March upcoming current student Simon(e) van Saarloos (DAI,2020) and current DAI / If I Can't Dance tutor Geo Wyeth will be residents at DELTAWORKERS, a nomadic artistic production and residence program that investigates the southern states of the U.S. as one of the last mythical places in the West.
Simon(e) van Saarloos is a US born writer and philosopher, living in Brooklyn, NY and Amsterdam, NL and currently astudent at DAI.
In general in her work, Simon(e) is interested in how memory works. In diverse forms of writing she unravels the impact that overlooked or suppressed histories have on contemporary life. At the moment she is working on a larger essay about 'queer forgetting' and political memory. The New Orleans research will feed into this. Simon(e) van Saarloos is sponsored by The Dutch Foundation for Literature.
Read more about Simon(e) and her research in New Orleans. |
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