{"id":137489,"date":"2026-09-06T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/?p=137489"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:44:12","slug":"wat-als-kunst-een-gesprek-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2026\/09\/wat-als-kunst-een-gesprek-was\/","title":{"rendered":"What if art were a conversation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is art the \u2018Zomergast\u2019 who spends a whole year eagerly preparing for everything they are going to reveal about themselves during those three hours when the cameras are focused on them, or is art Janine Abbring, who prepares meticulously for a three-hour conversation with her guest, society, and everything that she \u2013 and, with her, we, the viewers \u2013 want to know about that society? I see parallels with the work of Peer Wittenbols, Marl\u00e8ne Dumas and David Byrne. And <a href=\"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/?s=merel%20pauw\">Merel Pauw.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quite a thought-provoking question, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read all about it \u2013 and more \u2013 in this week\u2019s newsletter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"substack-post-embed\"><p lang=\"nl\">Is asking questions an art form? by the Cultural Press Agency<\/p><p>We can learn a great deal from the latest \u2018ZomerGasten\u2019. And from the Boulevard Theatre Festival. And about how we can listen more effectively. <\/p><a data-post-link href=\"https:\/\/nieuwsbrief.cultuurpers.nl\/p\/is-vragen-stellen-kunst\">Read on Substack<\/a><\/div><script async src=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/embedjs\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is kunst de Zomergast die zich een jaar lang hunkerend voorbereidt op wat die allemaal over zichzelf gaat vertellen in die drie uur dat die de camera&#8217;s op zich gericht weet, of is kunst Janine Abbring, die zich uitstekend voorbereid op een gesprek van drie uur met haar gast, de samenleving, en wat zij, en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15614,8843],"tags":[16584,4465],"class_list":["post-137489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beleid","category-podiumkunst","tag-nieuwsbrief","tag-tivolivredenburg"],"featured_image_url":[],"post_author":"Wijbrand Schaap","assigned_categories":"beleid, PODIUMKUNST","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135473,"url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2026\/08\/de-kortste-zomergastenrecensie-ooit-en-waarom-we-in-groningen-het-licht-zagen\/","url_meta":{"origin":137489,"position":0},"title":"The shortest \u2018Zomergasten\u2019 review ever, and why we saw the light in Groningen.","author":"Wijbrand Schaap","date":"27 August 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Holidays in 2026 will no longer be about lovely beaches, fantastic restaurants and balmy evenings by the river, but about surviving a wildfire, a collapsing mountain, severe weather, traffic jams at 43 degrees on sweltering tarmac and the humiliation at customs in that airport. 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