Extra Intra is a website by the editorial board of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie & Sandberg Instituut. It provides an overview of the academy's various intercurricular platforms, student initiatives & their events.
You can contribute to the calendar by submitting your events to share@rietveldacademie.nl
Unsettling has invited poet CAConrad for an annual artist talk:
Join the students of Dirty Art Department at the abandoned Slotervaart Hospital, now a healthcare center, for an evening of wild performances and immersive installations.
Come swim in the river STYX with us!
In this multidisciplinary performance workshop we will explore what it means to liberate our creative and intuitive bodies in a real-time performative context. During three days, we will research and explore different body-based practices, methods and tools that encourage us to feel empowered as improvising performers and instant composers.
Presentations and conversation by Agustina Woodgate, experts from the DLR (The German Aerospace Center) and students from Cologne International School of Design (KISD) and Parsons The New School.
A lecture on the impossibilities of algorithmic translation. "Amorino Latente/ Latent Cupid” revolves around the translation of art and its emotional impact through algorithmic and computational processes.
Presentations and conversation with Marjolijn Bol, Julia Ills (Bio Design Lab) and Clementine Edwards (The Material Kinship Reader). Moderated by the Material Research Group.
Climate Imaginaries at Sea: artistic research residency project with Müge Yılmaz and LOOM. Tasting with Brackish.
Our current temporary program Artificial Times in collaboration with Fiber Festival invites you to Latent Assemblies – a one-day symposium on the interplay of artistic making and AI
We, students and staff of the large glass department have been working on this fundraiser for a while now.
We have been blowing, torching, sandblasting and so much more, and we can finally announce a date, time and place for it.
Balancing studies and well-being isn’t always easy. That’s why Well-being Days, brought to you by Unsettling and the Student Counsellors, are here at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy—a dedicated space to pause, recharge, and explore supportive practices for a more balanced life.
Join the students of Dirty Art Department at the abandoned Slotervaart Hospital, now a healthcare center, for an evening of wild performances and immersive installations.
Come swim in the river STYX with us!
7 November - 5 December
Opening: Thursday 7 November at 17.00
@ Eight Cubic Meters, Sint Nicolaasstraat, Amsterdam
Welcome back to this new Academic Year!
We are excited to be back in the garden and we hope to see you there:
First monthly garden day is next Wednesday 11/09 from 11-16
We’ll provide lunch!
We have the pleasure of inviting you to the large-scale solo exhibition DIALECT by Femke Herregraven at Radius in Delft. The exhibition marks the last chapter of Femke Herregraven’s Creator Doctus trajectory at Rietveld Sandberg Research.
The Rietveld pavilion was a student run project space of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Sandberg Instituut before, and Public & Projects is relaunching it as such. The pavilion provides a platform for students to experiment, to discuss and to learn by making use of the autonomous space. The aim of the pavilion is to keep the space active and alive, and to bring students together to exchange ideas and to support them in collaborative projects.
On Thursday November 14th, we invite you to PrintRoom Rotterdam for an informal lunch and launch of Motormond magazine together with curator Musoke Nalwoga and artist Sophie Douala and the lead collaborators in the making of Motormond Magazine.
The monthly theme is focused on maintenance of our outdoor worm-hotel and green compost as well as spreading mulch on our beds to prepare them for colder times ahead.
Caring for the worms, caring for the soil and caring for each other<3
We will provide fresh herb tea and there will be lunch provided by the Canteen.
Bring warm clothes!
On Wednesday November 13th we will begin weaving our willow trees into a willow dome! DesignLAB1 will together with Angie begin the project. We are excited to see what will emerge!
Input and discussion between Students from Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and Students for Palestine in Zürich.
Join us to celebrate Belouga boat in November!
9 November
3pm-6pm
Marineterrein, Kattenburgerstraat 5
Collaboration Station is organized with Unsettling, Platform BK, De Appel & Lumbung Practice @ Sandberg Instituut.
10x10 is a powerful tool. Ranging from mathematics to design, an entire world lives within this simple phrasing. There lies a representation of balance and symmetry, though within these confines there is freedom… 10’s become X’s and X’s become 144 characters. 10 x 10, x x x, 144 x 144… the equation holds a limitlessness, but is also bounded by its symbolisms. Symbolisms being that what they symbolize or a complete fabrication on what they once may or may not have represented. VAV3 attempts to explores the space between this reality and artificiality.
