Impakt Event: Health & Beauty

De Zondagsschool, episode #5

12 Oct 2008

Zondagsschool (sunday school) this time cuts into the theme of Health & Beauty. Being beautiful increasingly implies the need to expose yourself to unhealthy things, but how far can one go? Anneke Smelik (professor of Visual Culture at Radboud University) exposes the being of hair removal and the hairless human in minute detail. Peter Hollander (professor of Physiology at the Amsterdam Free University) tells us about the sense and non-sense of fitness machines. Debbie Keskin participated in the beginning of October in the World Championship bodybuilding & fitness and she will give a lecture about this fascinating world.

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Health & Beauty: how far will you go? 'The Height of Vanity' of L.A. Raeven. Image from Impakt website . -

With:
L.A. Raeven, Martha Colburn, Erwin Olaf, Nagi Noda

Artists demonstrate extreme examples of 'happy and beautiful people'. Who says beauty is not ageless? In her film 'Forever', Julika Rudelius portrays youthful cosmetic panoramas of ageing American women. L.A. Raeven tells about 'The Height of Vanity' - 2 Chinese women who undergo leg extensions with dramatic effects - and about previous projects in which the duo exposes the beauty ideal in a painful manner. In addition, Sunday School shows works of Martha Colburn, Erwin Olaf and (ex-fat girl) Nagi Noda. Come around and leave with a new self image!

Zondagsschool is an intellectual variety show. Scientists, designers and artists take surprising and unexpected stands to creep up on various themes.

On 12 October 2008 at 14:30 hours at Theater Kikker in Utrecht.
Price: 7 euro. Reserve via the Theater Kikker website or call + 31 (0)30-2319666.