Grief and the City Vending objects for mourning in Der Trauerautomat
Zurich-based designer and educator Lea Hofer wants us to rethink the process of mourning, and how to incorporate it into contemporary urban spaces and public discourse. To do so, she turned an old vending machine into a dispenser for unconventional objects of grief – and placed it within the largest burial grounds in the city.
Loving the Earth Being posthuman in the Ecosexual Bathhouse
How is the relationship between human and nature defined through an installation which encourages its visitors to sexually stimulate a flower? How are these intimate acts troubled by questions of consent and hierarchy? Flora Woudstra examines this performance art piece by Pony Express as a strategy for achieving a state of posthumanity, questioning the very barriers it claims to overcome.
Thinking Through Things Cultural Analysis students on exhibiting creative research
This feature is part of the series ‘Research/Practice’, which explores the intersection of academic research and/as creative practice. See and find out more about the artworks exhibited by clicking on each artist’s name, or scroll down to the list of works below. How can analysis take shape? The many different artefacts collected in the exhibition…
PODCAST: Trigger Warnings Handling sensitive content in the classroom
What place do trigger warnings have in the classroom? How should sensitive content be handled by professors? And what conflicts and opportunities arise from such discussions of trauma, diversity and censorship? Cultural Analysis students address these questions in depth, interviewing classmates and faculty members from the University of Amsterdam and beyond. By critically assessing trigger…
Call for Papers: “Practices of Listening” Soapbox's first print issue calls for critical approaches to listening
The deadline for this call for papers has now passed. 1.1 Practices of Listening will be published on January 24. For the first issue of Soapbox , a graduate journal for cultural analysis, we invite submissions that explore listening as a critical practice. With this topic, we aim to bring together accounts of listening as…