Music for lighthouse-keeping, sensuous lovers, or the dining room of the athlete’s village at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964; a quick search on the music database Discogs indicates that as of November 2024, it contains 3,363 unique entries that have “music for …” in their title. These titles suggest that the music is preconditional; they are, for example, intended for a specific place, activity, or audience. During “Music for Biscuits and Other Preconditional Sounds,” sound artist Oscar van Leest will share some general reflections on the historical and contemporary contexts of listening and host a listening session featuring some of his favorite finds among the vast number of “Music for …” works that exist.
VAV are hosting their first Film Club night on November 6!
Tour of conservation studios followed by a workshop at NICAS (The Netherlands Institute for Conservation+Art+Science+) and the Atelier Building of the Rijksmuseum
We are excited to invite you to participate in the Warehouse Market, a three-day event from 25-27 October in Amsterdam that offers a place for local makers, designers & publishers to share their self-made garments and fashion- or textile related publications, and exchange knowledge about fashion, clothes and textiles in context.
"New Energy" is not just a title; it's a guiding principle driving our exploration of the limitless possibilities of glass as a medium for artistic expression. Over the course of the symposium, we will delve into the transformative power of glass art, shedding light on groundbreaking techniques, provocative concepts, and visionary perspectives that are reshaping the contemporary art landscape.
A range of renown speakers and makers share their energy with us when we explore the diverse facets of New Energies.
We would like to invite you to the first Life After Rietveld and Sandberg session: Keeping Community.
For Rietveld & Sandberg students alike, the writing and publication of the thesis is a major undertaking of the last year of study (for some, already the summer before). Where does one begin? How does one end? What books did you read and where did you find them? And how does this all relate to the graduation work?
Join us in commemorating and celebrating the work of Rob Schröder, visionary documentary filmmaker and graphic designer, co-initiator of the activist design collective Wild Plakken, co-founder the Sandberg Instituut, and tutor at Sandberg Design, Shadow Channel and Resolution.
The Purple Lab collective is launching its “Les Indépendances” festival in Paris and has brought together 30 artists for the occasion to take over the Mains d’Œuvres space and share counter-narratives of the Independences. Through an exhibition, performances, workshops for all audiences, meetings, film screenings and an eclectic line-up, we invite you to meet them on October 19!
listening, installation, drinks & concert
featuring Timo van Sark (ity), Pedro Kastelijns & qbae
Join Aurélia Noudelmann and Laëtitia Delauney for a workshop around Le Bateau during FLUCTUATIONS at ADE
Elioa Steffen & Szymon Adamczak arę doing a workshop with the Book Binding Workshop and Sandberg Design, facilitated by IPOP and Materiality Research Group.
During their talk IPOP will share insights from their Queer Feedback Sessions—an artistic pedagogical research project exploring theories and methodologies for queering performance feedback while supporting the development of LGBTQ+ artists.
Visit the BYOB table + browse many other publishers during the coming weekend, at Miss Read — the Berlin art book fair & festival for independant publishing.
Friday-Sunday at HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Come join us next Garden day 10 October!
Autumn-equinox is now past us, and as we are looking towards darker time, we still cherish the light and abundance together in the Garden.
This workshop brings together the students of the TXT bachelor department, the Garden Department and other living organisms in a collective site of material research to engage with material practices weaving together human and other-than-human knowledges.
Dear students, staff and passerby’s of Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut! JOIN US FOR A DAY OF ACTION IN THE ACTION STAIRS!
Join us for this event by Garden Department alumni:
WELCOME EVERYBODY to the Introduction day next tuesday in the Action Stairs (Formerly known as the Theory Stairs). We want to meet new students, old students, teachers, staff and whoever might be interested. We will introduce some of the work that has been done and towards where we are heading -with hopes of creating concersations about what our art academy -actually- is. The genocide in Gaza soon pass one year, and the lethal intensity of Israels occupation in the West Bank intensifies. We need to gather and take action!
Public & Projects is searching for two student projects who would like to show in Eight Cubic Meters during this school year:
Open Call for Oreum Residency 2024 is available now for application:
Rooted within non-conformity, nurtured as the centerpoint of a concious upbringing, historical knowledge is sustained through cultural practices and communal traditions, creating an unwavering sense of identity. Leading to intuitive expressions of indviduality.
For our first time at Unseen Amsterdam, we have commissioned a new series of photographs from the talented and now well established artist Nella Ngingo. Errant Black Girlhoods is a new series of photographs by Burundian photographer Nella Ngingo (1992, Burundi). With Errant Black Girlhoods Ngingo holds the sensitive space between masculine presenting black women and trans men.
Exhibition and book launch by Bring Your Own Book @ Plan B.
