As a researcher I am interested in the active role of art, performance art in particular, within our current globalized, social, political and cultural context.
In the magazine: Desipientia (December 2014). This article focuses on Regina José Galindo’s iconic performance ¿Quién Puede Borrar las Huellas? (Who Can Erase the Traces? 2003) and explores the use of the body to represent the victims of past and present violence in Guatemala. Regina José Galindo’s work challenges forgetting and indifference by making visible the thousands of […]
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Co-author and editor of the catalogue for Utrecht Manifest: Biennale for Social Design, in collaboration with Siomone Kleinhout and Arthur Roeloffzen and commissioned by the Utrecht Biennial Foundation. Utrecht Manifest is a bi-annual cultural event in and around the Dutch city of Utrecht. For each edition the Stichting Utrecht Biënnale invites an art director to […]
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In the magazine: Desipientia (December 2012). This issue of Desipientia presents a selection of Master Theses written during the last two years. Thirteen young art historians introduce themselves and tell about their research and results. Excerpt: When Faith Moves Mountains (2002) is perhaps Belgian/Mexican artist Francis Alÿs’ (1959) most iconic work. It was created for the […]
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Catalogue text for the performance: Lesson of Dissection by Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo. The performance was part of exhibition Margins: Walking Between Worlds, held at Art Exchange of the Universty of Essex, UK, with the support of Arts Council England, ESCALA, Firstsite and ROLLO, from 24 September to 5 November 2011. Lesson of Dissection […]
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Article for the second edition of magazine Volonté Générale, about the relationship between the private and the public sphere. In light of current political developments, this articles analyses the performance El Prestamo (the loan, 2000) by Aníbal López (A-1 53167). By breaking the law, this performance explicitly undermines ideas about public and private property, sparking […]
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Contribution to the first Autonomy Newspaper (2011). The article “Autonomy and corruption in Italy,” was written after following the Autonomy Summer School, from 28 June to 2 July 2010 at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, with participants from academies and research institutions around the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and in Germany. The “school” actually involved more […]
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A fully illustrated catalogue featuring newly commissioned essays by Michelle Franke, Stefanie Kogler and Miriam Metliss, published to accompany the exhibition “Imperial Poem”: the first European solo exhibition of contemporary Chilean artist Carlos Zuniga. The new body of work on view at Edel Assanti Gallery in London, sees Zuniga’s gaze shift from the subject of […]
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