Errol Boon

HKU University of Arts Utrecht · Art and Economics

We asked Amsterdam Museum curators Annemarie de Wildt and Errol Boon to reflect on the making of the virtual crowd-curated Corona in the City exhibition. The exhibit invited the public to participate in the live documentation of everyday life during the pandemic. To allow documentation of current events, curatorial authority was shared with the pub...

Can works of art provide an alternative critical way of thinking on migration, besides the discourse in which European democracy has become entangled?

How to prevent artistic cosmopolitanism from becoming rootless in a globalised age?

COVID-19 urges us to re-establish the legitimation of working abroad and to reformulate ambitions regarding the moral and artistic challenges of globalisation.

This paper is about marital love. That is, rather than analysing the already widely discussed legitimacy of the institution of marriage, I will try to give an account of the specific type of romantic love that underlies love marriages but which is not dependent on these institutional structures. This marital love can be analysed as the peculiar pro...

What does international artistic practice entail for Dutch artists in the near future? What are the risks one should anticipate? How to develop a proactive strategy in which the possible consequences of your international plans are taken into account? In short, how can artists and cultural workers reformulate their international ambitions in the li...

Four cases of artistic censorship explained

An essay on ethical challenges artists face when confronted with artistic censorship.