Writings
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Art that chats and chatters
Janneke Schrage, curator of contemporary art at Museum Prinsenhof Delft, highlights the collection work KP (2007) by Gracia Khouw as a colonial ‘talking piece’. This article appeared in November 2025 in the magazine Delf of the historical society Delfia Batavorum. The article is written in Dutch.
Testimonies of the Visually Dispossessed: Unrepresentability in Iraqi art since the Gulf Wars
Thesis on art produced during the Gulf Wars by Iraqi artists Kareem Risan, Hanaa Malallah, and Ali Eyal: Theorising on the definition of testimonial practice, I demonstrate how these artists relate to the experience of the Gulf Wars outside of the popularised framework of ‘image fatigue’. Together, these artistic testimonies attempt to retrieve acknowledgement of the erasure of Iraqi culture and identity, and demand justice from those responsible for it – both of which are unimaginable and unattainable in the reality of today.
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Video Club: Glued to the Tube – Picturing Violence in Mass Media
Time-based Media and Contemporary Art Curator-in-Training Janneke Schrage reflects on curating the screening Video Club: Glued to the Tube at the Stedelijk, and programming video works that deal with televised violence.
Zie: Stedelijk Studies