When it’s on the net, it’s real. As announced on the website of Tilburg University, in exactly a week from today, on September 12, I will be publicly defending my PhD dissertation. It’s titled “Making Sense …
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PhD: Public Defense Dissertation
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PROJECT: Performance Égalité on Museumplein (EN)
On February 27, the ArtWorlds foundation will bring the beautiful performance Égalité, by artist Elena Kovylina to Amsterdam. A human horizon will emerge on the Museumplein, an ultimate visualization of the idea of equality through diversity. …
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MARGINALIA REVIEW: Everything You Own in a Box to the Left: Reclaiming the Potential of the Sacred in Music
For the website Marginalia | LA Review of Books, I wrote a review about Christopher Partridge’s The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane (OUP 2013). It was published online on June 9, 2015. In the …
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Column: The Fountain of Abramovic
This is a translation of a column that was featured on the website of the Association of Dutch Art Historians and in the Dutch local newspaper Harlinger Courant on February 20, 2014. ‘Extreme artist designs fountain …
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Academic Article: Religious Rituals as Festival Performances
The end of 2013 saw the publication of the 29th edition of the Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies. This is a joint publication by the University of Groningen and Tilburg University. It features the …
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De kracht van muziek
A blog post from September 27, 2013 · Deze blog is een bewerkte versie van een presentatie tijdens de bijeenkomst van De Vrienden van Musica Sacra Maastricht bij de festivaleditie van 2013. Naast dat het …
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Performance takes time
A blog post from August 14, 2013 · Marina with Study Model © OMA Visits to contemporary art museums demonstrate one thing above all: it is next to impossible to preserve and present performance art …
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Performing Life
Saying their goodbyes halfway the Chinese wall, each having departed from opposite sides, Marina Abramovic and Ulay performed a grand conclusion to their intense relationship of twelve years in 1988. There would only be one …
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A complete performance: music at Tower Bridge
A blog post from July 14, 2012 · Over this month, the City of London runs an amazing festival, with all kinds of cultural activities. Last Sunday, a special musical performance saw its premiere. Created …
