STUDIUM GENERALE RIETVELD ACADEMIE 2021
Resilient Bodies: Strategies and Practices of Fluid Embodiments
Theory — 24 until Mar 27, 2021
Studium Generale Rietveld Academie is an extensive transdisciplinary theory programme that addresses students and faculty at all departments of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam. It regularly opens up to broader audiences. Studium Generale wants to show how art and design are linked with other domains (from the personal to the political, from the vernacular to the academic), how our ‘now’ is linked with past and future, our ‘here’ with ‘elsewhere’.
- Price
- All lectures can be attended online via our website and the website of the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie. The online exhibition of Rietveld Uncut, organized in conjunction with the conference, is also freely accessible online. Check the daily events at the end of this page ('upcoming') for the links.
- Location
- Livestream vanuit Stedelijk Teijin Auditorium
- Time
- 24 until Mar 27, 2021, 1 pm until 4.30 pm
- Main language
- Engels
The claim of equality is not only spoken or written, but is made precisely when bodies appear together or, rather, when, through their action, they bring the space of appearance into being
This year's Studium Generale Rietveld Academie is about different experiences and manifestations of the body, and about (dis)embodiments in art and life. We have become hyper aware of our bodies and those of each other: through Covid-19 and the associated quarantines and physical distancing guidelines we are not only dealing with (our) viral bodies, vulnerable bodies and lonely bodies; in attempts to continue life, we manifest ourselves nonstop behind our screens as virtual bodies and data bodies. This creates new life forms, but also more techniques to be controlled, excluded and manipulated. For much longer we have been dealing with social and political differentiations that are made between bodies that matter and those that would matter less. All over the world, protest is embodied by people assembling and allying in resistance.
What are experimental and emancipating strategies and practices for fluid embodiments? How can we form resistant collective bodies without losing our own subjectivity and fleshy matter? How can we think about this from art practice and theory?
It is precisely because our bodies are the new enclaves of biopower and because our apartments are the new cells of biovigilance that it is more urgent than ever to invent new strategies of cognitive emancipation and resistance
Biographies
CPR | is a nom de plume in affinity with heart massage and towards agroecological* reclamations of feminized common-pool resources. They write on intoxication via the concept Pharmakon, which considers all materials and substances capable of healing, creating, poisoning, and killing, depending on their dosage. For this programme, the collective is represented by Charlotte Rooijackers.
Jay Tan | was born in London and watched a lot of TV growing up. They moved to the Netherlands in 2008, completed the MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2010 and were a 2014/15 resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Based in Rotterdam, they make sculptures and installations, sometimes with video, sound, or other moving parts, often with a focus on domestic mechanics and decoration, and currently teach at the Masters of Artistic Research programme at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and in the Fine Arts Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
Ioanna Gerakidi | is a writer, curator, and educator based in Athens and Amsterdam. She has collaborated with and curated group shows/events in Athens for State of Concept, Athens Biennale, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Hot Wheels Projects, and Haus N among others and internationally including for Amsterdam Art. Her texts have been presented at Kunstverein, Amsterdam; Stroom, The Hague; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; CAC Vilnius; Carlos/Ishikawa, London; and NiMAC, Nicosia among others. She has contributed to several publications and lectured or led workshops at Athens School of Fine Arts, Document & Contemporary Art PhD programme, Onassis Air Residency, AKV St. Joost Den Bosch and Noiserr, Amsterdam.
Panagiotis Panagiotakopoulos, a.k.a TAKA TAKA, | was trained as a professional make-up artist, studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam followed by the MA ArtEZ at the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem. Taka Taka identifies as a professional dragtivist and edu-curator who produces performances as art director for the Amsterdam cruise club Church. Taka Taka sees drag as an amplified voice, whose purpose is to communicate, problematize and propose methods according to local (Amsterdam) conditions. Taka Taka is the godmother of the House of Hopelezz, sister for others, mother of the drag king House of Løstbois and proud daughter of Jennifer Hopelezz.