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.

Wed, Mar 23 — Sat, Mar 26, 2022OCEANIC IMAGINARIES
To programme

Oceanic Imaginaries Conference Festival with guest curators Stefanie Hessler, Natasha Ginwala/Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung/Michelangelo Corsaro, Erika Balsom and Charl Landvreugd

design Mélanie Cot, Martina Vanini, Sigríður Hannesdóttir

March 23 - March 26, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 11:00-17:00 (Saturday 13:00-17:00)
Conference festival with lectures, screenings and performances.

Conference website: https://oceanicimaginaries.rietveldacademie.nl

Studium Generale & Rietveld Uncut present a four-day conference festival and exhibition of student works about thinking and making from and with the oceans.

Oceanic Imaginaries conceives the oceans as sensors that feel, create and connect. From an ecological point of view, the oceans are ‘critical zones’ that require radical changes in how we think and act. They are also troubling archives full of suppressed stories of transatlantic trade in enslaved people or boat people in the Mediterranean. But the oceans can also be experienced as immersive spaces of affect and liberation, in which new forms of being can emerge.

Guest curators Stefanie Hessler, Natasha Ginwala/Michelangelo Corsaro, Erika Balsom and Charl Landvreugd each put together a conference day:

March 23, Undercurrents. A Journey across Water, Soil, Bodies, Spirits, Technologies, and Time, curated by Stefanie Hessler
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Julien Creuzet, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Josèfa Ntjam & Hugo Mir-Valette

March 24, Invocation #2: Markings and Moorings: Indigo Waves and Other Stories, curated by Natasha Ginwala / Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with Michelangelo Corsaro,
Yvonne Adihambo Owuor, Clara Sukyoung Jo, Brook Andrew, Francesca Savoldi, Zahra Malkani & Syma Tariq, Köken Ergun, Yasmine Attoumane

March 25, Fluid Labours, curated by Erika Balsom
Ricardo Matos Cabo, Rebecca Meyers, Francisco Rodriquez, Hira Nabi

March 26, Imagining Liquification, curated by Charl Landvreugd
Charl Landvreugd, Joy Mariama Smith, Tarek Lakhrissi

Parallel to the conference, the exhibition Rietveld Uncut will take place in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Day Programmes

Attendance
Entrance for students and staff from Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut is free. All students and staff are welcome. Interested people from outside the Rietveld are also welcome.

Guests from outside the Rietveld are welcome to purchase a day ticket directly at the Stedelijk Museum counters during the conference (limited seats available) Price: € 3,- (+ museum entrance fee) / € 3,- (+ Museumkaart) Guests can access the Rietveld Uncut exhibition with the regular entrance fee or with their Museumkaart.

Online reservations also possible: https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/events/studium-generale-rietveld-uncut
https://www.stedelijk.nl/nl/evenementen/rietveld-academie-studium-generale-rietveld-uncut

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Attendees are kindly advised to arrive at the beginning of each days conference or during breaks so as to secure a comfortable seat and not disturb the presentations.

https://oceanicimaginaries.rietveldacademie.nl
https://rietvelduncut.rietveldacademie.nl

The project website with more information about the programme and the guests will be launched soon!

Dominique Knowles, video still from Tahlequah, 2019

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