Joke van Leeuwen’s Light-Hearted Anarchy
For years now Joke van Leeuwen has occupied a special position in the Dutch cultural landscape. With such a versatile talent as hers this is hardly surprising. Central to all her work, whether in her...
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Not a breath of wind. Yet a man held on tight to a woman, a woman to a child. Little legs moved of themselves. Above on a string a balloon like a fish. Above that the sun, blazing. The child had let go...
View ArticleOddball Amazement and Restless Waywardness
The Polymorphous Work of Joke Van Leeuwen Joke van Leeuwen’s airy, apparently casual manner of bending language to her will is quite unparalleled. Time and again she comes up with new free forms, cast...
View ArticleAn Extract from ‘Celebration of the Beginning’
On an October Monday in the first year of the new freedom rain pours down uncompromisingly on the capital city. It beats a multitude of tiny pits in the water of the river, which runs through the city...
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Four Ways of Waiting for Someone 1 Sitting. Thinking of lying. Hands smoothing the tablecloth around a dish that’s difficult and much too much for two and not like the picture, but smells fantastic,...
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