The Remote Archivist #7 is convened by curator and educator Katia Krupennikova in collaboration with artists-researchers in their second year of the HKU Master of Arts: Fleur Carlier, Hannah Fleishman, Aisha Halima Hachem, Sohrab Kashani, Changli Luo, Mirella Moschella, Chen Ran, Zoë Sluijs, Mark Torochkin, Isabel Veganzones Belmonte, Janneke Venema, Wang Xue Sophia, and Xiang Dong Li.

The Remote Archivist #7 is devoted to the archives of de Appel Curatorial Programme, celebrating its 30 years anniversary. Together with second year students at the Masters Program of HKU University of Arts Utrecht, our alumna Katia Krupennikova (2011/12) delved into the projects initiated and developed by the Curatorial Programme. She asked young artists-researchers to look for ideas, hints, senses, practices, images, texts, and other textures from the past that inspire them today.

Filled with artist talks, discussions, poetry readings, and performances, the evening will be devoted to archives and archiving, featuring and reflecting selected traces of de Appel Curatorial Programme. Participating in the programme will be Fleur Carlier, Nell Donkers, Hannah Fleishman, Lara Khaldi, Sohrab Kashani, Katia Krupennikova, Changli Luo, Chen Ran, Zoë Sluijs, Isabel Veganzones Belmonte, Wang Xue Sophia, and others.

Ongoing - Gathering Fragments by Zoë Sluijs
With the use of an overhead projector, Zoë Sluijs invites a collective archiving of the evening, shaping and shifting different sensibilities in and out of the frame.

Ongoing - Performing Sazmanab by Sohrab Kashani
A quiet intervention by Sohrab Kashani within de Appel’s library, where a slideshow of bookshelves from his now-closed art space in Tehran is projected onto the library shelves, layering one archive onto another and tracing what remains, what is lost, and what resists disappearance.

5-5.30pm: Word of welcome by Lara Khaldi, Nell Donkers, and Katia Krupennikova

5.30-6pm: Archive of the Mundane, artist talk by Hannah Fleishman
Artist talk reflecting on Hannah Fleishman’s approach to archiving the mundane in her own practice. Words and stories become the archived material in Fleishman’s work. They act as found objects, as gathered matter but also as containers within themselves. The artist talk will be concluded with a reading of the poem Essex by Matt Mullican, found in the archive of de Appel Curatorial Programme (through Master Humphrey's Clock, 2007–2008).

6-7pm: Embodied Archive, conversation with Lara Khalidi, Sohrab Kashani, and Denisse Vega de Santiago
A conversation between Lara Khaldi, Sohrab Kashani, and Denisse Vega de Santiago (Biquini Wax) reflecting on embodied forms of archiving and the emotional residue left in and around institutions. Revisiting the 2014 exhibition Father Can’t You See I’m Burning? (de Appel Curatorial Programme, 2013–2014), co-curated by Khaldi during her time in de Appel’s Curatorial Programme, the discussion moves across time and geography, from de Appel to contemporary practices in Mexico City and Tehran. Together, the speakers explore how memory, care, and absence are held, echoed, or transformed through engagements with space, institutions, and personal histories. Moderated by Denisse Vega de Santiago.

7.15-7.45pm: Missing Archive - A Critical Fabulation, performance by Chen Ran, Wang Xue Sophia, Changli Luo, and Isabel Veganzones Belmonte
A performance inspired by the archive of Crap Shoot (de Appel Curatorial Programme, 1995–1996). Through revisiting this archive and institutional frameworks from de Appel to contemporary echoes elsewhere, the work becomes a form of critical fabulation — where contemporary bodies encounter, dig into, reanimate, and reflect on archival traces. It questions the archive’s authority, opening space for care, friction, and the affective traces that remain beyond the record.

7.50-8.30pm: Filling in the Gaps, conversation with Defne Ayas (online), Fleur Carlier, and Katia Krupennikova
With Mercury in Retrograde (de Appel Curatorial Programme, 2005–2006) as the entry point, one of the exhibition’s curators, Defne Ayas, will be in conversation with Fleur Carlier and Katia Krupennikova about bringing forgotten histories back to life, gaps in archives, and ways of crossing them.