2026
at the edge of connection
at the edge of connection
publication by Clarinde Wesselink
This new publication by artist and choreographer Clarinde Wesselink serves as a roadmap for the reader, containing instructions, methods for exploration, and reflections on how we sense, move through, and inhabit a place. It features essays intended to amplify imagination, and to support research and experimentation into how we are entangled with our everyday environments.
“By observing the unique ways lichens make contact with their surroundings, I began to reflect on how I, too, interact with the world. Writing became a crucial tool, helping me understand the subtle differences in how I engage physically with things, offering language as a kind of road map for my body to navigate through new awareness. Because every word can be felt in the body.”
As a reader, you can apply the instructions in a playful way during daily activities, allowing new ideas and connections to emerge. The book can also be used by two or more people, side by side, collaboratively, or as part of a specific process in which the connection plays an active role.
The publication is one half of the project at the edge of connection, complemented by an installation - performance series.
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at the edge of connection
Clarinde Wesselink
Edition of 150
ISBN 978-90-835501-1-4
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
Copyright © 2026 Clarinde Wesselink. All rights reserved.
Proofreading: Michael Blass
Design: Jana Sofie Liebe
Production: no kiss and Patist Boekbinders
Supported by Cultuur Fonds, Fund for Academy of Theatre and Dance, Jan Kassies Funding, Mondriaan Fonds, Stichting de Hoorn.
2025
Binnenzwemmer |
Inner Swimmer
Binnenzwemmer |
Inner Swimmer
publication by Paulien Barbas
Available in Dutch & English language
Photography, text & concept: Paulien Barbas
Graphic design: Miquel Hervás Gómez & Renée Ghyoot
Super-assistent: Zsa Zsa Tuffy
Translation: Florian Duijsens
Text editing: Maaike de Wolf
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
Edition NL: 250 copies
Edition EN: 150 copies
Pages: 46
Size: 253 x 330 x 10 mm
Printer: Pantheon drukkers
Binder: Van Hees - Patist Boekbinders
Supported by AFK Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Jaap Harten Fonds, Cultuurfonds, EKWC & Rijksakademie Amsterdam
2025
She saw, I saw |
Zij zag, ik zag
She saw, I saw – On making Bijlmermeer’s birth care visible
publication by Marieke Zwart
Maternity care and obstetrics provided at home are part of Dutch cultural heritage. Yet this kind of birth care is under pressure due to budget cuts and staff shortages. This publication shows how indispensable the work of two care professionals in Amsterdam Zuidoost is. From 2023 to 2025, artist Marieke Zwart accompanied them on their home visits, where she recorded intimate acts of care in small rooms using her pencil and her camera. In her studio, she later translated them into large drawings and collages.
Zwart deliberately gives full access to her process of working and drawing: All drawings, sketches, documentation material, photographs and the many tests she’s made over the past two years are available to the reader. In doing so, she exposes what otherwise would have been invisible. The book also contains essays by Lynn Berger of De Correspondent and Menno Dudok van Heel, head of the art collection at Amsterdam UMC, as well as two transcribed conversations. One is about care in de Bijlmermeer with midwife Willemijn Speelman and maternity care professional Joyce Aboagye, and the other is about the dynamics of working inside and outside the artist’s studio, with artist Dineke Blom.
Language: Dutch & English
Artworks: Marieke Zwart
Contributions: Menno Dudok van Heel, Lynn Berger, Dineke Blom, Joyce Aboagye, Willemijn Speelman, Sharon Ratsma
Editing: Kees Zwart, Marloes van Vugt, Lotte Lara Schröder, Marieke Zwart
Translation:
Graphic design: Lotte Lara Schröder
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
Edition: 250 copies
Pages: 144 (64 full-colour, 80 b/w), 7 fold-out pages
Size: 22 x 28 cm
Printer: Pantheon drukkers
Supported by AFK, Mondriaan Fonds, Niemeijer Fonds en CBK Zuidoost
2025
Pink Days & Blue Nights (The Dancers)
Pink Days & Blue Nights (The Dancers)
by Eleni Kamma in collaboration with Christos Vogiatzis (1957-2023)
At fifteen, Eleni Kamma’s uncle Christos became fascinated with Algebra’s hooks. With a ballpoint pen, he drew endless variations of two hooks that intersect, filling the intersections with the blue ink. Christos called his drawings “The Dancers”, and fifty years later, he still continued making them, by way of enabling himself to return to his ‘center’. After her uncle’s cancer diagnosis in 2018, Kamma started responding to his visual practice – placing tracings of old family pictures over the abstract dancers of her uncle.
