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![MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR, the exhibition]( "MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR, the exhibition")
infoNoorderlicht Studio Groningen Visual impression of the exhibition photo: Hanne van der Velde
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![MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR, the exhibition]( "MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR, the exhibition")
infoNoorderlicht Studio Groningen
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![MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR, the exhibition]( "MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR, the exhibition")
infoNoorderlicht Studio Groningen photo: Hanne van der Velde
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![Videostill uit Space S]( "Videostill uit Space S")
infoProject MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR Geluid: Tjerk Stoop Camera assistentie: Marleen Sleeuwits en Maurits Giesen
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Tijdens mijn residentie in de Noorderlicht Studio te Groningen ging ik doelgericht opzoek naar ‘kunst die niet als Kunst bedoeld is’. Ik zocht naar alles waarvan ik voelde dat het gemaakt of verzameld was vanuit een intrinsieke behoefte, en niet vanuit een gewenst kunstenaarschap. Ik hing briefjes op in supermarkten, mailde heen en weer met mensen die op mijn oproepjes reageerden en nodigde sommigen uit in de studio om over hun kunstwerken te komen praten. Alle reacties en de toegezonden werken plakte ik in een boek (zie afbeelding). De toegestuurde werken vormden dan weer de inspiratie voor mijn nieuwe werken.
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![The Yellow Hand (2021)]( "The Yellow Hand (2021)")
infoProject MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR
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![Me, on my way to space]( "Me, on my way to space")
infoProject MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR
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![Project MUDDY PINK DINSAUR]( "Project MUDDY PINK DINSAUR")
infoAfgieten van beschadigde gevelsteen 'de varkenskop' (maker onbekend) in een silicone mal, Slachthuisstraat Groningen, duur van de actie 24 uur
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![Project MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR]( "Project MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR")
infoOproep-help-briefje, opgehangen op diverse plekken in Groningen dit om in contact te komen met lokale bewoners die artistieke werken maken in hun vrije tijd.
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![Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)]( "Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)")
info-Fotografisch dagboek van sculptuur 17, maker(s) onbekend. Sculptuur, natuurlijke materialen zoals takken en mos, 800x500x230 cm
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![Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)]( "Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)")
info-Documentatie foto van sculptuur 36, maker(s) onbekend 3D object, mix natuurlijke materialen en kunststof, 100x100x7 cm, 2020/2021
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![Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)]( "Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)")
info-Bezoekersgids HOOVM, Formaat A6, 9 hoofdstukken. Deze kregen bezoekers tijdens de rondleiding. Vormgeving Pierre Derks
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![Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)]( "Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)")
info-Documentatie foto gemaakt tijdens een rondleiding door het HOOVM.
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![Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)]( "Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)")
infoDetail bezoekersgids HOOVM
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![Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)]( "Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (archief)")
info-Documentatie foto van de pop-up museumwinkel
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![The Golden Dream]( "The Golden Dream")
infoDocumentation picture of the site specific installation ‘The Golden Dream’. The installation is specially made for CAPS Oostende an art space overlooking the north Sea at Oostende Belgium. The installation is about two migrants who drowned in their attempt to swim across the North Sea from Calais to Dover.
