Blog - Ivar Hagendoorn (Page 46)

19 Sep 2004 · Blog | Theatre

Forced Entertainment: Bloody Mess

It is funny. Very funny. Very very funny. But after a while it gets boring. Very boring. But then it gets funny again. Very funny. So funny that you have to laugh. This is what you do when things are funny, especially when they are very funny, not to mention when they are very very funny.

14 Sep 2004 · Blog | Theatre

Frank Castorf: Erniedrigte und Beleidigte

Watching Frank Castorf's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's "Erniedrigte und Beleidigte" feels like being invited to a family party where everybody knows each other, but nobody knows you.

14 Sep 2004 · Blog | Theatre

Rene Pollesch: Pablo in der Plusfiliale

How should I integrate this into my sexuality? If you want to fuck globalisation, technology and the neo-liberal rhetoric of the new left, you have to deconstruct the whole notion of sexuality.

5 Sep 2004 · Blog | Art

Donald Judd at the Kunstsammlung Nordrheinwestfalen

Tell me, what is so interesting about those bloody boxes?

8 Aug 2004 · Blog | Art

Paul McCarthy: Brain Box Dream Box

Rubbing it in is what Paul McCarthy does, whether with paint, ketchup or chocolate sauce. Excess is the name of his game. McCarthy likes pushing things too far, in his drawings, but most of all in his performances, which always end up a complete mess.

27 Jun 2004 · Blog | Theatre

Guy Cassiers: Proust 1 and 3

When Dutch theatre critics wrote of Guy Cassiers' adaptation of Marcel Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu", that it was a masterpiece and that he was approaching perfection, I was at once curious and skeptical.

28 Mar 2004 · Blog | Architecture

Rem Koolhaas|OMA: Content (The Book)

With SMLXL Rem Koolhaas redefined the architectural monograph. Now with Content he has done it again.

28 Mar 2004 · Blog | Architecture

OMA|Rem Koolhaas: Content (The Exhibition)

A solo architecture exhibition not only shows what a practice does, how it wants to be perceived and what it stands for, it also conveys something of its mentality.

12 Jun 2000 · Blog | Literature

Michel Houellebecq: The Elementary Particles

A friend recently told me she had read about a dozen books during an illness and wondered how many books she could have read if she hadn’t partied so much all her life. I have read many books and I often wonder how much I could have lived if I hadn’t read so much.

26 Dec 1999 · Blog | Literature

Michael Cunningham: The Hours

The Hours is a book about happiness, the happiness that resides in the simple things which we only become aware of long after the moment itself has passed.

1 Jan 1999 · Blog | Literature

Djuna Barnes: Nightwood

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes is one of the few books I’ve read more than once. The sentences seem to flow over the pages, at once 'heftig bewegt', then 'utterly tranquil' or 'quietly flowing' as Anton Webern annotated his Five Movements for String Quartet.

1 Jan 1999 · Blog | Literature

Georges Perec: Life a User's Manual

Life A User's Manual is a book for readers, and the more you have read the more you will appreciate the subtle references to other novels and popular culture. But to say so would do injustice to a book that is quite simply a marvel to read.