ARIAS

ARIAS is a platform for collaborative research practices through the arts and sciences, founded in 2016 by Gerrit Rietveld Academy and Sandberg Institute, together with Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Amsterdam University for Applied Sciences (HvA) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA). ARIAS operates in the space between these institutions, making connections where they wouldn’t be made otherwise; bringing together opposite perspectives and letting them contaminate and change each other, thus creating a network of interest and exchange – with the effort to articulate and act upon a common agenda.

In exchange with the other partners the Gerrit Rietveld Academie / Sandberg Institute are engaged with a number of research projects within through the ARIAS public programme. Together the institutions grapple with the urgent concern to peer outside the walls of a singular discipline, scene, institution; to get lost in the translation of other methodological languages. The larger issues that the world is facing today ask for approaches that invite a certain co-dependency, a polyphony of voices, perspectives and expertise to strengthen each other. Uncomfortable questions need to be posed. Other ways of thinking together need to be practiced. 

Knowledge is slippery and ungraspable, diverse and dynamic, and needs to be valued in all its ‘appearances’ (visible or not). ARIAS creates space, conditions and contexts for artists and researchers alike to collaborate in transdisciplinary research that makes different and unforeseen ways of knowing possible and valuable. 

More info at arias.amsterdam