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Written by Sonja van Kerkhoff

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About my own art   Reviews   Essays/Articles/Presentations   Interviews


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
  • Miracles of Vision a version of a review that appeared in Art New Zealand, January 2001
  • The Living Creature, Post..., [not linked yet] January, 2000
    (Arts Magazine produced by Alumni of the Maastricht Art School)
    - article about the work we did at InterAction in May 1999.
  • InterAction, 1999, unpublished
  • The Hague Appeal for Peace conference, Arts Dialogue, June 1999
  • ISEA's Terror - Review of ISEA '98 (The InterSociety for Electronic Arts),
    Arts Dialogue, December 1998
  • Outside/inside Documenta, Arts Dialogue, March 1998
  • Villach doesn't exist, only art [no link] Arts Symposium in Villach, Austria,
    Arts Dialogue, December 1997
  • An island is stage, the Oerol Arts Festival, Arts Dialogue, December 1996
  • Encountering the Venice Biennale?, 1995, Arts Dialogue, December 1996
  • Lydia Schouten, [no link] Women's Art, U.K., 1990

Essays, Articles, or Presentations
  • Art is a Creative Process -slide presentation, some aspects from the Bahá´í Writings, 2004
  • Rewriting the Script a short photo-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, image-essay on the theme of 'silence'.
  • 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 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, Australia, 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.

  • Mahinarangi Tocker, singer, songwriter, poet, Aotearoa / New Zealand, 2003.
  • Sandy Hoover, music producer, musician, U.S.A. + U.K., Arts Dialogue, October 2001
  • Alí Allié, filmmaker, U.S.A., Arts Dialogue, June 2001
  • 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
  • Joke van Stuijvenberg, visual artist, The Netherlands, Arts Dialogue, September 1998

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