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Location: online via Zoom, registration via this link.
Time: Monday May 17th, from 20:00 to 21:30 at the latest
Admission free and open to everyone

For more information: International Association of art critics / Internationale vereniging van kunstcritici AICA Nederland 

Opening times: Friday 23 November 12:00 – 21:00; 17:00-21:00 fair’s official opening (part of Amsterdam Art Weekend’s official opening night). Saturday 24 November 12:00-20:00, Sunday 25 November 12:00-20:00

On Sunday 25 November, 19h00-19h30 artist Frans van Lent will read parts of 'The ParallelShow', published this summer by Jap Sam Books

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Play the City & Jap Sam Books present 'The future of city gaming. Which games will help us to build the city of the future?'

This autumn, the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux and publishing house Jap Sam Books will launch their joint essay collection Home Reassembled. On Art, Destruction & Belonging.

We would like to ask your attention for the book launch of DIY Klarenstraat. A new perspective on the post-war social housing block

The influential architecture critic and professor emiritus Vincent van Rossem considers the U.J. Klarenstraat to be 'the future of urban renewal in Amsterdam'. He is not the only one with this opinion. The very first Do It Yourself walk-up apartment block was nominated for multiple awards. This book is a helping hand to anyone dealing with the transformation of existing real estate, in particular the post-war social housing block. 

Book launch at EKWC, Oisterwijk, April 30

The director of Sundaymorning@ekwc, the European Ceramic Workcentre, Ranti Tjan, invites you for the book launch of Demystified, the European Ceramic Workcentre as Centre of Excellence by artist and researcher Nick Renshaw.
For the previous three years the author has worked with publisher Eleonoor Jap Sam and designer Montse Hernández i Sala towards realisation of the publication of his thesis (2013).

In the West, we operate in a condition of interiority, an elaborate set of arrangements that are reflected in the built environment. These are the physical bases of the social contract, some of whose outcomes we might find unpalatable. There are realms within this condition where people become conscious of themselves in relation to their cities and others; and there are those in which this consciousness is sheltered, accommodated. 

The public interior is the pre-eminent public environment in the contemporary city. It is the space that historically and presently frames and situates the public. The public interior is, all too often, an instrument for the inculcation of predictable behaviour: a realm of control geared towards the acceptance of a social, political or economic order, rather than a realm for enfranchisement, association, or political action. Mark Pimlott’s recent book ‘The Public Interior as Idea and Project’ (Jap Sam Books, 2016) looked at a range of possibilities for the public interior that have emerged through time, finding––among the interiors as machines to which we have become supplicants––spaces for the imagination, for heightened consciousness of the self, the other and the world, interiors that offer a kind of freedom. The motifs employed by interiors that encouraged the latter are offered as models for the contemporary condition. 

We would like to ask your attention for the opening of the solo exhibition 'Lonely Planet' and the release of the publication Lonely Planet. Campania Felix Susan Kooi