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Latest Blog Entries

  • Holland Animation Film festival 2008

    As with every edition of the Holland Animation Film festival there were too many films. And also as with every edition the films ranged from hilarious, touching and stunning to boring, tedious and outright dreadful.

  • I'm a Cyborg But That's OK

    I'm a cyborg is yet another highly intelligent movie by Park Chan-wook. It's also a visual treat and in its own special way profoundly moving.

  • Escaped from Malthus?

    Supplementary material for my review of Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms; Paul Collier: The Bottom Billion; and Dani Rodrik: One Economics, Many Recipes.

Latest Photo Series

Wuppertal

Lisbon

Mosteiro Dos Jeronimos

Porto

Palacio Da Pena

Ursa Beach

Oriente Station

Performances

Project 2009. Concept. Ivar Hagendoorn. Choreography: Ivar Hagendoorn. Dancer: to be announced. Dates: to be announced.

Communications from the Lab, 2004. Ballett Frankfurt. 60 minutes. 8 dancers. 12 loudspeakers. Music: Paula Matthusen.

Talks

Dance, Language and the Brain. An Evolutionary Perspective. Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungskolleg "Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation". 15-16 October 2008, Cologne, Germany.

Dance, Language and the Brain. 2nd International Congress on Art, Brain and Languages. 11-12 September 2008, Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal.

Articles

Hagendoorn, IG. Dance, Choreography and the Brain, in: Melcher, D. and Bacci, F. [eds.], Art and the Senses. Oxford University Press, 2009 (forthcoming).

Hagendoorn, IG. Ontsnappen aan de armoede. De Academische Boekengids (In Dutch). Supplementary material.

Hagendoorn, IG. Can Dance Be Disgusting or Is It Forever Doomed to Aestheticism? Culture Teatrali 16, November 2008.

All articles

Reading

Alain Mabanckou: Verre Cassé

Catherine Malabou: Que faire de notre cerveau?

Just finished

Roberto Saviano: Gomorrah

Jacques Rancière: Le spectateur émancipé

Giorgio Agamben: Qu'est-ce que le contemporain?

Rose George: The Big Necessity. Adventures in the World of Human Waste

Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

Listening

Calexico: Carried To Dust

Abe Vigoda: Skeleton

TV On The Radio: Dear Science

Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It

Skeletons: Money