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![Only Jesus Saves]( "Only Jesus Saves")
infoLhGWR, Den Haag
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![The Golden Circle]( "The Golden Circle")
infoThis video is also part of the installation Only Jesus Saves and The Golden Dream
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![The Bleu Struggle]( "The Bleu Struggle")
infoThis video is also part of the installation Only Jesus Saves
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![LET US BE CHEERFUL]( "LET US BE CHEERFUL")
infoPresentation: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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![LET US BE CHEERFUL]( "LET US BE CHEERFUL")
infoLhGWR, Den Haag
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![The Lamb]( "The Lamb")
infothis video is also part of the installation LET US BE CHEERFUL
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![The Wash]( "The Wash")
infothis video is also part of the installation LET US BE CHEERFUL
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![The Holy]( "The Holy")
infothis video is also part of the installation LET US BE CHEERFUL
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![Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus]( "Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus")
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Curriculum vitae
Education
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2004 - 2006Fotografie post st-Joost Breda diploma
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2000 - 2004Fotografie Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
exhibitions
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2023
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2022Muddy Pink Dinosaur Noorderlicht Studio Groningen In the spring of 2021, Carlier was the first artist in residence in the Noorderlicht Studio. Using it as a base, she turned the city into her studio; collecting objects and stories, making interventions in the public space, approaching Groningers who are creatively active themselves and asking them to lend her their work. Carlier’s criterion was that these works of art were ‘made from an intrinsic need to create, and not from a desire to be an artist’. This flexible attitude inherent in creativity – breaking free from one’s own conceptions, being able to see everyday things in a new light – is precisely what Carlier’s artistic practice is about. All her ‘studies’, art finds, and new work inspired by this will be brought together in a playful mix in ‘MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR’. Carlier challenges the viewer to look differently at their immediate surroundings, at the world and at art. www.noorderlicht.com/programma/muddy-pink-dinosaur-2
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2021
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2021Narratives of Nature Corrosia Almere www.cultureelcentrumcorrosia.nl/extra/narratives_of_nature Group
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2019The Golden Dream CAPS Ostend, Belgium The site specific installation ‘The Golden Dream’. The installation is specially made for CAPS Oostende an art space overlooking the north Sea at Oostende Belgium. The installation is about two migrants who drowned in their attempt to swim across the North Sea from Calais to Dover. www.c-aps.be/about-us/newsletter/archive/view/listid-1-mailing-list/mailid-82-carlier-video-fotografie-oostende/tmpl-component Solo
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2018De opmaat LhGWR The Hague, Netherlands www.lhgwr.com/de-opmaat-de-eerste-10-jaar-van-liefhertje-de-grote-witte-reus/ Group
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2017Only Jesus Saves LhGWR The Hague, Netherlands LhGWR is very proud to present the exhibition Only Jesus Saves by Sarah Carlier (1981, BE). For the exhibition Carlier has made ten new video works that will come together in a new site-specific multi-channel video installation. Her residency in the United States and the rapidly changing dynamics in our Western society have a visible impact on the social engagement that characterizes her work. The narratives in Sarah Carlier’s video works stem from the friction found between our predilection for tradition and the inevitable changes in our modest day-to-day existence. Delving into such substantive matters about life’s meaning and futility, her light approach chimes with the absurdist undertones of contemporary Belgian art. Carlier provokes you to consider our current zeitgeist in which fear of the unknown seems to be a common thread. Her multi-screen video installations interweave diverging narratives into new forms. Video scenes with underlying cynicism are interchanged with those of light-hearted humour, each serving as a counterpart to put things in perspective, sharpening the work’s focus. Like a visual symphony autonomous video works converge in a larger entity, drawing striking and layered parallels with the rhythms of the everyday. www.lhgwr.com/sarah-carlier-only-jesus-saves/ Solo
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2017Fabulous failures Botanique Brussels, Belgium www.botanique.be/nl/tentoonstelling/fabulous-failures-de-kunst-van-het-toeval-en-de-fouten-omarmen Group
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2017LhGWR @ Art Rotterdam Art Rotterdam Rotterdam
