You are warmly invited on Friday the 9th of February to the exhibition finissage & book launch of ITS (IM)POSSIBLE FORMATION: on amassing and assembling a publishing practice. Following a dynamic three months, it’s time to conclude the show, where we celebrated the publishing practice of Onomatopee.
ITS (IM)POSSIBLE FORMATION Finissage & Book Launch
You are invited to join the exhibition's finissage, book launch, talk & performance
Onomatopee
Agenda
April Friday 19, 2024, 10:30 - 00:00 / Talk, Workshop
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WORKSHOP & TALK Its (Im)possible Formation: Accordion Books
WORKSHOP & TALK: Its (Im)possible Formation: Accordion Books
Onomatopee Projects X Bungee Space
19th of April 10.30 am - noon
@bungee.space, 13 Stanton St, New York, NY 10002
Join us for a conversation and workshop about unpredictable archiving, independent publishing and the book as object. Combining these elements to make tiny accordion books from extracts of Onomatopee’s books.
Due to space capacity at Bungee Space, this is a TICKETED event ($15). Each ticket includes a cup of coffee and a cookie. Get your ticket here.
What (MORE) can a bookstore do? - A question we must constantly propose. Bungee Space is an image study- and image criticism-focused art book store, which also sells coffee, wearable designs, and works as an artist-run space & publisher. Rooting in where we come from, our ways of working, and means to survive, we simultaneously try to pursue independence and sustainability to provide a valuable space for emerging contributors to our art ecology. Standing beyond conventional definition of a bookstore, we involve, form, and transform community, intervene social, political, and cultural lives, creating chaos.
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Location
Bungee Space, 13 Stanton St, New York, NY 10002
Time
19th of April
10.30 am - noon
Location
Bungee Space, 13 Stanton St, New York, NY 10002
Time
19th of April
10.30 am - noon
February Friday 9, 2024, 20:00 - 22:30 / Book launch, Finissage, Performance
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ITS (IM)POSSIBLE FORMATION Finissage & Book Launch
You are warmly invited on Friday the 9th of February to the exhibition finissage of ITS (IM)POSSIBLE FORMATION: on amassing and assembling a publishing practice. Following a dynamic three months, it’s time to conclude the show, where we celebrated the publishing practice of Onomatopee.
Join us as we mark not only the conclusion of the exhibition, but also the launch of ITS (IM)POSSIBLE FORMATION: The Book. A publication that started with a warehouse full of books, which turned into an exhibition, and then turned back into printed matter based on archives, accumulations and collections of books. With written contributions by: Leonie Harkes, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Jesse Muller, Sal Randolph, Natasha Rijkhoff, Formal Settings, Romy Day Winkel, Mia You, designed by Tjobo Kho.
Stay tuned for further details, and be sure to mark your calendars for the launch.
FINISSAGE + BOOK LAUNCH
Friday 9th of February @ Onomatopee
20:00 - 22:30 (doors open at 19:30)
Talk & performance by S*an D. Henry-Smith
Its (Im)possible Formation is on show between 17th November 2023 and 9th of Feb 2024
Location
Lucas Gasselstraat 2a
5613 LB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Time
FINISSAGE + BOOK LAUNCH
Friday 9th of February @ Onomatopee
20:00 - 22:30 (doors open at 19:30)
Location
Lucas Gasselstraat 2a
5613 LB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Time
FINISSAGE + BOOK LAUNCH
Friday 9th of February @ Onomatopee
20:00 - 22:30 (doors open at 19:30)
Publication
Onomatopee 250, Natasha Rijkhoff, Romy Day Winkel, 2024
ITS (IM)POSSIBLE FORMATION: The Book
€ 24
Its (Im)possible Formation: The Book is an assemblage of interpretations of what an archive is or could become and what it means to amass and assemble a publishing practice. With contributions by Leonie Harkes, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Jesse Muller, Sal Randolph, Natasha Rijkhoff, Formal Settings, Romy Day Winkel and Mia You.
If you walk into the book shop, through the large open gallery space and past the kitchen, through the unsettling mirrored door frame, into the Riso-workshop, past the ink- drums, drying racks and narrow wooden staircase, you will see two doors. On them is written ‘staff only’. Go through those doors and there is the warehouse of Onomatopee; high and full, with racks and racks full of books.
This publication started with a warehouse full of books, which turned into an exhibition, and then turned back into printed matter.
Anything can be an archive. Its definition is mutable and open for interpretation and hard to define, as it is used in various ways depending on context. One definition is: a collection of documents created or gathered by one person or institution and selected for long-term preservation as evidence of their activities.
We extended an open invitation to artists, writers, publishers, graphic designers and poets to write about these themes from their own perspective and expertise. The contributions range from A Warburgian Constellation by Leonie Harkes to the gossipy poetics of unpublished/unpublishable photobook reviews by S*an D. Henry-Smith.
There are compact essays on the design, form and feeling of three of Onomatopee’s publications by Formal Settings, the authors of Notes on Book Design (2023), as well as Ambient Reading, A Method by Sal Randolph. Mia You has contributed A List of Prepositions as Propositions, to which Romy Day Winkel has responded by applying an erasure poetry writing method to fifty silk bookmarks.
Natasha Rijkhoff contributed notes on Unstable archiving and Jesse Muller writes about archives and drawings in her text Sometimes I ask my brother to make me a drawing. The publication has been designed and put together by Tjobo Kho.
As we navigate through the pages of this publication, it becomes evident that the book and the archive are no rigid entities with clear boundaries; they are malleable objects and concepts, shaped by interpretation and their social and material context. They emerge as living organisms, adapting to the changing currents of the people moving alongside them: a testament to both curatorship and chance, design and chaos. This publication celebrates this unruliness that comes with amassing and assembling a publishing practice.
- Type
- Softcover
- Dimensions
- 12,5 x 18 cm
- Pages
- 112
- ISBN
- 978-90-833621-2-0
- Editor
- Natasha Rijkhoff, Romy Day Winkel
- Author
- Leonie Harkes, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Jesse Muller, Sal Randolph, Natasha Rijkhoff, Formal Settings, Romy Day Winkel, Mia You
- Graphic
- Tjobo Kho
- Language
- English
- Release date
- 20240209
- Paper
- Holmen TRND Vintage 70g/m2
- Edition
- 300
- Font
- Plantin
- Details
- Hand printed in the Riso workshop of Onomatopee by Tjobo Kho
- Onomatopee project manager
- Jesse Muller, Natasha Rijkhoff
- Proofreader
- Jesse Muller, Natasha Rijkhoff
- Binder
- Agia
PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT AND ALL THE ROLES THESE PEOPLE EVER HAD IN ONOMATOPEE PROJECTS
- Formal Settings designer, graphic designer
- Romy Day Winkel writer