Tjebbe van Tijen was curator of the department for the documentation of “modern social movements” at the University of Amsterdam and in the International Institute of Social History. He works as a multi-media artist under the name Imaginary Museum, making inter-active installations to dramatise history. Among his current projects are “Unbombing the world”, a “literary psycho-geography” of Amsterdam and Tokyo.

Recent articles

The gunshot that felled Pim Fortuyn reverberated around Europe and made the politics of the Netherlands a rare focus of world attention. But the assassination was, first and foremost, a shattering event for Dutch society. Over the next eleven days, and concluding one hour before the polls opened in the general election, Tjebbe van Tijen wrote this moving exploration of its national meaning.