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.
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.
Stefan Govaart’s experimental piece sets up an esoteric dialogue between the Oxford English Dictionary and his own take on keywords related to performance. His elaborate lists answer his personal search results with imperatives, creating a utopian manual for performers.
