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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

Upcoming Events
Submit your events to share@rietveldacademie.nl
BYOB
Mon
1 Apr
2024
Open Call for participants: 4th BYOB fair

We are excited to announce the 4th edition of the bring your own book fair at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. This time around we are staying true to our name! All participants will be given a stand to show, sell, or trade their printed matter.

 
Tue
2 Apr
2024
Casting Call

...for the Rietveld Fashion Show 2024!

Casting: April 2nd from 17:00-20:00
Fitting and rehearsals: June 14th & 20th
Fashion show: June 21st

 
Wed
10 Apr
2024
The Third Skin: a soirée of performances and screenings @ De Niewue Anita

We warmly invite you to join us on April 10th at De Nieuwe Anita for The Third Skin - a soirée hosted by RietveldTV*

LASP
Wed
17 Apr
2024
Art & Spatial Praxis: Plot(ting)

On April 17th the research group Art & Spatial Praxis will be launching Plot(ting). This multimedia online platform aims to explore Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot. Envisioned as a space of subversion and unsettling, the platform counters restrictive dominant narratives within colonial and extractivist contexts.

LASP
Fri
19 Apr
2024
Climate Imagenaries @ Sea Festival

The Climate Imaginaries at Sea coalition is excited to invite you to our upcoming festival in Amsterdam, a week-long exploration of artistic and participatory research practices, workshops, presentations, and more. Join us for a multi-dimensional experience featuring not only an inspiring exhibition at Bradwolff Projects but also a series of engaging events across the city.

BYOB
Fri
10 May
2024
BYOB fair 2024

byob fair
10-11 may
amsterdam
more info soon

Ongoing
Sandberg Research
Fri
1 Mar
2024
Philosophy Seminars: Bataille on Animality

The Philosophy Seminars of the spring-summer semester will focus on George Bataille’s writings on animals and animality. Over the course of three seminars, convened by Tom Vandeputte, we will discuss Bataille’s famous texts and lectures on the figuration of the human and the animal in the Lascaux cave paintings; the place of the animal in his theory of religion and the sacred; and the ethical and political implications of his brief essay The Friendship Between Man and Beast, addressing the subjugation and liberation of animal life. Besides Bataille’s philosophical reflections, we will also discuss his notes for an unrealised film, found among his papers at the time of his death. The seminar series is open to all, but registration is necessary and a commitment to attending all three seminars is appreciated.

Eight Cubic Meters
Wed
14 Feb
2024
Ege Yılmaztürk & Rocco Enzo ter Haar: Between the Folds: Poetics and Politics of Curtains

What is revealed and what is concealed? The answer to this question can be playful and poetic but is also always political. In The Netherlands, curtains are often open on street viewing houses. Although many say this is to let more light in, it nevertheless also functions as a form of social control. The density of these draped screens filters narratives; some allow to leak through and others not penetrating its thick fabric. The curtain becomes a border that witnesses and mediates the private and the public sphere. Its folds operate in a movement between the poetry and politics of imagination.

Motormond
Thu
25 Jan
2024
A STATE OF GRACE? of Witches, of Seance, of Voodoo, of Speaking in Tongues and Othered instances of Diasporic TRANS-portation

A STATE OF GRACE seeks to use the exhibition as a space for transformative ritual. It draws inspiration from witches, cults, occultism, voodoo, and other marginalized spiritual sciences from various communities in the diaspora.

Students4Palestine
Mon
22 Jan
2024
Weekly Assembly

Join the weekly assembly in solidarity with Palestine on Tuesdays from 17:00 at the theory stairs. We will reflect upon the previous semester and visualise how we want to structure our assemblies this semester. All ideas and input is welcome and much appreciated!

Unsettling
Thu
18 Jan
2024
SettlingCare /w Lucette ter Borg & Richtje Reinsma

Unsettling presents and inquisitive, intergenerational journey, during 3 months, starting from January 18th.

LASP
Thu
16 Nov
2023
Research Café - autumn/winter 2023

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.

Cranberry Juice
Sun
1 Oct
2023
Podcast is Live!

Since October, we have been organizing monthly lectures within the Rietveld Academie, featuring amazing guest speakers…
These talks were carefully recorded and we are now super happy to share them in the form of a podcast!

Unsettling
Sat
1 Jul
2023
BLACK PRESENCE

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.