Both their voices have cumulated into this work, accompanied by selected excerpts of Joan Didion's seminal book on grief The year of Magical Thinking. These fragments reveal the places that mourning can bring us, confusing our sense of time, our ideas of possibility and our hope for signs, whether calculative or emotive. The drawings are interrupted midway by a gap of empty pages; Christos completed only 15 of the 25 planned drawings before passing away in the fall of 2023.
Pink Days and Blue Nights succeeds in showcasing, as Kamma explains it, “a good excuse to keep the dialogue about beauty and hope alive.”
Concept: Eleni Kamma
Editing: Michelle MacQueen
Translation: Trisevgeni Papadakou
Graphic design: Akiko Wakabayashi
Scans: Photography & Audiovisual lab, Jan van Eyck Academie
Exhibition photography: Michael De Lausnay
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
Edition: 300 copies
Printer: Pantheon Drukkers, Velsen-Noord
Binding: Van Hees - Patist Boekbinders, Zaltbommel
ISBN: 978-90-835501-4-5
Supported the family members and friends of Christos and Eleni, as well as the colleagues and curious individuals, Jaap Harten Fonds, Culturfonds, Province Limburg
2025
if you read this
if you read this
by Kay Schuttel
if you read this is a multidisciplinary project about the human desire for connection. It consists of three interconnected parts: a text publication, an EP with text-based (electronic) soundtracks, and a live performance. Each part reinforces the others, contributing to a layered narrative about proximity, absence, and the fragile nature of human contact.
The starting point is a personal experience of “ghosting” — an abruptly broken-off relationship without explanation — which serves as a catalyst for broader reflection on how communication, intimacy, and loss relate to the structures of our digital existence. By combining self-written texts and found fragments (both online and offline), a new narrative emerges at the intersection of literature, performance, and sound art.
publication €18,00 incl. VAT, excl. shipping
EP & publication €46 incl. VAT, excl. shipping
Text & Concept: Kay Schuttel
Language: English, Dutch, Spanish
Graphic design: Callum Dean
Printer: no kiss Amsterdam
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
Edition: 100 copies
EP in collaboration with poonex globo
2025
Unruly Threads–
A TXT reader
Unruly Threads - A TXT Reader
Visualise knowledge through fabric metaphor, Giulia Damiani suggests. The notion (and practice) of knowledge is a knotty, messy tangle, to be unravelled.
Sink in deeper. Jasper Coppes explains that beginnings are muddy, we should want to stir the pot. “Understanding ourselves and our environment can only happen when what is repressed is allowed to surface, to be seen and heard. In mud we might finally start to take root.“ Stay in the loop. Joost Post creates an inclusive dictionary of looping.
A ‘fibrefossil’ has outdated ideas on knitting, wrongfully gender-essentialising it. ‘Knitciphergraphy’ explains the art of encoding and decoding messages through intricate knitting patterns, combining the craft of knitting with cryptographic techniques. “Even though knitting circles remain the butt of many jokes, these spaces can have radical implications.”
These bodies of writing reveal the learning environment with its human, and more-than-human actors. Here we attempt, head of the department Mercedes Azpilicueta proposes, to embed practices of care by doing community, cultivating the interdisciplinary and practicing performativity.
Contributions by: Iqra Tanveer, Giulia Damiani, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Severine Amsing, Gleb(s) Maiboroda, Erik Wong, Giene Steenman, Riet Wijnen, Jasper Coppes and Joost Post.
Editing: Arden Rzewnicki and the TXT department
Graphic design: Josefina Contin Zapata
Publisher: TXT department at Rietveld Akademie & n.k.g. publications
Edition: 200 copies
Printer: Riso printed with no kiss & laser printed at the GRA bookbinding workshop with the help of Miquel Hervás Gómez
Binding: by Josefina Contin Zapatawith the help of Dun Lee and the TXT department
ISBN: 978-90-823550-7-9
2025
the sketch, its realisation & her lovers
the sketch, its realisation & her lovers
Each artwork goes through three phases: the idea, its execution and the upkeep. The exhibition the sketch, its realisation & her lovers (2024, Drawing Centre Diepenheim) focuses on exactly this. In a group exhibition featuring 12 artists, guest curator Caz Egelie explores the sketch as a starting point of something that will have consequences stretching into an unknown future.
