verwardeman and minor moons host a listening session, inviting sound artists that use the microphone in personal and off-putting ways, and exploring ways of archiving these sounds.
We are developing the space into a public-facing library, where “library” remains as an open question. We begin by questioning the spatial infrastructure itself, approaching it as a site of intervention into what a library can be. Through performative and collective methods, we work with (and against) the symbolic authority of the modern library as a knowledge-bestowing institution, asking visitors to participate in an unfolding performance of library bureaucracy. We are interested in how informal and playful performative gestures can redistribute authorship and unsettle fixed hierarchies of knowing.
During Bermuda Open, our studio space is open to the public, inviting visitors to engage with our library and public programme. Over the weekend, we also hosted the Warsaw-based collective Tapczan Taboret. Together, we activated the space by playing gra w taborety (musical stools). Through these activities, we aim to explore the different ways knowledge is created, preserved, and shared. Taboret means “stool” in Polish.
Soft-launch of our collective with and to our friends on the Lunar New Year. We celebrated, while playing games, making calendars together and burning the fire horse.
김장 (Kimjang) is a Korean term for a collective practice of making kimchi together. Kimjang used to be household work for female family members. It was laborious work, but it was also about sharing women’s power and showing solidarity among women back in the days. We followed a kimchi recipe from the zine Introduction to Creative Kimchi Making written by @nakpicnic.
Ctrl+space and HIDE OUT invited us to present our spatial intervention for Sign In / Sign Out at de Besturing.
Together, we are developing the space into a public-facing library, where “library” remains as an open question.
What does it mean to construct a library from scratch?
What forms of knowledge become possible when its infrastructure is reconsidered?
How can collective practice situate itself within — and respond to — the art-social milieu of The Hague?
We begin by questioning the spatial infrastructure itself, approaching it as a site of intervention into what a library can be. Looking beyond its conventional function as a system for knowledge display and storage, the custom-built shelving units operate as extended tools for knowledge sharing and production. They can be reconfigured into infrastructures for informal exchange, hosting workshops, events, and collective activities.
At the same time, the library unfolds as an archive of (un)stable knowledge — a site of ongoing exploration, testing, and activation, rehearsing how knowledge can be made otherwise. The collection grows through contributions from visitors, not limited to books but extending to materials, sounds, and food. It develops organically, mapping what the collective and its surrounding community hold, produce, and choose to share.
Contact
minormoons.collective@gmail.com
minor_moons
Saturnusstraat 89,
2516 AG den Haag
Opening hours
Sunday + Monday
from 12 - 5 pm
Anabel Pérez Lubián
www.anabelperezlubian.com
a.perezlubian
Annabel Quick
www.haagsekunstenaars.nl
annabel_quick
Domonkos Greskó
www.domogresko.com
gresko.domo
Haeun Na
nanaji.haeun.na
Lucy Gengler
www.lucygengler.com
lucygengler_
Luna Konings
loenmoen
Jiyoung Yim
jiji.the.busy
Nesie Junyi Wang
www.nesiewang.com
nesiewjy
14/06
L(ouch)nge #2: in the Library
Listening session with verwardeman