Past
LASP
Fri
19 Apr
2024
Climate Imagenaries @ Sea Festival

The Climate Imaginaries at Sea coalition is excited to invite you to our upcoming festival in Amsterdam, a week-long exploration of artistic and participatory research practices, workshops, presentations, and more. Join us for a multi-dimensional experience featuring not only an inspiring exhibition at Bradwolff Projects but also a series of engaging events across the city.

Unsettling
Thu
28 Mar
2024
Settling Care #11: lecture by Dagmar Bosma - on queering the arts and engaging in the Palestinian fight

Dagmar Bosma is a trans* artis and writer who is active in the fight for Palestinian liberation. As part of the collective ‘Sit-in for Palestine NL’, they organize and ongoing series of protest sit-ins at railway stations in the Netherlands, inspired by the creative strategies of activist groups like ACT UP. Dagmar publicly stated that they will direct a significant amount of their time as an artist who is state-subsidised by the Mondrian Fund to organising actions for Palestine. He is currently based in Rotterdam, where he studied fine arts and the Piet Zwart Institute. Dagmar works as a freelance artist and art writer, and as an editor at literary magazine nY. Their writing on art has been published by platforms like Metropolis M, Mister Motley and Flash Art Magazine.

Motormond
Thu
28 Mar
2024
Storytelling as Narrative Reclamation of Healing Heritages

Dtorytelling as Narrative Reclamation of Healing Heritages: Disrupting Colonial Visuality of Healing Ontologies — is a critical diving into of archival ethnographic records of indigenous healing rituals and practices, in which Basia Diagne examines the role of the camera and image-making as a colonial apparatus of subjugation and narrative erasure. Drawing from Tina M. Campt’s method of activating the archive by “listening to images”, she invites the audience to depart from this historical narrative, and participate instead in a practice of listening & hearing what has been left unsaid.

 
Tue
26 Mar
2024
LECTURE SERIES

The Jewellery- Linking Bodies department invites you to a new Tuesday afternoon lecture series. This series will bring together an alumnus of the department with an invited artist. The first talk will start this Tuesday 26 March with Virág Szalas-Motesiczky (2021 Jewellery- Linking Bodies alumni) in conversation with Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko.

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Mon
25 Mar
2024
merely identity crisis

from horses to the identity crisis; fka covers it all for grls like you.
another beauty session in the livingroom Monday March 25 at 16.30; bring your texts, love letters and exes.
hope to see you there!
xoxo

 
Sat
23 Mar
2024
Shimmers Down a Spine: designLAB @ Loods 6

On March 23, De Bagagehal in Loods 6 will open its doors for Shimmers Down a Spine — an exhibition with installations between story and design.

Eight artists, all third-year students at the designLAB department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, respond to the material world around them. How do you give shape to a disappeared building? How do you build a monument to resource scarcity? Can a waiting area have a liberating effect? Eight different installations that jump between poetic and humorous. The group opts for grand and interactive and welcomes you to experience the group exhibition with your own eyes.

Radio Aahaa
Thu
21 Mar
2024
Night rider #6

Thursday March 21 from 22:00 at Echobox Radio


Keywords: floating, rebirth, liquid, fuzzy, embrace
Image: James Turell & Pascal Dusapin - To Be Sung (1994)

Interlude
Thu
21 Mar
2024
berry hero

On March 21 interlude are playing at Bar Theo (Rozengracht 160) together with SacreScare.

Think: drake, cedar and notably ecclesiastical.

Unsettling
Thu
21 Mar
2024
Settling Care #10: Mercedes Azpilicueta - Care and Voice

Mercedes formed Oo(y)ster Mums together with artists and curators Katia Krupennikova, Maya Watanabe and Sara Giannini. Oo(y)ster Mums is an informal mutual support group of art workers, friends and mothers based in Amsterdam Oost, Recently, Oo(y)ster Mums came together to organize public events around pedagogies of resistance as a reaction to the genocide unfolding in Gaza and urged by the complicity of Western governments, institutions and mainstream media.

Next to her artistic practice, Mercedes is the Head of Department of the TXT Department at Rietveld Academie.

Motormond
Thu
21 Mar
2024
Boston Tea Party, Nutrition for Carers

Boston Tea Party, Nutrition for Carers: Casting Spells into Oyster Shells is a manifestation of artists and researcher Eshwari Ramsali’s dream.

