Tabea Nixdorff

REMINDER — deze woensdag: Boek is A Boek is A Boek is A Book Eindpresentatie gastkunstenaar Tabea Nixdorff Woensdag 1 april van 12:30 tot 14:30 en van 16:00 tot 18:00 17:00 welkomsdrankje 📍Ons adres: Jan den Haenstraat 41, 1055 WC Amsterdam

In de herfstvakantie van 2025 veranderde Gastatelier de Vindplaats tijdens The Big Draw in een enorm boek. Een week lang werden de grote pagina’s elke dag gevuld door kinderen van de school en uit de buurt, samen met kunstenaars die hun verschillende werkwijzen en interesses meebrachten zoals poëzie, cyanotypie, stripverhalen, boekbinden en nog veel meer. Het project werd georganiseerd en samengesteld door Martijntje Baarda. Meewerkende kunstenaars waren: Heidi de Geus, Philine Fokkema, Eden Berger, Kelvin Dijk, Tabea Nixdorff en Joakim Derlow. Kunstenaar en typograaf Tabea Nixdorff vertaalde het Big Book-project naar een kleine publicatie, die elke pagina van het collaboratieve experiment weerspiegelt door gebruik te maken van de leporello-bindvorm. Het leporelloboek, ook wel bekend als zigzag- of accordeonvouw, verwijst terug naar het ruimtelijke karakter van The Big Book. In elke vouw is een kleine katern genaaid, gewijd elke dag van de projectweek, met daarin dagboekbeschrijvingen van de creatieve activiteiten, foto’s van het proces en close-ups van de resultaten. Het boek is in het Gastatelier gedrukt en gebonden in een oplage van 30 exemplaren. Het is te koop voor €10,-. Je bent van harte welkom om de publicatie van The Big Book Book op 1 april van dichtbij te bekijken en aan te schaffen – de dag van de eindpresentatie van Tabea Nixdorff’s residentie bij het Gastatelier. De titel van deze eindexpositie ‘Boek is A Boek is A Boek is A Book’ legt een mooie verbinding tussen haar werk en ons gezamenlijke werk ‘The Big Book’. Zie voor meer informatie over de eindpresentatie van Tabea Nixdorff onze gepinde post daarover.

Boek is A Boek is A Boek is A Book Eindpresentatie door gastkunstenaar Tabea Nixdorff 1 april 2026 @gastatelier.de.vindplaats 12:30–14:30 en 16:00–18:00 Tijdens haar residentie onderzoekt Tabea Nixdorff @readingerrata het atelier als een ruimte vol talen, geluiden en schrijfwijzen van woorden, die ze verzamelt terwijl ze het boek als medium exploreert. In plaats van onregelmatigheden of spelfouten glad te strijken, is Tabea geïnteresseerd in ‘veerkrachtige’ taal, zoals verzonnen woorden, gemengde talen en de poëtische kwaliteit van spelfouten. Tabea Nixdorff is kunstenaar en typograaf en woont momenteel in Arnhem. Haar artistieke praktijk bestaat uit (zelf)publicaties, schrijven, op geluid en taal gebaseerde performances, collectief leren en sociale bijeenkomsten. Tabea’s werk vertrekt vaak vanuit archieven en gaat in op microgeschiedenissen die grotere thema’s in zich dragen als weglatingen en vervormingen in historische verhalen, belichaamde kennis, queer belonging en een feministische poëtica van fouten. In 2023 richtte Tabea een publicatiereeks op met de naam @archival_textures . Het Gastatelier de Vindplaats is een informeel creatief clubhuis voor kinderen van het @kindcentrumdevindplaats en de directe omgeving, de wijk Bos en Lommer in Amsterdam-West. Er zijn vaste ateliermiddagen, buurtactiviteiten en netwerkbijeenkomsten.

We are very excited to announce our latest project “Spoken Matter Radio” – a live radio show with guests, mixing, interviews and experimental poetics using the extended field around our label. The first issue will be performed at @lettretage / ACUD Berlin on March 4 and you are warmly invited! Spoken Matter Radio is hosted by Andreas Bülhoff (@andreasbuelhoff ) and Marc Matter (@marcmatter3 ). Guests for this episode will be Ulrich Nixdorff (aka Monique Ulrich and Tabea Nixdorff (@readingerrata )), who will release their tape „SOUNDING OUT (READING PARATEXTS)“ on this occasion, and Mathias Traxler (@math.tra )! Drop by and tune in!

