Public programme: Re-Viewing Sites of Preservation

29.01.2025 – 19:00 – 21:30 – Teken or Leave It: Haptic Encounters

Participants are invited to explore hapticity with the artist collective Notes on Hapticity. The workshop will focus on the ‘haptic encounter’, a concept that is central to the collective’s collaboration. The haptic encounter refers to experiences of touch and tactility, and can be understood more broadly in relation to experiences that make a deep impression and linger with you — it could be your relationship to a place, person, a moment in your life.

The workshop will begin with an introduction about how hapticity is used by artists, architects and even media to convey ideas, promote, or persuade us. During the second part of the workshop, the participants will create their own collection of haptic encounters using both digital and analogue techniques — sensing, observing and engaging with the surroundings in a different way.

Participants are asked to bring with them a mobile phone with camera or a digital camera. Drawing materials and paper will be provided, but feel free to bring your own materials.

Language: English
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01.02.2025 – 14:00-17:00 – Opening 

Feel welcome to come and celebrate the opening of the exhibition

08.02.2025 – 14:00-14:30 – Exhibition tour  (with Kees)

During this tour, artist Kees van Leeuwen will discuss the concept and artwork featured in the exhibition ‘Re-Viewing Sites of Preservation’. Note: This tour is delivered in Dutch.

Language: Dutch
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15.02.2025 – 14:00 – 16:00 – A Conversation in Space

Kees van Leeuwen is interested in how people understand and create space in the literal sense. In particular, he is curious how such understanding often takes place in a non-verbal way — for example, in the form of unwritten social rules, which vary between different cultural contexts. These underlying rules also reflect how we engage with objects and physical structures, and how we relate them to others in our surroundings, demarcating individual or collective spaces, private and private domains. We typically find some spaces more welcoming, more soothing than others, but this can vary widely between individuals. Why is this? Is there such a thing as a universally optimal space? A conversation of space is a participatory activity that explores these questions through a game-like interaction.

Note: the activity can take up to two hours and is not physically strenuous.

Language: Dutch
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23.02.2025 – 13:30 – 14:00 – Exhibition Tour (with Hannah)

During this tour, artist Hannah Dawn Henderson will discuss the concept and artwork featured in the exhibition ‘Re-Viewing Sites of Preservation’.
Language: English
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23.02.2025 – 14:00 – 16:00 – A Conversation in Space

Kees van Leeuwen is interested in how people understand and create space in the literal sense. In particular, he is curious how such understanding often takes place in a non-verbal way — for example, in the form of unwritten social rules, which vary between different cultural contexts. These underlying rules also reflect how we engage with objects and physical structures, and how we relate them to others in our surroundings, demarcating individual or collective spaces, private and private domains. We typically find some spaces more welcoming, more soothing than others, but this can vary widely between individuals. Why is this? Is there such a thing as a universally optimal space? A conversation of space is a participatory activity that explores these questions through a game-like interaction.

Note: the activity can take up to two hours and is not physically strenuous.

Language: Dutch
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02.03.2025 – 13:30-15:00 – Reading: A wandering conversation on preservation

A Wandering Conversation on Preservation is a performance-reading by Hannah Dawn Henderson; the reading takes place in the framework of Hannah Dawn’s open-ended project The Archive who Breathes (2022-ongoing), which is currently on display in the exhibition Re-Visiting Sites of Preservation.

The Archive who Breathes reflects on alternative approaches to archiving and memory-making processes. Anchored in a prose essay that was written during the Covid-19 pandemic, the project critically reflects on normative notions of wellness, the limitations of institutionalised archives, and taxonomic approaches to identity. Through (performance-), readings and different kinds of printed matter, Hannah Dawn ‘activates’ this essay by reassembling its parts or responding to it with new writings—in this way, the project becomes an archival process in itself.

A Wandering Conversation on Preservation was originally written in 2021 as an anecdotal preface to The Archive who Breathes. Whilst in residency at the Nieuwe Vide, Hannah Dawn revisited the text and expanded it, adapting parts of it to new circumstances. It takes us on a meandering journey through Haarlem’s streets, contemplating memories, relations and rituals.

Language: English
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16.03.2025 – 12:30-13:00 – Exhibition Tour in Russian (with Elena)

During this tour, artist Elena Kostenko will discuss the concept and artwork featured in the exhibition ‘Re-Viewing Sites of Preservation’. Note: this tour is delivered in Russian.

В ходе экскурсии художник Елена Костенко представит концепцию и произведения искусства выставки «Re-Viewing Sites of Preservation».

Language: RUSSIAN
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16.03.2025 – 13:00-15:00 – In conversation with Notes on Hapticity 

The collective Notes on Hapticity is comprised of three artists — Kees van Leeuwen, Elena Kostenko and Hannah Dawn Henderson. During this event, they will discuss the different research processes behind the artworks featured in the exhibition Re-Viewing Sites of Preservation, Further they will reflect on their approach of working together, and how this has evolved over the last four years.

Language: English
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16.03.2025 – 15:30 – 17:00 – Screening Programme: If the ground beneath and between us could utter 

This programme features short films produced by the artists of Notes on Hapticity, in parallel to their exhibition Re-Viewing Sites of Preservation. Thematically, these films reflect on experiences of Otherness in relation to migration, cultural disjunctures, grief and dissociation.

Language: English
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11 & 12.04.2025 – 14:00 – 16.00 – Mon Jardin Magique – Encounters – Join making a Mural

Between the 4th to 5th April, Elena Kostenko will produce a mural in the Nieuwe Vide, and invites you to join her for a one-to-one conversation about your life experiences, personal histories, and how one creates social and cultural bonds. Inspired by the themes of her multidisciplinary project, Mon Jardin Magique, the mural features illustrations of trees that gradually form a forest — a metaphor for rootedness. During each conversation, Elena will make a photographic portrait of the participation in front of the mural. After each interaction, Elena adds a tree or branch to the mural. In this way, the mural grows with each conversation. Every participant receives a copy of their portrait by email as documentation of the encounter.

Language: Eng/Ru/Fr
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(This is useful so that we can contact you afterwards to send your portrait)

 

13.04.2025 – 14:00 – 16:30 – More than a seat at the table: Accessibility, Accountability, Affability & Finissage

(With snacks, bites and drinks from 16:30 onwards)

The collaboration between the members of the artist collective Notes on Hapticity is rooted in long-term friendships and a shared curiosity towards alternative pedagogical forms — notably, ways of learning together that are not wholly dependent on institutionalised contexts. Throughout the five years that they have worked together, they have needed to adapt to changing conditions — for example, in their social environments, in their relationship with one another, and in the art field broadly. Often these changes evoke conversations around the ethics of collaboration — how to work together in a way that is sustainable and acknowledges one another’s positions?

In this workshop, Elena, Kees and Hannah Dawn invite you to join them in conversation — to share thoughts, anecdotes, doubts, questions, and aspirations — and to reflect on three interwoven themes: accessibility, accountability and affability.

Language: English

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23.04.2025 – 19:00 – 21:30 – Teken Or Leave It Writing Workshop: embodying the archive, archiving the body – by Hannah Dawn

Embodying the archive, archiving the body

This workshop is about the stories we carry – stories that often relate to both our personal histories and the social and cultural contexts in which we live. Through three writing exercises, we will explore different ways of narrating autobiographical (first-hand) experiences.

In this workshop, ‘writing’ is understood in a very broad sense – for example, drawing a storyboard or making a voice recording are also forms of writing. To participate, please bring some writing tools – your favourite pens, a notebook, a laptop, or a smartphone, etc.

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