Jan Frederik Verwoert
Professor of art and theory
Jan Verwoert teaches at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, and the de Appel curatorial programme, Amsterdam.
Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory. He is a contributing editor of frieze magazine and his writing has appeared in different journals, anthologies and monographs.
He is the author of «Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous» (MIT Press/Afterall Books, 2006), the essay collection «Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want» (Sternberg Press/Piet Zwart Institute, 2010), «Animal Spirits—Fables in the Parlance of Our Time» together with Michael Stevenson, (Christoph Keller Editions, JRP, Zurich, 2013) and a second collection of his essays «Cookie!» published by Sternberg Press/Piet Zwart Institute (2014).
His work is focussed around the desire to develop concepts that redescribe the role of emotion, motion, action, intuition and sentience in the practice of art and thinking. His criticism is directed against a new system of control in which the pressure to perform (imposed by ourselves on ourselves, at all times) goes hand in hand with the demand to produce events, deliver results, represent identities and surrender to evaluation.
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Jan Frederik Verwoert, Ane Graff, Sara Eliassen, Jan Peter Hammer, Manuel Pelmus & Jenny Perlin:
Many souls Speak Through Bodies in Motion on What is to be Known Now, or Not Now (but once the moon is in another house)
(2022).
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Jan Frederik Verwoert:
Jan Verwoert: Open rehearsals in unlearning Proprietary methods of "(Kn)ow(n)ing thyself"
(2021).
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Jan Frederik Verwoert:
Open Lecture: Jan Verwoert / Open rehearsals in unlearning Proprietary methods of "(Kn)ow(n)ing thyself" part II
(2021).
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Open Lecture: Jan Verwoert / Open rehearsals in unlearning Proprietary methods of "(Kn)ow(n)ing thyself" part III
(2021).
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Jan Verwoert: Hollow fathers, methods & maxim guns OR modes, manners & keys
(2020).
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Jan Verwoert: Gifts are animated things whose elements stay unstable
(2020).
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Jan Verwoert: A taste of abstraction: excited souls moving sideways
(2020).
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Jan Verwoert: Say hi to the genie and pick the holy fruit
(2020).
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Sara Eliassen & Jan Frederik Verwoert:
Sara Eliassen in conversation with Jan Verwoert on shifting grounds and material related to her Phd project Screened Visions/ National Visions
(2020).
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Matheline Marmy & Jan Frederik Verwoert:
A conversation between Matheline Marmy and Jan Verwoert
(2019).
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