POST Arnhem
ECHO
Lecture evening ECHO // Plague
25-04-2024
20:00-22:00
POST Arnhem, Driekoningenstraat 16
Language: Dutch
Entrance fee: 7,50 euros including free coffee, tea and soda
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On April 25, Platform POST is organising an in-depth evening called 'ECHO' during the exhibition Plague. On this evening full of lectures, Dick Zijp, Max van Loon and Wouter van Eck will shed light on the theme of the exhibition: the psychological complexity of the climate crisis. How can we deal with feelings of distress, anxiety, and hypocrisy? What can we as humans learn from the non-human inhabitants of the Earth? And how can storytelling and humour help us grasp the elusive? Does this spark your curiosity? Learn more during ECHO on April 25 at the Maak-lab, just around the corner from POST.
Dick Zijp (NL, 1988)
Dick Zijp is a humour researcher and cultural scientist. He studied Theatre Studies, Philosophy and Art Sciences at the University of Amsterdam and wrote a dissertation on the political-aesthetic effect of humour in Dutch cabaret. He currently works as an Assistant Professor within the Department of Media and Cultural Sciences at Utrecht University. He is also a freelance writer and cabaret critic for De Groene Amsterdammer.
Max van Loon (NL, 1999)
Max van Loon is a performance artist. In their work, the line between theatre and art becomes blurred. They picks aspects of those art forms to investigate the tension between entertainment and art, and uses this to playfully question how art is consumed. With archetypal costumes, a presentation that is a cross between farce and radio play, and light-hearted texts about heavy themes, Van Loon exposes the problems of today. They has exhibited at Zeeuws Museum, Kunstpodium T, RUIS and POPOP art, among others, and will soon play at the theatre festival Vuurol.
Wouter van Eck (NL, 1965)
Wouter van Eck was lecturer at the Radboud University of Nijmegen before he started working as Agriculture and Food campaign leader at Milieudefensie in Amsterdam (Friends of the Earth Netherlands). As a food forest pioneer, he advocates cooperation with the many non-human inhabitants of the forest. Since 2009, Wouter has designed and created the food forest Ketelbroek (2.42 ha), currently the largest and most diverse food forest in the Netherlands. Wouter took the Advanced Forest Gardening course in England at the Agroforestry Research Trust. He has been giving lectures, presentations and courses on food forests since 2012, including as a guest lecturer at the Farming Systems Ecology department of Wageningen University & Research.