Image: Clara Arámburo, Still from 'Comal', 2023, Rietveld Uncut 2023, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Rietveld Uncut 2023
In collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie presents Refuge - fleeing, flowing leaking. This is a large-scale, multi-day event in the museum building and a festive Friday night. From 22 to 25 March, it focuses on questions of refuge.
The annual collaboration between the Stedelijk Museum and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie consists of two parts: a conference and an exhibition with performance programme. Studium Generale presents a four-day conference where different curators fill a day with diverse artistic perspectives on the theme Refuge - fleeing, flowing, leaking. Following this theme, students create new work for the exhibition Rietveld Uncut. This presentation culminates in a festive Friday Night on 24 March with performances and interventions. More info on the programming will follow later.
Read more about the conference here
REFUGE - FLEEING, FLOWING, LEAKING
This year's central theme is refuge. Human and non-human animals seek refuge because of war, terror, hunger, exploitation, climate change, or because of structural forms of daily oppression and exclusion. You can find refuge in a camp, shelter, safe space, in a body, state of being, state of mind. Or you take refuge in a (self-chosen) family, community, movement, or collective.
This edition of Studium Generale and Rietveld Uncut considers the phenomenon of refuge not only as a concrete and physical construction in a violent or toxic reality, but also as a potential affective space or caring body. It considers how limiting systems (ideologies, states, institutions, academies, machines...) flow and leak unpredictably, from which lines of flight can emerge.
From there, how can we harbour and connect bodies and create refuges for affective and dissident voices?
Participants exhibition and performance programme Rietveld Uncut:
Antonia Valentina & Jordi de Vetten, Carl-Johan Paulsen, Chenpan Qi, Clara Inés Arámburo Torres, Danute Liva, Enzy Jhang, Fanja Bouts, Fara Verhoeven, Greta Ona Galiauskaite, Ida Cecilie Meldgaard Fisker, Islam Abdelkader, Jill van Grinsven, Karolina Hyun Wilting, Katarina Holzmann Ekholm & Esther Rzewnicki, Kateryna Lymar, Lucie Dudova, Lujza Kramarova, Maïa Taïeb, Maja Wachowska with: Stella Kummer, Cameron Howie, Karl Götter & Anna Fleuri, Paulina Koeleman, Pieke Pleijers, Sofie Santos, Sojourna Anna Jon-Paul, Sujin Lee, Yana Khazanovich. Workshops and group projects by Rainbow Soulclub, Elisa van Joolen, the Rietveld's Photography department and the VAV - moving image department.
Friday Night
24 March 2023, 18.30-22:00 hrs
On 24 March we celebrate a festive Friday Night with performances, talks and music. The programme features seven performances, one of which is a group project by the VAV - moving image department. As part of the Uncut Friday Night, Rainbow Soulclub will take part in Stedelijk's monthly Meet the Masters program. Members of this collective will, after a short plenary program, facilitate ‘free advice’ conversations on tapestries they have designed in collaboration with the Rietveld students.
Tickets at Stedelijk.nl
* Rietveld Academie students get free access to the Friday Night. Show your student card at the registration desk to pick up a wristband.