Most persons are surprised, and many distressed but Writing weakens the mind, and Interlude is hosting a "Back to School" event on Friday, September 13th, starting at 5 PM at the Rietveld Pavilion.
Giulia Nicolai has invited k. cidder, a researcher and sound artist from Bristol, to join the event.
The exhibition “Myths of Mothers and Other Monsters” showcases explorations around motherhood* by artists Hannah Kindler and Milena Naef. Although care work and motherhood* are the foundation of every society, they are surrounded by persistent stereotypes, norms, and taboos. Particularly for artists, motherhood* is still considered a breach of taboo, as the myth of the male artist-genius, who creates in the quiet absence of children, runs deep. Between the image of the self-sacrificing “Mother Mary” and the cold-hearted "working mom," a tension arises that calls for a reexamination and deconstruction of such divisive and oppressive societal narratives.
In July & August the academy is closed — but you can still come and enjoy the garden!
Announcing our fifth and final event of this series!
A workshop of many possibilities with Elena Braida, Inês Queirós, Julina Vanille Bezold & Samira Vogel hosted at Kas Keerweer.
Announcing our fourth event, a workshop bringing together the practices of Miriam Del Seppia and Masha Maroz hosted in the beautiful community garden I can change the world with my two hands.
‘dis/functional [-c] objects’ explores the relationship between language, code, handcraft and interfacing. The process comes to life through the making of a series of hybrid installations. The project departs from a self-posed question: In a time when web development systems are rapidly evolving and A.I.s can generate software codes in seconds, is manual process of writing code, like HTML, from scratch becoming a craft? The aim is to therefore experiment with the use of handmade elements highlighting a slow, personal code-crafting method as counterbalance to the speed of commodified and centralized state of the current digital landscape.
You are cordially invited to visit the Graduation Show 2024!
Details below:
Announcing our third event with contributions from Ellen Yiu, Meghan Clarke and Romy Day Winkel hosted at Zone2Source!
Reflection report: BYOB & Cranberry Juice
In December 2024 the editorial board comes to the end of its 5 year run at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie & Sandberg Instituut. In this second to last reflection report, the 4th cohort of platforms share their experiences running a research group together with and for other students: What were the challanges? What were the outcomes? What impact did being an organizer have on their study and what professional opportunities opened up?
Extra Intra Reader 3: Swallowed Like a Whole
Thank you to everyone who came to the launch of Extra Intra Reader 3: Swallowed Like a Whole. You can acquire a paper copy of the publication at San Serriffe, in the academy, or download a PDF below:
Welcoming: toitoitoi & Interlude
Starting in the spring semester of 2024 are the 2 latest research platforms — toitoitoi and Interlude. They deal with performance and listening practices, respectively, and invite you to join them in the coming year:
TOWARDS NEW SCHOOLS - epistemic shifts in art and design education
'Towards New Schools' is an essay series published by the Editorial Board around recent epistemic shifts in art and design education in Northwestern Europe. Practitioners, researchers and teachers have been invited to reflect on the knowledge systems that shape educational programmes and the power structures they replicate.
1 open call, 18 proposals, 2 platforms
The editorial board was created in 2019 as a 5 year project part of the Quality Agreements. Its objective is to stimulate extracurricular, experimental and student driven education at the Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. Set out to facilitate 13 educational platforms during that period through an annual open call, it has now entered what is possibly its last cycle.
Platforms yearly reflection report
Each year the editorial board publishes a report where the previous cohort of platforms reflect on their experiences. These continous conversations are meant to investigate what self-organised intercurricular education achieves inside of the academy, what challanges organisers and participants face, and what the editorial board can improve in the future.
You will find the reflection report for the academic year 2022-2023 here:
Last Open Call for Intercurricular Educational Platforms! - Round 5
Do you want to develop experimental education? Do you want to organise a research platform outside the structure of a department? Do you want to team up with students, teachers and workshops specialists from across the academy to explore a particular topic?
Welcoming: BYOB & Cranberry Juice
In these 2 videos the 2023 platforms introduce themselves & invite new participants:
1 Open Call, 13 Proposals, 2 Platforms
This was the editorial board’s fourth open call and we are very grateful to the students, tutors, alumni and workshop specialists who applied to run a platform. Thank you for the work and time you put into writing your applications. Each year the proposals pose complex and interesting research questions and exciting content, and this year we were particularly impressed by their professionalism and ambitious nature.
Platform event 2023 @ Perdu
Recap: on May 10, four student-led research platforms held their annual public presentation event, at Perdu in Amsterdam.
Extra Intra Reader #2: A Slight Breath - PDF
Thank you to everyone who came to the publication launch at San Serriffe on March 30 and got a paper copy of the reader!