Radio Rietveld
Mon
18 Mar
2024
Live From The Old Reception

March 18
15:00-20:00

Music, readings, stories, sounds & more music!


Streaming live from the RV building or come by and listen in person
At the old reception

Interlude
Sat
16 Mar
2024
Interlude @ De Sering

corecore presents: y’all don’t fw music like i do
Sixteen DJs and artists, all more or less local to Amsterdam’s music scene(s), to share 20 minute minimixes in a six hour listening session and broadcast in De Sering.

Interlude
Fri
15 Mar
2024
OPEN CALL

interlude organizes listening sessions from March 2023 at the Rietveld Academie and its surroundings. This year, we are launching an open call to invite you to contribute with an idea for a session.

Unsettling
Thu
14 Mar
2024
Settling Care #9: Meditative sound travel and artist talk by Morena Bamberger

...about (among other things) radical self-care, the ambiguous connection between roots, kin and self expression.

toitoitoi
Wed
13 Mar
2024
toitoitoi invite Clara Saito

This workshop invites people to explore using performance and theater as a transformative and political way of expressing and acting upon struggles, all of it in drag. It is informed by the Theatre of the Oppressed, a community-based technique developed by Augusto Boal. The workshop includes creating characters, expressing our emotions, performing for each other, and having discussions about the struggles we face in everyday life, using humor and over-dramatization in the style of telenovelas.

Library Talks
Tue
12 Mar
2024
Convention and the Cryptic w/ Maxe Crandall

On Tuesday, 12 March at 17.30, the Rietveld & Sandberg Library is excited to host a writing workshop led by Maxe Crandall. In this workshop, focused on experimenting with genre, we will approach and perhaps undo the conventional, the formulaic, and the cryptic toward subversive ends, with the goal of making new meaning through our array of feeling. The workshop is free and open to the public; we encourage participants to bring a writing utensil. Refreshments will be served.

Cranberry Juice
Sun
10 Mar
2024
book in the making ~ send your potions, remedies, diy healing methods

Once upon a time, in a lecture in the fall of 2023, author and researcher Claudia Pallisé talked about how in the middle ages people gathered rec pipes for curing illness, easing trouble of the heart, and preventing sickness. These recipes were handed from hand to hand, home to home. As they circulated they would be improved and modified according to what seemed to work best.
In the 21st century we have an advances, ever evolving practice of science and medicine. Still many of the ancient recipes, remedies and curing hacks continue to circulate in our daily lives.
Incurable conditions by the institutionalised medical sphere such as chronic pain, endometriosis, psychosomatic pain and vulvadynia have made self care practices and DYI treatment a necessity in our contemporary reality as well. New forms of remedies, healing meathods and DIY treatments are being born in people’s deb rooms, toilets, kitchens and shared online or in intimate conversation.
Now we are on a mission to gather it all and archive it into a book. Be it ancient, vintage or new - sci-fi, hippie, tech, dirty, sweet, in testing or known for hundreds of years… We want YOU to send us your family potions, remedies, DIY healing methods and recipes, perfected with time and word of mouth - just like CranberryJuice.

 
Sun
10 Mar
2024
Passenger Publication #2 : 'How to carry/hold language?'

All submissions (big thoughts, small thoughts, fully formed/half formed ideas, images, etc.) all welcome related to the question - 'how to cary/hold language?'

 
Sat
9 Mar
2024
Le Bateau Gathering

DesignLab project Le Bateau’s participatory whale-shaped boatbuilding worksite official spring 2024 opening takes place at fanfare on Saturday 9th March at 14h30 and continues til nighttime. Join us for film screening rum-brewing, cleats-making, film-watching, a steamy dinner, nautical vibes and much more.

Motormond
Thu
7 Mar
2024
Pedagogies of the Sacred: A collective reading session by Device Chotoe

Pedagogies of the Sacred is a collective reading led by Devika Chatoe. It is an essay by M. Jacqui Alexander. Following the reading there will be space to ruminate on what it means to access ancestral knowledge and practices that have been erased or rendered invisible through migration, colonization.

Unsettling
Thu
7 Mar
2024
Settling Care #8: conversation with Lynn Berger

We are all of us givers and receivers of care, all throughout our lives. According to Lynn Berger, it is time for a revolution in the way we view, value and give care. Artists can play an important role in bringing about this change, next to activists, academics, policy-makers and politicians.
Without care, children don’t grow up, the sick don’t get better, and the elderly don’t grow old gracefully. Care is at the core of human civilisation, and it’s what makes society go around day in and day out. Care is what makes us human — and yet we rarely view it that way. Why is it so hard to see care for what it is, and what should be done to change that?

