Open position Finance and Funding
Closing date Friday November 27th We are currently looking for another volunteer to join the Soapbox team. We are specifically looking for help with our finances, including fundraising and some accounting. In addition to carrying out the tasks described below, board members meet weekly to discuss all aspects of Soapbox. Being a Soapbox member means…
AUDITORY FRAGMENTS FROM THE MULTITUDE (a series) reframing the narrative around italian youth emigration (part three)
In this series, Silvia Vari explores and reframes narratives about the emigration of Italian youth through the use of auditory fragments. Her “audiobiography” creates a network of different people, individual narratives, homes, feelings and voices, whose intersections and ramifications uncover a “heterogenous multitude”. She argues against the oversimplification of the experience of the young Italian…
AUDITORY FRAGMENTS FROM THE MULTITUDE (a series) reframing the narrative around italian youth emigration (part two)
In this series, Silvia Vari explores and reframes narratives about the emigration of Italian youth through the use of auditory fragments. Her “audiobiography” creates a network of different people, individual narratives, homes, feelings and voices, whose intersections and ramifications uncover a “heterogenous multitude”. She argues against the oversimplification of the experience of the young Italian…
AUDITORY FRAGMENTS FROM THE MULTITUDE (a series) reframing the narrative around italian youth emigration (part one)
In this series, Silvia Vari explores and reframes narratives about the emigration of Italian youth through the use of auditory fragments. Her “audiobiography” creates a network of different people, individual narratives, homes, feelings and voices, whose intersections and ramifications uncover a “heterogenous multitude”. She argues against the oversimplification of the experience of the young Italian…
Why Is Everyone Talking About Biopolitics?
This article interrogates Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the meddling of politics into the biological lives of citizens, and its resurgence during the corona pandemic. She argues that biopower has evolved and has been supplemented by the digital and spread along the channels of capital, rendering the phenomenon more widespread than its conceptual revival in times…
Remixing as Reincarnation Contagious trans*birthing in the work of boychild
Chloe Turner examines how remixing, in a 2013 festival performance by the artist and activist boychild, acts as an agitative, queer design practice for building radical, new collective trans futures.
Quintessentially Queer (series) Quintessentially Queer
Queerness for me, does not limit itself to sexual preference in regards to gender. Queerness for me is more so about understanding the political substantiality of your own sexual identity and the power plays, meanings and structures that can be perpetuated with its expression. Besides writing, I am a performer and curator, thus I try…
Art and Activism (series) Out of the Blue
ART AND ACTIVISM In this series, students from the Graduate School of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) explore the complex overlaps and conversations between art and activism. They seek to illustrate how artistic practices often speak to the urgency of protest and activism, and how activism intertwines with the demands of art. In…
Europe’s Paradoxical Relationship to Human Rights Laid Bare at Greece’s Border
Lynn Gommes discusses the tensions between the discourse of Europe as the ideal of democracy and the inhumane actions taking place at their borders.
Art and Activism (series) The Disappearing Playgrounds of Amsterdam
ART AND ACTIVISM In this series, students from the Graduate School of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) explore the complex overlaps and conversations between art and activism. They seek to illustrate how artistic practices often speak to the urgency of protest and activism, and how activism intertwines with the demands of art. In…