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…
Art and Activism (series) Walking in Art
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…
Art and Activism (series) Activism and Desire: The Affect in and Around Protests
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…
Messy Entanglements Review: "Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media" by Sharon Mattern
Zeno Siemens reviews Shannon Mattern’s “Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media.”
The Queue
Although it is hard to say these days, I have an inkling that it is nearly morning. As if to prove my point, I see others around me rubbing their eyes, seemingly waking up as well. To relax my hunched shoulders, I lean with my body over my cart and yawn extravagantly, whilst making sure…
Sonic Acts Revisited A Modal Play of Audio-Visual
Soapbox Web’s Cas Bezemer reviews “Kistvaen”, an AV-art performance by Roly Porter and MFO (Marcel Weber) that was featured as a part of the 2020 Sonic Acts Academy.
gardening tools for my balcony
At first glance, Jordi de Vetten’s photographs lull you into comfortable familiarity, with images of the everyday that signal towards a mundaneness of suburbia. You think you know exactly what you see: a garage door, traffic lights, a tree. But each image documents slippage, the not-quite-right and the disruptive, enclosing a narrative that the…