Delinking and Relinking Publication

2024
Polyvocal, Accessible, Playful, and for All Senses – Amplifying Voices of Hidden Stories and Relations behind the Surface of Art.

Touch, feel, see, hear, and smell—an extensive multi-sensory Collection Display exhibition at Van Abbemuseum. Experience art differently through all senses. Designed with special care for accessibility and inclusivity, the description and navigation system deploys more than 130 braille labels, 25 performative design tokens, 30 touch & smell replicas, and 5 special polyvocal tours—from queer, busy, constituent-friendly, to decolonial perspectives.

  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: contents page, white lines trace hidden stories over purple, yellow and pink bands
  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: 'The Tower' chapter faces a purple page, white lines and grids trace hidden stories
  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: 'A Relational House' text faces a grey page, white lines loop like hidden relations
  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: olive cover 'Dwarsverbanden', pale blobs and contours map a multi-sensory display
  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: olive spread maps artists' names among pale blobs, lines trace hidden relations
  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: 'Fundament' spread, white blobs and contours on grey-blue, hidden names surface
  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: lilac map, pale blobs and white grids hold artists' names, relations surfacing
  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: 'Love Letters' essay faces a grey page of looping white lines, queer perspectives
  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: grey blobs carry tilted ads, 'Queer Desire is Wild', a playful Love Letters spread
  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: three grey blobs tilt their ads, 'Look Mama... Macho!', playful queer Love Letters
  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: 'Imagined Communities' text pages, dashed ring and blob drawn below, hidden stories
  • Delinking and Relinking Publication: 'Imagined Communities' text, white grid and dashed ring cross yellow, hidden stories