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Arts is originally related to art and as such refers to a skill and to creativity.

Challenging sexual objectification through 100 vulvas

Paper

Mijke Akkermans

20/01/2020

13 minutes to read

This paper addresses the phenomenon of women's sexual objectification in contemporary society, explored through Dodsworth's feminist artistic project and documentary 100 Vaginas (2019) and informed by Nussbaum's sexual objectification theory.

China's National Day Blockbuster: My People, My Country

Column

Mingyi Hou

22/10/2019

14 minutes to read

'My people, my country' - a Chinese movie promoting a patriotic zeal and dominant political agenda - becomes a worldwide hype not only in China, but also in the Chinese diaspora.Why is that?

De noordelijke renaissancekunst: een unieke schepping

Paper

Mariska van Schijndel

14/10/2019

18 minutes to read

De noordelijke renaissance wordt vaak gezien als een 'slaafse' navolging van de Italiaanse Renaissance. Dit 'digitale museum' verandert dat beeld door te laten zien dat de noordelijke Renaissance op zichzelf een unieke schepping is.

How ContraPoints commands the YouTube Stage

Article

Inge van de Ven

28/10/2019

11 minutes to read

Inge van de Ven examines YouTube vlogger ContraPoints as a public intellectual in the context of strategies of self-representation in the attention economy.

The Mangrove or Moving With and Beyond the Rhizome

Column

Ana Deumert

27/09/2019

6 minutes to read

Ana Deumert explains how rhizomes and mangroves may offer us new ways of imagining culture, society and language.

The whitewashing of the 'art hoe' movement

Article

Marieke Weeda

13/01/2020

10 minutes to read

This article explores how the art hoe movement, meant as a space of creative expression for PoC (People of Colour) artists, got whitewashed into a mere aesthetic disconnected from its origins.

Framing 'Shirkers' as a first person documentary

Paper

Chen Li

20/09/2019

16 minutes to read

Shirkers (2018) is a documentary about athe mysterious personal experience of Sandi Tan, the filmmaker herself. Based on cognitive frame, this paper analyzes the textual, contextual, and real-world referential signals of 'Shirkers' (2018).

How ballroom culture is shaped by oppression

Paper

Tunde Farago

Jie Lin

Magdalena Rolle

14/06/2019

10 minutes to read

In this paper, the two-dimensional forms of differentiation as documented in Paris is Burning will be discussed, with the aim to analyse how this shapes the ballroom culture.