The Language of Perception
As Dave Chapelle said, ‘the beauty is in the attempt’, and often it is not only crucial what we say to each other, but also how we attempt to do it. That disregarded factor of ‘how’ is what makes or breaks the connection.
Letter from the Editor
Dear reader, When we talk about language, we immediately think of words, of our mother tongue or daily-life communication. But when one puts “art” next to it, all of a sudden a world of possibilities opens up in front of us.
Home
Home: a feeling of positive attachment to places/people. Being an unidentified, nameless part of a landscape. Where is the place that you call home? It is a place, or in the way you roam? What makes home for you?
Review of Nomadland: Welcome back to cinemas
In this first edition, dedicated to the theme of welcome, a topic that could hardly be less appropriate would be the return to cinemas. This welcome was offered in mid-June by the local easing of restrictions against the virus.
Out of the Organized Comfort Zone
It was unexpected that I received an invitation from the African Student Community – ASC – to participate in their week of Mental Health and Well-Being RELEARN to give a workshop relating the topic with art.
La Nomade Photographie
TERRITORY-ART: a Gaspésian coffee with La Nomade Photographie
I was greeted by the sun, her Australian Shepherd (who ran around with my Border Collie like crazy), and a coffee in her backyard (right next to where her partner was at work in their large fruits and vegetables garden).
Are Museums Dusty Relics?
Let’s fancy ourselves in front of a big, towering building. But not any building. A museum. What does it evoke in your mind? Probably a series of rooms and corridors filled with artworks of all sorts and from all times, a place, maybe slightly boring
Beats and Bucket Hats: How music in Groningen finds you
It’s February 23rd, 2021, and for the first time in years, the temperature is below zero for the sixth straight day. Groningen’s usually yellow, cobbled streets are white and where there once was water in the canals and lakes of Noorderplantsoen
Of Beauty and Order – Conversations with my family
My older sister and I are sitting precariously on a half-damp old piece of wood. It was probably a long, robust and important branch once to some wise old oak or perhaps even more probable to a beech.
Our beginning – Letter From the Editor
Dear reader, In literature, there is a device called beginning in media res. This is what they call when a story starts right in the middle. Instead of presenting the setting or characters, some books welcome us with a speech or an action.