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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IF I CAN’T DANCE: PROPOSITIONS ON THE SUBJECT
Frédérique Bergholtz, Chukhrov, Frankovich, Susan Gibb, Ilić, Roy

The program of the day comprises the presentation of three works of art that connect theory with artistic practice: Xavier Le Roy’s performance Product of Circumstances; Keti Chukhrov’s film Love Machines; and a new live experience by Alicia Frankovich. Each of the artists’ works intersects with a number of disciplines, from biology and choreography, philosophy and poetry, and visual arts and performance, to create artistic and experimental propositions that speak to the complexity of living bodies.

SLOT 1 12.30 – 14.30
Frédérique Bergholtz and Susan Gibb / If I Can’t Dance, introduction to Propositions on the Subject
Xavier Le Roy, Product of Circumstances (performance)
(15min break)
SLOT 2 14.45 – 16.45
Keti Chukhrov, lecture followed by a screening of her film Love Machines. Conversation between Keti Chukhrov and Nataša Ilić/WHW
(15min break)
SLOT 3 17.00 – 19.00
Corpus, a new live experience by Alicia Frankovich