Cherishing the beautiful experience of co-creating at @a_tale_of_a_tub in 2025. Some pictures of the build-up, exhibition and workshops ANNAGRAMMA TICS A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam 2025

The fourth edition of the series @readingartistsbooks presents publications that, since the 1960s, have critically reflected on computational thinking—that is, ways of thinking shaped by computer-based and algorithmic processes—or that have relied on computer technologies in their making. Publications such as Alison Knowles’s A House of Dust (1969), Stanley Brouwn’s 100 this-way-brouwn-problems for computer IBM 360 model 95 (1970), and Manfred Mohr’s Artificiata I (1969) demonstrate how concepts of chance, iteration, and algorithmic logic were translated into the analogue medium of the artist’s book—often coupled with a critical reflection on the promises and limits of digital technologies. The event takes place within the framework of the Studium Fundamentale at @uni_wittenherdecke and connects to ongoing discussions within the Centre for Advanced Study Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change at @uni_muenster . The full program will be announced shortly. The event was organized by Regine Ehleiter @reginee , Research Associate at the Chair for Digital Arts and Cultural Communication at the @wittenlab_stufu at @uni_wittenherdecke and Senior Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change, in cooperation with the Office & Network for Media Art and Digital Culture @medienwerk.nrw and the Centre for Advanced Study Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change at @uni_muenster . Key visual by Tabea Nixdorff @readingerrata . The reading event will take place both on site at the university and online via Zoom. Registration is now open, please see link in bio. @andreasbuelhoff @antye.guenther @umblaetterer @g_s_m_h @hannah.higgins.b @juerglehni @rosen_______ @raaraya @shinjitoya #ursulafrohne @reginee #artistsbooks #artistbooks #artistspublications #publishingasartisticpractice #computerart #computationalart #computertechnology #computergeneratedart #digitalaccess #digitalobsolescence #feministhistory #weavingandcoding

SOUNDING OUT (READING PARATEXTS) Reading Performance von Ulrich Nixdorff Sonntag, 7. September um 11:00 Uhr @alpenhof.ai / @bibliothekandreaszuest Oberegg, Schweiz Anmeldung: [email protected] Paratexte sind per Definition alles, was neben (griechisch para) dem Körper des Werkes oder des Buches steht. Die Reading Performance SOUNDING OUT (READING PARATEXTS) erkundet dieses ‚neben‘ als Ort, und Paratexte als Zeugnisse der vielen Arbeitsschritte und kollektiven Bemühungen bei der Entstehung eines Buches. Was für Körper tauchen auf, wenn wir Widmungen, Danksagungen, Impressen oder editorische Notizen lesen? Diese Texte können kollaborative Momente und soziale Prozesse des Ausschlusses von literarischer Produktion aufdecken. Monique Ulrich und Tabea Nixdorff greifen in ihrer Reading Performance auf Textmaterial zurück, welches sie in Bibliotheken und Archiven finden, unter anderem während ihrer Residency in der Bibliothek Andreas Züst (2022). Dort begannen sie mit einer Kartierung des literarischen Netzwerks von Künstlerinnen und Schriftstellerinnen im deutschsprachigen Raum des 20. Jahrhunderts, sowie deren transnationalen Verbindungen. Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt werden sie auf die Künstlerin Sophie Taeuber-Arp legen, die im nahegelegenen Trogen aufwuchs und außergewöhnlich multimedial und interdisziplinär arbeitete. Sophie Taeuber-Arps Wirkungsfelder des sozialen Vernetzen sowie des „vernetzten Denkens“ innerhalb ihrer Produktion – über Gattungsgrenzen sowie künstlerische Gruppierungen hinaus – werden nachgespürt. Als Künstlerinnen-Duo ULRICH NIXDORFF arbeiten Tabea Nixdorff und Monique Ulrich seit 2018 zusammen und haben performative Lesungen u.a. im @diffrakt.space Berlin, @kv_leipzig und bei @rotorbooks Leipzig, sowie in der @freitagskueche Frankfurt mit @spectorbooks und @scriptings_ gezeigt. Im Jahr 2022 verbrachten sie eine Residency in der Bibliothek Andreas Züst, 2023 waren sie Empfängerinnen eines gemeinsamen Forschungsstipendiums der Hans und Sophie Taeuber-Arp Stiftung @stiftungarp Berlin. Demnächst erscheint eine Audiotape-Publikation im Sonic Poetry-Verlag @spokenmatter .

REMINDER: Exhibition Opening: ANNE KRUL with TABEA NIXDORFF and UNICA ZÜRN: ANAGRAMMA TICS This Saturday, May 31, 5–8PM Join us for the opening of ANAGRAMMA TICS, an exhibition by ANNE KRUL with TABEA NIXDORFF and UNICA ZÜRN, plus an accompanying bulletin text by JOHANNA HEDVA—and karaoke afterwards at Café Brouwershuys! 🕶️ REMINDER: Tentoonstelling Opening: ANNE KRUL met TABEA NIXDORFF en UNICA ZÜRN: ANAGRAMMA TICS Zaterdag, 31 mei, 17:00–20:00 Kom naar de opening van ANAGRAMMA TICS, een tentoonstelling van ANNE KRUL met TABEA NIXDORFF en UNICA ZÜRN, met een begeleidende tekst van JOHANNA HEDVA – en daarna karaoke in Café Brouwershuys! 📷: Still from anne krul, ‘Deconstructie-Constructie’, 2010, video, 4min 20sec

May they mean then fiercely Can they mean then fiercely Why enter a legal contract working in the interests of patriarchal, hetero-sexist, imperialist and capitalist nation states, standing in a tradition of so many of the oppressive systems that need to be dismantled in order to fight its horrific consequences… The work of dismantling could not be done without the many queer and feminist killjoys and friendships that teach us so much about ourselves and about imagining a different world. So we knew that nothing would make us happier than having a reason to celebrate all the meaningful relationships around us, because the ways in which we are able to love each other are interconnected with these relationships, they are testimony that love is never nurtured in isolation, but precariously yet expansively wrought for. Getting married is to twist a tradition which was designed against us, to our liking. If anything, I can call Li my hubby, inspired by Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein. But we just keep being forever engaged, finding new vocabularies along the way.

