An afternoon on archived voices of Indonesian-Chinese women in the Netherlands, collected by Tineke E. Jansen in the 1980s and 90s

Saturday, February 1, 2025
14:00 – 16:00, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Free entry, Livestream provided
Registration opening soon
Languages: spoken English and Dutch, Dutch Sign Language

You are invited to an afternoon at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (or to join us online) to celebrate the book Tuning In: Darimana?, the fourth title in the publication series Archival Textures. Next to readings by the author Tineke E. Jansen and co-editors Tamara Hartman and Tabea Nixdorff, the audience can participate in intergenerational conversations on migration, racism, feminism, gender and other political expressions. A rare screening of “... dat de volgende generatie het weet!”, a 30-minute film made for Migranten Omroep Seglo Utrecht in 1994 will follow. Excerpts show mother and daughter discussing living in the Netherlands, racism and care for their elderly (grand)mother. Finally, the audience will witness a brief ritual of returning the recorded stories to their narrators, to show the shared ownership of every recorded personal story. The afternoon will conclude with drinks in the GUD Instituut Living Room.

The book Tuning in: Darimana? revolves around a collection of 70 tapes with voices of Indonesian-Chinese women–an audio archive which finds its origins 40 years ago in Jakarta, Indonesia. When revisiting these tapes made by Tineke E. Jansen between 1980 and 1995, the act of attentive listening to voices is central: On Tineke’s audio recordings, Indonesian-Chinese women talk about their migration to the Netherlands in the ’50s and ’60s, family, upbringing, and their experience with racism. This book tackles the question: How do we understand these recordings now? It includes a written conversation between Tamara Hartman and Tineke E. Jansen, in which Tineke shares her views on oral history, Black feminism in the Netherlands, and migration.

To find out more about the book, please visit the section Publications on this website.

This event is kindly supported by IDEM Rotterdam, an organisation for professionals in the social sector in Rotterdam, and takes place as part of the Arus Balik – Shifting Currents closing weekend at the Nieuwe Instituut.

Tuesday January 7, 2025
16:00 – 17:00, Page Not Found, Den Haag
Free entry
Languages: spoken English and Dutch

Join us for a conversation around the book Republishing: Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant, with co-editors Ans Sarianamual, Mirelle van Tulder, Tamara Hartman and Tabea Nixdorff, kindly hosted and supported by Page Not Found, Centre for Artistic Publishing in The Hague.

The book Republishing: Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant makes a groundbreaking yet vastly unacknowledged grassroots magazine, created by the group Stichting ‘Zwarte Vrouwen & Racisme’ from Arnhem (1985–1986), accessible as a source to enrich the still underexposed legacies of Black feminists in the Netherlands.

We will be reading excerpts from the book, which includes the complete set of Umoja magazines, contextualised in an essay by Tamara Hartman, and archival findings from Umoja co-founder Ans Sarianamual’s personal archive, edited by Mirelle van Tulder, who also designed the book. Umoja was radical in its intersectional approach, building transnational connections and widely introducing “black” (“zwart” in Dutch) as a political term in the Netherlands, with the aim to unite and strengthen all women who were labeled as “the Other” in the Netherlands and beyond.

To find out more about the book, please visit the section Publications on this website.

Sat, November 16 to Sun, November 17, 2024
Zentralwäscherei Zürich, Switzerland

Fair Opening Hours:
Saturday, November 16, 13:00 – 20:00
Sunday, November 17, 12:00 – 19:00

Archival Textures joins this year’s VOLUMES Art Publishing Days in Zurich, a two-day zine and art book fair that showcases the work of local and international independent publishers, as well as self-publishing artists who use small-scale production methods. Visitors are invited to browse through the exhibitors’ publications, engage in inspiring conversations, and enjoy intimate presentations. VOLUMES is a non-profit organisation and collective, aiming to support the various facets of international art publishing and introduce it to a larger audience in Switzerland through series of events and an ongoing research agenda.

Next to all five Archival Textures publications, our table also presents artists’ publications from our wider network, including the latest issue of Anita Di Bianco’s Corrections and Clarifications (2024), Tabea Nixdorff’s Fehler lesen and Palestine solidarity buttons by KIOSK Rotterdam.

