Art in Context - Integrated art & theory program is an extra curricular program of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. The program offers to students a chance to place their work within particular social contexts and to generate knowledge and experience in addressing specific social issues. This enables students to prepare for their post-academy practice - they are invited to use their work as a means for questioning and re-imagining the state of social and political affairs. Every edition of the program is concluded with an exhibition and a publication in the end of May. The program runs from the beginning of October to the end of May and it’s open to the first year students from all departments.
Art in Context works on a particular topic throughout the years:
2012 (pilot): Stock Market
2012-13: Charity
2013-14: Public Relations
2014-15: Laughter
2015-16: Education
Opening of the Art in Context exhibition 'Education' and launch of the publication. The exhibiton runs from 8 to 13 June at the Cobra Museum for Modern Art in Amstelveen, Sandbergplein 1.
Thirteen international art students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie immersed themselves during eight months in the subject of 'Laughter'. What is the role that humor plays today in art, in publicity, in society at large? They explored a wide range of 'the comical', from vulgar entertainment to unsettling irony, from laughing therapy to political satire. They present in Frascati the results of their inquiries, in an evening filled with performance, installations, video projection and other artworks informed by laughter.
with live performances and launch of the Art in Context publication ‘Public Relations'
Opening: 15th May at 18:00 GYM Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 15-17 May 2013
Rietveld Academie
Saša Karalić
Jouke Kleerebezem
AiC offers students in the first specialisation year the opportunity to learn to develop and consider their work in relation to selected social contexts.
Extracurriculair program with exhibition & publication
varies
Students in first specialisation / department year
2012-2016 (ended)
Context, Society, Stock Market, Charity, Public Relations, Laughter, Education, art economies, commons, politics
Opening: 15th May at 18:00 GYM Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 15-17 May 2013
12 students from the Art in Context* program will show results of a year-long work with the subject of 'Charity'. The opening is on Wednesday the 15th of May at 18.00, the exhibition runs until Friday the 17th of May.
This exhibition is connected to the Charity Event that will take place at NASA (New Art Space Amsterdam) on the 24th of May at 19 h. The works in the GYM exhibition are also featured in the the Art in Context publication on 'Charity' that will be launched during the NASA event.
*Art in context is an extra-curricular program of the Gerrit Retveld Academie that focuses on the correlation between theory and art practice in connection to social context. The main aim of the program is to enable students to gain and use theoretical and practical knowledge within specific social contexts and to prepare for their post-academy practice. This involves working with social groups and institutions normally resting outside of the art discourse.