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2016Arcadia Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Netherlands curators Hanne Hagenaars en Heske ten Cate www.mistermotley.nl/arcadia/
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2015
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2015LET US BE CHEERFUL AMC (Academical Medical Center) Amsterdam The video-installation LET US BE CHEERFUL is showed there for the coming five years. (2015-2020) issuu.com/amcamsterdam/docs/nr._8.nov/21 Group
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2014On the Move Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands The video-installation LET US BE CHEERFUL was part of the exhibition On the Move www.stedelijk.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/on-the-move Group
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2014LET US BE CHEERFUL LhGWR The Hague, Netherlands Sarah Carlier has spent the past two years producing thirteen new video works that will be presented as a symphony, coming together in a half an hour video installation. With her work Carlier researches the ways we attempt to place culturally rooted traditions and customs into our modern day existence. This leads to poetic and humoristic mise-en-scenes, in which the friction related to change becomes tangible. Her video works balance between stillness and movement. They are cinematic series of images of a photographic nature that she calls moving pictures. For a long time her work had a documentary point of departure, but in her new works she addresses the viewer directly. This leads to more insights into her own perception and interpretation of the subject. www.lhgwr.com/sarah-carlier-let-us-be-cheerfull/ Solo
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2014Truths, Facts, Fictions, Lies Photoireland Dublin In the show Truths, Facts, Fictions, Lies I presented the project Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus photoireland.org/news/truths-facts-fictions-lies/ Group
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2014
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2012Return on Invest Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands www.stroom.nl/paginas/pagina.php?pa_id=96957 Group
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2012Young Belgian Photography FOMU (Fotomuseum) Antwerp, Belgium In the show Young Belgian Photography I presented the project Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus www.fotomuseum.be/en/exhibitions/archive/archive-2012.html Duo
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2012Dutch Doc Award Expo Tropenmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus www.dutch-doc.nl/fotografen/sarah-carlier/four-years-three-deaths-sweaty-armpits-and-a-fetus/ Group
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2011Daily Whisper De Brakke Grond Amsterdam, Netherlands www.tubelight.nl/alledaagse-beslommeringen-op-monumentale-schaal/ Solo
Projects
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2020
Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum HOOVM museum Haagse Bos, Den Haag, Netherlands www.instagram.com/hoovm_museum/ (spring 2020) On her daily walk through the Haagse Bos in The Hague, Carlier encountered fascinating sculptures of branches, tree trunks and moss, which appeared out of nowhere, disappeared and then reappeared in a different spot. The constructions reminded her of the Folk Art of the American Deep South, which she had come across during her travels in 2017 and 2019 and are typified by spontaneity. Were these woodland sculptures created out of simple pastimes, or could she see them, like the work of the Folk Artists, as a creative necessity, a breathing space in a time that was so oppressive and frightening for everyone? Carlier says, “I thought of Joseph Beuys’ Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler and decided to document everything on my route. Soon I began to play along with the invisible creators. I marked branches and waited for someone or something to move them. I spied on people and kept a diary of each construction. There was something comforting about it. Despite all our differences, we all feel the need to express our creativity, play and create a place where we feel safe.” Eventually she named her walking route The Hague Organic Open Air Folk Museum and started organising tours.
International exchanges/Residencies
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2021Noorderlicht Studio Groningen, Netherlands residencie - werkperiode / solo tentoonstelling www.noorderlicht.com
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2015The Deep South , United States Onderzoeksreis
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2014Plat(t)form Fotomuseum Winterhur , Switzerland Participant of the International curated portfolio viewing at Fotomuseum Winterhur www.fotomuseum.ch/en/explore/platform/artists/11323_sarah_carlier
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2012Schetland Eilanden, United Kingdom Werkperiode
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2012chateau coquelle en FRAC Nord pas de Calais Dunkirk, France artist in residence www.lechateaucoquelle.fr/rsf/
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2010Beius, Romania Werkperiode
Commissions
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2018Het Nationale Theater The Hague, Netherlands Campaign images finished
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2013Home / Handboek voor Hedendaagse Hofjes Young Designers The Netherlands Book www.ydsite.nl/thema/thuis/ finished
