Ivan Provisoire
Beuys' response
Mr. Beuys himself returned from the dead to check out my PhD. Here is his response as an encore to this research journey.
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Ivan Provisoire
- Sep 14, 2020
- 6 min
Finding myself as an artist of society
Much of my self-experiment involved exploring agency by confronting its limits. Summer 2020, however, brought a mood change.
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Ivan Provisoire
- Jun 1, 2020
- 11 min
Saving the Soul 2.0
I love the notion of soul, but what does it mean and what is its relevance in the world of today?
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Ivan Provisoire
- May 26, 2020
- 8 min
My favourite mystery
How can you find that which is still unknown to you? On Meno's paradox, the mystery of transformation, and journeying into the unknown.
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Ivan Provisoire
- Mar 26, 2020
- 10 min
God in Corona World
In this letter I illuminate the role that spirituality plays in my work - against the background of the Corona crisis.
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Ivan Provisoire
- Feb 6, 2020
- 1 min
Darkifiesto
How to embrace darkness in a world obsessed with the light of reason? An essay film about the struggle for soul in spaces made for the mind.
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Ivan Provisoire
- Jan 18, 2020
- 2 min
The salty sea
Or, how not to do justice to the data of lived experience. A rant about stifling academic practices.
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Ivan Provisoire
- Jan 14, 2020
- 13 min
Letter to an Unlikely Lover
This letter is an attempt to trace the story of an encounter. Of little things that happened. And yet, where else does life take place?
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Ivan Provisoire
- Nov 19, 2019
- 6 min
A Queer Transformative Learning Rollercoaster
The LGBTQIA+ community teaches me how learning about my own otherness can open doors towards learning to deal with other people's otherness.
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Ivan Provisoire
- Nov 5, 2019
- 2 min
Name change poem
Who are you? // Creature born from darkness // Someone I don’t yet really know // Me but not me
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Ivan Provisoire
- Nov 3, 2019
- 1 min
Learning to fall
A short film // In the beginning we lived in paradise. One day, a serpent came along. Or maybe it was just our own desire to cross the final
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Ivan Provisoire
- Oct 21, 2019
- 6 min
Letter to Linden West
On PhD research as emancipatory life praxis
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Ivan Provisoire
- Oct 16, 2019
- 9 min
Letter to Joseph Beuys
A critical reflection on Beuys' call to "protect the flame", this letter is an appeal to reconsider how we tell our stories of hope.
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