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Marina Abramovic: When performance meets commerce (Marina Abramovic: Exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam - 2024)

Review

Martin Hoondert

4 minutes to read

11/09/2024

In Spring 2024 (March – July), the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam exhibited a retrospective of the performance artist Marina Abramovic. Is an exhibition of the oeuvre of a performance artist possible?

Ginny & Georgia’s portrayal of biracialism (Sarah Lampert)

Review

Leonie Milder

01/05/2024

6 minutes to read

Analyzing Ginny & Georgia reveals nuanced portrayals of hybrid identities amidst stereotypical tropes. While tackling racial and cultural complexities, the series inadvertently perpetuates overlooked stereotypes.

How BioShock makes you forget you’re playing a game (2K Games)

Review

Rebecca de Jongh

13/10/2023

6 minutes to read

BioShock's narrative and clever game design fully immerse you into its story. You forget you are playing a game until suddenly the game makes you painfully aware you were never truly in control...

JEf Verschueren, complicity, practice, discourse

Complicity in practice and discourse (Jef Verschueren)

Review

Tom Van Hout

16/08/2023

4 minutes to read

In this thought-provoking essay, Jef Verschueren marshals progressive values of solidarity, community, and engagement and compels us to embrace and share responsibility for a healthier public sphere.

Stephen King's mixed bag of a Fairy Tale (Stephen King)

Review

Vinicio Ntouvlis

29/03/2023

7 minutes to read

Stephen King's 65th novel is a loving tribute to the stories he grew up with, but does it have a worthwhile new one to offer?

The Joy Luck Club: the joy in finally being understood (Amy Tan (author); Wayne Wang (director))

Review

Jessaline Tanjung

23/12/2022

10 minutes to read

The Joy Luck Club is the pioneer of Asian American representation on the big screen. It emphasizes the expectations to be 'Chinese' from your own family and the struggle to be understood by your own family, all due to the cultural gaps.

GLOW: Critiquing the Stereotypes of American Identities on TV (Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch)

Review

Marit van Dijck

05/10/2022

8 minutes to read

Glow critiques how stereotypes in the media do not do justice to the complex lived realities of multicultural individuals in America through the juxtaposition of stereotypical performances with the lived realities of individuals.

Wie is de Mol?, more than a TV show (Wie is de Mol?)

Review

Kristi van der Zanden

28/09/2022

6 minutes to read

"Wie is de Mol?" is a reality show with a very active and partecipative fanbase. Learn about how the fanbase and the production are creating a collective culture.

Five of the main characters of Skam walking, with yellow text saying SKAM in front of them.

The lived experience of teenagers in Norway and beyond in Skam (Julie Andem)

Review

Marieke Weeda

07/09/2022

7 minutes to read

This review explains how greatly the Norwegian show SKAM deals with themes of identity in both globally universal and locally specific ways.

Rhythm and Rebellion - a review of Fela Kuti’s activism and music (Fela Kuti)

Review

Daniel Obubo

19/11/2021

10 minutes to read

This review looks into two songs by Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti, Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense and Sorrow tears and Blood.

TACOMA(2017) (Steve Gaynor, Nina Freeman)

Review

Daniel Obubo

12/12/2021

11 minutes to read

This review explores the procedural and rhetorical rules involved in videogames as well as narrative and database aesthetic techniques utilized in the 2017 adventure videogame Tacoma.

Can artificial intelligence make medicine more humane? (Eric Topol)

Review

Jenny Slatman

22/11/2021

7 minutes to read

Eric Topol, the author of Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (2019), argues in this book that articificial intelligence can make healthcare more humane.

California scheming: Miranda July's Kajillionaire (Miranda July)

Review

Bettie Cörvers

04/06/2021

8 minutes to read

In Miranda July's 2020 film Kajillionaire, Old Dolio's life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them in their scamming practices. She feels the need to detach from her hustling parents.