12.11.25, 19:00, Marija Cetinic, Bill Dietz

More Than This is a series of lecture-conversations organized by the artistic research cluster Negotiating Realities in which we explore the complex realities that surround us and how from an artist perspective we are and can be actively involved in shaping those realities.

For the first session, Negotating Realities invites Marija Cetinic and Bill Dietz for two talks on the state of reception in literature, cinema, and sound.

This first session is a collaboration with Winona in Brussels, that will also host the evening.

Marija Cetinic

Marija Cetinić is Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and a research affiliate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. She is coordinator of the MA Comparative Literature program and founding member of the research group Sex Negativity. She completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at USC, Los Angeles. Her essays have appeared in Mediations, Discourse, and the European Journal of English Studies. A co-written chapter on oil barrels in the work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude appears in Saturation: An Elemental Politics (Duke UP, 2021). With Stefa Govaart, she is involved in an ongoing epistolary project, as well as a series of transcribed dialogues on five concepts: Sentence / Essence / Woman / Negation / Sex.

Bill Dietz

Bill Dietz is a composer and writer, born in Arizona. His work on genealogies of reception and the "political aesthetics of listening" is often presented in festivals, museums, and academic journals, but also in apartment buildings, magazines, and on public streets. Alongside his artistic work, he has served as artistic director of Ensemble Zwischentöne (2006-2014) and of Overtoon - Platform for Sound Practitioners (2022-2025). He has published two books of listening scores: one on his Tutorial Diversions series, for home performance (Eight Tutorial Diversions, 2009–2014, 2015); and the other, made up of “concert pieces,” based on historical and contemporary audience behavior (L’école de la claque, 2017). In 2013, he co-founded Ear│Wave│Event with Woody Sullender. With Amy Cimini, he co-edited Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews (2020), and he is co-author, with Kerstin Stakemeier, of Universal Receptivity (2021). He has been co-chair Bard MFA's Music/Sound discipline since 2012.

Winona

Winona is an ad-hoc project space in a covered shopping arcade in Brussels. It houses a heterogenous and provisional program of exhibitions, performances, and events. Winona is made together with artists with limited means and on borrowed time.