Viola Karsten

Editor, PR and Communication

I love the arts, in their different shapes and forms. It creates discourse, mirrors society and moves people. For TEMA, I write and edit articles in the field of Arts & Culture. For my Master’s and for TEMA I like to investigate issues of gender and the intersection with arts, media and technology. Currently calling Amsterdam my home.

viola@temamagazine.com

Name: Viola Karsten
Year of birth: 1994
Country of residence: Netherlands

TEMA asks

  1. What time is it?
    14:17

  2. What’s your favourite Emoji?
    🚀

  3. Standing at the train station today with a free ticket, where would you go?
    Porto ☀️

  4. The best thing about the country you live in:
    Everyone cycles. Everywhere. Always.

  5. More of this in Europe, please:
    Fair, effective, Europe-wide environmental policy making

  6. Europe can do without:
    Far-right nationalism

  7. What do you deeply care about?
    Art and nature

  8. Last book / movie that moved you:
    ’    All about Love’ by the intersectional feminist thinker bell hooks

  9. What song fills you instantly with joy?
    Ashamed to admit but Tuk Tuk by Solomun and ÄTNA - can’t keep my feets still with that one. 

  10. What’s the worst question someone could ask you? 
    Where do you see yourself in ten years?

Author of:

The anatomy of being (TEMA#6 – Normality)

Dye for fashion (TEMA#5 – Consumption)

Why is IKEA drawing cute globes on their posters? (TEMA#5 – Consumption)

Living and loving within capitalism (TEMA#4 – Matriarchy)

Jumping into cold waters (TEMA#3 – Water)

Progress vs. regress – Do technological innovations divide generations? (TEMA#2 – Age)

Dear Grandma (TEMA#2 – Age)

A personal story – Jonathan (TEMA#1 – Decolonization)

The indigenous lens in audiovisual art (TEMA#1 – Decolonization)