Natural Technology Podcast | Animal Emotions & Jelle Korrevaar with Kristine Steenbergh

April 13 - November 17, 2022

During the Covid pandemic, the VU ART SCIENCE gallery developed a series of podcasts.

This episode’s guest is VU literary scholar and director of the VU Environmental Humanities Center, Kristine Steenbergh. In conversation with Sem Bannenberg, Steenbergh explains the cultural role of animal emotion in literature and a more comprehensive range of Environmental Humanities. Furthermore, Steenbergh describes how the emotions and powers in the artworks of Jelle Korevaar, shown in the NATURAL TECHNOLOGY exhibition, fit in the narrative of Environmental Humanities.

Natural Technology. Welcome to the Symbiocene. featured artworks by Jelle Korevaar, Tabita Rezaire, Wanda Tuerlinckx and Christiaan Zwanikken. These artists with different practices and mediums present a new way to interpret nature, the environment, and technology’s role on Earth.

This podcast and exhibition are made with the support of partners Clue+ and Studiotopia, and the conversations with scientists and scholars were hosted by the VU Library. The interviewer is assistant curator Sem Bannenberg. Recording and editing by Harm Rieske.