{"id":90019,"date":"2026-05-22T20:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/90019\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:16:31","slug":"how-the-strange-opens-up-our-ideas-about-art-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/90019\/","title":{"rendered":"How the \u2018strange\u2019 opens up our ideas about art and society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking and feeling differently<\/p>\n<p>The book concerns the \u2018strange\u2019 in these creators\u2019 art, explains Roelofs: \u2018The unusual, the unexpected, the extraordinary \u2013 things we do not immediately grasp or have words for. This can be uncomfortable and unsettling, but it can also free up the imagination. It brings to light unforeseen pleasures and remarkable kinds of play. It teaches us to look beyond certain Eurocentric and anthropocentric ideas, and to let go of given gender norms.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Feminist, queer and decolonial artists make extensive use of strangeness in their art, observes Roelofs. \u2018By employing \u201cstrange\u201d tastes, they embark on untried paths and bring into being exceptional forms of imagination. In this way, they challenge the public to feel and think a little differently. Public space takes on an unexpected twist. We become curious and start to invent new stories.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Book launch on 16 June<\/p>\n<p>On 16 June,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/asca.uva.nl\/shared\/subsites\/amsterdam-institute-for-humanities-research\/en\/events\/2026\/06\/strange-tastes.html\" class=\"link--external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strange Tastes\u00a0will be launched<\/a>\u00a0at the University Library of the University of Amsterdam. In two panel discussions, researchers in the fields of art, literature and philosophy will join Monique Roelofs to further explore the book\u2019s themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thinking and feeling differently The book concerns the \u2018strange\u2019 in these creators\u2019 art, explains Roelofs: \u2018The unusual, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,47561,47559,47558,47557,47556,200,47560,5356,18444],"class_list":["post-90019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam-institute-for-humanities-research","tag-amsterdam-school-for-cultural-analysis","tag-cultural-studies","tag-faculty-of-humanities","tag-humanities","tag-netherlands","tag-philosophy","tag-research","tag-staff"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116620072479216448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}