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First read at a listening session organised by Pressing Private Buttons and hosted by Well Read in Lisbon, this essay by Sidsel Lehn Mehlsen traces the afterlife of a strange impression encountered somewhere in Algés. Through pliable images, a sick body, and disintegrating structures, it reflects on the uneasy relationships between vulnerability, perception, and corporeal decay. Read the e-log on outline-platform.com!

OUTLINE and Off Course invite you to Thing Theories, a 3-day publishing intensive in which we will collectively compile, edit, and print a publication on-site. We’ll centre research, production, and exchange across a series of workshops, presentations and conversations among participants and with guest contributors. The publishing intensive orbits two definitions of the artefact: as both an archeological term for a human-made object, and a term for a misleading error or confusing alteration in data-observation. We’ll explore artefact-objects and the stories and histories they carry, our relationship to objects and the power they hold over us, looking for parallels, and ways they relate through difference; to destabilise concepts of ownership and authorship, and to produce new modes of interpretation. What does it mean to possess an artefact? How can we overlay histories and (un)bend narratives? And what happens when these objects are appropriated, described, juxtaposed, recontextualised, and finally published? Each participant will be asked to bring in an artefact (or its representation): an object that carries a story, or a history, into the present. On day 1 & 2, we’ll explore methods of collective processing — annotating, archival activation, historicising, translating — through a series of exercises and workshops. Together we will look for ways to describe, contextualise, layer, version, mutate, contrast and arrange our artefact-objects into a composite curiosity cabinet, to finally converge in the publication we will print together on day 3. To apply, read the full call (link in our bio) and send an email before Wednesday 20 May 2026!

On Friday 24 April, See Lab will host a double book launch of 'Green Agents in Time' and 'Curatorial Guidelines', with music by Lyckle de Jong and Kim David Bots. Created with G.C. Heemskerk and Jessica Ulrich, 'Curatorial Guidelines' offers reflections on how to ethically engage with plants and non-human animals within an art context. 'Green Agents in Time' consists of storyboards which form the basis for The Plantiarchy (2025), a film by G.C. Heemskerk and Bernice Nauta in which plants take center stage in a speculative world. 📌 Friday 24 April, 19:00 See Lab, Duinstraat 55-57, Scheveningen

Everyone is invited to join! ᴛʀᴀɴꜱᴀᴛʟᴀɴᴛɪᴄ ᴠᴏɪᴄᴇꜱ returns this spring as a workshop series delving into and exploring Latin American women authors across generations through a feminist and queer lens. The sessions are held every other Monday and Wednesday evening from May till early July. Transatlantic Voices is generously hosted at @outline.platform and culminates in a communal presentation of participants’ work in July. The sessions are held in English and facilitated by Jimena Casas. The workshop is conceived as a platform for poetic reciprocity, critical thinking, and empathy within and among our multi-tongued ecosystem. It seeks to cultivate nurturing yet honest feedback sessions, where intuitive structures of dialogue, insight and listening come into play. 📆 dates: May 4/6, May 18/20, June 1/3, June 15/17 & June 28/July 1 (It's important participants can attend all session). 👄 language: Spanish & English & other tongues 🌠 the full cost to attend is €220 per participant 🫧 location: Outline studio, at Het Veem, Van Diemenkade (Amsterdam) 🪷 sign up before May 1st via e-mail to [email protected] ; please indicate whether you want to join the Monday or Wednesday cohort. Throughout the workshop, we’ll explore the writing of five Latin American poets — Blanca Varela (Peru), Angélica Freitas (Brazil), Marosa di Giorgio (Uruguay), María Paz Guerrero (Colombia) and Mikaes Sanchez (México). Stemming from their words, we’ll write our own poems in response, creating space for collective reflection, dialogue, and poetic experimentation. 🖼️ visuals and graphic design by Isidora Gilardi @i2id0r4 Transatlantic Voices as a satellite initiative hosts the workshop series and two literary evenings at @stichtingperdu ~ presenting the work of Martín Zícari (@zicari_ ) on 29 May and Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas (@_martikminipunto ) on 19 June.

Join Sleepy Press this spring in reading and discussing Renee Gladman’s Ravicka Novel Series. The invented city-state Ravicka is a place with its own gestural language, poetic architecture and fluid topography. The four Ravickian novels span across genres; each of the books’ narrators reinterpret the city through different forms, reimagining it through language, as they investigate the histories and mysteries of a city where houses move or remain invisible; a city in crisis. “From the sky there was no sign of Ravicka. Yet, I arrived…” (Event Factory) What does it mean to feel architecture rather than to see it? How can language make the invisible visible? What does it take to imagine a city? How do we reconcile with structures that inevitably fall apart? We’ll read and discuss the four novels across four sessions. In the last two sessions, we’ll introduce some mini-workshop elements reflecting on the themes discussed. Dates: 07/04 | Event Factory (2010) 28/04 | The Ravickians (2011) 12/05 | Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge (2013) 09/06 | Houses of Ravicka (2017) Time: 7-9pm Location: Outline - Het Veem, Van Diemenkade in Amsterdam We’ll provide materials and some snacks. Donation of 5-15€ suggested but not mandatory. To sign up, please email [email protected] by the 30th of March. Poster by @mariaanaoneill , with artwork by Renee Gladman. Untitled, 2021. Burnt wood, ink, and gouache on 10 × 12.5 inch paper.

'Green Agents in Time' by G.C. Heemskerk and Bernice Nauta is available through Jesse Presse (NL+BE), Antenne Books (worldwide) and in our webshop! The 71 storyboards in this publication are the result of a collaborative process between G.C. Heemskerk and Bernice Nauta, and function as the foundation for their short film 'The Plantiarchy' (2025). The project proposes a parallel reality in which the relation between plants and humans are drastically transformed. In this proposed universe, the plant is the protagonist: it playfully and critically tells a story of colonial expansion, botany, more-than-human eroticism and speculative plant-sentience, flipping the historicised script of control and dependency.

