From Weegee’s crime scenes to Debord’s dérives, Zorn’s rule-based improvisation, and Nabuurs&VanDoorn’s performative mapping, there is a continuous fascination with the city as a site of unpredictability, improvisation, and layered narratives. In all these works, “grasping” the city in its entirety is impossible; the point is to navigate, respond, and engage with what emerges—turning maps, images, and scores into living, evolving experiences.

A manifesto of future art forms: off-center, subversive, unfinished. We build yes-spaces, echo communities, and celebrate art as alive.

In Memories Between Edges, presented at The Noise in NL=US Gallery, Nabuurs&VanDoorn transform erased travel maps into poetic portals that explore memory, place, and attention as quiet forms of resistance in a world overwhelmed by noise.

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.

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.

Landed in Lisbon. Nabuurs&VanDoorn Displaced Legend 17 Lisbon , Archival Print Hangar—our dropzone, an art-research nerve center, opposite the gaze-point of Graça, where the city spills down to the Tejo like braised cod. Start here, summon inner ghosts, snatch outer visions—chromatic pulses, stray verses, floaty fragments of unsure futures. We descend >Northbound< twisting steep bends, spiraling staircases like thought-loops. First break point: an old tile factory, legacy-lac

Sneak peek into Nabuurs&VanDoorn’s mind-bending exhibition at Rotterdam gallery NL=US.