Open Book: Breath & Breeze

During the Framer Framed Book Fair, HumDrumPress hosts an Open Book, a public event which authors share, in a performative yet accessible manner, the knowledge they have gathered on their publication. Participants are then able to access, interact, add to, comment and critique, and feel invited into the collaborative publication process.

For this Open Book, artist Mirjam Linschooten and researcher Skye Maule-O’Brien share their upcoming publication, Breath & Breeze: Tongueless Whispers of the Wind. This project looks at the wind, wind technology, and the Dutch colonial footprint in Barbados and Curaçao. Visitors of the book fair are invited to critically question the historical and cultural significance of wind in the Netherlands and the Caribbean. What can the wind expose about historical power relations and ongoing colonial structures?

Places are limited so please register for the Open Book here.

About

Mirjam Linschooten is a Dutch visual artist based in Amsterdam. Her multidisciplinary practice spans publication, film, installation, photography, collage, and writing. Often working collaboratively, she explores the visible and hidden legacies of colonial histories. By questioning how memory and history are shaped, her work offers alternative viewpoints, counter-narratives, and space for critical reflection. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including CBK Zuidoost (Amsterdam), Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Leiden), De Appel (Amsterdam), Stroom Den Haag, Cemeti Institute for Art and Society (Yogyakarta), and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto). She holds an MA from the Dutch Art Institute and a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

Skye Maule-O’Brien is an educator and artistic researcher working between Montreal, Barbados, and Rotterdam. Her collaborative practice combines theory, narrative, and sensory methods using the framework of intimate pedagogy; a theory and method she developed that centers intimacy and vulnerability in transformative knowledge production. She holds a PhD in Education from York University (Toronto) with an exchange at the University of the West Indies (Barbados), a Master’s in Educational Studies and a BFA in Art History with a minor in Adult Education from Concordia University (Montreal).She is a principal lecturer in the Theory Programme at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

HumDrum Press is a publishing project that experiments towards publishing as a commons. With homes in Rotterdam and Berlin, HumDrum produces collaboration-focused publications, hosts public gathering, and maintains a based publishing model.