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…
Magical Thinking: Towards a Future Worth Living Review: Sonic Acts Conference Day 1
Soapbox Web’s Nina Biddle reviews “Magical Thinking: Towards a Future Worth Living”-Day One of the Sonic Acts Conference
Pause and Play: An Account of Multiplicity Review: Pause and Play, a 1-day exhibition at NEVERNEVERLAND
Soapbox Web’s Cas Bezemer reviews “Pause and Play”, a one-day exhibition held at Amsterdam-based art initiative NEVERNEVERLAND.
Where is Myself? A Reflection on the Spatiality and Disquieting Effects of Daniël Ernst’s Virtual Reality Dioramas
Virtual reality (VR) technology is an increasingly popular way for artists to experiment with storytelling techniques. In this long read, Nicholas Burman discusses the role of space, agency, and the haunting aspects of Daniël Ernst’s three part installation Die Fernweh Oper.
Call for Papers: 2.1 ‘Contamination’ [Extended deadline!] Contribute to the third issue of our research journal
[Extended deadline!] For the third issue of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers to submit abstracts that critically engage with the theme of ‘contamination.’ Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) to [email protected] by February 3. The full papers (3000-5000 words) are due March 2. Originating from the Latin…
Soapbox Issue 1.2 Launch: Off the Grid 7 November, 20:00-22:30, Perdu, Amsterdam
Grids are omnipresent and likewise invisible. They govern our landscapes and cityscapes, our paintings and grocery lists, our maps and our borders, both walled and imaginary. In light of their paradoxical potentialities and limits, as that which supports and restrains us, we asked: is going off grid desirable, or even possible? Celebrating the launch of…
Call for Board Members
Call for Board Members *** Please note that we are no longer looking for new board members or participants for the academic year 2019-2020. If spots do open up we will post about it here and on social media. *** Would you like to be part of a student-run journal that functions as a platform…
Towards an Acoustemology of Time Acquiring and aligning an aural knowledge of flows of time
In this addition to the “Practices of Musicking” series, author Edda Starck explores the creation and acquisition of aural knowledge through listening-oriented practices. How do we come to both hear and think of the passing of time, and how can listening situate us to the rhythms that punctuate and proliferate our daily lives in a way in which we can hear how we and the objects that comprise our aural soundscapes pass through time?