Simon(e) van Saarloos is a writer and artist. They have published several books, including Playing Monogamy and Take ‘Em Down. Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting. Together with collaborator Kübra Uzun, Simon(e) created an audio installation titled Cruising Gezi Park (Amsterdam Museum), initiated a conference with a catwalk (“The Architecture of Sex”), and organized “Through The Window”, an online queer art solidarity project between Turkey and the Netherlands. Simon(e) is the curator of the 2021 exhibition on Abundance (‘We must bring about the end of the world as we know it’ – Denise Ferreira da Silva) in Het HEM. They are also the host of *The Asterisk Conversations podcast and recently started a PhD in the Rhetoric department at UC Berkeley.
In this letter to Kim Tallbear, Simon(e) van Saarloos explores non-monogamy’s connection to place, examining the relationship between time, failure, and expertise.
In the midst of a lockdown, Simon(e) van Saarloos questions their relationship to time, to dreams, to public space, and to the sexuality of voles.
In this introductory letter from Simon(e) van Saarloos to Kim TallBear, Simon(e) explores where their perspectives on monogamy intersect, and where they might diverge.
Turkish courts staged the trial of activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala several times, always returning him to prison despite a variety of outcomes. Simon(e) van Sarloos attended once, and tells us what it’s like when the state scripts our destinies.
