This is what I’m work­ing on now:

• From 16 July — 25 Sep­tem­ber 2022, I am pre­sent­ing a new cura­to­r­i­al project mens maakt land­schap maakt mens at Muse­um IJs­sel­stein (MIJ). In coop­er­a­tion with inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Den­nis l’A­mi, this project focus­es on the his­to­ry and future of the ‘Groene Hart’ area in The Nether­lands, more specif­i­cal­ly on how the his­tor­i­cal devel­op­ment of this man-made land­scape has shaped a col­lec­tive iden­ti­ty. More info on the project page!

• Sched­uled for 2023 is a new upcom­ing sound art project on city bells and the mean­ing of sound in pre-indus­tri­al soci­eties. This project will take take the form of an inter­ac­tive, geoloca­tive sound walk in the medieval city cen­tre of Utrecht. These books inspired me a lot: 
  • Vil­lage Bells — The Cul­ture of the Sens­es in the Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry French Coun­try­side by Alain Corbin
  • A Dis­tant Mir­ror: The Calami­tous 14th Cen­tu­ry by Bar­bara W. Tuchman
  • Het ver­bor­gen rader­w­erk. Over tijd, machines en bewustz­i­jn by Douwe Draaisma

• Although the project is cur­rent­ly on hia­tus, I am still doing ongo­ing research for my book project The super­nor­mal (launch date to be deter­mined), on ‘the art instinct’ and how more knowl­edge on this sub­ject could influ­ence future art and art edu­ca­tion. These books stood out to me the most lately: 
  • The age of insight by Eric R. Kandel
  • The Seduc­tions of Dar­win — Art, Evo­lu­tion, Neu­ro­science by Matthew Rampley.

• I’m still slow­ly expand­ing my busi­ness to include (online) tech­ni­cal and cross media coach­ing and con­sult­ing for artists and cre­atives. Last year, I have been coach­ing two artists in the fields of Fine Arts and Graph­ic Design. If you’re inter­est­ed as well: get in touch and we’ll drink a cup of cof­fee first!

• And final­ly, I’m still enjoy­ing teach­ing sev­er­al cours­es at my part time job at Utrecht Uni­ver­si­ty of the Arts (HKU).

— August 2022