Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2021/22, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2023, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program Bring the drone home; we can finally see its true size! The Drone Shadow in Beursplein aimed to lift the veil of silence around this subject matter by bringing a representation of a combat drone to the center of Amsterdam, while […]
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2021/22, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program Is it ethical for these businesses to be taking up this space? Cultural space is not just about physical areas but also about the values and priorities of a community. The project therefore brings attention to the cultural values that influence […]
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2022, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program Our hope is to create a tiny moment of visibility for what was and for what could be once again. We wanted to participate in the discourse regarding the privatization of public spaces, through reminding people of a less segregated and […]
Who is truly welcome in the city of Amsterdam? The city has a reputation of a very liberal and open community, but does that reflect in the lived experience of expats and immigrants?
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2021/22, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program …we set out to ask this question (“Where do you feel safe being queer?”) and used the answers to create a guide of queer-friendly spaces that can be accessed by everyone. We revisit the sense of belonging and celebration attributed to […]
We wore red costumes during the intervention, which formed the colors of the Dutch flag when combined with the blue and white colors of the tiles depicting the fleets on the walls. We sang children folk songs in the passage and recorded our performances.
Cultural Analysis: Case Studies course 2019, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program 12/06/2019 12:00am—1:00pm. Starting from the front door of P.C. Hoofhuis, all the group members- Nina, Rupert and I started a special one-hour adventure of exploring Amsterdam with the Dérive App. In a normally day-to-day routine for me as a student, I would pass […]
Cultural Analysis: Case Studies course 2019, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program We made a small guide of Amsterdam with some information on the city’s involvement in slavery, attached the guides to ice cream (Raketjes) and handed them out on the streets. We made a small guide of Amsterdam with some information on the city’s […]
Cultural Analysis: Case Studies 2019, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program We asked ourselves: how can we begin to consider the history of politics (and the politics of history) as a way of maintaining cultural and symbolic significance? We chose to analyze the significance of Max Euweplein, in relation to the city’s ‘cultural archive’. This […]
Cultural Analysis: Case Studies course 2017, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program Take a bit of Amsterdam home with you, have more space next time you visit. Help us make Amsterdam more tourist-friendly! “ (…) with a humorous and critical tone, we aimed at questioning and discussing the consumption-oriented and gentrified structuring of the city […]
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2021/22, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program The forceful removal of people from the only housing they are able to afford is a consequence of the increased control over social spaces and policing of the lower classes. We wanted to comment on the fact that squatting […] was […]
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2022, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program The Hermitage of Amsterdam severed its ties to Russia because of differing ideologies, and we used this as a point of departure to display and play with the (grand) narratives surrounding this museum. “He is not a saviour” poster utilizes postmodern […]
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2021/22, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program How can you claim to care about people’s lives when you are the first and biggest oppressor in your region? Israel detains, interrogates and imprisons children, prosecutes them in juvenile military courts. We wanted to bring to light the hypocrisy of […]
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2022, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program We took a few quotes as our departure points and stood in front of certain buildings in Amsterdam by holding hand-written banners giving information on the colonial history of these buildings. We wanted to ask the passersby: “Did you know about […]
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2022, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program Have you considered the ways in which media has distorted your perception of reality?
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2021/22, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program HEY YOU! Wonder why you are standing under a bunch of tampons?
FRAGILE! Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2021/22, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program Our public intervention focuses on the flaws of the building that make the environment more difficult for the students to navigate, but also points out key features of the building that are missing and should be considered vital to any […]
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2021/22, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program Let’s Talk About Queer (past, present, and future)
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2021/22, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program We sat on cartoon boards in front of the university building with a sign that reads: “To Rent: Room with assistance from UvA, max. stay: 14 days. Apply now, get the room in 2025, decided by bingo tournament.” We started conversations […]
Street Art But Make It Legal Our main objective was establishing a space where the audience partook in the creation of the art piece that they observed. 2021 / 2022 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis Course In addition to challenging the conventionalized ‘ways’ of experiencing art (as in taking the role of a passive […]
Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis course 2021/22, Literary and Cultural Analysis BA Program This moss shows us how wilderness is present wherever humans are present, even within our footsteps.
Society of the Spectacle: Canteen de Board intervention explores the meaning and function of ‘public’ and ‘private’ spaces in the university by inspecting the signs in the university canteen at P.C. Hoofthuis in Amsterdam.
Our idea was to give out a poem to strangers while saying nothing as we recorded the interaction. The poem was about the climate crisis.
(…) it encouraged questioning the cultural industry of a post-Fordist era that palliate colonial acts through their cultural products.
In Defence of Amsterdam’s Ugliest Buildings teases out that ‘culture’ is contained not only in museums and on pre-war European streets, but everywhere in life, if one chooses to look.