The Remote* Archivist is a recurring publication from the Archive of de Appel that can also be accessed while the reader is physically distant, or the archive is far away. The distance, and at the same time the fickle proximity of digital platforms is now translated into the tangibility of archivistic messages.

In this first series of three episodes, Arefeh Riahi, Maartje Fliervoet and Martín La Roche Contreras came together as “To See the Inability to See” and created the feuilleton: Outdated Compass.

With archive documents from: Willem de Rooij, Jürgen Klauke and Iman Issa. Designed by Bardhi Haliti. Archivist: Nell Donkers.

*Absent, dreamy, far away, remote control, distant

Produced on the occasions of Fandango Evening News, a performance by Raùl Marroquín at Multi Art Points, Amsterdam, 15 December, 1977, presented by de Appel Amsterdam.

More information on the event can be found here.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership (address hand-written on card).

Entry ticket produced on the occasion of the Luigi Ontani’s performance Muzikale Hel at Ronde Lutherse Kerk, 2 July, 1977.

Michael E. Smith (born 1977 in Detroit) makes sculptures out of cast-offs, waste and other residues of our consumer society. He assembles and manipulates this found material in an unusual way. He isolates objects, makes changes to their form and seeks out the limits of their imaginative power. His presentations are characterized by an intense yet sparse choreography of the exhibition space.

Initially conceived to document three solo shows at de Appel in Amsterdam (2015), Kunstverein Hannover (2015), and S.M.A.K. in Ghent (2017), the publication also gathers new commissioned texts and a reprint that shed light on the artist’s decade-plus practice.

With texts by Martin Germann, Anthony Huberman, Chris Sharp.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition of Wiener Aktionisten from December 1976 through February 1977, De Appel presented photo’s, drawings, objects and films by the main exponents of Wiener Aktionisten. This particular document is the press realease for the reading and exhibition of Das Orgien Mysterien Theater by Hermann Nitsch on 5 January 1977.

You can find more on the show here.

Exhibition guide was produced on the occasion of Choses tuées, held at de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, 2015.

The collective artist gerlach en koop renders things visible by repetition, copying or reuse, by displacement and misplacement, by omissions, erring and making mistakes. The smaller the distance between two identical things—differences that sometimes can only be conceived of—the more interesting.