Applied Arts:    

The impressiveness of the work of Elisabeth lies in the contradiction it carries within. What seems to be a random stain turns out to be the result of a intensely precise work of knitting. Because of it’s subtleness and surprise, the jury feels like being seduced into nominating. And gladly does so.    

Thesis:    

Elisabeth Leerssen from the Textile Department provided the jury with a beautifully designed thesis that was also content wise very interesting. In her thesis Elisabeth researches how ignorance can be made productive. She takes herself as a starting point and arrives at original and lively references from different disciplines and gives her own creative examples. It is a search that ends up again at Elisabeth Leerssen herself. At this point the thesis would require a little more self-reflection and more precise use of language, but the thesis remains one of the best.