MIXED MEDIA
Sytze Steenstra
- books,
essays
- research
- editing, translating
- lectures, workshops
- art projects
Josh Moll
- coaching
ART PROJECTS
Sytze Steenstra: 06-28072072 / 043-3540765; mail sytzesteenstra@mixed-media.info
Guest curator:
Retrospective exhibition of the work of David Byrne. Stijn Huijts, director of Museum Schunck, Heerlen asked me in 2011 to develop a plan. Ongoing.
Preliminary research for an exhibition presenting the work of Liz LeCompte and The Wooster Group (New York City).
Education:
I wrote the outline for a guided tour for visitors to the exhibition Niki de Saint Phalle: Outside In, in Museum Schunck, Heerlen (2011). The exhibition was very successful, the outline was used by guides for a great many group tours.
Participation in debates etc.
Expert meeting: Beyond the Amateur. Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht 2010.
Expert meeting: Interieur in het oeuvre van Jef Cornelis. NAi/Bureau Europa, Maastricht 2009.
Expert meeting: De flaneur. Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht 2008.
Examples of work:
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Drogmetica, photo-text installation, 1998 detail installation (photo) |
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“Neutralizing… Now!”, video (6’20”), 1999, which I later turned into a written book contribution, “Neutralizing… Now!” in Jean Fishers “Reverberations” (see ‘writing’) In the collection of the Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (Dutch Institute for Media Art) |
Publications in which illustrations play an independent role:
“Een groot ding te logeren”, in: Ron Bernstein: Zagen op Zondag, 2009.
Conceptual Cartoons in Suggestion City, in: Nayoungim & Gregory Maas: “It’s Nice To Be Nice, Try It”, 2009. Download at:www.nayoungim-maass.com/
Contributions to debates, performances, exhibitions:
Expert meeting: Interieur in het oeuvre van Jef Cornelis. NAi/Bureau Europa, Maastricht 2009.
Expert meeting: De flaneur. Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht 2008.
Participation in performances:
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Ron Bernstein: “Folly”, Maastricht 2007. |
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Ron Bernstein “Colourfield Parking”, Maastricht 2005. |
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Anne Verhoijsen, “Splitzij”, Amsterdam: De Kunstvlaai, Hotel Winston, Bijenkorf, 2000-02. |
Ben Leenen, “Square Foot”, Maastricht 2009, video.
Group show museum Minderbroedersberg, University Maastricht, 2003.
Materie/Mysterie, Group show ‘Niet De KunstVlaai’, Amsterdam, 2000.
International conference “Reverberations: Tactics of Resistance, Forms of Agency in Trans/cultural Practices” organized by Jean Fisher, Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht: video presentation "Neutralizing… Now!", 1999.
Materie/Mysterie. Group show. DeFKa de Seine, Assen, 1999.
“Jump Into The Question”, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, 1999: Organization of international debate and talks about the role of theory in the artist’s studio.