscent, is a quote from Theresa
Hak Kyung Cha. Inwardly luscent emphasises
opulent inner worlds, testifying to their capacity for resistance.
In various ways, each exhibition deals with processes of figuring
out one’s own way of living within all kinds of imposed
systemic limitations.
This programme has been made possible by:
Koninklijke
Fabrieken Posthumus B.V.
Prins
Bernhard Cultuurfonds
Unbidden
Tongues
Torpedo
Theater
BAMPFA
de
Appel
AFK
We would like to thank:
Nicholas van der Plaats, Bart Overeem, Sara Giannini, Stephanie
Cannizzo, Martha Jager and de Appel Amsterdam
Sofar, Manifold Books has organised shows/projects with:
Hadassah
Emmerich, Eileen
Quinlan, Melissa
Gordon, To
See the Inability to See, Ada
Van Hoorebeke, Kato
Six, Riet
Wijnen, Patricia
Esquivias, Aglaia
Konrad, Özlem
Altın, Gwenneth
Boelens, Barbara
Neves Alves, Baha
Görkem Yalım,
Martín La Roche Contreras, Dongyoung
Lee, Maartje
Fliervoet
About Manifold Books
Manifold Books’ activities may be best described as a spatial
investigation exploring connections between art and books. With each
exhibition a few titles are added to its book collection (all including
artists’ interventions). Manifold Books has received funding from: the
Mondriaan Fund (2019); the AFK (2020). Currently its programme is
supported by the AFK, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and Koninklijke
Fabrieken Posthumus B.V.
Manifold Books is a foundation with an independent board consisting of:
Arnisa Zeqo (chair)
Stéphanie Noach (secretary)
Paul Domela (treasurer)
Regular opening hours (during presentations only): Thursdays and Fridays
from 1-5 pm, or make an appointment via e-mail,
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