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Sytze Steenstra

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ART PROJECTS

Sytze Steenstra: 06-28072072 / 043-3540765; mail sytzesteenstra@mixed-media.info

Guest curator:

Retrospective exhibition of the work of David Byrne. Stijn Huijts, director of Museum Schunck, Heerlen asked me in 2011 to develop a plan. Ongoing.

Preliminary research for an exhibition presenting the work of Liz LeCompte and The Wooster Group (New York City).

Education:

I wrote the outline for a guided tour for visitors to the exhibition Niki de Saint Phalle: Outside In, in Museum Schunck, Heerlen (2011). The exhibition was very successful, the outline was used by guides for a great many group tours. 

Participation in debates etc.

Expert meeting: Beyond the Amateur. Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht 2010.
Expert meeting: Interieur in het oeuvre van Jef Cornelis. NAi/Bureau Europa, Maastricht 2009.
Expert meeting: De flaneur. Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht 2008.

Examples of work:

drogmetica photo
drogmetica text

Drogmetica, photo-text installation, 1998

detail installation (photo)
detail installation (text)

neutralizing - now

“Neutralizing… Now!”, video (6’20”), 1999, which I later turned into a written book contribution, “Neutralizing… Now!” in Jean Fishers “Reverberations” (see ‘writing’)

In the collection of the Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (Dutch Institute for Media Art)

Publications in which illustrations play an independent role:

“Een groot ding te logeren”, in: Ron Bernstein: Zagen op Zondag, 2009.
Conceptual Cartoons in Suggestion City, in: Nayoungim & Gregory Maas: “It’s Nice To Be Nice, Try It”, 2009. Download at:www.nayoungim-maass.com/

Contributions to debates, performances, exhibitions:

Expert meeting: Interieur in het oeuvre van Jef Cornelis. NAi/Bureau Europa, Maastricht 2009.
Expert meeting: De flaneur. Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht 2008.

Participation in performances:

Ron Bernstein - Folly

Ron Bernstein: “Folly”, Maastricht 2007.

Colourfield Parking

Ron Bernstein “Colourfield Parking”, Maastricht 2005.

Splitzij

Anne Verhoijsen, “Splitzij”, Amsterdam: De Kunstvlaai, Hotel Winston, Bijenkorf, 2000-02.

Ben Leenen, “Square Foot”, Maastricht 2009, video.

Group show museum Minderbroedersberg, University Maastricht, 2003.
Materie/Mysterie, Group show ‘Niet De KunstVlaai’, Amsterdam, 2000.
International conference “Reverberations: Tactics of Resistance, Forms of Agency in Trans/cultural Practices” organized by Jean Fisher, Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht: video presentation "Neutralizing…  Now!", 1999.
Materie/Mysterie. Group show. DeFKa de Seine, Assen, 1999.
“Jump Into The Question”,  Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, 1999: Organization of international debate and talks about the role of theory in the artist’s studio.