‘Queering the Pitch’: How to Find One’s Own Voice in the Classical World
Category: Essays
Essays (10) Fiction (1) Interviews (2) Poetry (7) Reviews (1) Visual Art (4)
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‘Queering the Pitch’: How to Find One’s Own Voice in the Classical World
Reflecting on Samuel Mariño’s and my own experience, I argue that finding our own voice can be an act of queering, defying heteronormative regimes…
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An Exhibition as a Massage: A Wrap-Up
Every year, the city of Leuven becomes a meeting point for artists, performers, thinkers, and curious visitors through Artefact, a multidisciplinary festival organized by…
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The Archive Not Seen, an Artist’s Notes On “Sexy Magico”
If the archive is understood to be selective, then the authority of institutional archives cannot be forgotten. Their function rests not on completeness, but…
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The Sacrificial Engine of the Anthropocene: From Omelas to the Congo
Through Ursula Le Guin’s short story, we can examine the violent, unseen, and sometimes neglected conditions that sustain the comfort and ease of the…
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On Embracing the Holes in My Shoes: Learning to Accept the Imperfect
Learning to love what is not beautiful goes beyond dress and has a potential for resistance.
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What Keeps an Art Form Alive?
If Timothée Chalamet is to be believed, no one cares about ballet or opera. He’s right: cinema does draw a bigger crowd than both…
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Do I Sort the Nazis in the GFT or the Restafval?
The municipality of Leuven was kind enough to send me a letter, informing me that a group of people will be gathering outside my…
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Sacrificing
I bought a photo album this morning; I’m so excited to print some photos from my time in Leuven so far and put them…
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Lost in Translation
Looking back, my initial choice to study Cultural Studies stemmed from a strong passion for the world. However, the more beautiful my vision for…
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“The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” (Timbuk3, 1986)
Although I’ve worked a lot on psychoanalysis, I consider myself a non-nostalgic person, in general not very prone to looking back at previous decades…
