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
The Rietveld & Sandberg Library is pleased to welcome poet, sound artist, and teacher LA Warman, who will host a poetry workshop in the Library on Tuesday, December 12 at 5pm.
Currently on a reading and teaching tour celebrating the French translation of her book Whore Foods, which received the Lamda Literary Award for Erotica in 2020, Warman will lead participants through writing exercises engaging the poetics of death and erotics.

During this workshop, we will delve into the history and rhythm of Maracatu, an Afro-Indigenous resistance movement from Brazil. We will explore the six different instruments used in Maracatu, understanding how they harmonize to create the unique sound of this tradition.

Zip (formerly Asian Union) teams up with Filmtheater De Uitkijk for a diverse and exciting film program from 14-23rd of December. Under the theme of “home” and “time”. Come watch Trinh T. Minh-ha’s ‘ Forgetting Vietnam’ on December 14 & 20!

Come watch Tsai Ming-liang’s ‘rebels of the neon god’ on December 15th and 19th @ Filmtheater De Uitkijk, Prinsengracht 452, 1017 KE Amsterdam.

Come watch Yang Yong-hi’s ‘soup and ideology’ on December 16th and 23rd! @ Filmtheater De Uitkijk, Prinsengracht 452, 1017 KE Amsterdam.

Unsettling Rietveld Sandberg is welcoming artist Yazan Khalili. Yazan works in and out of Palestine, currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he is a PhD candidate at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam.
Yazan is an architect, visual artist, and cultural producer. His works have been exhibited in several major exhibitions, including among others: Documenta fifteen 2022, KW, Berlin 2020, MoCA Toronto 2020, New Photography, MoMA 2018, Jerusalem Lives, Palestinian Museum, 2017. He is the co-founder of Radio Alhara in 2020, and The Question of Funding collective, 2022.

The Fine Art Department of the Sandberg warmly invites you all to come to visit our across-department exhibition ‘ I Know How To Wait ‘,
…small movements, bigger gestures; a note or a resolution, the focus of this exhibition is contained in each of us patiently ebbing and flowing away. To our soft rumbling, through a spin or a sprint, we will share what is, what will be, and what is becoming with you.

For(t)sight invites you on a journey through 12 hypothetical scenarios where we explore projections into our futures in the Netherlands.
Join us in a collective speculation of future-ready interventions, formed through story telling techniques in response to possible, plausible or even impossible outcomes.

Opening: Friday 1 December 2023, 17:00 hrs
Exhibition runs until: 17 January 2024
Location: Eight Cubic Meters, Sint Nicolaasstraat, Amsterdam
Open: 24/7

Last episode of 2023
November 30 from 10 PM
at Echobox Radio

listed especially for the word-loving people!
last dates and chances to join the formerly know as reading group in 2023!!!!
stay tuned for the coming posters with more infos on our events.

Research Café is a series of lectures on methodology, open to all students, staff, tutors, and alumni of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut.

For over 300 years, adults and children from various parts of Africa, were abducted and shipped across the Atlantic in inhuman conditions, by mostly Dutch slave traders, to the former Dutch colonies of Suriname and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten. The indigenous peoples of the numerous Dutch colonies were not spared either. In Asia, enslaved people were traded to areas under the administration of the United East India Company (VOC). For generations, people were born into slavery. They were forced into space labour for their entire lives, serving the Dutch plantation owners.

Our meeting from **today** will be moved to **tomorrow 5pm** !!! As we will join the Sit-In at 6pm.
Come by today to Centraal , and join us tomorrow for the pre-ultimate session before change of the year

We are happy to invite you to ‘Be Our Guest! A symposium on publishing’ on the 8th of December at the Fedlev Auditorium together with abC - art book in China, Björn Giesecke, Kristina Stallvik and Ott Metusala. They will hold presentations about their individual and collective publishing practices. The talks will be introduced by byob.

We’ll have our last gardening day of the year this Thursday Dec 7 from 11-15h.
The frost has arrived so we’re preparing the last beds to tuck them in for the winter.
Please join if you like! We will provide hot tea!

Stories to Sleep to is a performance series hosting storytellers whose practice resonates with the decolonial theory of slowing down by sharing bedtime stories. BIPOC artists are invited to lull you asleep as they weave together bedtime stories inspired by their cultures.

Come December 7th from 12.30 - 20.30 to the glass pavilion for drinks, cookies and to buy GIFTS

The Rietveld Sandberg Library and the Art & Spatial Praxis research group invite you to a morning of dialogue and learning on Wednesday 6th of December from 10:00 to 11.45 on the Theory Stairs with speakers Jeff Handmaker and Isabel Awad, moderated by Ali T. As’ad. They will explore narratives surrounding polarisation, media inclusion/exclusion, and apartheid regimes in the light of Israel and Palestine.

A programme by Flavia Dzodan, head of the Research group on Algorithmic Cultures

On the 4th of December we are joined by Pernilla Manjula Philip & Morgane Billuart for artist presentations touching upon on Care, the collective power of DIY, Femtech, PMDD and the body in pain.

O O O o o, we are back with a warm & full program for next week and would be so happy if you would join us:

For the finissage of our current exhibition ; PAST A SURPASSING DISASTER, Devin Allen has been invited to give an artist talk at Motormond. The artist talk will take the format of a show and tell where Devin will go through his extensive oeuvre, and he will tell the stories behind his amazing images.

