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Becoming the Monster: Mapping Berlin as Transcultural Playground
We begin our mapping of Berlin not as cartographers of spacetime, but as detectives of lost gestures—seeking subtle residues of movement, memory, and spiritual form embedded in the city’s surfaces. This is not a project of documentation, but of attunement. We are tracing a lineage of embodied knowledge that stretches from Javanese court dance to contemporary performance, from carved stone to whispered steps. Berlin, to us, is not a constructed city, but a palimpsest of attitu

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6 days ago2 min read


Atlas of Displaced Legends; Forty color-coded photographs, one scripted line between structure and event
For our final Open Day at Hangar, we wanted to share a collection of forty color-coded photographs. With no dedicated exhibition space available, we decided to transform the limitations into an opportunity—creating a leporello in collaboration with XYZ Books
(also known as concertina or accordion fold).

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
Jun 212 min read


Activating the Living Atlas by Motion
Nabuurs&VanDoorn return to Lisbon with a kinetic activation of Minor Modes of Multiple Muted Memories, where color-coded protocols unfold through movement across the city’s overlooked topographies. Interpreted by breakdancer Timo Paris, these gestures transform public space into a living atlas—part score, part spell, part site-specific choreography.

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
May 242 min read


From Fugitive Margins to Methods of Resistance; On Art, Memory, and the Politics of Presence
From Fugitive Margins to Methods of Resistance: Yellow posters in Lisbon echo our 2007 Basel street actions—DIY maps, performances, and refusals that shaped our ongoing politics of presence in art.

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
May 182 min read


Fucked-Up Art
Explore the world of Fucked-Up Attitudes, where Fucked Up Objects challenge norms and provoke thought in artistic spaces.

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
May 182 min read


The Living Atlas: Mapping Memory, Movement, and the City Beneath the Grid
Currently nomadic, we explore how movement, memory, and public space entangle—through mapping and storytelling in Lisbon. A blackout reminded us of our digital dependence. We return to paper, walking, marking, tracing lived experience. What we map is not place but perception. A line through Lisbon becomes a Living Atlas—forty points, two questions, many echoes. A quiet rupture becomes an invitation to grow new eyes.

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
Apr 302 min read


Archival Echoes
Spontaneously we joined a workshop with Nkisi at the top floor of our residency at Hangar Lisbon. The workshop is part of ‘On the Wolf’s Trail’ a Research Program curated by Margarida Mendes. Nkisi merges music, performance and research in ancient musical technologies and invites participants to dance with the invisible to activate embodied forms of revolution and resistance for the unmaking and making of worlds.

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
Apr 252 min read


Mapping Minor Modes of Multiple Muted Memories (part 1)
Landed in Lisbon. Nabuurs&VanDoorn Displaced Legend 17 Lisbon , Archival Print Hangar—our dropzone, an art-research nerve center,...

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
Apr 122 min read


Re-coding the Comatorium
Opening the 28th of March at 14H30 in exhibition space KATE at Nieuw en Meer Amsterdam, Re-coding the Comatorium suggests an active process

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
Feb 203 min read


Merch as Art
What exactly is it that makes merch so damned attractive?

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
Feb 152 min read


Vessel to Vessel (part 2) Curling City Cuts
Explore the enigmatic world of 'Vessel to vessel” Amsterdam in this thought-provoking blog. Dive into Nabuurs&VanDoorn’s legend and uncover

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
Feb 132 min read


Nabuurs&VanDoorn Go Between Dimensions at De Appel Archive
If the destiny of Art lies in absence and in nothingness, their disclosure promises the maximum of intensity.

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
Jan 302 min read


Vessel to Vessel: City Bound
Already a full month at work in Amsterdam and our destiny is not yet in sight. The line we drew to Tjoba's docking station slowly guides us

Nabuurs&VanDoorn
Jan 302 min read


Nabuurs&VanDoorn started as artists in residence at Nieuw en Meer in Amsterdam
Because residents, out of protest, attacked the mural with paint bombs, the pussy of the female nude was censored with “pubic” blocks.

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Jan 202 min read
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