Transmission in Motion

Documentation

“Analysing Silliness” – Thorn Austin

What do you think of when I mention a frog? A slimy green creature? A silly-looking jumping creature? A cute little dude on a leaf? Unless frogs are particularly scary to you, the idea of someone in an inflatable frog costume would probably be a mood-lifting sight, a welcome bit of silliness added to your…

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[TiM Recap] “Frogs and Clowns: An Object Orientation of Protest Today” — Anneke Jansen (SPOT Groningen) and Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University)

by Ani Encheva “The multiple dimensions that make up objects also make up ourselves, as well as our categories. Telling the stories of an object therefore begins unpacking our own clichés, our certainties, our affects.” – Joseph Dumit (2014, 349) In encountering the inflatable frogs and clowning artefacts that populate contemporary protest, we are invited…

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Title and speakers to be announced

More information will be available closer to the date of the session. This session is part of the Transmission in Motion seminar (2025-2026): “Navigating Entanglements.” To stay updated with more seminar sessions, please subscribe to our newsletter.

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“Theater, Moon Studies, and Interplanetary Entanglements” – Vivian Appler, Felipe Cervera, Marjolijn van Heemstra, Xiao-Shan Yap, and Maaike Bleeker

  This session of the TiM seminar brings together four scholars and one artist/writer for a collaborative exploration of performance-oriented research into the histories and futures of Lunar exploration and exploitation. Informed by diverse backgrounds and practices, we have, each in our own way, developed research that engages with the entanglements of earthly and outer

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“Frogs and Clowns: An Object Orientation of Protest Today” — Anneke Jansen (Theatre Programming, SPOT Groningen) and Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University)

‘Object Orientation’ is an integrative method that uses objects to bring together perspectives. After all, objects are indifferent to the ways in which perspectives have been institutionalized. They have come into being through dynamic combinations or intersections of perspectives, and they compel us to combine or interweave perspectives when we engage with them. The method…

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