Spierenburg and Kluiving have interacted over the course of the exhibition On Limits, with Spierenburg leading a workshop for Kluiving’s students. Both Spierenburg and Kluiving focus on the entanglements between the earth and human life and bodies.
Eva Spierenburg explores the relationship between the inner body and its environment. She is fascinated by the way experiences are stored in the body and form a source of knowledge. Her drawings, sculptures, objects and texts express the fluidity that arises between body and environment through our sensory perception. Departing from personal memories and sensory perceptions, she seeks connections with our human and non-human environment. Spierenburg aims to escape dualism by liquefying boundaries: between human and earth, body and mind, past and present, inside and outside.
Sjoerd Kluiving is Associate Professor working in the fields of geoarchaeology, Quaternary geology and landscape archaeology. He is also part of the board of the Environmental Humanities Center at VU Amsterdam. Since 2019 he teaches the course Big Questions in the Anthropocene at Amsterdam University College. Sjoerd initiated the International Association of Landscape Archaeology (IALA), uniting geologists, archaeologists and historians, and is currently Advisory Board member. He has vast experience in convening interdisciplinary sessions in soils, landscapes and archaeology at EGU, EAA and LAC, and is guest editor of multiple special volumes dedicated to this theme. He has a special interest in interdisciplinary collaboration between nature and culture and Anthropocene studies.
Annemie Halsema is Associate professor at the Department of Philosophy (VU) and Socrates professor at the Institute for Philosophy of Leiden University. Her research project is entitled: ‘Hermeneutics of the gendered, racialized and ageing body’. She is interested in embodiment and identity, and the interrelations between body and discourse, in the fields of hermeneutics, phenomenology and gender studies.
