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Dr. J.T. (Janna) Schoenberger

Amsterdam University College
Amsterdam University College

Visiting address
  • Science Park 113
  • Room number: 3.21
Postal address
  • Science Park 113
    1098 XG Amsterdam
  • Books and Monographs

    Waiting for the Witch Doctor: Robert Jasper Grootveld's Scrapbook and the Dutch Counterculture. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2020. https://www.rijksmuseumshop.nl/nl/waiting-for-the-witch-doctor

  • Peer Reviewed Publications

    ““Een merkwaardig misverstand”: Postcolonial reflections on Hoepla” Stedelijk Studies 14, forthcoming February 2024.

    “The Ersatz Art School and Councils of Councils: Playful Dutch Institutions of Critique in the 1960s.” In Humor in Contemporary Art: Between the Local and the Global, edited by Mette Gieskes and Gregory Williams, forthcoming 2023.

    “Ludic Exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum: Die Welt als Labyrinth, Bewogen Beweging, and Dylaby” Stedelijk Studies 7 (Fall 2018). https://stedelijkstudies.com/journal/ludic-exhibitions-at-the-stedelijk-museum-die-welt-als-labyrinth-bewogen-beweging-and-dylaby/

    “Jean Tinguely’s Cyclograveur: The Ludic Anti-Machine of Bewogen Beweging,” Sequitur, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2016. https://www.bu.edu/sequitur/2016/04/29/schoenberger-tinguely/

    “Bas Jan Ader’s Ludic Conceptualism: Performing a Transnational Identity.” In The Power of Satire, edited by Sonja de Leeuw and Marijke Meijer Drees, 185-193. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers, 2015.

    “Deadpan at Work in Almerisa: Rineke Dijkstra’s Transcultural Photographic Series.” In Dutch Crossing, Crossing Boundaries and Transforming Identities: New Perspectives in Netherlandic Studies, edited by Mariet Bruijn Lacy and Christine P. Sellin, 163-174. Munster: Nodus Publikationen, 2011.

  • Publications and Published Reviews

    “Public Playpens and Women’s Catcalls: Dolle Mina’s Ludic Actions,” Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, July 3, 2018, https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/digdeeper/public-playpens-and-womens-catcalls

    “Hoepla: The Power of Ludic Prime Time Television,” Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, July 3, 2018, https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/digdeeper/hoepla-power-ludic-prime-time-television

    “Fertile Ground? The Emergence of Minimalism at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,” Stedelijk Museum Bulletin 1, 2007.

    “Fishing Line Never Looked So Good,” NY Arts Magazine, July/August 2006, Vol. 11, No. 7/8.

    “Magic with Light, Water and a Sponge (forget the smoke and mirrors).” NY Arts Magazine, March/April 2006, Vol. 11, No. 3/4.

    “Contemporary Art Twente,” Art Fairs International, January/February 2006, Vol. 2, No. 1/2.

  • Conference Papers and Symposia

    “Dolle Mina: Reimagining Ludic Art as Feminist Activism,” Feminist Futures? Feminism and European Art, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Nov 17 – 18, 2021.

    “Dolle Mina: From Ludic Art to Activism,” Art & Activism: Resilience Techniques in Times of Crisis, National Museum of World Cultures, Leiden, December 13 – 15, 2017

    “The Ersatz Art School and Councils of Councils: Playful Dutch Institutions of Critique in the 1960s,” Humor, Globalization, and Culture-Specificity in Modern and Contemporary Art, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, June 16, 2017.

    “The Ersatz Art School and Councils of Councils: Dutch Institutions of Critique in the 1960s,” 105th Annual College Art Conference, New York, February 15, 2017.

    “Ludic Exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum: Die Welt als Labyrinth, Bewogen Beweging, and Dylaby,” Lose Yourself! Symposium of Labyrinthine Exhibitions as Curatorial Model, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, February 3 – 4, 2017.

    “The Legacy of Play in Cobra: Constant Nieuwenhuys and Ludic Conceptualism,” 103rd Annual College Art Conference, New York, February 11, 2015.

    “The Anti-Smoking Homo Ludens: Performance Art and Provos in Amsterdam,” Performing Protest, University of Leuven, Leuven, May 8 – 10, 2014.

    Bewogen Beweging’s Ludic Anti-Machine: Jean Tinguely’s Cyclograveur,” Métamatic Reloaded, Museum Tinguely, Basel, March 20 – 23, 2013.

    “Bas Jan Ader’s Rhetorical Tactics: Performing a Transnational Identity,” Satire Across Borders Conference, Utrecht University, Utrecht, January 17 – 18, 2013.

    “Ludic Conceptualism: Bas Jan Ader, a Dutchman Playing Abroad,” 100th Annual College Art Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2012.

    “More than Mondrian: Minimalism at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,” Holland-America Symposium, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, February 18, 2011.

    “Identities in Almerisa: Rineke Dijkstra’s Transcultural Photographic Series,” 15th Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference for Netherland Studies: “Crossing Boundaries and Transforming Identities: New Perspective in Netherlandic Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, June 19, 2010.

  • Ancillary activities
    • No ancillary activities