About
Elysa Kooijman (they/she) is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Binghamton University (SUNY), USA. They hold two MAs obtained in The Netherlands — one in film and photography, and one in philosophy.
Their research and artistic practice have an interdisciplinary and feminist approach to all that encroaches on, and destabilises, the subject — focussing on such concepts as the uncanny, the sublime, time, grief, and abjection. Elysa specifically “enjoys” analysing contemporary horror movies.
Their work has been seen in EYE Film Museum Amsterdam, CW*IP Antwerp, and V2 Rotterdam, among other places.
UPCOMING
International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference, Feb. 21, 2025
Translation and interpretation for Joney Doekoe, director of the Saamaka Museum in Pikin Slee, Suriname.
Coastal Carolina University (SC), USA
International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference, Feb. 22, 2025
Photo- and videographer.
Coastal Carolina University (SC), USA
The Maroon Ecologies and Heritage Conference, Feb. 24, 2025
Translation and interpretation for Joney Doekoe, director of the Saamaka Museum in Pikin Slee, Suriname.
SUNY Binghamton (NY), USA
Crossing the Boundaries 30th Annual Conference, March 28, 2025
Paper presentation.
SUNY Binghamton (NY), USA
ACADEMIC
Conferences & Talks
"Visual Artist Elysa Kooijman" Podcast Ik zie ik zie filosofie, December 2022
"The Double Bind of the Philosophical Canon" Conference by Women* in Philosophy, June 2022
Publications
Coming soon!
VISUAL ART
Exhibitions
Was There a Paradise, or Was the Garden a Dream?
Rixt
V2, Rotterdam (2022)
Eye on Art Research Labs 2021 (Disobedient Narratives)
A Planck Star Is Not Stable
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (2021)
My Pandemic Year: ONline Screening
A Planck Star Is Not Stable
Online (2021)
KONTRA Labs #1 publication release ''Tackling inequality within the Rotterdam(se) creative scene'',
Online (2021)
Lift Off Global Network: First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, Pinewood Studios,
Then I Started Looking Back
Online (2020)
Photography Conversations
Online (2020)
Eye on Art Research Labs 2020 (Cloud Cuckoo Land)
Then I Started Looking Back
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (2020)
GUP New Photo Talent 2020
Dicht Bij Mij Vandaan
Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam (2019)
ZEAL Expo
Dicht Bij Mij Vandaan
Peron E, Utrecht (2019)
Hallo Wereld!
Bonaire
De Nieuwe Doelen, Gorinchem (2017)
PRJCT5 for Unicef NL
Bonaire
Fotovakschool, Rotterdam (2017)
Publications
KONTRA Labs #1 publication release ''Tackling inequality within the Rotterdam(se) creative scene'' (2021)
GUP New Photo Talent 2020 Dicht Bij Mij Vandaan (2019)
Dicht bij mij vandaan (2019)
When you feel like you might die, call me (2018)
PRJCT5 for Unicef NL (2017)
Commissions & Colabs
Women's March Nederland
Kontra Labs #1
Unicef Nederland
Jong & Out
Me & Society
EDUCATION
PhD Comparative Literature
SUNY Binghamton,
Binghamton (NY), USA (2024 - present)
MA Philosophy of Humanity and Culture
Tilburg University,
Tilburg, The Netherlands (2021 - 2023)
MA Lens Based Media
Piet Zwart Institute,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2019 - 2022)
Pre-MA Philosophy of Humanity and Culture
Tilburg University,
Tilburg, The Netherlands (2021)
BA Applied Photography & Image Communication
Nederlandse Academie voor Beeldcreatie,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2015 - 2019)
Artist internship
Fryd Frydendahl,
New York City (NY), USA (2018)