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on the window of Valerie's open studio we created a mini-exhibition of 2 prints, + visitor card inviting responses

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gallery run on artist-led ethos, at NDSM harbour.

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Valerie van Leersum & The Archive of the Inbetween

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Valerie van Leersum & The Archive of the Inbetween

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Valerie & I share a fascination with archives...
We couldn't stop ourselves from launching into research...

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I still have a photograph of a painting on the wall of a sailor playing the accordian with a mermaid.
(we found this image in the Amsterdam Archive too)

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The Einde van de Wereld felt just that - it was an old shippers building that stood alone on a wasteland site of the East Docks.
I remember this squat cafe especially for it's coriander butter.

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...We also went to Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.  This is the national archive for architecture and digital media, and is lively with exhibitions & events.
I arranged to meet exhibition organiser Klaas Kuitenbrouwer there, to get an introduction to the place, and reflect on our project ideas with him.
We also went to visit the exhibition there 'Finders Keepers' - about the phenomena of collecting...

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De huidige tijd wordt gekenmerkt door radicale technologische, economische, culturele en sociale veranderingen. Het Nieuwe Instituut wil deze snel veranderende wereld in kaart brengen en zichtbaar maken, en tegelijkertijd de discussie bevorderen over onderwerpen gerelateerd aan het ontwerpveld.

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'Hommage aan het scharrelland'

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In the archive we discovered a artist print place mat designed to be turned into a book, from the Einde van de Wereld restaurant - a place I used to visit 24 years ago, now extinct. The area it was on, KNSM island, has been completely redeveloped, and is now one of the most densely populated parts of Amsterdam.

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https://macguffinmagazine.com/

From Het Nieuwe Institut website:

Magazine and exhibition

"The magazine MacGuffin – launched two years ago by Kirsten Algera and Ernst van der Hoeven – has already attracted an international following with thematic issues devoted to the bed, the window, the rope and the sink. While the design world is focussed mainly on the newest trends, the editors of MacGuffin prefer to be surprised by the casual nature of everyday objects. Their fascination with a timeless aesthetic is the key to innovative research. In this respect, the magazine seems to form a bridge between the physical and digital worlds and focuses our senses on those things that usually escape our attention and which occur largely unseen.

Over the past few months, at the invitation of Het Nieuwe Instituut, the editors of the magazine have been developing an exhibition about the phenomenon of collecting while simultaneously compiling their forthcoming issue: The Cabinet. In Finders Keepers, questions about the value, meaning, influence and specificity of collecting are related exclusively to physical objects, but in many cases the conclusions are also applicable to digital collections.

Finders Keepers aims to reveal the phenomenon of collecting and the activity of the collector before exploring the characteristics of individual collectors or their love of their objects. Furthermore, Finders Keepers employs a unique interpretation of design. MacGuffin: ‘After all, design is about more than simply designing good ‘functional’ objects. It is also about the making itself and representation, and it reflects upon all the relationships that we have on a daily basis with the things that surround us.’

By choosing the editors of MacGuffin as curators, Het Nieuwe Instituut has opted for an exhibition that is like a three-dimensional variant of the magazine. The magazine’s mentality, perspective and identity are followed as closely as possible in the exhibition, partly thanks to the fact that Sandra Kassenaar, who designs the magazine, has also provided the graphics for the exhibition; the spatial design is by Ira Koers and Roelof Mulder. They have taken the interior of the earlier exhibition Designing the Surface, designed by Monadnock, as the starting point for a transformation of various exhibition pavilions into an architectural landscape that reveals both the infinite nature of collecting and the specificity of each collection."

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https://finderskeepers.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en

"As the curators of the exhibition Finders Keepers, the editors of the design and crafts magazine MacGuffin reveal the universe of the collector, bringing together objects from dozens of collections and exploring the collectors’ strategies, the aesthetic pleasure of collecting and the hidden life of things."

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Valerie van Leersum's studio is in the 'Art City' within a giant old shipbuilding warehouse on the NDSM, North Amsterdam

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Company, Cultural Organisation

Art City NDSM is a non-profit foundation that works to promote the NDSM 'broedplaats' (literally 'breeding ground'), and the artists, artisans and other creative businesses based at this large cluster of studios at the NDSM-wharf, a former shipyard on the waterfront in the north of Amsterdam.

NDSM Art City
TT Neveritaweg 15-R2
1033WB Amsterdam
info@artcityndsm.nl
artcityndsm.nl

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Company, Cultural Organisation Art City NDSM is a non-profit foundation that works to promote the NDSM 'broedplaats' (literally 'breeding ground'), and the artists, artisans and other creative businesses based at this large cluster of studios at the NDSM-wharf, a former shipyard on the waterfront in the north of Amsterdam.

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'Urban renewal' & the place of cultural free havens...

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'Urban renewal' & the place of cultural free havens...

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One of the things I'd like to revisit are my own archives... in the light of 24 years change.
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Thanks to drs.Pieter Flinkenvögel & Anita Neefjes for welcoming us and showing us around the archives!

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Valerie & I spent 2 days in the archives, getting to know how to search them and call things for view, having a personal tour, ordering & viewing old film footage...
https://www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief

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'Architects of Space: Freedom for the Self in the City'

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'Architects of Space: Freedom for the Self in the City'

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24 years ago I stayed in the 'edges' of Amsterdam. In these places of the black and white photograph wallpaper...
I was in my research time of MA Social Anthropology