Steff Nellis- Master of Arts
- PhD Student at Ghent University
Steff Nellis
- Master of Arts
- PhD Student at Ghent University
Phd candidate/ Teaching assistant at Ghent University’s Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies
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Introduction
Steff Nellis graduated in 2019 with a Master in Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Antwerp. He is currently working as a PhD student and assistant at the Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre studies at Ghent University. He has written for magazines such as Documenta, Forum +, Etcetera, Photogénie, Lexicon van de Jeugdliteratuur and Fons. He also collaborated on the book publication Tijdelijk (2018).
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September 2019 - June 2020
September 2015 - September 2019
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En 1723, les premiers volumes de la série en sept livres, Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1737), sont publiés à Amsterdam par le Huguenot exilé Jean Frédéric Bernard. Somptueusement illustrée de plus de 250 gravures par le célèbre graveur parisien, également exilé, Bernard Picart, la série Cérémonies offre une...
This special issue of Documenta delves into the reciprocal relationship between ‘Theater and Law,’ establishing an interdisciplinary space for justice that transcends conventional legal boundaries. In contrast to traditional, rigid judicial frameworks that revolve around accusing and sentencing clearly defined defendants, the performing and visual...
This special issue of Documenta delves into the reciprocal relationship between ‘Theater and Law,’ establishing an interdisciplinary space for justice that transcends conventional legal boundaries. In contrast to traditional, rigid judicial frameworks that revolve around accusing and sentencing clearly defined defendants, the performing and visual...
The fifth volume of the Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1737) by Bernard Picart and Jean Frederic Bernard played a significant role in shaping the perception of Islam in the early 18th-century Dutch Republic and Europe. Kishwar Rizvi has argued that it challenged stereotypes by introducing novel comparative per...
2023 marks the 300 th anniversary of the publication of the early eighteenth-century book series Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, a work on all the world's religions known to Europe at that time and originally published in seven volumes between 1723 and 1737 in Amsterdam. Edited by the exiled French Huguenot Jean Fre...
Between 1723 and 1743, the French bookseller Jean Frederic Bernard, who had emigrated to Amsterdam, published the seven-volume Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, richly illustrated by Bernard Picart. Earlier research argued that Picart and Bernard are important predecessors of the emerging scientific fields of anthropo...
The following article is a re ection of a conversation I had with Chokri Ben Chikha about his perspective as both an artist and a historian on the presence of colonial statues in the streetscape, iconoclasm, and the possible conciliatory role of the artist in this debate. The artwork is by the German photographer and visual artist Oliver Leu, who h...
Although historical research into twentieth-century theatrical tribunals is widespread, the recurring theme of justice in contemporary performance practices remains largely unexplored. However, an increasing number of twenty-first-century artists have begun relying on structures of the court. By creating theatrical tribunals, these artists try to c...
In this article, I analyse the ways in which Maria Lucia Cruz Correia, Rebekka de Wit and Anoek Nuyens rethink the relationship between performance and ecopolitics. With their tribunal theatre performances Voice of Nature: The Trial (2019) and The Shell Trial (2020), the artists strive to reconfigure the dramaturgy of the courtroom on stage and aim...
When “All rise!” is being exclaimed in a courtroom, the attendees know they are supposed to stand up for the judges to enter. When these judges have made a decision at the end, the defendant becomes either guilty or not guilty. Yet, in a theatre hall, language lacks the specific coercive and punitive power to change reality directly. Nevertheless,...
Hoewel de afgelopen decennia veel vooruitgang is geboekt ten aanzien van holebinegativiteit, blijft onverdraagzaamheid een probleem in Vlaanderen. De openlijke afwijzing van holebiseksualiteit zwakte af maar de impliciete negatieve attitudes blijven sterk vertegenwoordigd. Ook in het Vlaamse onderwijs is de inburgering van LGBTQ+- onderwerpen niet...
Waarom is het tegenwoordig nog moeilijk om twee lichamen met verschillende huidskleur samen vast te leggen? Waarom ervaren zwarte performers zoveel problemen met make-up en lichtinval op filmsets? Hoe is het mogelijk dat projecten van filmmakers zonder strikt Belgische achtergrond vaak maar moeilijk financiële steun genieten? Het zijn enkele van de...
In december 2018 speelde De Waarheidscommissie (2018) haar slotvoorstellingen in de Belgische Senaat te Brussel. Daarmee beëindigde Action Zoo Humain een vijfjarig onderzoeksproject naar de ‘zoo humains’ en haar restanten in onze contemporaine samenleving. Dit stuk neemt de opvoeringsanalyse in het artikel De waarheidscommissie volgens Chokri Ben C...