Since the physical publication is now running low in numbers it has also been made available as a PDF here. Click to download >>
Open Call for Intercurricular Educational Platforms - Round 4
Do you want to develop experimental education? Do you want to organise a research platform outside the structure of a department? Do you want to team up with students, teachers and workshops specialists from across the academy to explore a particular topic?
The Editorial Board is looking for two new intercurricular platforms to start in September 2023.
TO NOSE. FROM NOSE.
Dear Olya,
I’m writing you a letter from my nose, in the sense that I depart and arrive from the nose and to the nose as I nose. My point is that I have traveled far, but I know that the place of my face that is the “I” where my story unfolds and folds in a void of not-knowing is a song of home-coming too as the paradox of leaving and the impossibility to leave within the breathing time walking upon the soils of the earth bordered by law and tongues drawn and woven into streams of images and semantics. We have known each other for a few months now and one of the things that connect us is the impossibility of speech and the perpetual trying, trying, and trying.
The Editorial Board for Intercurricular Programmes is looking for three new members (3 positions of 10 hours per month) from February 2023
We are looking for:
1 bachelor student
1 master student
1 member of non-teaching staff / workshop specialist
Quality Agreements, half-time platform reflections
The Quality Agreements is a funding plan which allows student-driven research platforms to run for 5 years. In 2022, now that half of that time has passed, we are sharing 2 anonymous reports with reflections from the platforms that have existed so far. Here, organizers and participants describe the challenges and rewards of running a platform, what they have learned, and what they would like future initiatives to know.
Welcoming: Bread Oven, Motormond, Material Monopolies & Crip the Curriculum
In these 4 videos the 2022 platforms introduce themselves & invite new participants:
1 Open Call, 12 Proposals, 4 Platforms, 3 Website Projects
To all of those who responded to our third Open Call we extend a huge thank you. It was a great pleasure to spend time thinking through and discussing your proposals, and we are grateful for the time and attention you took in applying. It is always rewarding to read about what broad and compelling work is being done around the academy, and it gives us a valuable insight in to what topics and urgencies students are currently working and thinking with.
In this round the decision making process was a challenging one, and we had long discussions in order to come to a final selection. We appreciate the commitment and consideration given to the proposed topics and questions, and are happy that they provoked discussion amongst the board members. We always encourage those who were unsuccessful to join our feedback sessions, and, if suitable, to apply again next round, which will be in the Spring of 2023.
Event: Crossfade: Sonic Somatics
On 18th May 2022, the Editorial Board organised an event at OT301 in collaboration with the Embodied Knowledge Bureau and aux).
These two student-led research platforms used the occasion to share their research around sound and listening practices, and embodied knowledge and cognition, with an audience. The programme included a listening session by aux); a conversation between the founders and participants of EKB where they shared some of the theoretical context and personal backdrop that drove their research; and a deep listening session and workshop with Liane and Micaela Turk, where the audience was led through breath and movement exercises to a soundtrack of deep techno.
Open Call for Intercurricular Educational Platforms - Round 3
Do you want to develop experimental education? Do you want to organise a research platform outside the structure of a department? Do you want to team up with students, teachers and workshops specialists from across the academy to explore a particular topic? The Editorial Board is looking for four new intercurricular platforms to start in September 2022. Please send your proposal before April 26!
Weaving Counter-Archives 1: ON ART WORKER RIGHTS
This article presents a sequence of conversation transcripts from the making of Textiles of Resistance: Growing, Weaving, Printing, Archiving, a project initiated by Werker Collective with Gleb Maiboroda & studio bonbon at Sonsbeek 20-24, an art manifestation in Arnhem, the Netherlands, exploring the complex labour relations and inequalities that show who is (un)seen, who is (in)dispensable, who is seemingly worth our applause, and who is fawningly silent.
Tools of Relations
the last few years have seen art academies across the netherlands lurch from one crisis to another, suspended in a constant state of crisis-management. the responses have varied across, and within, academies, but a closer look reveals a number of root causes that contribute to the issues rife within our art academies. these issues are difficult to address on a micro, per-academy level, through short-lived instagram accounts, or in moments of rupture and crisis. they need to be addressed through sustained, ongoing efforts - in alliance, together. this is already happening in a myriad of ways, and our project - ‘tools of relation’ - seeks to create a commons of these efforts. to create a living archive of these conversations, actions, interventions, conflicts, resolutions, and alliances.
