To accompany the exhibition at H401 and the online narrative archive, (www.warpweftmemory.net), a publication was made with excerpts from the online work.
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Essays & Publications
Published in Daisyworld Magazine
‘To Sanne’ is a short text featured in Daisyworld Magazine, a seasonal art publication by Zazie Stevens. Originally, it was written on an assessment form and is an attempt to understand evaluation as an act of care rather than simply grading.
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Susan Kealey: Ordinary Marvel
The Phenomenology of Licorice and Other Dutch Myths, Renée Turner, Ordinary Marvel, YYZ Books, 2003 Susan Kealey was a friend. In the early nineties we were at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and both grappled with being displaced North Americans in the heart of the Lowlands. Sometimes we coped with laughter and other times we had…
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Think Art
This essay commissioned by the Witte de With, looks at the relation between art and theory. It was written in 1999. While still on the site, it is sold out. A Journey from Démodé to Displacement: Some Reflections on the Relation between Art and Theory small excerpt from the essay: I still believe the relation…
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The Novelty Is Gone, and That’s the Perfect Place to Begin
The Novelty Is Gone, and That’s the Perfect Place to Begin. (2008) Biennials have lost their novelty. Does that mean Bergen shouldn’t host one? On the contrary, this is perhaps the perfect time to set a biennial in motion. As the 53rd Venice Biennale rolls into action, it has spawned a legion of other biennials.…
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Sniff, Scrape, Crawl… {on privacy, surveillance and our shadowy data-double}
photograph/gif by OjodePez Editor: Renée TurnerPublisher: Open Mute PressPiet Zwart Institute / Creating 010Master Media Design and CommunicationISBN: Paperback 978-1-906496-81-4 eBook 978-1-906496-82-1 Sniff, Scrape, Crawl… {on privacy, surveillance and our shadowy data-double} Today, the border between the public and private is porous. Unlike the ominous spectre of surveillance depicted in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, today’s…
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The Female Perspective
The Female Perspective was the annual program curated by Nina Folkersma for Castrum Peregrini from 2017-2018. The publication featuring highlights was designed by Roosje Klap and Pauline Le Pape – who collaborate under the name Atelier Roosje Klap. Next to my own work, the publication contains contributions by Lietje Bauwens, Adeola Enigbokan, Marjan Schwegman, Christel Vesters, Mieke Bal, Katerina Gregos, Patricia Kaersenhout,…
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The House of Gisèle
The House of Gisèle, is a publication highlighting programming at Castrum Peregrini from 2014 -2017. Although I had only begun my research into Gisèle’s closet, hints of how I would write through her things were already present in the interview. “To come back to the title of the work, The Warp and Weft of Memory – this writing feels…
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