Arts in Society Groningen platform
Door Carmen van Bruggen
Het is alsof je even God bent geweest. Van een afstand – ver van de wereld en buiten de tijd – heb je naar de mensheid gekeken. Of, misschien is ‘God’ niet het juiste woord. Het was eerder alsof je vanaf een lege plek hebt gekeken, vanuit het niets. En ook alsof je niemand was. Alsof je, terwijl je al lang niet meer bestond, toch nog kon blijven kijken naar hoe de mensheid langzaam uit het zicht verdween. Continue reading “Recensie: De Wand – Ulrike Quade Company”
By Franciska de Beer
What is good art criticism exactly? The question was raised last week in the Groninger Museum where the symposium ‘Art criticism, art theory and art history. A complicated complex interplay?’ took place. With scholars from so many divergent fields attending, I was curious to find out what direction the debate would take. Continue reading “Fifty shades of art criticism”
By Quirijn van den Hoogen
Groningen University
This year Eurovision was particularly interesting to me. I have many fond childhood memories of watching a night of Euro-trash pop music ever since Johnny Logan’s victory 1980. But I lost interest somewhere in the late 1990s after Eastern Europe started entering the competition as an expression of their independence ‘regained’ after 1989, flooding the competition with Balkan pop. Continue reading “An Autonomous Year for Eurovision?”
By Jeroen van Gessel
Groningen University
‘This is the world’s most precious commodity. We need to control as much of it as we can.’ Thus spoke Dominic Greene, the bad guy from Quantum of Solace, while taking in a performance of Tosca. He wasn’t talking about the opera, however, but about water and that’s as close as classical music and water ecology have ever gotten in the public imagination. Continue reading “Classical music meets Ecology: Hélène Grimaud’s new album Water”
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