Friday the 1st of December from 14:00 @ the garden:

Adama Keïta, student of Critical Studies, presents Slang and Tongue : A discourse on ton, slang and words as social-political artistic and cultural tools with invited speaker Olukemi Lijadu at:

PUB is a transdepartmental initiative funded and run by students and alumni of Sandberg Institute. PUB functions as a hub and experimental publishing platforms to identify interdisciplinary connections and accelerate collaborations amongst students, alumni and third parties.

30 November @ unsettlingbar
17:00-19:00

Tomorrow Next Meeting!
As always 17:30 @ living room!
Bring texts, questions, open ears!
Looking forward!

This two-day experiential workshop by María Reyes and Mar Maiques is aimed at creatives / facilitators / trainers / activists / therapists and others who want to:

Zip'23: A Fusion of Culture and Music, Exploring 'Home and HEAT.' Join us for the Music Event and Film Screenings.

A public workshop series on subconscious communication, body language & performance, facilitated by Laura Papke.

Hey! Just a quick reminder that tomorrow (24/11) there will be an open midterm presentation of the Art and Research program 2023-2024. It starts at 13:00 at VoxPop (Binnengasthuisstraat 9). Hope to see you there..!

Gregory Robert better known as Gogo Lupin (artist name): A visual artist and dancer disturbed by the colour pink.
Since 2011, the one nicknamed Gogo, took his first steps in the fashion world. Spotted by the photographer Kira Bunse, Gogo quickly collaborated with brands such as Nike, Lacoste, Adidas, Evian, Burberry, Gucci, Hogan and Pigalle to name a few. Followed by publications in famous magazines including Vogue, I-D France, GQ, Numéro, Highsnobiety and more.

We extend an invitation for you to immerse yourself in an auditory expedition, as we transmit sonic waves calling for a departure from the enduring shadows that surround us.

xonya B2B pau

The program will happen twice a month and the time frame will be defined by the facilitator. On Wednesday, we start with the first event. More information about the whole program and how to participate or contribute will be announced at end of this week!

Today again::::
Prostata Pirates *Formerly known as* Friends of Family!
Come by for a fun time, bring texts, ears, questions.
See you at 5pm living room.

Tomorrow (November 17th) we're going to hold the second open assembly in the Sandberg Auditorium (3rd floor of BC building) at 11:00 am.
During this assembly we'll be working hands on on planning the PUB launch party for the last week of November, Sandberg Journal, radio show and public program. We also have a nice warm lunch prepared for you

Thursday November 16, from 6PM @ the livingroom

Thursday November 16 @ the Pavilion
17:00-21:30
Strobe warning!

Public program:
To Logan
To Dandy
To Precious
To Chimira
Where beauty lies within the ruins, how does one move as a guest in their own skin, in their own country? Language, faithful companion, can be both loyal and wayward. Examining the introverts; hidden wishes, amidst the vibrant chaos of Lagos.

...a care practice / a way of stabilising in a world of chaos / an act of rebellion!

Comeeee join us on the 15th of November from 16.30 for the queeeeeer evening series, this time in the library! let’s gather around books, readings, tea and hot chocolate. We want to have have a low-key open mic, where you can read something you’ve written or something you’ve read…

Connected to Rebecca Gomperts’ presentation we will be screening the award winning documentary ‘Vessel’ by Diana Whitten.

We are beyond excited to announce the next speaker for the Cranberryjuice in discussion series: Rebecca Gomperts! A Rietveld Academie alumni, the founder of Women on Waves, Aid Access and Women on Web - Rebecca is an innovative and heroic physician, artist and activist fighting to defend Women's rights to choose

I have walked behind the sky. For what are you seeking? The fathomless blue of Bliss.’

A call to all staff, alumni and current students of Rietveld and Sandberg to protest against the school’s inaction on the current genocide happening in Palestine. We gather to voice our concerns about the school’s inconsistent standards and to call for accountability in upholding the commitment made two years ago.

"I don’t know your work" is a group show by 15 students at the VAV-moving Image department, hosted at Neverneverland Amsterdam.

At this time of the year, when the veil between worlds is thinnest and the dreamworld is calling us, we invite you to come and walk a waking dream, erasing with every step the arbitrary division between dream and day consciousness. We are invited to exfoliate and strip what cannot be digested and must go, so next spring we may emerge with renewed energy, clarity and heart for the visioning of multiple, liberated futures - an urgent need, and not an easy feat, in these times so full of global heartbreak. We can’t wait to walk, dream, eat and also celebrate with you on the 9th of November!

PUB is a trans-departmental initiative focused on experimental publishing to identify interdisciplinary connections and accelerate collaborations amongst students, alumni and third parties.

ready for some more reading?? join us tomorrow at the livingroom! 17:00

F for Fact warmly invites you to gather around the fire, to turn inwards outwards, twisting the outer into the inner again. An evening of seeing, listening and sharing research, finding answers for burning questions, telling stories of song and smoke. Throughout the night the fire spreads.Come around, warm your feet and poke the ashes.

Dream keywords: identity, theft, constructions, telephone calls, being chased, loss

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.
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.