Manifold
Books
Kraijenhoffstraat 34, 1018RL Amsterdam.
Please
note: the entrance is located in the corridor between number
30 and 32
~ Please note: the opening on 28/11/'21 will be from 3-5 pm. Please wear a
mask and keep 1,5 m. distance, thanks! ~
Dear reader,
We
are happy to invite you to the opening of 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.
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.
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
Opening 28/11/2021, 3–5 pm
open on Thu-Fri 1-5 pm
& by appointment
location: MAP
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 info@manifoldbooks.nl
€ 100,- each, edition of 25
Lineages reading
group
organised with Arnisa Zeqo and Sara Giannini
10/12/’21, 6-8 pm
21/01/’22, 6-8 pm
Film screening
organised as part of Playbill by Martha Jager and
Isabelle Sully
13/01/’22, 8 pm
Torpedo
Theater
location: MAP
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.
At
Manifold Books we will host two reading group
sessions titled Lineages led
by Arnisa Zeqo and Sara Giannini with a number of special
guests. The reading group starts with a close reading of Theresa
Hak Kyung Cha’s novel Dictée. It functions as
a thread that binds the presentation by Unbidden Tongues to
a curatorial project and exhibition of the same name taking
place at Rongwrong in spring 2022, curated by Sara Giannini
and Arnisa Zeqo.
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.
More information on activities in relation to the exhibition and our
special edition will follow soon.
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 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
project 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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