The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, presents the programme Radical Accessibility - Crip pedagogies, Crip theory, Crip practice. This multi-day event consists of conferences, an exhibition by Rietveld students and a festive Friday Night. There will be lectures, presentations and performances by international artists, theorists and Rietveld students.
Note: On weekdays and on the Friday Night, Rietveld students and staff have free admission with their Rietveld pass. On Saturday 22 March and Sunday 23 March regular museum ticket sales apply.
The annual collaboration between the Stedelijk Museum and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie consists of two parts: a conference (19, 20 and 21 March) and an exhibition with performance program (19 until 23 March). Studium Generale presents a three-day conference in which three curators each fill a day with diverse artistic perspectives on the theme Radical Accessibility – Crip Pedagogies, Crip Theory, Crip Practice. Following this theme, students create new work for the exhibition Rietveld Uncut. On Friday 21 March this exhibition will be activated with a special programme of performances and interventions, including Queer Sports by Gabriel Fontana.
Studium Generale & Rietveld Uncut 2024-25 explore the accessibility of art and cultural practices through a ‘Crip’ perspective. This approach emphasizes interdependency, mutual solidarity, and shared responsibility among our diverse bodies and minds. Once a term used negatively to describe people with disabilities, ‘Crip’ has been reclaimed by artists, activists, and scholars as a positive and empowering term, akin to ‘queer.’ It challenges harmful norms and prejudices and examines how disability intersects with gender, race, class, sexuality, and the environment, encouraging us to consider these connections on both personal and political levels.
Participating students
Agathe Plouzennec, Anahit Yakubovich & Lau Vander Mijnsbrugge, Carla Chibude Seidemann, Chichy Freja Udsen Obi, Clément Lobjoy, Yun Kwon, Greta Wegmann & Domitille Marchiol, Gabrielle Bouriat—Hardouin, Handa Youn, Kadri-Ann Kivisild, Katinka K. Olrik, Lujza Kramárová, Maïder Hastoy, Mia Kokine Joensen, Minky Kim, Niloofar Salehi, nisan gunalcin, Pauline Oosterhoff & Annemarie Vogel, Simone Winder & Isabel Heatley, Siri Tvorup, Sohju Kim, Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song
Collaborative presentations
Also on show are two group projects; by Staci Bu Shea and Mira Thompson with students Eden Carli, Elinos Tenaille Destais, Kelvin Dijk, Kalli Ioumpa, Shauna Jin, KIEM, Jessica Kuhn, Mirjam Meroth, Teodóra Róka, Anna Theunissen; and by Mariken Overdijk (VAV – moving image) with students Anna Fastnacht, Jihwan Kim, Maria Goncalves Geraldes Pinto, Philippe Luptak, Rubin Verhoog, Ryu Koivukoski and Zina Tzioufa.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Wednesday 19 March
The World is Our Corner: Neurodivergent Homelands and Landscapes
Guest curated by Hamja Ahsan, with Sarah Browne and Ipek Burçak
Thursday 20 March
Unsettling Acces: Care, Touch and Institutional Change
Guest curated by Unsettling Rietveld Sandberg, with Judith Leysner, Carolina Calgaro, Grace Turtle & Romany Dear, CAConrad, Elio J. Carranza
Friday 21 March
Sexy Freaks
Guest curated by Johanna Hedva, with Tamara Antonijević, Nik Timková, and Zuzana Žabková, of the collective björnsonova
More info and tickets: stedelijk.nl
PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME
On 21 March from 18.30 on, we celebrate Friday Night with performances, talks and interventions by students and an interactive presentation by independent designer Gabriel Fontana.
Friday 21 March
Museumplein Entree
18:45 – 19:00: Opening speech
19.00 – 19.15: Constricted Spaces (hemicranial press moulting) – Mia Kokine Joensen
20:00 – 20:30: Crosswalk Talk – Sohju Kim
ABN AMRO zaal
20:45 – 21:30: Unto This Last – Handa Youn
Studio object
19:30 – 20:00: Unrecognisable Syllables – Katinka K. Olrik
Auditorium
19:30 – 21:30: Queer Sports – Gabriel Fontana
Educatieruimte
19:00 – 19:30: knock, ʞɔonʞ – Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song
20:00 – 20:30: knock, ʞɔonʞ – Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song
20:45 – 21:30: A Room to Escape (Is there a Backdoor?) – students of VAV - moving image guided by Mariken Overdijk
More info and tickets: stedelijk.nl
Graphic design campagne: Idun Wahlgren and Sasha Anguelovskaia