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For Hi, Jack! Publishing’s project at Dappermarkt, which took place over 4 days in the summer of this year, the collective focused on gleaning; collecting what is left behind or overlooked, as both a method and a lens on contemporary economies, where re-use, precarity, and informal circulation increasingly shape everyday life. During the market, they produced a zine on site using discarded materials such as packaging, food remnants, and found images, alongside drawings and contributions from visitors, turning the publication into a collective portrait of the market.

Central to this process are the pigeons and seagulls that inhabit the Dappermarkt, understood as non-human co-producers and expert gleaners whose survival depends on the market’s rhythms of excess and waste; their presence highlights an overlooked multispecies economy in which human trade continuously generates the conditions for other forms of life and labour. By drawing attention to these birds and their role in redistributing what is left behind, the project connects ecological and economic systems, suggesting that gleaning is not only a marginal activity but a fundamental, shared practice across species.

Hi, Jack! Publishing is a publishing platform based in the Netherlands, founded in 2025, consisting of five artists from Amsterdam and The Hague: Bernice Nauta, G.C. Heemskerk, Kim David Bots, Shani Leseman, and David Kloosterboer. Within Hi, Jack!, methods such as bootlegging, hijacking, sampling, copying, restaging, and retelling are employed to create eclectic publications in small print runs.

📷 Sophia Jiaqi Xu