Today, seven years ago, I exchanged rings with Li, the love of my life, with the promise to stay forever engaged. And even if it could seem like we broke this promise with last summer’s wedding, witnessed and surrounded by the most amazing friends and (chosen) families, it feels we only deepened our engagement ever since, learning with and from each other, over and over. Here to celebrate Li, and our love. First image: last page from my essay Fehler lesen, published by Spector Books, 2019

EXHIBITION OPENING:
ANAGRAMMA TICS
May 31, 5–8PM Join us for the opening of ANAGRAMMA TICS, an exhibition by ANNE KRUL with TABEA NIXDORFF and UNICA ZÜRN, plus an accompanying bulletin text by JOHANNA HEDVA ANAGRAMMA TICS takes the form of an unconventional retrospective, wherein the various facets and outputs of artist, educator, poet and activist anne krul’s practice will be on show together for the first time. Active throughout the 1990s in various LGBTI+ and women’s organisations—such as the International Lesbian Information Service (ILIS), ZAMI and Strange Fruit the Real—krul fostered a non-hierarchical self-help approach to activism, using creative discourse, art and poetry to effect change. Throughout these many years of organising, krul was also working away on her solo artistic practice. Spanning video collage, slide installations, sculpture, audio and anagram poetry, this aspect of krul’s work is little known, despite the fact that her political activities were instrumental in ensuring better living conditions for so many young people in the Netherlands.   To make this exhibition, krul has worked with artist and typographer Tabea Nixdorff, a pre-existing collaboration that has seen the pair produce new audio works while also translating krul’s anagram poems into spatial configurations. Joining them is Unica Zürn, an artist and fellow anagram poet who has acted as a guiding reference for krul over the past four decades.  Throughout, unedited image collections turn into films, the detritus of social poetry gatherings becomes slide projections and words and their corresponding letters are literally disorganised on the page, arriving at both new configurations of meaning and a refusal of meaning all together. What results is an expression of experience, both the experience of grappling with language on a personal level— ‘language is a virus’, krul asserts to us—and the instrumentalisation of language on an institutional level, a reference to the social disciplining of so-called ‘deviant’ or ‘abnormal’ behaviour via language throughout history. Put frankly, in this exhibition, erroneous and unruly language is a practice of defiance worthy of celebration.

“Can I ever feel more disgusted? More helpless and angry? We are 2.2 million souls trapped in a cage and used for a psychopath[ic] political game!” Words by @wizard_bisan1 on March 20, 2025. This zine is dedicated to those wearing (and not wearing) a press vest, documenting atrocities, writing down stories, reporting from the ground, and thereby risking their lives every day to make it even possible for us to witness. From journalists to media workers, from writers to poets, and from librarians to scholars. Those who gave their lives, whose lives were taken in the joint struggle for a liberated homeland. For a free Palestine. A Palestine Solidarity Zine #2 by Tamara Hartman and Tabea Nixdorff Published by @archival_textures , March 2025 With contributions by Mahmud Abu-Odeh moody__mudi, Gráinnemir Amir Abualrob @grainnemir , Anita Di Bianco @anitadi___ , Flip Driest @flipdriest , Moosje M. Goosen @moshin , Tamara Hartman @tamarahartman , canan marasligil @cananmarasligil , Tabea Nixdorff @readingerrata , Shira Wolfe @shirayaelwolfe Price: €8 / ₹755 / $10 One third covering production, two thirds of the proceeds will be donated to grassroots initiatives that use publishing, research and archiving as their tools towards liberation: @hindrajabfoundation , an initiative that focuses on countering Israeli impunity through legal action, awareness campaigns and commemoration of all the people that we have lost. @accountability.archive , an initiative that holds records of journalists, politicians, and public figures endorsing ethnic cleansing of Gaza and defaming pro-Palestinian activists. @archive_of_silence , a crowdsourced archive documenting silenced voices in Germany, in order to chronicle the alarming waves of erasure and violence directed at Palestinian advocacy in Germany. We will also keep an eye out for a fundraiser to rebuild the Edward Said Libraries in Gaza, Palestine, initiated by @mosab_abutoha , that have been entirely destroyed. If bookshops are interested to sell the zines, please e-mail: [email protected] or DM @archival_textures Already stocked at: @fortvansjakoo @palestinelibrary_ffm @stichtingperdu @and_so_on_books @books__at