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Welcome to the Lost & Found archive, featuring photographs and reports from our evenings as well as information about the participating artists. The artists’ websites are published here so they can be contacted directly. All flyers have been photographed; their materiality is visible, with corners, folds, and relief retaining their tactile quality on screen.This site takes the form of a growth model and behaves as a work in its own right: it is always, and never, finished. The site functions as an archive and is not updated regularly; if you wish for a change or update, you may submit a request.

Since 1997, over 200 sessions of stray images and sound have been organised. Artists, writers, scientists and musicians present work in progress, experiment or present work that doesn't fit into their oeuvre (yet). A specific and unique stage for diverse and hybrid works which don't fit comfortably into galleries or museums.

Past events / Contributors

David Bernstein

visual artist (USA)

Karlheinz Stockhausen might steal your yogurt
The most recent Lost & Found evening was organized around an exquisite dinner in an old weapons factory now turned into an experimental canning factory in Zaandam, 45 minutes away from Amsterdam by bike. I can say in short that it was a magical, delicious, funny, bizarre, and beautiful night.

I’ve never written a review before, so this is an exciting and interesting challenge. Do I make it autobiographical and tell you stories of my inner thoughts? Do I approach it as a documentarian to tell you a detailed description of what happened? Do I become a strict critical critic who reveals the underlying structural issues like how there were only two people present that were not white, and one of them was working in the kitchen? Or do I play a bit and create some juicy fictions so you don’t know what to believe? I am an artist after all.

Written for L&F Conserven Maatschappij (02–10–2015)

Hand drawing and poems
2012, poetry, 5 min

Shown at L&F Theatrum Anatomicum (07–12–2012)