At Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven the organizers of Be[com]ing Dutch learned from the military: To cover the “Caucus”, a series of conferences and panels, the asked a group of journalism students to write for their blog. Reportedly one of the first questions was “may we be critical?”. This kind of conference is all about being critical and therefore not as vulnerable towards critique as military operations. So of course they can be critical, but somehow I doubt that we will see much critical writing by the students.
Speakers at the caucus are to a certain degree the usual suspects. Hopefully I will see Boris Groys’ Keynote speach “Religion as Medium” on Saturday, November 24. Last week they had Roger Buergel the organizer of this year’s Documenta and next Sunday (November, 18) Catherine David, organizer of Documenta X, will give a keynote speech. Videos in very good quality of all conferences are available here.
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