Plan B

Estafette by @lucashuikeshoven opening Friday November 21! 19.00-21.00!Tomorrow!

Mertens Frames Project Space by Plan B cordially invites you to Lucas Huikeshoven Estafette Opening Friday 21 November 19.00 - 21.00 Exhibition 22-30 November Saturday & Sunday 14:00 - 17:00 And by appointment Home videos, family albums and memories Rooted and splintered Estafette reflects on the intimate bond that different generations can form with a place. The exhibition invites you into the personal narrative of the impending loss of the athletics club AV Atos, seen through the eyes of Lucas Huikeshoven’s father and grandfather. For club members and local residents, the former running track and the Elzenhagen sports park were not merely “facilities,” but sites of memory, of community, of home, and of nature. Yet where the sports associations saw a home, the municipality saw a blank canvas: a site with space for the Noord/Zuidlijn metro, trendy hospitality, urban redevelopment, demolition, and expensive new construction — for a new kind of northerner. The entire sports park, including 2,150 trees, was therefore cleared to make way for what are described as “urban villas” in “the garden of the city.” Estafette is a stoic act of resistance — an effort of documentation and archiving of collective action and memory against the displacement of the communities of Amsterdam-Noord that existed long before the neighborhood became hip. Address Mertens Frames Project Space by Plan B Hamerstraat 22 1021 JV Amsterdam Poster design by Our Polite Society Mertens Frames Project Space by Plan B is a collaboration between Plan B and Mertens Frames. Hosted by Mertens Frames Project Space, Plan B presents a program of exhibitions and events in a former award shop in Amsterdam Noord.

Opening soon: Estafette by Lucas Huikeshoven See you Friday November 21 at 19:00 Hamerstraat 22, Amsterdam Noord More info soon!

Pictures of Girl Years at @plan_b_projects . The show is part of my research for my masters dissertation. Which revolves around semantics; how we give electronics a body? The idea that hauntology determines the future of technology. This show was made from materials found around the space + some digital prints. The stairs are nearby on Meeuwenlaan. From left to right are: Framed like in a Big Museum Piece, ENIAC-6, Big Bias, Betty and Betty and, Girl Hours.

Last chance to visit Girl Years by Pien Overing this Saturday and Sunday from 14.00-17.00 ! 💫

Can’t wait until it’s Friday! Girl Years by @pienoverig opens between 18:00-21:00. Hope you’ll join us! 🍹🍸🍾🎊💞

We warmly invite you to the opening of Girl Years by Pien Overing on Friday 29 August, 18.00 - 21.00 Exhibition: August 30 and September 6 & 7 between 14:00 - 17:00 (and by appointment) Back in the day, computers were girls doing computational labour. They were the software of these computers, first with the help of punch cards. After using electronic calculating machines and later, once the electronic computer was invented, it was these women writing computer programmes. Tron; A computer programmer gets uploaded onto a computer, and he has to fight the evil programme that has corrupted the computer’s software. Together with a ‘good’ security programme called Tron, he fights to escape the world inside of computer chips and electronics. Normally, a non-visual space, the movie has given electronics a body. Kilo girl, girl hours, kilo girl hour, girl years; are lost computing terms. Used in the middle of the twentieth century, one kilo girl was a unit used to refer to the capacity of the new computing machines equivalent to that of 1000 female human computers. Kilo girl hour refers to 1000 hours of female computational labour. The computing time was measured in girl hours and for larger-scale projects in girl years. Other sources say girl years refers to the speed at which computations were done. Tron; the singular female scientist does have a programme counterpart, but it doesn’t get the skills or the opportunity like the male programs. The world inside of the computer has the same inequality as the irl 80’s. Girl Years is Pien Overing’s attempt at creating an alternative computer.

Save the date! Opening Friday August 29 👀 Girl Years by @pienoverig 🔥 Poster by @jens.schildt & @our_polite_society

Last days of Snail movements by Bert McLean already! Open today and Saturday from 14.00 -17.00 🌞🐌🌞🐌 🌞

Snail movements is closed tomorrow Friday 13 but extensively open again on Saturday 14 from 13.00 to 17.00. Bert McLean will be there too, so do come by!🐌

Excited for Bert McLean’s show Snail movements, with new works! Opening this Friday June 6, 18.00 -21.00. See you there!

Snail movements A solo presentation by Bert McLean opens next week ! 👀 Opening Friday June 6 18.00-21.00 Exhibition Friday & Saturday 14.00-17.00 until June 21 Looking forward to see you there ✨