Hold Me Now - Feel and Touch in an Unreal World

Rietveld Uncut is an annual exhibition and performance programme by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Its collaboration with Studium Generale builds up to a simultaneous conference-week and exhibition in which ‘the making and the thinking’ comes together. Departments and students have developed projects in relation to the theoretical framework of Studium Generale under the title 'Hold Me Now – Feel and Touch in an Unreal World' 

The exhibition runs 21 - 24 from March at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. On Friday night, 23 March, from 7–10pm performances and screenings will be added.

Participating departments: Graphic Design, Jewellery – linking bodies, designLAB, Architectural Design, Beeld en Taal, The Large Glass, Ceramics, VAV – moving image, Photography

Participating students: Ilse Stokman; Lianne van Roekel; Thom van Rijckevorsel; Elena Giolo; Garance Früh; Hyeonju Lee and Niklas Büscher; Xenia Perek and Nazanin Karimi; Max Glader; Nomin Zezegmaa; Valter Tornberg; Oda Haugerud; Laura Fernández Antolín; Aleksandra Kwiatkowska; Manon Bachelier, Eliott Déchamboux, and Kaspar Sellin; Cleo Tsw and Philip Ullman; Margherita Chinchio; Kim Lang; and Annie Åkerman and Cornelia Isaksson.

Programme Friday 23 March 

Zadelhoff Café

7.15–7.30pm: Opening

7.30–9.30pm: DJs Alan & Felix (Rendez-vous)

TBA (reservations only, reserve at the front desk)

7.45–8pm: Mines and Marrow by Annie Åkerman & Cornelia Isaksson

8.30–8.45pm: Mines and Marrow by Annie Åkerman & Cornelia Isaksson

9.15–9.30pm: Mines and Marrow by Annie Åkerman & Cornelia Isaksson

Studio B (under the staircase)

Ongoing: on containing by Kim Lang

Schiphol Entree

Ongoing: I am my hands by Ilse Stokman

Ongoing: ‘Taal kan pas aangeraakt worden als het vormgegeven is’ by Beeld en Taal (department)

Ongoing: Cross-pollination by Jewellery - linking bodies and designLAB (departments)


Teijin Auditorium

7.30 – 8.30pm: Tactics and Tactilities by VAV - moving image (department)

8.30 – 9.30pm: Tactics and Tactilities by VAV - moving image (department)

Various locations

7.30 – 9.30pm: MOOFMOOFMOOF by VAV - moving image

Ongoing: Homunculus Gifty by Manon Bachelier, Eliott Déchamboux & Kaspar Sellin

More information on the conference website.