Stedelijk x Rietveld Uncut: Exhibition + Friday Night

Programme

The annual collaboration between Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie consists of two parts: a conference and an exhibition with performance programme. Studium Generale presents a Conference-festival offering diverse artistic perspectives on the theme loVe making — love as a creative act and site of resistance. Following this theme, students create new work for the exhibition Rietveld Uncut. The exhibition will be activated with a festive Friday Night featuring performances and interventions.

Rietveld Uncut

In relation to the Studium Generale theme of loVe making — love as a creative act and site of resistance, students from all departments have been developing work over the past few months. They have explored the theme from a variety of perspectives, including ecology, celebration, collectivity and care. Twenty-two projects show interpretations of the theme, varying from an installation commenting on contemporary masculinity, to a textile project that grew out of a friendship with a young Palestinian living in the Gaza Strip; from a video work about legal authorities questioning the authenticity of a relationship, to installations exploring love through the lens of grief or friendship. 

Rietveld Uncut will be on show from March 18 to 22, and on Friday March 20 from 6:30 to 9:30, the exhibition will be activated with a programme of performances and interventions.  

Friday Night

On Friday March 20, the performance programme will begin with an opening speech at the museum entrance. The exhibition will then be open for visitors, with performances taking place throughout the museum.
Special guest of the evening will be Alyson Sillon. Her multi-sensory work Before/After, explores the contemporary world of techno, confronting its Black and queer origins through historical, embodied, and ritual research.

Multisensory performance by Alyson Sillon (art direction, performer, graphic animation), with performers Naomi Rosa, Lola Lux (Dupriez), and Zacquel Phipps. Movement direction by Jordan Achiano and warm-up by Lisa Tabord. Scent design by perfumer Shin Oba (IFF), sonic mantra by Zvrra, with additional DJ Prance. Artist & production management by Tom Bosmans. Supported by Stimuleringsfonds and AFK.

Participating students

Claire Vissac & evin, Disa Märta Sunnerstam, Elektra Tatalia-Aloupi, Estefanía Escalona, Eva Wentzel, Flore Hoeneveld & Chaya Adelaars, Freja Ostergaard & Josefine Saietz, Heidi Wong met Abdulrahman Sufyan Taweel, Ivo Blackwood, Julia Sigmann Engh, Karl Emil Birkeland, Luca Berger & Marley Graamans, Maren Weertman & Anja Aurand, Marieke Verhulst, Matija Stojanovic, Rita Batievsky & Ahmet Dündar, Shipo Chou, Taša Grujić and Toyo Lee. 

Collaborative presentations

May we have this dance?
Performance project by the VAV - moving image department with Mariken Overdijk & students Michelangelo Arena, Rosa Aboim Inglez Horta Pereira, Ida Maria Jungemann, Netta Simola, Luna Zanolla, Hans Christensen, Herkules Jansson, Tristan Spellman Molphy (Fine Arts) & Anna Nagayama (Fine Arts).

A bed, a dream, a brick
Presentation of workshop by Staci Bu Shea & Mira Thompson with Eelco van Hulsen, Giulia Sachs, Jessica Kuhn, Luzie Deter, Maryam Ghafouri, Matteo Rattini, Pieter Bas Bouwman, Sara Lipužič, Shauna Jin, Sophie Virta, Teodóra Róka, Toni Kritzer and Weixin Zha.

Before/After
A multi-sensory immersive performance by Alyson Sillon, with performers Naomi Rosa, Lola Lux (Dupriez) and Zacquel Phipps. Movement direction by Jordan Achiano and sound by Zvrra. With the support of Bernardo Flemming and Shin Oba from IFF & Scentcommunication.

Stedelijk x Rietveld Uncut: Exhibition + Friday Night

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