Biografie
Ilse van Rijn is a writer and researcher. Educated in both literature and art history, she is interested in the relations between image and language; word and world; body, writing and their surrounds. She holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), developed in collaboration with the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (GRA) and the Jan van Eyck Academy (JvE), in which she questions the operative force of writing, unfolding a poetics of the artist’s text (The Artist’s Text as Work of Art, 2017). Her current research furthers her investigations in embodied forms of writing, reading them through the lens of feminist legacies, and their potential in today’s other-than-human world.
Before moving to Zurich, studies have led Ilse from Amsterdam (UvA) to Paris (Paris I/Sorbonne), Maastricht (JvE), and back to France (Ecole Normale Supérieure). In Amsterdam, she has developed the theory program of the department of Image & Language (GRA), initiated the temporary master program Approaching Language (Sandberg Institute, 2019) and the inter-curricular program Daily Writing (GRA, 2022). Ilse has been affiliated to the UvA as a lecturer and researcher, and worked as a tutor at the 3rd cycle program THIRD at DAS Graduate School/Amsterdam University of the Arts (2020 - 22).
Her many articles, stories and performances, seminars, and workshops include ‘Fabulous Encounters/Neophytes’ (Uniarts Stockholm, Oct. 2024), ‘Fire, or how to get rid of those embarrassing graphic markers’ (CARPA7/Uniarts Helsinki; Looiersgracht 60 Amsterdam, in collaboration with Martine Stig); ‘Postpartum’ (DWR 220, Nov-Dec 2022); ‘Ghostwriting and Artists’ Texts’ (Amsterdam: AUP, 2022).
Ilse is Head of 3. Cycle at the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (IPF).