We close the public pro gramme for On Limits with an ART SCIENCE dialogue featuring artist Ev a Spierenburg in conversation with Sjoerd Kluiving, moderated by Anne mie Halsema.
Spierenburg and Kluiving have interacted over the course of the exhibition On Limits, with Spierenburg leading a works hop 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 pers onal memories and sensory perceptions, she seeks connections with our human and non-human environment. Spierenburg aims to escape dua lism by liquefying boundaries: between human and earth, body and mind , past and present, inside and outside.
Sjoerd Kluiving is Asso ciate Professor working in the fields of geoarchaeology, Quaternary g eology and landscape archaeology. He is also part of the board of the Environmental Humanities Center at VU Amsterdam. Since 2019 he teach es the course Big Questions in the Anthropocene at Amsterdam Universi ty College. Sjoerd initiated the International Association of Landsca pe Archaeology (IALA), uniting geologists, archaeologists and histori ans, and is currently Advisory Board member. He has vast experience i n convening interdisciplinary sessions in soils, landscapes and archa eology at EGU, EAA and LAC, and is guest editor of multiple special v olumes dedicated to this theme. He has a special interest in interdis ciplinary collaboration between nature and culture and Anthropocene s tudies.
Annemie Halsema is Associate professor at the Departmen t of Philosophy (VU) and Socrates professor at the Institute for Phil osophy of Leiden University. Her research project is entitled: ‘Her meneutics of the gendered, racialized and ageing body’. She is inte rested in embodiment and identity, and the interrelations between bod y and discourse, in the fields of hermeneutics, phenomenology and gen der studies.
DESCRIPTION: 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 ent anglements between the earth and human life and bodies. Eva Spierenbu rg explores the relationship between the inner body and its environme nt. She is fascinated by the way experiences are stored in the body a nd form a source of knowledge. Her drawings, sculptures, objects and texts express the fluidity that arises between body and environment t hrough 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 liquef ying boundaries: between human and earth, body and mind, past and pre sent, inside and outside. Sjoerd Kluiving is Associate Professor work ing in the fields of geoarchaeology, Quaternary geology and landscape archaeology. He is also part of the board of the Environmental Human ities Center at VU Amsterdam. Since 2019 he teaches the course Big Qu estions in the Anthropocene at Amsterdam University College. Sjoerd i nitiated the International Association of Landscape Archaeology (IALA ), uniting geologists, archaeologists and historians, and is currentl y Advisory Board member. He has vast experience in convening interdis ciplinary sessions in soils, landscapes and archaeology at EGU, EAA a nd LAC, and is guest editor of multiple special volumes dedicated to this theme. He has a special interest in interdisciplinary collaborat ion between nature and culture and Anthropocene studies. Annemie Hals ema is Associate professor at the Department of Philosophy (VU) and S ocrates professor at the Institute for Philosophy of Leiden Universit y. Her research project is entitled: ‘Hermeneutics of the gendered, racialized and ageing body’. She is interested in embodiment and i dentity, and the interrelations between body and discourse, in the fi elds of hermeneutics, phenomenology and gender studies. We close the public programme for On Limits with an ART SCIENCE dialogue featuring artist Eva Spierenburg in conversation with Sjoerd Kluiving, moderat ed by Annemie Halsema. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR