Welcome to the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie website! To encourage critical making and thinking, Studium Generale offers a diverse and transdisciplinary programme every year on an urgent theme. Read more about the set-up and structure here.

This website consists of 3 substantive and informative layers that constantly feed each other.

The Programme Overview home page displays announcements of ongoing events and activities, and provides instant access to their live streams when appropriate.

Below the Programme overview is the Archive Picks area, which presents varying selections of older programme contributions, curated by guests or by ourselves. Older contributions can thus regain attention or meaning, or be presented in alternative arrangements.

At the bottom is the Archive. There you will find material from 2011 to the present: part of the video-recorded contributions to the annual conference of Studium Generale and since March 2020 also recordings of events and presentations of the preliminary programmes. The archive is searchable in various ways and offers a chronological overview of previous editions and links to the associated project websites. It also contains announcements and descriptions of previous programme components, which can no longer be relived, but do provide some glances in the histories of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

The purpose of the website is to inform and present what is happening at the moment, but it is also a memory, in which a lot can be found and unexpected encounters can take place.

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N.B. This website is still under construction! Not everything has been completed yet and the search functions in the Archive are not yet fully functional.

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Drag King Hellena, Aryelle Freeman Hopelezz, Jennifer Hopelezz, Mr European POZ: Eric the drag king, Papaya Kuir, Angelina Loqui, Shirleen Miyake Mugler, Drag MX science, Taka Taka, Vinny von Vinci, Vogue-Nagato

One hour, four stories,10 performances with numbers. About HIV/AIDS, mourning, PrEP prevention technology activism, wild data & drag-sharing-actions as ways of doing things for each other. End of violence; creation of joy.

Taka, Angelina Loqui, Jennifer Hopelezz, PrEP, data, Mr European POZ: Eric the drag king, dance, Aryelle Freeman Hopelezz, Sabrina Houston †, Vogue-Nagato & Shirleen Miyake Mugler, Matrix, Papaya Kuir, collective, testing centre, Vinny von Vinci, Drag MX science, Drag King Hellena, mingle.

Taka Taka is the godmother of the drag House of Hopelezz, sister for others, mother of the drag king House of Løstbois, proud daughter of Jennifer Hopelezz and co-founder of the non-profit Drag King Academy Amsterdam. Taka Taka identifies as a dragtivist, educator, queer theorist and independent curator who produces performances as art director for the Amsterdam‘s sex positive underground night club, Church since 2013.