Text & Concept: Caz Egelie
Contributions by Smári Róbertsson, Eloy Cruz del Prado, Maya Berkhof, Nina Glockner, Hannah Konings, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, G.C. Heemskerk, Eleni Kamma, Bart Lunenburg, Hee Sub Han, Martina Laruffa, Tenant of Culture
Language: Dutch, English
Graphic design: Mika Schalks, Noa Zuidervaart
Editor: Nina Glockner, Noa Zuidervaart & Noortje Rap
Publisher: Drawing Centre Diepenheim & n.k.g. publications
Edition: 75 copies
Pages: 3 Caterns
Supported by Drawing Centre Diepenheim
ISBN: 9789082355093
2023
Bitterswiet: A Tiny Mulder Inquiry in Word and Voice
'Bitterswiet: A Tiny Mulder Inquiry in Word and Voice'
by Liza Prins
Bitterswiet is an anthology of essays, poems, and other materials that investigate (the Frisian) language as a tool for resistance. It journeys through the work and life of Frisian poet Tiny Mulder, Anne Carson's theoretical work, and the history and phonetics of the Frisian language. In doing so, it explores the affective qualities of spoken language in general, and of Frisian in particular, to discover how we may build a borderless, love-filled assertion of an other world. The book is written in English and Frisian, holds contributions by Eduard Knotter and Alina Lupu, is published by n.k.g. publications, and is designed by Toni Brell.
Text & Concept: Liza Prins, contributions by Eduard Knotter and Alina Lupu
Language: English and Frisian
Graphic design: Toni Brell
Proofreading:
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
Printer: Drukkerij Raddraaier SSP
Edition: copies
Pages:
Supported by Kunsthuis SYB, Mondriaan Fund, Feitsma Fonds
2023
There Is No Better Me
Photographs: Ayako Nishibori, Nina Glockner & Sachi Miyachi
Text: Lila Athanasiadou, Nina Glockner, Sachi Miyachi
Drawings: Sachi Miyachi
Graphic design: Karoline Swiezynski
Proofreading & Translation: Livia Spies, Esther Frank
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
Edition: 250 copies
Pages: 40
Supported by Mondriaan Fund, Stichting Beautiful Distress, Fukuroda Psychiatric Hospital Japan, Stichting Het Vijfde Seizoen
2022
Practising Structures: India
–Sachi Miyachi
Practising Structures: India
by Sachi Miyachi
"This book is the result of my first visit to Kolkata, India, from January to February 2020. [...]
Drawing became a daily practise for me in Kolkata. I bought a bunch of drawing paper and coloured pencils at an art supply shop. I kept the paper vertical and drew a basic framing line on every sheet as a way of beginning. [...] ‘Have you ever thought of being a barber who works in the open air under a huge bodhi-tree?’ ‘Have you ever thought about using bamboo sticks to climb up high walls?’ ‘Have you ever coloured an elephant green?’ I was drawing a roof so as to build it on the paper, so as to simulate seeing it above my head. I was drawing
a landscape so as to walk along the little path with my imagination. Drawing could be a series of imaginary attempts to simulate certain perceptible experiences. In this way, suitable for my introverted nature, I found a daily exercise for diving into an everchanging structure." (Sachi Miyachi, excerpt from introduction)
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Drawings, photographs, text: Sachi Miyachi
Text editing: Sachi Miyachi, Nicola Kirkaldy, Nina Glockner
Graphic design: Akiko Wakabayashi
Lithography: Marc Gijzen
Printer: Wilco Art Books
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
Edition: 500 copies
Pages: 80
Paper: Arenaa Extra White Rough 140 gsm, Rainbow Yellow-1680 gsm, 120 gsm
Hard Cover: Napura Khepera NAK1020 pink 120gsm, embossed
Supported by Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds/Tijl Fonds, Mondriaan Fonds
2022
Portrait of a Collective Body
–Nina Glockner
'Portrait of a Collective Body – Juri, Fabian, Sarah, Levi, Anand, Christian'
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Concept: Nina Glockner
Editing: Nina Glockner, Ayumi Higuchi
Translation: Levi de Kleer, Nina Glockner
Graphic design: Ayumi Higuchi
Proofreading: Phil Baber
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
Edition: 400 copies
Pages: 112
Printer: Drukkerij Raddraaier SSP Amsterdam
Paper: Munken Lynx 120 grs
Soft Cover: Rives Design Bright white 250 grs.
Supported by Tijl Fonds, Video Power Maastricht, Mondriaan Fonds, Fonds Kwadraat, Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht
2021
Stretchy Containers
–Nina Glockner, Natasha Rosling, Sachi Miyachi
'Stretchy Containers –
Artists on Chewing, Feeding and Letting Go'
is based on the project 'It Happens Anyway' in Summer 2019 at W139 Amsterdam, which looked to ‘cultivate the conditions for our own artistic maintenance as a shared public act in consideration of the bodily existence and life, the things we can and can’t control, within a web of human and non-human interactions’.
This publication has become an artist-made toolkit –including recipes, conversations, movement instructions– that acts not only as documentation but rather as a reinterpretation of space, events and processes into another kind of activating score.
