Telephone Telephone +31 05/06/’26, 5:30-7:30pm with Jeremy Johnston and Yann Chateigné Tytelman
language: English to join, please RSVP by 04/06/’26 via info@manifoldbooks.nl tickets available at the door: €0,-/€4,-/€8,- location:MAP
Dear reader,
Please join us for Telephone Telephone +31, a series of five meetings on the future (of) artists’ legacies organised by Manifold Books in collaboration with Darling Green and curator Alicja Melzacka. The programme addresses practical, creative, and ethical questions surrounding artists’ legacies from a range of perspectives, including those of curators, archivists, legal advisors and artists themselves.
Telephone Telephone is a regular meeting organised by the NYC-based curatorial office Darling Green to discuss the meaning, uses and methodology of the exhibition form. Part seminar, part reading group and part gathering of , Telephone Telephone is a experiment in dialogue and cooperative discovery.
The first meeting takes place on Friday, 05/06/2026, from 5:30 to 7:30pm.
Our guests Jeremy Johnston and Yann Chateigné Tytelman will approach the topic from a curatorial perspective, informed by their engagement with, amongst others, the legacies of Rosemary Mayer, Scott Burton and Peter Downsbrough. After a brief presentation, the meeting will unfold as a conversation with the public.
To join, please RSVP to info@manifoldbooks.nl. Entry is based upon a ‘pay what you can’ system varying from €0,- to €4,- or €8,-. Please note that the conversations are held in English.
Save the dates for the upcoming sessions:
Saturday, 27/06/2026, from 3:00 to 5:00pm Our guests will be Antwerp-based artist Peter Lemmens, custodian of de Appel Archive Nell Donkers, and Dutch art historian Miriam Windhausen, independent consultant specialising in artists’ legacies, who will talk about , classification systems, and different forms of distribution of artistic work.
Sunday, 19/07/2026, from 3:00 to 5:00pm Our guests will be Andrew Walsh-Lister, typographer, writer, and curator based between the UK and the US and a member of the Lily Greenham Advisory Group, and the Amsterdam based artist Philipp Gufler, a member of the Paul Hoecker Research Group. They will talk about how their artistic and curatorial practices enter into a dialogue with other artists’ legacies.
The fourth and fifth Telephone Telephone +31 meetings will take place after the summer break and will be announced asap.
Looking forward to seeing you, Manifold Books
still on view:
Manifold Books #31 Carrying morning on their tongues JJJJJerome Ellis curated by Alicja Melzacka & Maartje Fliervoet 16/05/’26-11/07/’26
Manifold Books #30 Be My Ghost Arefeh Riahi 06/03/’26-19/07/’26
opening hours: Fri-Sat, 1-5pm
About our current year programme Of Ghosts and Flowers Of Ghosts and Flowersproposes a transition from our 2024 programmeThe Sphinx’s Riddlearound grief and transformation to an exhibition and event series about non-linear time experiences in 2025 and 2026. The urgency for this arose from the content of this programme, and how the system of linear time imposed on us disintegrates in the face of death, grief and profound mental and physical transformative processes. In addition, it feels urgent to formulate alternative forms of dealing with time because our system of linear time is linked to our economic system; the biggest driver of climate change. The embodied sensations we will look into include non-human perspectives as well as human ones. Of Ghosts and Flowers departs from the work of Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014). So far, the programme includes exhibitions and projects by Rosemary Mayer, Steve Kado, Clem Edwards, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, JJJJJerome Ellis and Arefeh Riahi. Since March 6, the first iteration of Be My Ghost by Arefeh Riahi is installed in our staircase. The second and third episodes will be released over the coming months, parallel to the opening hours of Carrying morning on their tongues and other upcoming activities.
Image caption: Telephone Telephone +31, an animated gif designed by Darling Green.
Initiated by Maartje Fliervoet, Manifold Books is a platform that explores connections between art and books. With each exhibition a few titles are added to its book collection (all including artists’ interventions). As of May 11, 2021, Manifold Books has become a foundation. Its board members are: Arnisa Zeqo (chair), Stephanie Noach (secretary) and Paul Domela (treasurer).
