Roland Barthes
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Punctum in MoMa New York
Musea bezoeken is niet altijd even eenvoudig. Sterker nog, het is een kunst op zich. Hoe ga je om met al die kunst om je heen, de naambordjes, de stroom van informatie, de vele mensen om je heen die van zaal naar zaal slenteren? Hoe kies je wat je wilt zien, wat is je doel?
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Alternative Opening Speech – Exposition Venus 1658 @VanAbbemuseum
Yesterday I attended the opening of an exposition in a museum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands: people, speeches, and ‘art’. As speeches can be the most difficult things to endure, especially when they seem to promote or discuss something irrelevant, here is my alternative opening speech. Dear friends, family, photographers, teachers, and everyone else, Welcome to Venus…
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NaNoWriMo 2013
So, I’ve decided to use this online-offline community of writers as a mechanism to start producing this play I’ve been developing over the last year. After some interesting breakthroughs during the rehearsal process of the play I’ve been involved in as an actress (The Lady from Dubuque by Edward Albee, performed at Vrijdagtheater, Nijmegen), it’s…
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Consequence of Writing in English
I often wonder which language I should use. I used to be obsessed by the English language, trying to learn it as fast and as good as I could. Until I realised that whatever I would do, I would never be considered a native speaker, even when my command of that language would be well-above…
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After Barthes
Yesterday I visited the exposition on ‘The Big Change’, on Russian Art 1895-1917. As you might know by now, I’m obsessed by the idea of ‘change’ (well, it’s the topic of my PhD, so I’m rightfully obsessed by it) and as I am very fond of everything Russian ever since the great documentary-travel-televisionseries by Jelle…