R.S. (Suki) de Boer, MA

General

Office hours: Mo.-Fri.

Curriculum Vitae

Research interests:

corporate art venues, corporate art, corporate art practices, corporate collecting, contemporary art, social systems theory, critical discourse analysis, actor-network theory, installation art, conceptual art, performance art, video art, critical design, art theory, aesthetics, world art studies, indonesian contemporary art, museum studies, artistic concepts, para-performative artist-historian practices, x-stream dadaism, kejawen, keris

Research

 

My PhD Research seeks to explore how various European corporate art venues since the 1990s have been functionally operating in the public institutional field of art. The main objective is to make a profound qualitative analysis of this phenomenon by raising critical issues, such as, how did these venues evolve? To what extent can they be compared with the modern Western museum, as they seem to have different starting points? To what extent do certain corporate cultural politics affect the position of the work of art in these venues? To what extent do corporate art venues poach on the preserves of non-corporate art institutions, and provoke certain conflicts of interest? My research has to provide new insights on how corporate art venues are coping with these issues, as these could be used as a guiding principle in exploring a sustainable future role which business enterprises could play in preserving and shaping our cultural identity.

Publications

• R.S. de Boer (2009). ‘Kunstige bedrijvigheid: Apenrots of Kunstwalhalla? Professionalisering van corporate collecting en de noodzaak van kwalitatief onderzoek.’ In: Kunstlicht, jaargang 30, 2009 nummer 3/4, pp. 14-20. ISBN 978-90-73588-48-6. ISSN 0921-5026
• R.S. de Boer & Stefano Mirti (2009). ‘...les boys got leather straps les boys got SS caps...’ In: Fetisch + Konsum (eds. Jean-Baptiste Joly, Catherine Perret, Julia Warmers), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 2009, pp. 221-241. ISBN 978-3-937982-24-3
• R.S. de Boer (2007). ‘De waarneming van de beschouwer waargenomen.’ In: Desipientia, zin & waan, 14:12, november 2007, pp. 34-37. ISSN 1386-1069

Links

• R.S. de Boer on LinkedIn