MIXED MEDIA
Sytze Steenstra
- books,
essays
- research
- editing, translating
- lectures, workshops
- art projects
Josh Moll
- coaching
BOOKS AND ESSAYS
Sytze Steenstra: 0031-6-28072072 / 0031-43-3540765; sytzesteenstra@mixed-media.info
I publish in Dutch as well as in English, mostly in an essayistic mode. In my writing, I try out combinations of diverse points of view, scholarly discourses, artistic disciplines, modes of experience, call it what you want. This often requires research, in which I have a good deal of experience. Sometimes I write as free-lance journalist, for example for art magazines, Museumtijdschrift and HTV de IJsberg, and essays for art catalogues.
See below for my books and contributions to books.
SInce 2010 I write a blog, in Dutch, consisting of short and longer essays on philosophy, the arts, life in general: http://sytzesteenstra.wordpress.com/. ‘Reclame voor ziekte’(‘Advertising for disease’) was picked up by the newsletter of NCZ, a network of healthcare clients; another essay, ‘Het zwart in de romans van A. S. Byatt’ (‘The black in A. S. Byatt’s novels’) was republished on OoteOote, a literary filter blog.
Books:
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Song and Circumstance. The work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the present. “Scrupulously researched and uncannily on-the money” – David Byrne To “look inside” this book, go to http://www.amazon.com/Song-Circumstance-David-Talking-Present/dp/0826441688#reader_ Song and Circumstance” is recommended by Design Observer (“design, culture, change”): “a superbly wide-ranging, detailed and insightful analysis of the rock star, filmmaker, artist, and design collaborator’s multifaceted oeuvre”. (http://designobserver.com/books_recommended.html) |
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We Are The Noise Between Stations. Maastricht: Mixed Media, 2003. Selected for Best Books of 2003 by Vrij Nederland magazine |
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Inleiding in de Filosofie: het ware, het goede en het schone. [Introduction to Philosophy: the True, the Good and the Beautiful] Courseteamleader SytzeSteenstra. Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, 1994: four volumes. (out of print)
Vol. 1 Greek Antiquity and Middle Ages
Vol. 2 Modern Philosophy
Vol. 3 Contemporary Philosophy
Vol. 4 Reader
Essays, introductions, book contributions:
In English:
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Conceptual Cartoons in Suggestion City. |
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Warped Flow Gadget. |
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David Byrne: Getting the I out of design. |
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Neutralizing… Now! Or, International Rescue, the Fantastic Reality of the 21st Century. |
"Man is actually chaos". The poetics of early Romanticism.
The HTV 51, art paper, 2004.
www.mixed-media.info/Man is actually chaos
In Dutch:
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“Uit het dagboek van de tastzin”, in: Ine Schröder. Rimburg: Huis Clos, 2009. [contribution, art catalogue, “From the diary of the sense of touch”] |
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“Een groot ding te logeren”, in: Ron Bernstein: Zagen op Zondag. Maastricht: Elephantine Press, 2009. [introduction, artist’s book/performance documentation, “A big thing as house guest”] |
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“Halverwege onbevangenheid. Over het beeldende werk van David Byrne”, in: Zonder Wrijving Geen Glans. Curatorentraject Het Proces en de tentoonstelling Stop Making Sense. Amsterdam: Kunstenaars &Co, 2009. [contribution, exhibition catalogue, “Halfway to open-mindedness. On the visual art of David Byrne”] |
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De besmettelijkheid van jingles. Don DeLillo’s Underworld als soundtrack. [book contribution: “Contagious jingles. Don DeLillo’s ‘Underworld’ as soundtrack”] |
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Ron Bernstein. Catalogus, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, 2001. [catalogue contribution] |
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“Nawoord”, in: Walter Benjamin: Eenrichtingsverkeer. Vertaling Sytze Steenstra. Amsterdam: [Afterword and translation of Benjamin’s “One-Way Street”] |
Stijl als grondslag. Het filosofisch schrijverschap van Adorno. Krisis, tijdschrift voor filosofie.
www.krisis.eu/content/2005-1/2005-1-07-steenstra.pdf
[academic article: “Style as foundation. Adorno’s philosophical authorship”]
Zijn er nog vragen? David Byrne als conceptuele songwriter en het experimentele theater.
Armada, Tijdschrift voor wereldliteratuur, 2006.
www.mixed-media.info/Armada
[article: “Are there any questions? David Byrne as conceptual songwriter and experimental theatre”]
“Polderfotomodel” in: Judith Boer: Gekopte tulpen langs de Lange Slaper. Maastricht, 2001. [text for artist’s book]
“De cultuurkritiek van de Frankfurter Schule” in: Denken over cultuur. Gebruik en misbruik van een concept. Heerlen: Open Universiteit, 1993. [course chapter]
JOURNALISM
Museumtijdschrift, Jan/Feb 2011: Leon Golub.