Written by Sonja van Kerkhoff copyright 2002: ask my permission first if you wish to use anything I've written unless you source where this comes from and it is clear that what you've used is an excerpt.
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About my own art   Reviews   Essays/Articles/Presentations   Interviews



About my own work (Located at http://members.fortunecity.com/huianui. Just move the banner to the side so that each time you change pages the banner doesn't reappear in the way.)
In December 1998 I participated in an exhibition on the theme of contemporary religious art and this is a text
I wrote discussing various influences with a focus on the Bahá´í influences in my work made between 1989-1998.


Reviews

  • Arts Symposium in Villach, Austria, Arts Dialogue, December 1997

  • An island as stage, the Oerol Performing Arts Festival, Arts Dialogue, December 1996

  • 1995 Venice Biennale, Arts Dialogue, December 1996

  • Lydia Schouten, Women's Art, U.K., 1990



Essays, Articles, or Presentations
  • Rewriting the Script, a short essay about gender and the Bahá´í Teachings, 2000


  • The arts in an optimal society, a slide presentation given at the Association Bahá´í Studies Conference: Models for an Optimal Society, Waikato University, Hamilton, July, 2000


  • A song outside my window, and the traffic wrote the words, 1999


  • More than the eye sees, 1999
    My contribution to the materie/mysterie (materiality/mystery) exhibition,
    where 4 wrote texts and 6 made installations on this theme
    in the DeFKa exhibition space, Assen, The Netherlands.


  • Talk About Art As A Creative Process, 1996
    A slide presentation read on my behalf at:
    the English Speaking European Bahá´í conference, Cambridge, U.K., 1997
    the Australian Bahá´í Studies conference on the theme: "The Creative Inspiration", Melbourne, 1999


  • Gendered categories, 1995
    A multi-media presentation for the English Speaking European Bahá´í Studies
    special interest "Gender" conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.


  • Feminism as a means towards diversity, 1994, -short essay


  • A perspective on the Bahá´í Faith and the Arts, 1994
    I was asked to write a Bahá´í view on the arts and this is what I came up with.
    All comments, criticism, insights and more information or quotations are welcome.


  • In a New Zealand Landscape (expressions of culture through the visual arts), 1988
    A slide presentation given at the first New Zealand Association Bahá´í Studies Conference, near Christchurch.


  • New Vessels, 1988
    About a series of images for a poem by Sen McGlinn (Printed in Herald of the South, April-June 1990).

If there is no link, that just means that I have not put the text up yet.


Interviews   These are on the Arts Dialogue site.

  • Jessy Rahman, visual artist, The Netherlands, Arts Dialogue, June 2000
  • Murk Jiskoot, percussionist, The Netherlands, Arts Dialogue, September 1999
  • Ben Roberts, actor, U.S.A., Arts Dialogue, June 1999
  • Miep Diekmann, writer, The Netherlands, Arts Dialogue, Dec 1997, March 1998, September 1999, October 2000
  • Joke van Stuijvenburg, visual artist, The Netherlands, Arts Dialogue, September 1998


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