Symposium: Disloyal to the Structure - on platforms as experimental art education
On November 30 the Editorial Board of Intercurricular Programmes at Rietveld/Sandberg held a symposium on the urgency of experimental forms of art education and the possibilities they offer in shaping future educational structures, practices and discourses.
Context matters: A conversation with Elisa van Joolen and Anouk Beckers
We are so invested, many of us, in the idea of ownership. I came up with this design, so it is mine; I paid for this bag, so I own it. Upon this foundation, capitalism is built: we buy and we sell, we own and disown, and goods circulate from one owner to the next. But what does it mean, really, to own something? Can something ever really be ours? Might there be other ways, besides individual ownership, to relate to objects? And if so, what would that mean for our systems of production and consumption?
The Editorial Board for Intercurricular Programmes is looking for three members from October 2021
We are looking for:
1 master student
1 member of teaching staff
1 member of non-teaching staff / workshop specialist
Platform Alliances #1 Tools
What are the tools for alliances? How do we establish solidarity networks? Can a model of practice and form of governance be considered as a work of art? And what does it mean to publish/make public in a platform framework?
Voice, sound, technology and binaries: an audio essay featuring Sasha Geffen
We, a group of five, came together because of a mutual interest in sound. We are interested in how we listen and how sound is being used in its own materiality to foster experimental and border-crossing ways of making and thinking. At the end of 2020, we started a small online reading group where each one of us proposed a book they wanted to read. One of them was Sasha Geffen’s book Glitter up the Dark, which explores the intersections of gender, pop culture, the body, and technology. We reached out to Sasha and asked if they would be interested in collaborating with us. The following audio is composed by a mix of excerpts from their book, Sasha’s own voice, songs, samples, and voices from our friends.
1 Open Call, 11 Proposals, 3 Reflections, 2 Platforms
We would like to express a wholehearted thank you to those who responded to our second Open Call. We received 11 proposals in all and take great pride and pleasure that so many students, teachers and workshop specialists presented us with diverse and stimulating visions for the future of art education.
With the following reflections we offer you a synopsis of the proposals, an overview of the topics they addressed and aspects of their research that we found to be exciting. The Editorial Board is sincerely grateful to those who applied, and eager to focus on facilitating the two new initiatives we have selected as well as supporting other promising proposals in carrying out a section of their programme.
Embodied Learning Lexicon: B is for Breath
In a culture that persistently lures towards a distrust of what cannot be seen, our physical reality is becoming increasingly invisible. This text reflects on one of the most basic, yet important, factors of our physicality: breath. I will examine the phenomenological and ecological implications of a culture that too often takes breath for granted, and ask: What can a pandemic which targets the lungs teach about a cultural relationship with grief?
(closed) Open Call: Intercurricular Educational Platforms - round 2
The editorial board invites students, teachers and workshop specialists from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie to team up for two semesters and create an intercurricular educational platform. The Quality Agreements 2019-2024 budget offers the possibility to support new educational platforms in the upcoming years. Three new platforms will start in September 2021, focusing on one of the following topics: ecology, future commons, embodiment, relationality, the future of materialisation, future pedagogy, future art and design economies, technology, future philosophy, future feminisms or future politics.
All around me's twisting, twisting
All around me's twisting, twisting draws from past research undertaken by Rosie Haward and Naomi Credé around embodiments of dizziness and giddiness, focusing on the affects, histories and political potential these sensations give rise to. Dizziness or giddiness can alter our spatial, temporal and bodily relation to the world, and result in feelings of disorientation.
1 Open Call, 21 Proposals, 5 Reflections, 3 Platforms
1. A sincere thank you to everyone who responded to our Open Call!
With these reflections the editorial board wants to express a sincere thank you to everyone who has responded to our Open Call. We have received 21 proposals and feel honored that students, teachers as well as workshop specialists teamed-up and shared their thoughts and ambitions with us. The 21 proposals present a substantial collection of visions for a future of (art) education.
With these reflections we want to present a synopsis, highlight trends and share aspects we have signaled in the 21 proposals, as well as announce the 3 proposals we have selected. The editorial board feels proud and humble and will focus on facilitating these 3 new initiatives, as well as looking for ways to encourage and possibly support the other proposals in another manner.
(closed) Open Call: Intercurricular Programmes
Future Practices is the title of the multi-year framework from which the editorial board works in the coming years. The framework is in line with discussions previously held by the editorial board: where is the potential of the intercurricular programs in relation to future art and design education? What does studio practice and material research look like in the future and what role do the workshops play in this? How are students prepared for a field that is constantly evolving? How do they want to manifest themselves after their studies? Future practices concerns students and teachers from all departments as well as workshop specialists.