On this late winter early evening at OUTLINE’s headquarters, Lacey Verhalen will read her surreal short story Second Nature, after which Kim David Bots plays an improvised live set with clarinet and electronics. Warm soup and cold drinks will be served from 18:00 onwards and the programme will start at 19:30. A donation of €5 or upwards* will be asked at the door. ​​​​ 📌Saturday 21.02.26, 18:00–20:30 – OUTLINE at Het Veem (Van Diemenkade, Amsterdam) Send an email to outlineplatform[at]gmail.com if you’d like to attend, as capacity is limited. *No donation required for those low on financial means, simply let us know.

Post-conversation: An afternoon with screenings and conversations In Post-conversation, a particular theme or component of the artist’s practice takes center stage, emphasizing or expanding upon the work’s underlying theme or process. Post-conversation also foregrounds artistic practices in which themes of (post-)socialist experience continue to resonate. Through an engagement with connected histories, distinct sensitivities and interpretations, this afternoon questions how we remember and relate to existing layers in time that are still present.  In the first part of the afternoon, Maja Bekan and Seda Yıldız will discuss Bekan’s recent project Collective Intimacy. In this project, Bekan explores gender roles and the emancipatory potential of conflict in long-term projects with delegated performances involving diverse social groups. In autumn 2025, she worked with local high school students in Belgrade, engaging collectively with the biographies of historically significant female activists, including WWII partisan and People’s Hero of Yugoslavia Dragica Pravica (1919–1942). This will be followed by a conversation with Miloš Trakilović and Milica Trakilović, which discusses different temporalities since November 1989 in Trakilović’s work. The talk will focus on ideas of historical “ends” and “beginnings,” as well as related terminology such as post-conflict and post-socialist.  The afternoon will be hosted by Outline  January 25, 15:00 - 17:30   Location: Outline - Het Veem, Van Diemenkade in Amsterdam  —> Please register via [email protected] for the exact location This project is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts). Graphic design by Dayna Casey. @afk020

Find us today and this weekend at @tokyoartbookfair (Zine's mate area)! Thursday 11 Dec: 12:00-19:00 Friday 12 - Sunday 14 Dec: 11:00-18:00 Come say hi :)

Join the book launch of Green Agents in Time by G.C. Heemskerk and Bernice Nauta at Filmtheater De Uitkijk on Thursday 4 December, at 20:30! The 71 storyboards in this publication are the result of a collaborative process between G.C. Heemskerk and Bernice Nauta, and function as the foundation for their short film The Plantiarchy (2025). The project proposes a parallel reality in which the relation between plants and humans are drastically transformed. In this proposed universe, the plant is the protagonist: it playfully and critically tells a story of colonial expansion, botany, more-than-human eroticism and speculative plant-sentience, flipping the historicised script of control and dependency. The Plantiarchy comprises a residency period at Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn, NL) and various exhibitions including Museum de Lakenhal (Leiden, NL), IKOB Museum (Eupen, BE) and Marres (Maastricht, NL), followed by the short film which premiered at Go Short (Nijmegen, NL) in 2025. Green Agents in Time Project by G.C. Heemskerk and Bernice Nauta Introduction by Annosh Urbanke Edited by Jan-Pieter ‘t Hart Designed by Tjobo Kho with Lucas M. Franco & Vlad Omelianenko Printed by no kiss Edition of 350

Introducing next week's short film programme at De Uitkijk, for the launch of 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 by G.C. Heemskerk & Bernice Nauta! 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘆 (2025) by G.C. Heemskerk and Bernice Nauta In 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘺, a seductive plant lures two colonial botanists, gets taken to the West, and seeks revenge through invasion. Using volatile compounds and phytoacoustics, the plant communicates their malicious intent, revealing their plan to overthrow humanity after being plucked by the unsuspecting botanists. 𝗬𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗷𝗲 (2025) by Jori(k) A. Galama A speculative archive essay film that traces the entangled histories of cows, the Dutch colonial empire, and Frisian identity. The film departs from the story of the Île Amsterdam, a remote island in the Indian Ocean where five cows, left behind by 19th-century European settlers, multiplied into a herd of two thousand. Deemed a threat to the native ecosystem, the entire herd was exterminated by the French government in 2010. Only one disabled bull survived, now living in a cow retirement home in Fryslân, where a cow-whisperer was invited to converse with him. This encounter becomes the anchor for a speculative narrative that weaves together archival fragments and current crises. 𝗞𝗼𝗸𝗶, 𝗖𝗶𝗮𝗼 (2025) by Quenton Miller This is the autobiography of Koki, an immortal parrot. Artist Quenton Miller portrays the life of this unique animal, a loyal comrade of Marshal Tito, leader of Yugoslavia for 35 years. A rich photographic archive relives the caged memories of this cockatoo, who had the honour of meeting Hollywood stars, and bloodthirsty dictators.𝘒𝘰𝘬𝘪, 𝘊𝘪𝘢𝘰 offers a humorous portrait, non-aligned with the documentary orthodoxy, that deals with the false constructions of history. Green Agents in Time Book Launch & Short Film Night Thursday 4 December, 20:30 at De Uitkijk, Amsterdam Ticket link in bio ❤️

So many thanks to Vlad Omelyanenko (@ld.mlnk ) for assisting us and no kiss (@nokiss___ ) for the last 3 months! His precise and thoughtful work helped us through a busy period. 💛💛