Through her work, Emilie Baltz uses food and the senses to create new experiences that foster wonder, curiosity and delight. She is an award-winning author and public speaker with appearances at TEDx, DLD, PSFK Conference, Ignite Conference, Creative Mornings, The Today Show, NBC, Wall Street Journal, D-Crit and more. Baltz is based in New York City and works out of the New Lab for emerging technologies. She is a founding member of NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator hosted at the New Museum and is also part of the founding faculty of the School of Visual Arts Products of Design MFA programme, as well as the founder of the Food Design Studio at Pratt Institute. Baltz is the author of the award-winning L.O.V.E FOODBOOK, recipient of Best First Cookbook in the World at the Prix Gourmand held annually in the Louvre, Paris, and the nationally featured cookbook, Junk Foodie: 51 Delicious Recipes for the Lowbrow Gourmand. She lectures and consults internationally on the transformative power of sensory experience in the lives of creators and consumers.
23-Sep-2021
In the impermanent scenario we live in nowadays, finding a safe space might be very urgent but also delicate and problematic. ‘What about Pockets as a Safe Space?’ is an on-going project questioning safety and intimacy in living environments for international students.
16-Sep-2021
Using five poems originally written for the performance Blank Whispers, this text reflects on a situation in which we cannot immerse ourselves in dance and theatre. We are locked up in our homes, and even the privileged can no longer see the world as their home.
09-Sep-2021
In times of forced isolation through physical distancing, the state reifies heteronormative nuclear families through demands to shelter at home. Such decrees simultaneously deny the potential violence of the home and more fluid notions of relationships. How can we consider more expansive possibilities of tranxxeno nestings for both this moment and future crises?
09-Sep-2021
In issuing this Open Call, APRIA wanted contributors to reflect on questions such as: ‘What or who determines what home is?’ and ‘What does it mean to be at home?’ Seven contributions from ArtEZ students and staff were selected, a variety of artistic research in form and content. The researchers delve into the complex meaning of oikos, re-examining concepts of home and the tension between safe and harmful spaces in times of crisis.
08-Sep-2021
This concluding article recaps the preceding essays in the series Towards Engaged Arts. It starts from the idea that works of art—material or not—are things: they can occupy space, can have a presence, be it in thought or history, and/or can be pointed at. In considering these ‘things,’ we have the tendency to reduce them solely to things and thereby centralise their ‘thinglyness,’ or in other words, their material configuration.
01-Jul-2021
Moral Shame Talks is a podcast series of three episodes that explores the complexities of consumers’ moral shame in the context of the sustainability debate within the fashion industry. By tackling moral shame –a form of shame that consumers experience in their consumer behaviour while knowing they are not making sustainable choices – stories can be told about the complexity and systemics of the fashion industry and the sustainability debate in it.
01-Jul-2021
This series of articles has covered engagement. But what about disengagement? In other words, once a commitment has been made and a practice has been conducted, how does an artist ‘quit’ it? This article looks at some key considerations that make moral evaluation of engaged practices possible. In thinking through these evaluations, we come across a set of methods of disengagement that rethink the relation engaged practices have to ethical judgement.
28-Jun-2021
After months of hard work and inciting conversations, ArtEZ studium generale presents this awe-inspiring and incisive artistic project, written, narrated, illustrated and coded by their intern Kseniia Anokhina. On land, politics and advocacy work, as told through the spaces I found myself inMy name is Kseniia, I’m 20 years old, I am a third-year student […]
03-Jun-2021
If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth. In the Radio ArtEZ podcast series Sounding Places / Listening Places writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, writer and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help […]
01-Jun-2021
This essay is about film photography (or ‘lomography,’ referring to a dreamlike state of old photo shoots). It is an exploration of the omnipresent creative energy in the universe. The subject of this essay is material nature, which, on a deeper level, is a creative stream, the basic structure of which science cannot (yet) identify but can possibly be portrayed by the arts.
