Writings

Here you can find a diverse range of texts that have been produced to support both my projects and artworks, as well as texts commissioned by others.

Many of the writings experiment by taking up a non-human perspective; they speculate about multi-species communities, futures, and activate visual cultures as a starting point for imagining.

Podcasts

MacGuffinMagazine Podcast

TREES

TREES is the second MacGuffin podcast series, produced to accompany MacGuffin Magazine Nº 12 The Log.
The five-part series is made by Alix de Massiac with sound design by Nathalie Bruys, mixed by Tom Ruijg,
voice-over by Staci Bu Shea.

‍Episode 2. TO ASK A TREE

Take a walk and talk to trees. Maybe even ask them for permission when touching or using them. In this episode we meet tree man Jeroen Heindijk and curator Marjolein van der Loo. Sceptics might see trees as mere tall plants that live for a long time and have not much to say. It turns out trees don’t talk much, but do 'make us feel'.
‍Episode 3. To See a Tree
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Imagine living on the 35th floor of a huge high rise. You look down below and see a little plant on the sidewalk. On the sidewalk that little plant turns out to be a big tree, with apples to eat, branches to swing from and leafy shade to take a nap in. How do we perceive and think of all these material and immaterial benefits trees provide us with?In this episode the activist Clara Visser, arborist Jorn Beerendonk and curator Marjolein van der Loo guide us through the different ways of seeing trees.

Landschapsbeheer.

For this mini-podcast, I contextualize a few themes that we find in Stefan Cools' art practice within local agriculture and ecological management. In conversation with Eef Smitshuysen at farming museum Schimmert and biologist Larse Claessens, we discuss tools and methods for inclusive land management that increases biodiversity.

The podcast has been commissioned by Museum De Domijnen, Contemporary Art, and is presented in relation to the wall installation in the exhibition ‘Uit het leven van een Vlinder’ curated by Cees de Boer.

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Some texts are available online, others can be requested by mail.
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