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fanfare has been busy locking, unlocking and breaking locks for the second edition of Broken Channels. This annual three-day research programme questions our dependence on smooth communication and transmission through various experimental presentation formats, including a game, a walk, a trip, a balancing intervention, and a sound archive.

La Cuarta Piel presents a site-specific intervention that balances the experience between time and security.

A game of collaborative storytelling, power struggles, and imagining different drafts of the world we currently live in. Designed by Tom K Kemp, in conversation with fanfare, the game draws on his investigations into conversational game mechanics and our research into chokepoints and blockages and the problems these phenomena pose to the frictionless circulation of resources and people. The game will be followed by dinner starting at 19.30.

La Cuarta Piel presents a site-specific intervention that balances the experience between time and security.

A typography and architectural tour through Woonwerkpand Tetterode, once home to the Lettergieterij Amsterdam, a former type foundry housing fanfare’s studio, subsequently squatted in the 1980s and since then self-managed by a community of artists. Alongside Elias and Lucas from Studio HanLi, fanfare has crafted and digitised “HAL Lettergieterij Amsterdam”, a type that revives the "Columbia" typeface by Walter H. McKay, No digital version has existed until now. In the tour, the building's inhabitants and managers, Ruud and Rens, as well as Studio HanLi, connect Tetterode’s former use as a type foundry and its current status as a self-managed space. The walking tour will be followed by dinner starting at 21.00.

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Open the door: a bed of salt forms. Let the river overflow. Cross the port, we’re heading to the world’s largest lock. Don´t trust, verify. Weights and measurements for safe transactions. Ticking the clock, trapped in the lock. The tide rises, the wall falls. Saltier land, sweeter potatoes. Mountains, mountains, mountains: fuel, coal, cocoa, coffee, coal, coffee, cocoa, fuel, coal, fuel. Bingo.

La Cuarta Piel presents a site-specific intervention that balances the experience between time and security.