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2012Voor eenzaamheid Young Designers The Netherlands toegepaste kunst www.ydsite.nl/thema/eenzaamheid/ finished
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2011IKON - TV idents KesselsKramer The Netherlands TV idents www.sarahcarlier.nl/kesselskramer-ikon/ finished
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2010ik BEN vrij KesselsKramer The Netherlands Advertising BEN telecommunication tv-spots www.sarahcarlier.nl/kesselskramer-ben/ finished
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2009The Hague: City of international right and justice Gemeente Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands toegepaste kunst www.sarahcarlier.nl/thehague/ finished
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2009Caroussel Theater aan het Spui The Hague a theaterplay in cooperation with Thomas Schoots www.sarahcarlier.nl/theaterahspui/ finished
Sales/Works in collections
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2015Vondel Hotels Nederland
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2015Collection of The Mind’s Eye Nederland
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2015Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Nederland LET US BE CHEERFUL 8-Channel video installation, sound, 24:00
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2015Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Nederland Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus Book & video & print (Installation)
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2015Stichting JC Art fund Nederland LET US BE CHEERFUL 8-Channel video installation, sound, 24:00
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2011FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, België Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus Book & video & print (Installation)
Publications
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2011Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus Book Self Published Netherlands www.sarahcarlier.nl/fouryears/
reviews
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2022Muddy Pink Dinosaur: Sarah Carlier @ Noorderlicht Studio Dinnis van Dijken Jegens en Tevens jegensentevens.nl/2021/11/muddy-pink-dinosaur-sarah-carlier-noorderlicht-studio/ De expositie Muddy Pink Dinosaur toont de resultaten van Sarah Carlier’s (1981) residency in Noorderlicht Studio te Groningen. Van 1 mei tot 1 juni nam de Vlaamse kunstenares haar intrek in Noorderlicht Studio. De titel van de expositie is een ode aan de folk art kunstenaar Mose Tolliver, een grote inspiratiebron voor Carlier.
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2021Kunst is lang Luuk Heezen Mister Motley www.mistermotley.nl/sarah-carlier/ Waar voor de meeste kunstenaars de corona-pandemie een verschraling van mogelijkheden betekende, zag Sarah Carlier juist mogelijkheden: op haar dagelijkse wandelrondje door het bos verschenen opeens allerlei uitingen van creativiteit, waardoor ze het bos doopte tot Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum. Het deed haar beseffen dat ze zich niet zo druk moest maken over het concept achter een werk, als dat het ongebreidelde plezier van het maken in de weg zit.
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2021Raymond Frenken Mister Motley www.mistermotley.nl/overwegend-stekelige-bossen-en-rottende-moerassen/ Wat drijft de mens in het bos? Benut zij slechts het bos als speelruimte of is er meer aan de hand? Die vraag staat centraal in het Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum. Bezoekers worden uitgenodigd de rulle bosgrond, struiken, takken en bomen te zien als expositieruimte. Anonieme kunstenaars hebben hier werken bijeengebracht die aan voortdurende verandering onderhevig zijn.
Awards and grants
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2020Stroom Promisse (sinds 2004) Stroom, Den Haag Netherlands ter ondersteuning voor het Haags Organisch Openlucht Volks Museum (HOOVM)
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2015PRO Onderzoek, Stroom Den Haag The Deep South, USA
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2014Sedelijke Kunstaankopen Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2013Pro Kunstprojecten, Stroom Den Haag Netherlands financial contribution for the presentation of LET US BE CHEERFUL
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2013Prix de Rome Netherlands Longlist nomination
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2012Four years, three deaths, sweaty armpits and a fetus Dutch Doc Award Netherlands Shortlist nomination
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2011PRO Premium, Stroom Den Haag Netherlands
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2010Werkbijdrage Jong Talent Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam (Mondriaan Fonds) Netherlands
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2007Pro Invest Subsidy, Stroom Den Haag Netherlands
Secondary art-related activities
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2017 - --Teacher at the HKU - Photography Department On-going
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2016 - --Het scholierenproject Madurodam vrede en recht
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2010 - --Workshop | Willem de Kooning
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2009 - 2019Diverste lezingen, interviews en deelnames aan Pecha Kucha's