Extra Intra is a website initiated by the Editorial Board of Intercurricular Programmes at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie & Sandberg Instituut.
- Extra Intra provides an overview of present and previous intercurricular initiatives at the GRA & SI.
- Extra Intra functions as an online space for the previous and current intercurricular, student-led platforms to share their research.
- Extra Intra is where the editorial board publishes the content and outcomes of its projects, such as its readers and its essay series.
Some questions the Editorial Board asks are: How can we encourage and support discourse and practices that depart from and disrupt the institutional norm? How can we further develop and support student-led pedagogy, providing a space for topics that are not addressed by the main departments? What does the future of art and design education look like?
The Editorial Board’s focus on projects and research outside of existing departments serves to highlight and support interdisciplinary thinking and making that has the flexibility to respond to current urgencies felt by students and the wider community. These urgencies may be material, political, theoretical or otherwise, and give students the opportunity to play an active role in shaping their education, learn valuable skills such as writing applications, organising events, and working with peers in the professional field. A key intention of the board is to facilitate communal and sustainable working structures, and help students to further their interest and experience in experimental pedagogy.
The Editorial Board of Intercurricular Programmes was established in 2019 as one of the 9 Quality Agreements, and is being funded until the end of 2024 to develop small-scale intercurricular education within the academy. Since 2019 the editorial board has supported 13 student-run intercurricular platforms, been developing an active website promoting and archiving all intercurricular events happening in and around the academy, published 2 readers, and continues to commission an essay series on the future of art and design education, and organise various events and symposia.
Thursday 18 April
20:00-22:00
@ San Serriffe, Sint Annenstraat 30
Readings and performances by Pelumi Adejumo, Rots Brouwer and Rick Geene from 20:30
The Editorial Board of Intercurricular Programmes at the Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut invites you to presentations by four research platforms stimulating interdisciplinary and trans-departmental cooperation and establishing links with actors outside the academy, through projects in which self-organisation, research and new ways of working are central.
The editorial board invites you to propose one of two educational platforms to start in September 2023.
The editorial board is excited to invite you to the launch of Extra Intra reader #2: A Slight Breath, a collection of new and existing texts on the body in knowledge production and sensory forms of study.
The editorial board is looking for 3 new memebers.
During this special evening the Embodied Knowledge Bureau and aux), two student-led educational platforms operating at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, will come together to share their practices. They will look back on their year of work researching, thinking and making around sound and the body in art and design education.
This event invites you to experience their space of exploration first hand: presentations by both platforms will be followed by performances and techno-meditation sets by guest artists, which will then dissolve into an open party.
18:00-20:00 @ Rietveld Library
A symposium initiated by the Editorial Board for Intercurricular Programmes:
Elisabeth Klement
Rosie Haward
Michał Dawid Sypien
Nell Schwan
Elio J Carranza
Clémence Lollia Hilaire
2019
A symposium initiated by the Editorial Board for Intercurricular Programmes:
Tuesday 30th November
18:00-21:45
@ ZOOM & live-streamed on youtube
RSVP for the link
The Editorial Board invites you to a symposium on the urgency of experimental forms of art education and the possibilities they offer in shaping future educational structures, practices and discourses. We will be joined by three of the funded research platforms—Writing Classes, Recipes for a Technological Undoing and the Garden Department—who will share their research and creative output.
Speakers include Clare Butcher who will be asking how we do critical pedagogical work (hopefully) together, and Clara Balaguer who will be speaking to fleshy forms of writing.
The evening will be moderated by Tracian Meikle.
Keynote by Clare Butcher: "Hopefully Together"
How do we do critical pedagogical work (hopefully) together? While inhabiting the structures of historically experimental art educational spaces and artist-led initiatives, what are the ways that we can commit to reconfiguring personal and collective relationships with practices of learning and unlearning? As the impacts of the global pandemic sink in (the more immediate and those that will take time to make sense of), this session attempts to bring some of these questions in relation to – even from a distance – the embodied, collaborative, and extra-curricular models shared by contributors with participants in the context of this symposium.
CLARE BUTCHER is a curator and educator from Zimbabwe who cooks up methodologies and collaborates as part of her practice. Clare is wondering what the future of gathering and learning together might be, as well as how artist-led education can transform the curriculum. Prior to working with the Toronto Biennial of Art as Curator for Public Programming and Learning, she worked with colleagues and students at the Rietveld and Sandberg, and was aneducation coordinator for documenta 14 in Kassel.
Suggested resources:
- bell hooks’ “Pedagogy of Hope” (2003)
- Eve Tuck, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, K. Wayne Yang “Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education: Mapping the Long View” (2018)
- Henry Giroux “Schooling and the myth of objectivity: stalking the politics of the hidden curriculum” (1981)
- “Watershed Ways” Classroom on Art and Education
- “No more time” mixtape
Lecture by Clara Balaguer: "Word Made Flesh"
Flesh, according to Maurice Merleau-Ponty, is a state of material perception that occurs when the mind and the body are unified through the realm of experience. Using metaphors and methodology associated with the human body, this talk explores how research can be constructed, reproduced, circulated, and co-digested—or made public—beyond the strictures of linear text or unvoiced narration.
CLARA BALAGUER (Makati City, Pisces Metal Monkey) is a cultural worker and grey literature circulator. From 2010 to 2018, she articulated cultural programming with rural, peri-urban, and diasporic communities from the Philippines through the OCD, a residency space and social practice platform. In 2013, she co-founded Hardworking Goodlooking, a cottage industry publishing hauz interested in the material vernacular, collectivizing authorship, and the value of the error. Currently, she builds and publishes curriculums at BAK basis voor aktuele kunst as curator of Civic Practice; at Willem de Kooning Academy as research lecturer in Social Practices; at Piet Zwart Institute as a midwife for Experimental Publishing; and at Sandberg Institute as teacher at the Dirty Art Department.Frequently, she operates under collective or individual aliases that disclose her stewardship in any given project, the latest of which is To Be Determined: a transitional, migratory, neighborly structure of sleeper cells (Trojan horse networks) that activate–deactivate for leaking access to cultural capital.
graphic design by Anna Bierler
