Boekie Woekie, the independent artists’ bookstore in the popular 9 Straatjes, has to move, the rent became unaffordable. The founders have been committed to Boekie Woekie for almost forty years, based on an alternative idea of what a book in the hands of artists can be.
Time to put this unique collective and their close-knit community into the spotlight. All spaces, including the club, will transform into a landscape of artists’ books, zines, videos, publications, multiples, audio tapes and installations, by contemporary artists, thinkers and writers from all over the world. From March, Boekie Woekie can be found at Geldersekade 39, Amsterdam
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PROGRAMME
DAILY AT IRREGULAIR TIMES
PRINT & PUBLISH WORKSHOP
A-book-A-Day
Kristján Thoraclius Finnsson
Visitors are welcome to join in
ALL SATURDAYS
HOEKSTEEN TV
with Raoul Marroquin online,
performances with artists & books
3 PM | OPEN STAGE
Performances, book presentations, poetry
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JANUARI 12 OPENING
BOEKIE WOEKIE & FRIENDS
7 PM | HALL
PAUL KEMPERS (Stichting AVCEP)
EVA GONGGRIJP (Curator together with Jan Voss)
Opening
NICO LOOTSMA
Boekie Woekie Blues
HILDUR ÉLISA JÓNSDÓTTIR
Seeking Solace, An operatic performance for multiple singers
EVA GONGGRIJP & JUNE GIBBS
How to become a book (Michael Gibbs)
Episode 0: Prologue
A Posthumous performance
9.30 PM | CLUB
DANCE Vrouwen zijn OK DJ-set
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SUNDAY JANUARI 14
3 – 6 PM | HALL
AÐALHEIÐUR S. EYSTEINSDÓTTIR
Unexpected visit, Performance
ARNA GUDNÝ VALSDÓTTIR
Sink(ing), Performance
MALCOLM GREEN
Reach for Diamonds, A speech ballet
SIMON CUTTS & ERICA VAN HORN
Publishers, Two readings
MICHAEL GIBBS
How to become a book
Episode I: Spreading
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FRIDAY JANUARI 19
8 PM | HALL
JAAP BLONK
Sound-poetry performance
9 PM | HALL
PASCAL PLANTINGA
Das Volk, Electropunkjazz
10 PM | CLUB
KRAFTGALLI
Weird & wonderful, Electronic dance
& disco from Iceland
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SUNDAY JANUARI 21
3 PM | HALL
OLIVER ROSS & SIMON STARKE
Neuspréch, Performance
4 PM
HUGO BONAMIN
Book presentation
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FRIDAY JANUARI 26 OPENING
8.30 PM | CLUB
FREDIE BECKMANS & ROB RENOULT
8 PM | HALL
DADAROCKT
Vakantie in Boekiewoekieland
Performance
CLUB
DUO BECKMAN-WHIPS
Singing saws
DADAROCKT & ROB RENOULT
Holydays, Film & performance
HENK & HENK
New wave covers, Henk Koorn (Hallo Venray) & Henk Jonkers (Fatal Flowers)
DANCING with DJ Whips
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SUNDAY JANUARI 28
3 PM | HALL
MARIA BARNAS &
DONALD GARDENER
Invert,Two poets translate each other’s work. Their presentations contrast. They read their own and each other’s poems: About transformation…
5PM
MICHAEL GIBBS
How to become a book, Episode I: Gathering
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FRIDAY FEBRUARI 2
5 PM | HALL 4
FROM WIJNEN & WERNER TO LAST
The sense of nonsense
The cheerful collaborations of Henk
Wijnen and Jeroen Werner with Martijn
Last (+2015) ended as suddenly as it
began, Friends exhibition
7.30 PM | CLUB
DINNER & LETTERAIRY EVENING
WITH POETS AND MUSIC
If you think you read what you eat, you don’t eat what you think you read
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SATURDAY FEBRUARI 3
NELL DONKERS & MARIANA LANARI
De Appel Archive & Biblio-Graph, lecture
4PM
GJ DE ROOK
Two Short performances
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SUNDAY FEBRUARI 4
3 PM | HALL
ELS TER HORST
Living in a book, Talk
Each book a new concept with its own (visual) language and production
ERIK KESSELS
Behind Covers, Talk
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FRIDAY FEBRUARI 9
5 PM | CLUB
Reneé Hartog Interviews
the Boekie Woekie collective
PHILIPPE MCYNTYRE
Hommage to Boekie Woekie
bookpresentation
7.30 PM | HALL
BABETH M. VANLOO
Chance Versus Causality
Soundtrack: Cabaret Voltaire
8.15 PM
DICK VERDULT
It Is True But Not Here
Documentairy, Luuk Bouwman, 2017
Q & A with Babeth, Dick and Luuk
SUNDAY FEBRUARI 11
4 PM | HALL | FINISSAGE
From Wijnen & Werner to Last (+2015)
The meaning of nonsense, Conversations
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FRIDAY FEBRUARI 16
OPENING
7 PM | HALL 4
JOSEPH SASSOON SEMAH
On Friendship (collateral damage)
Friends Exhibition
Performance Semah, Voss & friends
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SATURDAY FEBRUARI 17
PRINT & PUBLISH WORKSHOP
print, cut & glue your own bookmask,
hat or tie for the Boekiebal!
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SUNDAY FEBRUARI 18
3 PM | HALL
EMILY KOCKEN
Writing for Life, Interactive performance
Letters to Stéphane Mallarmé in
response to his posthumously
published book ‘Le livre’
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FRIDAY FEBRUARI 23
FINISSAGE & BOEKIEBALL
8 PM | HALL
Dresscode: Book
KING OG BONG NIGHT
Underground from Iceland
ARTSPACE
PHOTOBOOTH with or as your favorite
book or as your protagonist
10 PM | CLUB
ARTHUR VAN BEEK
I’m gonna tell you a story, Performance
DJ’S & DANCE!!
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SUNDAY MARCH 17
3 PM | SOLEDAD SENLLE ART FOUNDATION
How to become a book (Michael Gibbs)
Episode III: Epilogue
Performance Eva Gonggrijp & June Gibbs
Saskia Masselink, live action
MORITZ KÜNG
Curator, art critic and book editor of
anthologie Blank. Raw. Illegible…
Artists’ Books as Statements (2023),
Lecture, All or Nothing, An Anthology of
blank books, Michael Gibbs
CEES DE BOER
Art historian & moderator
Interpretations of Le Livre (Stéphane
Mallarmé), Talk with guests and public
Soledad Senlle Art Foundation
Sloterkade 171, Amsterdam
Boekie Woekie & Friends is supported by: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, het Cultuurfonds, Boekie Woekie & Soledad Senlle Art Foundation.
