Home | Blog
18.11.2004
Why go to a photography exhibition when you can also view the photos in a book, a magazine or on your screen?
14.11.2004
Alvis Hermanis must have realized that to render the sense of emptiness and loss that permeats the play, he didn’t have to faithfully reproduce the text. All he had to do was to put a seemingly random group of people together in a room. This in itself creates a form of tension. Who are these people and what brought them here? As long as the actors understand the atmosphere of the text they can basically do whatever. And this is indeed what they do.
08.11.2004
Every other year the biennial Holland Animation Film Festival shows a selection of some of the best independent animation films of the past two or three years as well as a number of retrospectives and thematic programs. If I am around I like to spend a day or so at the festival to have my mind stretched and my imagination triggered.
18.10.2004
Towards the end of the performance the stage floor suddenly tilts backwards by about 30 degrees. Everything that is standing on stage, chairs, cutlery, boxes, bottles, kitchen equipment falls. The ground is shifting. From this moment on the actors have to, literally, search for their balance in a world that is breaking apart. Sitting in the audience the question looming in the back of one’s mind is this: will the stage tilt further backwards?
The reviews and reflections included here are informal, unedited writings. Some sections have been or may be published in revised form in a different medium.
This website is about my work and ideas. To illustrate my writings and ideas I sometimes include images I have found elsewhere on the internet. Where possible I will try to add a link to the photographer or artist who owns the copyright.
The Aesthetics of Financial Time Series
An appraisal.
Animated Discussion on Reading Sein und Zeit
Hilarious animated video about Derrida and Heidegger.
Just how representative are all those social science studies based on a small sample of North-American or European undergraduates?
Browse the archive