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Concept & Edit: Sachi Miyachi, Nina Glockner and Natasha Rosling
Graphic design: Karoline Świeżyński
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
Edition: 250
Pages: 140
Supported by AFK Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Stichting Stokroos, W139
2020
Scores & Structures
–Andrea Canepa, Nina Glockner, Dasha Tsapenko
This publication (edition of 5) is both a working tool and printed outcome of the ongoing collaborative research project 'Scores & Structures–From Mind to Map to Muscle' by artist Andrea Canepa, architect/artist Dasha Tsapenko and myself.
The project was initiated during our shared working period at Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht (2018-2019) and deals with the exploration of scores and their embodiment. By looking at methodologies and material from architecture and urbanism as well as performance, somatic (body) practices and visual arts we research scores as design gestures that affect our actions, behaviours, and conceptual frameworks.
The publication corresponds to the growing online collection of scores see here.
Publication & Collaborative research
by Andrea Canepa, Nina Glockner, and Dasha Tsapenko
Supported by Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2020
Building as Opera
–Nina Glockner
This publication has been launched for the occasion of the performance 'Building as Opera', including the essay ‘A Speaking Building’ by art historian Matisse Huiskens and designed by Koen Slothouber.
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Concept & Edit: Justina Nekrašaitė and Nina Glockner
Graphic design: Koen Slothouber
Essay: Matisse Huiskens
Text and Image: Nina Glockner
Photography: Werner Mantz Lab, Justina Nekrašaitė
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
Supported by Stichting Old School, Gemeente Amsterdam Zuid, Stichting Stokroos
2019
Collective Voice Detector
–Nina Glockner
Commission
Concept: Nina Glockner
Design: Nina Glockner & Ayumi Higuchi
Production: Nina Glockner, Ayumi Higuchi, Snijlab.nl, Brown Cartonnages, Agia Grafische Afwerking;
Thanks to Rebekka Straetmans, Tim van Wanrooij & Tima van der Linden, Gemeente Maastricht, Van Eyck Academie Maastricht.
Images: Werner Mantz Lab
2018
Record of a Space
–Nina Glockner
Site-specific installation and 1.004 pages tabloid size book, printed in inkjet as 1:1 depiction of the studio space
'Open Studios' at Van Eyck Academy Maastricht, unique copy.
Site-specific installation and 1.004 pages tabloid size book, printed in inkjet as 1:1 depiction of the studio space
'Open Studios', Van Eyck Academy Maastricht, NL
Design advice by Ayumi Higuchi
2017
Stralen & Reflecteren
Catalogue for the exhibition 'Stralen & Reflecteren' | 'Shine & Reflect'
Text: Juliette Huygen, Anna Sokha, Boris De Beijer, Dovilė Bernadišiūtė, Liesbet Bussche, Benedikt Fischer, Mio Fujimaki, Nina Glockner, Jing He, Morgane de Klerk, Lucy Sarneel, Julia Walter, Eline Willemarck, Ward Schrijver, Shailoh Phillips
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Concept & organisation: Morgane de Klerk
Graphic design: Akiko Wakabayashi
Proofreading: Rachel Sato-Banks
Publisher: n.k.g. publications
2016
Choreographed by the Other
–Nina Glockner
Publication based on Artist-in-Residence period at Het Vijfde Seizoen, psychiatric institution Willem Arntsz Hoeve in Den Dolder NL
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Text: Nina Glockner
Graphic Design: Ayumi Higuchi
Proofreading: Marianna Maruyama
Language: English
Print: Drukkerij Raddraaier b.v.
Edition: 300
Published by
n.k.g. publications & Stichting Kunstenaarsverblijf Het Vijfde Seizoen
ISBN:978-90-822437-4-1
2015
Uchinokoto -
House
Family
Inside
I
The Japanese word ‘Uchi’ means house, family, inside and I. The follow-up word ‘nokoto’ means about.
By using Uchinokoto as a title and as a concept, this project was created in Tokyo and Amsterdam, between July 2014 and January 2015. Uchinokoto has been realised by eight artists and a designer, all living and working in the Netherlands, from different backgrounds and working with different media, with Japan as their common thread.
This publication aims to bring all fragments of this journey together, to preserve activities, experiences and their translations into artistic articulations.
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Publication / research
'Uchinokoto',
Tokyo JP / Amsterdam NL
Graphic Design: Ayumi Higuchi
Edit: Ayumi Higuchi, Nina Glockner, Sachi Miyachi
Translation: Karin Kuwahara and all participating artists
Proofreading: Rachel Sato-Banks, Natasha Rosling
Published by: n.k.g. publications
