Performance 9-11-18, 2pm!
Within and Against the Academy: Study, Rehearsal and Improvisation
On November 9, 16 and 23, Studium Generale Rietveld presents a series of events on expanded notions of ‘study’, ‘rehearsal’ and ‘improvisation’ in relation to the art academy, art making and social life. From the making and the thinking, study is being regarded as 'unrestricted sociality', escaping fixed structures, policies and identities.
You are cordially invited to join us
November 9, 2 - 4 pm
Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Auditorium FedLev building), Amsterdam
Singing the Blues and Coming up for Air: Not Just Overcoming but Embracing the Odds
The Act of Listening
Performance by Nagaré Willemsen and Rosanne Jonkhout
Keynote talk by Aminata Cairo
Followed by a conversation hosted by Unsetting Rietveld Sandberg
- Singing the Blues and Coming up for Air: Not Just Overcoming but Embracing the Odds
Diversity and inclusion, you hear nothing but these days. In the world of the arts this should not be an issue. After all the arts unite and reflect everybody, are not limited by culture, are about expanding vision and perception, and go beyond the world of division, or do they? Using the metaphor of the blues we will look at opportunities and challenges of diversity and inclusion and what that might mean for us as artists.
Aminata Cairo was born and raised in the Netherlands but pursued her entire academic career in the United States. She obtained bachelor’s degrees in physical education and psychology, a master’s degree in clinical psychology, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in medical anthropology. She has dedicated her academic work to community engagement and giving voice to overlooked, silenced, or otherwise marginalized populations, while including students in that process. She worked as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Upon return to the Netherlands she has worked in diversity and inclusion policy at Leiden University.
A performance that allows the audience to question their position in the uncomfortable conversation about racial inequality.
By combining design and applied art, Nagaré Willemsen (1992, Democratic Republic Congo) creates new realities in installations that reconsider our daily life. Using performance, installations and drawings, Willemsen’s work revolves around postcolonial discourse, identity, family, symbolism and human behaviour. Rosanne Jonkhout (1991, Netherlands) is an artist whose work focuses on confronting the viewer with their fragility.
- Unsetting Rietveld Sandberg
A conversation with Aminata, Nagaré, Rosanne and members of the audience around their experiences of the talk and performance, focusing on how their unsettling questions could operate within the context of the Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut.
Unsettling Rietveld Sandberg is an intra-curricular initiative working actively between and beyond the structures and discourses of the academy to unsettle the Rietveld and Sandberg from the roots up. Together with the dynamic input of students, staff, external advisors and management, Unsettling Rietveld/Sandberg aims to not only shift the ways we work together but also ask the question: who is the “we” in the first place? The unsettling consultant is Judith Leysner and unsettling coordinator is Clare Butcher. For more information see here.
Studium Generale Rietveld is a transdisciplinary theory programme that addresses students and faculty across all departments and disciplines at the academy, as well as the general public. It wants to understand how art and design are entangled with other domains (from the personal to the political, from the vernacular to the academic), how ‘now’ is linked with past and future, and ‘here’ with ‘elsewhere’.
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