Just a few days after the general election, the dust seems to be settling: the neoliberals (VVD), the Christian-democrats (CDA), and the social-liberals (D66) will form the core of the new government. Continue reading “Why the Government cannot Rely on the Wisdom of the Crowd”
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Keuzes in kaart voor ons Bruto National Geluk?
Ik dacht: laat ik er eens systematisch doorheen gaan, door de doorrekening van de verkiezingsprogramma’s die het CPB vorige week deed verschijnen. Continue reading “Keuzes in kaart voor ons Bruto National Geluk?”
Kijken of wegkijken?
Door Carmen van Bruggen
De winnende foto van de jaarlijkse World Presswedstrijd is dit jaar in alles anders dan zijn voorgangers. Hij heeft geen clair-obscur belichting of diepe kleuren en wekt ook geen medelijden op. Integendeel, we kijken recht in het gezicht van de moordenaar van de Russische ambassadeur Andrej Karlov. Het moment nét erna. We zien hem nog vol adrenaline een strijdkreet richting Allah slaan. Een gebaar dat vloekt met zijn gladgeschoren kin, gelikte vermomming en de museale context waar waar het zich afspeelt. Continue reading “Kijken of wegkijken?”
It’s a phone number…
Now that February is well underway I would like to reflect on the European Music and Showcase Festival Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) that took place from 11-14 January. Continue reading “It’s a phone number…”
Blurring Visual Art, Musical Composition, & Theatre with Musical Mail Art
by Chris Tonelli
Groningen University
The concept of “blurring art and life” stands in for a series of ideals: the notion we can all see ourselves as artists, rather than just a specialized few; the notion that we can approach our daily activities with the attitudes we take to artistic work; and the notion our experience can be enriched by acting outside of the normative economics and patterns of distribution of artistic work, to name a few. Artists like Ray Johnson and Ken Friedman saw the postal system as a tool for achieving these ideals and went on to develop the tradition of mail art. While mail art may seem best suited to those who identify primarily as visual artists or poets, the work of Southern California based composer Jude Weirmeir has demonstrated that mail art can become a tool to reconfigure what it means to be a musical composer. Weirmeir has created a massive body of musical mail art scores—work that is equally visual art object, musical composition, catalyst for performance, and event in itself, as, around this work, sending, receiving, waiting for, and replying to mail art all take on the character of an aesthetic event.
Weirmeir (right) observes as soprano Fiona Chatwin performs his mail art score “Music for Soup” (a score designed to perch on the lip of a bowl of soup).
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