Manifold
Books
Kraijenhoffstraat 34, 1018RL Amsterdam
Please
note: the entrance is located in the corridor between number
30 and 32
Upcoming
& ongoing:
Ja
Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee online radio show
Lineages – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s
reading group
Listen on http://jajajaneeneenee.com
13/04/2022, 6–7:30
pm
In this reading group, between rongwrong and Manifold Books, we will share and discuss excerpts from Korean-American artist and writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s (Busan 1951 – New York 1982) experimental and influential novel Dictée. The session will explore the challenging diversity of genres, textualities, and modes of speech of the unorthodox and undefinable Dictée. Reading out loud excerpts and unpacking how these words, in our guests’ voices, can be “looking for the roots of language before it’s born in the tip of the tongue,” quoting Hak Kyung Cha.
With Maartje Fliervoet, Sara Giannini, Chaelim Kwon, Isabelle Sully, Mia
You, Arnisa Zeqo, Arif Kornweitz and
Andrea González.
For this occasion we have permission to live broadcast ‘Monologue,’ an
audio piece by Cha. The piece will not be archived.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Monologue, 1977, typewritten text on
paper, 8.5 x 11 inches, aired on KPFA Radio Station, Berkeley.
This radio show is a live iteration of the reading group Lineages,
initiated by Arnisa Zeqo and Sara Giannini at Manifold Books. A close
reading on Dictée and a common thread between Between the
Teeth, by Isabelle Sully and Matt Hinkley at Manifold Books, and a
forthcoming project at rongwrong, curated by Sara Giannini and Arnisa
Zeqo. Both focus on the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and her legacy.
Fundraiser limited edition Ex Libris stamp
produced on the occasion of Theresa
Hak Kyung Cha – Between the Teeth
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.
Our 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:
Ada
M. Patterson,
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Isabelle Sully and Matt Hinkley (Unbidden
Tongues),
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
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