Marlies Van Coillie
مارليس فان كويي
Marlies Van Coillie is a dancer, knitter, nerd, aspirational pianist in her dreams, a cyborg as hobby, while carrying a Buraq and a submerged sea critter on her body. She has a BA and MA in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ghent University, Belgium, and a MA in Gender and Women’s studies: Gendered Political Economies at AUC, Egypt. She situates her research within the New Materialisms debates. She collaborated in several art and research projects, exploring the relation between objects/things and other human becomings, despite an imagined universal hu-Man.
Courses
Compost Lab: Materials of the everyday
An Introduction to New Materialisms: Bodies, Objects, and Movement
Modernity designed the hu-Man as a mastermind over the material world. But what if we think of ourselves as becoming animal, bacteria, a virus, insect, a cyborg, art, or a figure of the impossible? How can the human itself become a leakage rather than a category?