Experimental – Soapbox

AUDITORY FRAGMENTS FROM THE MULTITUDE (a series) reframing the narrative around italian youth emigration (part three)

Creative WritingSilvia VariNovember 11, 2020

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)

Creative WritingSilvia VariNovember 4, 2020

AUDITORY FRAGMENTS FROM THE MULTITUDE (a series) reframing the narrative around italian youth emigration (part one)

Creative WritingSilvia VariOctober 28, 2020

The Queue

ExperimentalPip WeytinghMarch 30, 2020

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…

Letter from the post-human: the fringe benefits of contamination?

ExperimentalSilvia VariMarch 5, 20201

Dear Host, Sometimes it is so good to remember. In fact, these days I am constantly reminded of a famous scene that gave us, the micro of this world, legitimate visibility in tv and media. Have you ever seen Walt Disney’s The Sword in the Stone? Well, if you haven’t, there’s this scene in which…

Wasted Vanity A Photo-Series Exploring the Meaning of "Vanitas" in Late Modernity

ExperimentalIeva Gudaityte, Giulia MorlandoFebruary 24, 2020

The fragile beauty of decaying life, nourished death, synthesized nature. In the day and age of omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience of consumption, where have we put memento mori, the reminder of our – and of others – mortality and limitations?

DIS HARMONY

ExperimentalSoapboxOctober 17, 2019

“Dis Harmony is a fictional character, the contra alter ego of Harmony, a sex doll driven by an app that allows the user to create a virtual girlfriend sold on realbotix.com. Harmony is the cruel promise of a girlfriend who will never cheat on you. Well, we found ways to hack the software. Dis Harmony fucks Harmony but…

Anxious Altars Material renderings of mental space

ExperimentalIsobel MillerJune 14, 2019

How do our material work spaces embody or inspire our mental space? How are these spaces entangled with the emotional labour of writing? While writing my thesis project, which focuses on rethinking affective engagements with anxiety, I have been inspired by feminist accounts of emotion. Theorists such as Kathleen Woodward and Ann Cvetkovich write against…

Low-Resolutions Alternative self-improvements for 2019

ExperimentalJustine Gensse and Anouk HoogendoornDecember 31, 2018

To welcome in the new year, Justine Gensse and Anouk Hoogendoorn offer an alternative to the self-improvement narratives of New Year’s resolutions. Collected from students of ‘Gender, Bodies and the Posthuman’ at the University of Amsterdam, these ‘Low-resolutions’ form part of the exhibition W_show, which features work in progress from the University’s Master of Artistic Research.

Yours Affectively – Pt.1 An epistolary exchange

ExperimentalCultural Analysis studentsNovember 28, 2018

What is affect? In this epistolary exchange, which originated as an exploratory and collaborative research project for a tutorial, a group of students share thoughts organised in part by this question, by thinking through and with different approaches to the concept of affect.