Critical Studies
Jasper Westhaus+
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Jasper Westhaus—Puberty Poetics
Butcher's Tears
Karperweg 45
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Get directionsFri 10.06.2022
7pm — 7:20pm
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Jasper Westhaus—Puberty Poetics
Butcher's Tears
Karperweg 45
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Get directionsSat 11.06.2022
3pm — 3:20pm
Jasper works as a writer and researcher based in Amsterdam. They studied Creative Writing and Media Arts in Leipzig, Germany and are a postgraduate in Sandbergs Instituut's Critical Studies since 2020. Jasper is publishing essays and poetry in German and English.
This interdisciplinary lecture deals with how our conception of childhood, adolescence and puberty influences how we think of temporality. Puberty Poetics questions the common Western narrative of puberty as a phase that everybody has to go through once in their lives. The performance gives insights into the historical formation and the consequences of the segregation of life into temporal stages. It seeks for alternative narratives and forms of puberty that counter the singular, exclusive one that is told in multiplex cinemas, songs, literature, classrooms and doctors’ offices.