Exploratory Essays
a series of exploratory essays, aiming to connect the dots of my artistic practice and research endeavours#1 Beyond Happy Endings (2019)
#2 A Matter of Time (2020)
#3 Shifting Perspectives (2021)
#4 The Gap (2023)
Poems
OFF THOSE HEIGHTS (2024)
Journalistic Writing for Metropolis M
Interviews:2025.02 | ‘It’s not like it ever ends, capitalism is just another form of slavery’ – in conversation with artist Buhlebezwe Siwani
2024.08 | Wat is natuur en wat betekent dat woord überhaupt? – in gesprek met kunstenaar Vera Mennens
2024.03 | Talking to Sol Archer: I’m curious about what people are curious about
2023.11 | I want to create spaces that encourage personal growth - in conversation with artist Eugenie Boon
2023.07 | Leaving room for silence and hesitation - in conversation with Sanne Kabalt
2022.12 | Understanding ancestral knowledge - talking to Natasha Tontey about her Indigenous roots
2022.11 | ‘I love thinking of water as something that washes away rigid habits’ – a conversation with artist Lucy Cordes Engelman
2022.09 | ‘What is the caring thing to do now?’ – a conversation with artist lucie draai
Reviews:
2022.05 | Spiralling towards a pluriversal world - Aldo E. Ramos at A Tale of a Tub
2022.02 | Lurking beneath the surface - Oscar Murillo at KM21
2021.09 | The Artist's Novel: David Maroto talking to Chris Kraus, Cally Spooner and others at Page Not Found
Printed:
2023.08 | Biën Kamphuis - Dat de wereld zich vreemd voor je maakt, Niekeline der Kinderen - Relating Matters, Rutger de Vos - in de leegte van het zijn (Eindexamens 2023 bijlage of Metropolis M magazine nr. 4 2023 AUG/SEP)
2021.12 | Michael Tedja, Out One Big King, 2002-2012 (Nieuwe Collectie bijlage of Metropolis M magazine nr. 6 2021/2022 DEC/JAN)
Internship:
2021.09 | Roaming the city - Walks/wandelingen #1: The Hague
2021.08 | Natalia Irena Nikoniuk en Bo Wielders - Herhalen zonder Einde, Ryan Lim Zi Yi - Vanuit de Ooghoeken, Leos - Sprekend, bij Gebrek aan Visuele Stimuli, Alice West (Eindexamens 2021 bijlage of Metropolis M magazine nr. 4 2021 AUG/SEP)
2021.07 | Graduation Shows 2021 - KABK The Hague
2021.06 | “You died today.” - meditating on your own disintegrating body with Vibeke Mascini and Babs Bakels
2021.06 | Wespen, waterdamp en zonnebrand - wandelen over het strand met geurkunstenaar Frank Bloem
2021.05 | Learning from non-human agents - visiting Minne Kersten’s Constant Companion at Hotel Maria Kapel
2021.05 | De maker achter de maker - Charly van Rest over goed kijken en luisteren
2021.05 | Thinking in public - A portrait of Shimmer
2021.04 | Where are those stars to shoot for? - in conversation with artist and writer Mayis Rukel
2021.03 | How to become we-beings: A long-term vision for art, cultural workers and the climate crisis at the JVE
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[说话中] Being in Utterance (v.3) (February 2022) - collective writing[说话中] Being in Utterance (v.2) (August 2021) - collective writing
[说话中] Being in Utterance (v.1) (April 2021) - collective writing
This ongoing utterance is written by the members of sssttteeeaaammm in multilogue with each other. It is a body of text in becoming. We wish to develop it further with you, the reader, joining into the multilogue. To do so, please first read and find the instructions at the current end. We are looking forward to experiencing and publishing the developments.
[蒸汽船] Steamboat in the Making, navigating the turbulent world-seas. (2020)
This text is a screenplay for six characters (three artists, two curators, and the steamboat), extracted and adapted by the members of sssttteeeaaammm from the transcript of our artist talk.
Commissions
'Wat is de natuur van de online omgeving?' (2024)article commissioned by Witte Rook about Gabey Tjon a Tham’s online residency at Witte Rook
Hallways: Imaginary passages (2020)
published as part of a special issue on Brutal International Law in the journal New Perspectives
A reflection on the interaction between the inside and outside of the former American Embassy in the Hague (NL). Building on Harmut Rosa's work, the relation between subject and world is being discussed, with the building as subject. The Chapter briefly engages with the reconstruction era and how the embassy building was supposed to represent openness within diplomacy and in the embassy's engagement with the public - a relation that changed over time.
Marcel Breuer - Een monument voor veranderende tijden / A monument for changing times (2019)
commissioned and published by West, The Hague (NL)
This text engages with the history of diplomacy and architecture, wondering what freedom means, around the case of the former American Embassy in the Hague (NL) designed by Bauhaus architect and designer Marcel Breuer.
Witte Rook
witterook.nu (old website)witterook.nl (new website)
ArtScience Master Thesis
P.S. I love you - Or how I learned to love power structures (2018)Humans intrinsically strive for continuity and coherence. Our realities are dynamic as they change as we receive, filter and imagine, to precede cognitive dissonance. The fear of meaningless voids forms the motor for the brain to create linear story-lines from experiences and information.
In this thesis I argue that the created linearity makes it difficult to step out of line and change social structures. Our societies are build upon structures of meaning and an opposition of active and passive roles.