Fri, October 11 to Sun, October 13, 2024
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin, Germany

Fair Opening Hours:
Friday, October 11, 17:00 – 21:00
Saturday, October 12, 12:00 – 19:00
Sunday, October 13, 12:00 – 19:00

We especially invite you to join us for two special moments:

Saturday, October 12, 15:00
Table Number E025
Book signing with Tineke E. Jansen of the title Tuning In: Darimana?

Saturday, 13:00 – 14:00
Safi Faye Stage (HKW)
Archival Textures: A Conversation on Publishing Archival Traces of Transnational Queer Feminist Solidarity
With Tamara Hartman and Tabea Nixdorff

Join us for a conversation on queer feminist archives, surrounding the question: How can publications become low-threshold archives, and help weave an intergenerational fabric of belonging?

Archives can inform our current vocabularies of resistance and solidarity, by enriching them with knowledges that are continuously obscured by normative perspectives on our bodies, desires, forms of cohabitation and expression. The publication series Archival Textures seeks to make those kinds of knowledges more accessible by way of (re)assembling, translating, transcribing, annotating, and supplementing archival texts.

A special focus will be set on the most recent publication Republishing: Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant, a book that derived from the Black Women’s Magazine Umoja, published between 1985 and 1986 in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and whose legacy has gotten no recognition. The book aims to bring about change here, as the revolutionary magazine was foundational for Black feminist thought in the Netherlands, and documents the pioneering work of Black and queer feminist solidarity-building in the 1980s. The political term Black used by the women of the magazine Umoja, as well as many other Dutch collectives in the 80s and 90s, does not refer to skin color, but rather is an act of solidarity of those who were othered and discriminated against by Dutch society, resisting to be turned against each other. Revisiting and reviving this term in the publication series Archival Textures is to honor this historical act of solidarity and the power of language, as well as the intergenerational knowledge we gain from it. Besides, the Archival Textures books trace transnational alliances and friendships, such as Audre Lorde’s visits to the Netherlands, Germany and the UK and her indispensable impact on Black feminist thought in Europe.

Tuesday, September 10, 2024
18:00 – 19:30 (appr.), Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Free entry, registration apprechiated
Languages: spoken English and Dutch, Dutch Sign Language

You are invited to an evening at Framer Framed in Amsterdam to celebrate the book launch of (Re)claiming, the second title in the publication series Archival Textures. The evening consists of readings from the book, poetry, a conversation between the co-editors and several contributors to the book, and a Q&A.
The book (Re)claiming presents ways in which various queer and feminist communities and initiatives in the Netherlands have (re)claimed the triangle — along with other symbols, words and stories — and in doing so take up an empowering position in a hostile society. The concept of (re)claiming can signify both a proud identification with and protest against the stigmatisation for which a symbol, word, gesture or story was designed. During the evening, co-editors Noah Littel and Tabea Nixdorff will be in conversation with contributors to the book: authors of archival material Anne Krul and Tieneke Sumter, translator Canan Marasligil and roundtable participant micah marissa schut.

To find out more about the book, please visit the section Publications on this website.

Saturday, June 22, 2024
17:00 – 18:30 (appr.), KIOSK Rotterdam
Free entry
Languages: spoken English and Dutch

Join us for the second launch event of the Archival Textures series, dedicated to the book Posting. Together, we will celebrate the networked gesture of Posting and the position of the Poster within feminist movements. The medium—a printed poster or book, a photo, video or text uploaded online, or a new platform altogether— matters less than the act of making public what we stand for or what we find important.
Posting brings together an intergenerational roundtable conversation with feminist posters from the archives, alongside an introductory essay by co-editor Carolina Valente Pinto.

The evening will feature contributions by Weia Reinboud and Rymke Wiersma from anarchist feminist press Atalanta, founded in 1980 in Utrecht, Jenneke Arens, a member of the ’80s feminist printing press Las Muchachas, Philippa Driest, who runs KIOSK as a bookshop and leaky press, Tabea Nixdorff and Carolina Valente Pinto, editors of the book.

We will also be selling ​Limited Edition book packages including special prints from the roundtable participants and a riso-printed reproduction of an archival poster. The sales will go to the initiative Post for Mariam A digital poetry zine for Palestine, raising funds for a young poet from Gaza, Mariam Mohamed al Khateeb.