Student Council
Tue
5 Mar
2024
(non)verbal horizons workshop

(non)verbal horizons is a workshop series that invites participants to collectively explore language and communication. It aims to address linguistic diversity by offering a series of interactive workshops that foster a deeper understanding of how we interact with language.

Unsettling
Fri
1 Mar
2024
STORIES TO SLEEP TO - Mayomi Basnayaka hosting Goytung

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

Unsettling
Thu
29 Feb
2024
Settling Care #7: A retro-perspective

In this 7th session we embrace a term coined by the French curator and Documentation X-organizer Cathérine David — retro-perspective — to allow us to look back at what we experienced and talked about the first six sessions, and to look forward with the knowledge we gained.

To organise a focused meeting, we invite you to reflect on the most intense moment during the past months. Was it the conference on Motherhood in the arts? Was it Natascha Hegenbeek’s three-journey or Delphine Bedel activist lecture on inequality in the arts? Or was it the being and talking together in a safe space? Which topics did you find stimulating and which not? And, not in the last place: how do you think we should proceed?

Student Council
Wed
28 Feb
2024
FILM SCREENING: IT MUST BE HEAVEN

We are inviting you to a screening of the film “It Must Be Heaven” by Palestinian director Elia Suleiman.

Where? THEORY STAIRS, FEDLEV building
When? Wednesday 28th of February, 2024 at 18:45

Sandberg Research
Wed
28 Feb
2024
Publication Launch: Perpetual Stew

We are proud to announce the launch of the Sandberg Instituut Graduation Exhibition 2023 Publication, titled Perpetual Stew (2024), the second in a new series of publications organized by Public Sandberg which began last year with The Salmon of Knowledge (2023). Perpetual Stew compiles the writing of 18 incredible authors who were invited to conduct interviews with and ruminate on the works of our nearly 60 graduates, from 7 departments.

formerly known as
Mon
26 Feb
2024
INFINITE WRITERS' KIT

Next Monday next meet up!
Bring your texts, fragments, everything that wants to be tried and heard xxx

Unsettling
Mon
26 Feb
2024
LEARNING PALESTINE with Yazan Khalili

The Learning Palestine sessions are about sharing and disseminating the knowledge on the history of the ongoing oppression and resistance in Palestine, by telling personal stories and learning how history is told from the point of view of the zombies. They are in-person, intimate, 3-4 hours immersive sessions through which the story of Palestine is told through time and place, using the militant pedagogical techniques of drawing and writing, without showing images or pre-made visuals.

 
Sun
25 Feb
2024
Library of Babel

VAV students Maria & Bea present: A project exploring experimental archival practices throughout he concept of a living library: as the day progresses we will spiral down the themes of Babel, ending with improvised chaos.

Student Council
Fri
23 Feb
2024
Radical Imaginations : Open Call

How can staying together be an artistic practice?
Coming from last year’s powerful learnings about Resting and Assembling as artistic and resistance practices, in this Spring Funding we want to continue to offer support to fellow students who want to put their creative energy into building connections with each other in spaces, circumstances, and times when being disconnected may seem, instead, the most accessible possibility.

 
Fri
23 Feb
2024
rematriasi #1: in a post/apocalyptic trance with Gabber Modus Operandi

rematriasi is a seminar programme on recovering lost knowledge, languages, tongues, nature-cultures, and other passages of the ancestral, in de/colonial realities of Indonesia and the Netherlands. The seminar program part of a new collaboration between the art academies in Yogyakarta and Amsterdam, to grow our understanding of our shared histories and entangled ecosystems. What knowledge systems, languages, and culture are under erasure due to the neo/colonial project? We trace their effects as they culminate in environmental catastrophe today.

Sandberg Research
Fri
23 Feb
2024
Green Screens: Animal Anxieties

A series of screenings and discussions on ecology, environment and cinema.

This three-part program aims to explore anxieties surrounding human-animal relations, as depicted in 20th-century genre-fiction movies. We will watch and discuss three films together, each selected to represent specific anxieties expressed through cinema, either directly or metaphorically.

