Hooggeeerd Publiek is the cultural podcast of the Northern Netherlands. Every two weeks, reporters from Dagblad van het Noorden and Leeuwarder Courant update you on everything that is going on in the cultural field in Drenthe, Friesland and Groningen (and beyond).
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Guest in this episode: artist Marten Winters. He makes an important contribution to the exhibition Ein Paradies For Die Neue Kunst Kurt Schwitters in Museum Dr8888: a work of art built from items collected on site. Gitte Brugman and Joep van Ruiten question Winters in an effort about what drove Schwitters to Drachten a hundred years ago and what he has to do with the absurdist and socially critical art movement Dadaism.
Furthermore, attention is paid to the (over)sensitivities of our time and what consequences this can have for art. While columnist Asing Walthaus argues in favor of calling students ‘made pupils’ from now on, children’s book maker Ted van Lieshout has serious problems. This is evident from an article that Van Lieshout wrote for a literary magazine Tirade . As an artist he fears that he will no longer be able to be autonomous in this day and age. Have we learned nothing from Kurt Schwitters?
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