Last week my new OffCourse Unfixed: Stories of Identity started. ‘OffCourses’ are Academy Minerva’s electives in which professionals are invited to spend a semester sharing their knowledge and expertise with second and third-year bachelor students. With their class, they conduct (artistic) research in all kinds of areas… Read more
On 19 November 2015, MAMA, a Rotterdam-based public gallery, released its new publication A Way of Learning. Growing in Cultural Institutions, including my article C’est toi que as changé. Moderated a panel conversation during the book launch with interesting guests who contributed to the publication:… Read more
C’est toi qui as changé – 6 – Can we break down hierarchies between artist, curator, art space and public? Watching, listening, thinking, responding, analyzing are as important as making and presenting; one is not more democratic or more meaningful than the other. In the… Read more
C’est toi qui as changé – 5 – Being a learner, a student, a beginner, is a great place to be. Artists are exceptionally good at it. For example, Dutch artist Hedwig Houben, who currently lives and works in Brussels, analyzes her own process and… Read more
C’est toi qui as change – 4 – In the last post was written that according to Jacques Rancière, the artist should be more like the ignorant schoolmaster who “does not teach his pupils his knowledge, but orders them to venture into the forest of… Read more
C’est toi qui as changé – 3 – Imagine that we meet in an art space exploring a work of art; we can talk about the meaning that the artist gives us and the meaning that we, the viewers–or spectators–want to take. Some people say… Read more
C’est toi qui as changé – 2 – Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt (1965) was a performance piece by Joseph Beuys. For three hours, Beuys moved through a gallery space with the door closed to the audience. He held the carcass of a hare… Read more
C’est toi qui as changé – 1 – Every now and then, this photographic work by artist Gerald van der Kaap comes to mind while writing an article or thinking about a lecture. Sometimes functioning as a point of departure, the work is a preliminary visualization… Read more