Unsettling
Thu
22 Feb
2024
SettlingCare #6: workshop by Simomo Bouj

Join the workshop by dancer/choreographer/curatur Simomo Bouj:
FEB 22
14:00-17:00
@ the Gym

Motormond
Thu
22 Feb
2024
spirit of dissent by other indias

other indias with contributions from Rah Naqvi will guide you through — spirit of dissent — a sonic intervention informed by a very long history of dissent, by elders and peers who have founded the basis for our resistance. These sustained practices of continuance, of resilience, amidst adversity, born from, and despite systemic oppression, have created alternative pathways to liberation. Pathways, that reject and urge a dismantling of the current Brahminical structures of governance and the imposition of its future.

 
Sun
18 Feb
2024
A wound is a Wound — Solution Hierarchy

A wound is a Wound is a poetic exploration of vulnerability and its moral neutrality.
Marriage becomes a final frontier for the ambitions of 2 characters, trapped in their own narratives. A last attempt to build bridges into worlds they believe to be better.

Radio Rietveld
Sat
17 Feb
2024
RR open call for regular program

We are reviving Radio Rietveld and we want to curate a regular program! meaning (bi)-weekly. We are looking for people to fill timeslots. Anything goes, no experience needed.
Music, talking, anything audio etc etc Shoot us a DM or send us an email!
we hope to hear from you….. xx

Unsettling
Thu
15 Feb
2024
Symposium: (M)Otherhood in the Arts

This session consists of a symposium, held by the Flemish Cultural space de Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, offering a program with Dutch and English lectures, panel discussions, workshops and art.

Motormond
Thu
15 Feb
2024
Performance: Pariah by Ayomide Tejuoso (Plantation)

As part of the current exhibition, A State of Grace?, Ayomide Tejuoso, presents the performative installation Pariah on the 15th of February.

 
Wed
14 Feb
2024
Radio Kutululu

Sandberg Design Department presents: Radio Kutululu. A site-specific radio program and exhibition that will broadcast live from the National Gallery of Prague as part of the ATLAS program.

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Mon
12 Feb
2024
writing under the influence

Come to our next meeting tomorrow: Monday 12.02, 16:30 in the living room.

Bring your texts, questions, experiments etc.
remember, this is for trying, no need to have something „finished“ xoxoxo

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Publications
5 Feb 2024
Editorial Board

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:

18 Dec 2023
Editorial Board

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.

18 Dec 2023
Editorial Board

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.

11 Dec 2023
Editorial Board

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:

2 Oct 2023
Editorial Board

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?

25 Sep 2023
Editorial Board

Welcoming: BYOB & Cranberry Juice

In these 2 videos the 2023 platforms introduce themselves & invite new participants:

16 Jun 2023
Editorial Board

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.

14 May 2023
Editorial Board

Platform event 2023 @ Perdu

Recap: on May 10, four student-led research platforms held their annual public presentation event, at Perdu in Amsterdam.

20 Apr 2023
Editorial Board

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 >>

14 Feb 2023
Editorial Board

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.

6 Feb 2023
Olya Korsun, Anastasija Kiake & Katherina Gorodynska

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.

16 Dec 2022
Editorial Board

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

5 Dec 2022
Editorial Board

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.

24 Oct 2022
Editorial Board

Welcoming: Bread Oven, Motormond, Material Monopolies & Crip the Curriculum

In these 4 videos the 2022 platforms introduce themselves & invite new participants:

12 Jul 2022
Editorial Board

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.

15 Jun 2022
Editorial Board

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.

24 Mar 2022
Editorial Board

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!

7 Feb 2022
Werker Collective

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.

12 Jan 2022
naira nigrelli & lila bullen-smith

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.

3 Dec 2021
Editorial Board

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.

23 Sep 2021
Lynn Berger

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?

21 Sep 2021
Editorial Board

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

22 Jun 2021
Agustina Woodgate, Freja Kir

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?

18 Jun 2021
Aimée Theriot-Ramos, Alex Harris, Constanza Castagnet, Luca Soudant, Margaux Koch

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.

7 Jun 2021
Editorial Board

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.

10 May 2021
Micaela Terk

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?

19 Apr 2021
Editorial Board

(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.

15 Apr 2021
Naomi Credé

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.

10 Dec 2020
Editorial Board

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.

4 Oct 2020
Editorial Board

(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.

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