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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 of listening, and contributing to Muñoz’s “notion of the utopian performative”.
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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 of my life. However, in the current era of major crises and rapid and radical changes, I cannot help but wonder how different my student years were…
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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 STUK – House for Dance, Image and Sound, that blends visual art, performances, talks, film, and the most disparate installations.
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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 house to protest. Apparently, they are very angry about the existence of immigrants in something they see as “their country”. I have run into this sort of mentality before, and it…
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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 it, the more vulnerable I am to pain and disillusionment. Whether witnessing the brutality of global conflicts, realizing the world remains under the thumb of a few powerful men, or even…
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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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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 in this cute album. It will be my little photo journal – which photos should I print?
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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 on the power to decide what enters history and on the conditions under which it may appear. This raises a crucial question: what happens to images, films, and records that fall…
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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 Anthropos of the Global North at the price of the suffering and hardship of the Anthropos of the Global South.
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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 ballet and opera combined. However, simply claiming that “no one cares” disregards that there are people who do care about these art forms, and care deeply. But Chalamet does not care…
