13 Jul 2025 Rhythmic Publications: Floating Ink Printing And Binding Linda Zeb Hang 13:00 – 15:00
Learn the flow of Suminagashi, or the art of Japanese water marbling, which in this workshop is a large-scale collaborative printmaking process. Participants will be guided through the steps of using natural brushes to create floating ink designs on water with accordion wind fans to manipulate the surface. They will then transfer the design onto paper by hand pulling each unique print. Participants will be using 6 colors of inks to create the designs in a water vat installed at W139, and make up to 4 small and 4 medium sized prints. Prints will be bound into a booklet during the following workshop, folded into signatures and bound by hand using needle and thread.
Linda Zeb Hang is a queer Hmong-American, Rotterdam-based artist best known for their conceptual artist’s books, hypnagogic book design, sculptural installations, fine art printmaking and experimental video art. Their content of scanning voices cross-sections the invisible density, flavor profiles, and omniscient presence of the woven, yet frayed environment. They consider innovative organizing to be objective oxygen, interacting with media to animate the duality and ‘non-duality’ of space. They shape sound and material cultures through technical experimentation, working spontaneously, collecting and generating information to arrive at a knotty mixed-media synthesis. Flexibility, instinct and intuition are their chosen guides. Their tools are digital, machine age and ‘primitive.’
— About W139 W139 is a leading production and presentation space for contemporary art in the centre of Amsterdam that has been paving the way for experimentation and new modes of autonomy, self-organisation, and collectivity within the arts for 44 years.
Since its founding in 1979—when the monumental building was squatted by a collective of artists—W139 has remained embedded in an engaged and intergenerational community of makers. As an artist-driven organisation, W139 puts experimentation at the forefront—providing space for artists to take risks. —
