MIXED MEDIASytze Steenstra - books,
essays
Josh Moll - coaching
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WORKSHOPS AND LECTURESSytze Steenstra: 06-28072072 / 043-3540765; mail sytzesteenstra@mixed-media.info Sytze gives lectures and leads workshops, on arts and philosophy, often in relation to the wider culture and to society. He also advises on the lay-out of courses and course programs. He has taught at Dutch universities as well as at academies for fine art, architecture and music schools, both in Dutch and in English. Clients in 2011 included: Two-day workshop ‘Conceptual Art and Popular Music: the work of David Byrne. Philosophy, art history, concepting. Leeuwarden, Academy for Popular Culture. Lecture on the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’, its history and philosophical background. Maastricht, Academy of Arts. Introduction and tour through the exhibition: Leon Golub, Live and Die Like A Lion. Sittard. Two courses in English, developed and taught at the University College Maastricht, and two courses in Dutch, for Maastricht’s Academy of Fine Arts: Introduction to the Arts A general introduction to literature, Music, theatre, fine art, centered around mimesis as organizing concept. Key texts to this course (with a reader of additional literature): The Presence of Art An introduction to modern and contemporary fine art. Guided by a reader with some 50 texts, both artists’ texts and scholarly art history, students delved into modernism, the classical avant-gardes, Walter Benjamin’s artwork-essay, the postmodernism-debate, conceptual art, contemporary photography, and the art museum as ritual arena. As part of the course, videos by Robert Morris, Dan Graham, LIGNA and Johan Grimonprez were viewed and debated. Moreover, artists and theorists gave talks and presentations: Ron Bernstein (artist’s presentation), Ole Frahm (artist’s presentation), Friedrich Tietjen (photo history), Marjan Melkert (architectural history), Cor Blok (surrealism), Joes Segal (art and politics). Every year, I provided an excursion and extensive tour of the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven.
Lecture series: Eight philosophers for artists Easily accessible, introductory lectures on René Descartes; Romantic philosophy around 1800 (Novalis, Schlegel); Karl Marx; Friedrich Nietzsche; Hans-Georg Gadamer; Jacques Derrida; Michel Foucault; Walter Benjamin. Every lecture rounded out with a discussion of relevant art, ranging from Le Corbusier to Ashok Bhalotra and from Philipp Otto Runge to Paul Klee, Sigmar Polke and Jenny Holzer. Workshop philosophy for design students A ‘hands-on’ course for design students, a series of discussions of essays chosen from Roland Barthes’ well known Mythologies and essays from Piet Meeuse’s book Doorkijkjes. Over de werkelijkheid van beelden [View-throughs (or ‘interior vistas’): on the reality of images], followed by student essays on the uses of images and imagery. Courses taught (selection)At the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University and at the University College Maastricht I have taught the following courses:
At the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Amsterdam I designed and taught courses on:
For the Open University of the Netherlands I made the course
Contributions to courses on epistemology, hermeneutics, “Thinking about Culture”. |