Having spent two days in the very ‘koselig’ bookshop space of Oslo’s Cappelens Forslag (and its very intimate back room-cum…
Revisiting: Steve McQueen
I first met Steve McQueen in Amsterdam in 1996, when I was still working at De Appel in Amsterdam, and…
Public Enquiries: PARK LEK and the Scandinavian Social Turn
I am currently proofing texts for a book entitled Public Enquiries, which follows a symposium that took place in 2016. Public Enquiries is a research…
Talk Olivia Plender and launch Rise Early, Be Industrious in Glasgow
On Friday 3 February, at the Glasgow Film Theatre, Rose Street, 11 am
workshop Oslo
On 31 January and 1 February I will be contributing to and participating in a workshop about writing, editing and…
Revisiting: Luca Frei – The so-called utopia…
While talking to artist Anthony Shrag, he referenced Luca Frei’s The so-called utopia of the centre beaubourg. An interpretation, unaware that…
PARSE # 5
I am currently working on proofing issue # 5 of the PARSE Journal, published by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The…
Intentions and Actions
Following the conference Social Intentions held in 2016, CCA: Glasgow will be publishing a book, entitled Forms of Action, that brings…
Conversations
Artist Anthony Shrag and I have been talking for a while about a publication. Whether that will indeed take the…
Launch Rise Early, Be Industrious
I’d clocked it, vaguely, before I went on holiday early August, but it was fully confirmed upon my return several…
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016
Like the previous two years, I copy-edited and proofed this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries catalogue. As always, an interesting cross-section…
Another blast from the past
Having worked with Book Works on and off over the years, I know how long Jane Rolo and Gavin Everall…
PARSE # 3, and now # 4
With PARSE # 3 recently released – you can access it here – am now proofing issue # 4, which follows…
London launch The Curatorial Conundrum
After having communicated about The Curatorial Conundrum via skype and email for the better part of the last two years, finally…
PARSE
Having communicated with Mick Wilson, as one of the editors of The Curatorial Conundrum, together with Paul O’Neill and Lucy Steeds,…
Gerrie van Noord 