loVe making ᥫ᭡ love as a creative act and site of resistance
Image description: Film still from Jordan Lord’s After… After… (Access), 2018. [The image shows a white quilt with a pink stripe, bunched into folds that cover most of the frame. A caption appears at the bottom of the image, reading: “The frame is filled by a blanket that moves up and down with my heartbeat.”]
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.” — bell hooks
What if love is the wild glitch in the system — a creative act of care, queer becoming, and embodied refusal? Love is in the air, in the making, in the kernel of being alive — yet it leaks through every attempt to contain it.
The way we live shapes how we think about love. It’s not just a feeling — it’s something culture teaches us, something shaped by apps and social rules, something that keeps our economic system running. But at the same time, love can break those patterns. It can be a force for care, for connection, for pushing back against what controls us.
loVe making speculates on love as unruly practice: tender and fierce, collective and embodied — an invitation to love against power, to make and remake worlds otherwise.
How can we love-make-mobilise-disrupt-repair together?
With love,
Studium Generale
Programme Overview
Our formats have been revised (slightly) — there will be performance, healing yoga, talk, communal cooking, film screening, a love-disco, workshop, dance, and a reading group. We will conclude with a multi-day festival and Rietveld Uncut.
- Preliminary Programme
When:
January 7 — Basicyear Workshop
Wednesday afternoons:
January 14, 21, 28
February 4, 11, 18
March 4, 11
Where: Gym, Theory Stairs & Library
What:
Performance, talk & more
Cinema Circle, curated by Derica Shields
Workshops, lead by Mira Thompson & Staci Bu Shea
Reading Group, moderated by Jay Tan
- Festival & Rietveld Uncut
When: March 18–22
Where: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Supporting publications
Lexicon
Website & Eeeh-reader