Friday, June 7, 2024
20:00 – 22:00 (doors open at 19:30), Perdu, Amsterdam
Tickets: livestream and theater via Perdu website
Languages: spoken Dutch and English, Dutch Sign Language (Nederlandse Gebarentaal)

This evening will celebrate the book Amplifying, which brings together written manifestations—poems, letters, political pamphlets, essays, an intergenerational roundtable conversation—that trace the beginnings of Black feminism in the Netherlands. Co-edited by Setareh Noorani and Tabea Nixdorff, it is the first title in the publication series Archival Textures. Contributing authors, translators and editors will read excerpts and enter a conversation about writings of the past that can inform our current vocabularies of resistance and solidarity. We will be honored by the presence of Anne Krul, Gloria Wekker and Tineke E. Jansen, who will read from their archival contributions to the book, and of translators Jenny Mijnhijmer and Shira Wolfe. The evening will be hosted by Perdu editor Anne Bosveld, and there will be two interpreters present during the event providing Dutch Sign Language interpreting.

To find out more about the book, please visit the section Publications on this website.

Thurs 9 to Sun 12 November, 2023
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

Fair opening hours:
Thurs: 17.00 – 21.00
Fri, Sat, Sun: 12.00 – 19.00

Archival Textures was invited to be part of the Under the Weather book table at Between Books, the new art book fair at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Under the Weather is an artist-run reference library and occasional reading room in Düsseldorf, dedicated to researching and exhibiting artists’ books and art publications. For Between Books, Under the Weather brings together five initiatives: Archival Textures, Listening Group, Edition Malade, Pacifist Library, and Unbidden Tongues.

Between Books is the first Art Book Fair at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, where independent art book publishers, artists, independent publishing/DIY collectives, organizations, associations, zines, and magazines are invited to present themselves to a broad audience in the exhibition spaces of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and to show how versatile, exciting and contemporary the medium of books can be.

Friday, September 22, 2023
Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Centre for Gender and Diversity

Archival Textures will be present at the Intergenerational Feminisms Symposium organized by the Centre for Gender and Diversity, Maastricht University. We will take part in a panel on Friday, from 14:00 – 15:30, hosted by Noah Littel and Vasiliki Belia. From their announcement:

The roundtable “Visual Practices as Activist Strategies and Counter-Archives” facilitates an intergenerational conversation between early career researchers and feminist elders on the use of visual projects both as activist strategy and as counter-archival practice. Based on concrete visual examples—specifically the exhibition Onderbelicht, zwarte, migranten- en vluchtelingenvrouwen in Nederland, informatie uitwisseling in perspectief at the International Information Center and Archive for the Women’s Movement (IIAV) in Amsterdam (1995); the Lesbisch Prachtboek (1979) and the feminist journal Lust en Gratie (1983-2001); and the Western genre pastiche comic book Calla and Lucy Go West (1981)—feminist elders will reflect on how they have used visual practices to analyze and resist patriarchy, racism and heterosexism. In addition, during this conference we will discuss how visual strategies today—the exhibition Feminist Design Strategies (2021-2023) and the publication series Archival Textures—can provide a counter-archival space to recontextualize historical visual practices, and facilitate intergenerational conversation.

Participants: Carla Schrama (youth worker, activist, co-founder of Café Saarein, Amsterdam), Daniel van Mourik (writer, editor, co-founder of De Feeks, Nijmegen, and former librarian at Atria), Garjan Sterk (researcher, lecturer, coordinator of the interfaculty network Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies), Setareh Noorani (architect, researcher and curator at the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam), Tabea Nixdorff (artist, typographer and researcher).

From 11:30 until 17:30, you can find Archival Textures posters at the symposium’s book table, curated by Maastricht based bookstore Limestone Books.

Saturday, September 16, 2023
14:00 – 17:00 Tolhuistuin Garden, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Archival Textures will be present at the Book Market of Read My World, the international literature festival in Amsterdam. Come meet us! We’ll share a table with KIOSK Rotterdam and offer posters that give glimpses into the forthcoming books. More about the book market presented by Read My World and Tolhuistuin:

Moving in a changing world: Migration and Diaspora Literature: During the Read My World Festival, you can visit our book market on Saturday afternoon, September 16, in the oasis of Tolhuistuin! This market is entirely dedicated to books and stories about migration and diaspora, themes that concern us all in a world that is increasingly closing its doors. Come stroll and browse along the book stalls, join the book club of Zus n Zo, and meet our curator Lola Shoneyin. Participate in a translation workshop with Jenny Mijnhijmer, listen to the author interviews with Helon Habila and Vamba Sherif, and absorb current knowledge. There is ample space for reading, relaxing, and socializing. The book market is free to visit and also easily accessible.