Reading essay by Persis Bekkering

Persis Bekkering wrote the experimental essay Preliminary Notes for a theory of the Young Man. On Bart Groenendaal’s The Young Man as Movie Star that she will read during the finissage. The essay is commissioned by ROZENSTRAAT and is, as the titel points out based on Bart Groenendaal’s exhibition The Young Man as Movie Star. You can read it here. Make sure to read it if you don’t make to the reading, especially when you were unable to see the exhibition as well. The beautiful written essay really gives you some deep insights!
 
Persis Bekkering (1987) made her debut with the novel Een heldenleven, which was nominated for the ANV Debutantenprijs (shortlisted). Her second novel Excess, about the rave movement as the ritual farewell of the future, appeared in the summer of 2021 and was nominated for the BNG Bank Literature Prize. She writes essays, columns, literary and art criticism for NRC Handelsblad and Mister Motley, among others, and teaches creative writing at ArtEZ in Arnhem.

The reading will be directly followed by the pannel discussion Stereotypes and Cinema. Pannelists are Dana Linssen, film critic (NRC Handelsblad Filmkrant) and lecturer film history, analysis and theory at ArtEZ Academy of Theatre Arnhem and HKU Utrecht and Jaap Kooijman, associate professor in Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Amsterdam and vice-director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). They are joined by Bart Groenendaal. Please check the event for more information.