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Els van Houtert (b. 1990, Gemert / NL) did her bachelor in Cultural Anthropology (VU Amsterdam) and her master in Religious Studies (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). She specialised in phenomenology of religious experience, material religion, and religion in everyday life-as-lived, and wrote an ethnographic monograph about her fieldwork with the Camino Rojo, a spiritual movement/community in Uruguay.
Master project I give the door a nod – Oh porous membranes...
A flexible ritual, a mundane encounter.What you see is a timestamp in an ongoing (re)search for everyday relationships with ‘things.’ By phenomenologically studying how I encounter the mundane, material world around me—s…
Master’s Projects | Winter semester 2023/24
Master’s Project Exams: 24 January 202409:00–14:00 | various locations at Angewandte VORDERE ZOLLAMTSSTRASSE 7 (VZA) VZA 4. OG | B13 *09:00 | Els van Houtert | I give the door a nod – *Oh porous membranes...2023, Skulptu…
I give the door a nod
© Els van HoutertI give the door a nodDrawings (Different paper, ballpoints, watercolour pencils, lead pencils) Els van Houtert is an artist and researcher with an academic background in anthropology and religious studie…
06 Apr 2022
Liquid tools for River Fiction
HOSPITABLE UTOPIA / VIDEOPARK FESTIVAL 2021
For its 2021 edition, the Contemporary art festival Videopark introduced a new program. A ten day research residency in Užice (Serbia), organised in collaboration with the Art & Science Department of the University of Ap…
CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL VIDEOPARK
The third edition of Contemporary Art Festival VIDEOPARK will be held this year in Uzice from 22-24. July 2021 in the Reflector Gallery, Milosa Obrenovica 15, Uzice, Serbia On the three-day program, you will be able to w…
08 Mar 2021
Feminist concerns in Art & Science
Križić Kružić
Els van Houtert2020, Duration: 11:37 minutes, Format: mp4, 1080 HD Link to Film Film descriptionThis is not a film, but a tic-tac-toe of worlding-games. An attempt to fantasize realities, (un)relatedness, and the mystery…
23 Jun 2020
THE ELSEWHERE SCHOOL
Fu-Zine
Our irregular zine documenting our research and connections within the neighbourhood of Fužine, Croatia during 2019 and 2020 as part of the SCHOOL FOR MULTISPECIES CONVIVIALITY: Experiments in living somewhere & elsewher…
There is an inspiration about It…
Rooted in my experiences as an anthropologist of religion lies my fascination with dynamic object/subject relationships and other-than-human-personhoods. In my ethnographic research, I explore how things can be alive thr…
01 Oct 2019
SEMESTER OPENING