Events — Mar 26, 2022

Four-day conference festival in collaboration with 4 guest curators about thinking and making from and with the oceans.

Price
Valid museum ticket + €3
Location
Teijin Auditorium
Time
Mar 26, 2022, 1 pm until 5 pm
Main language
English
Admission
Tickets

Charl Landvreugd: Imagining Liquification

In conversation with the artists Joy Mariama Smith and Tarek Lakhrissi, Charl Landvreugd took the invitation to curate a day for Studium Generale Rietveld Academie as an opportunity to collaboratively think through questions of Queerness as a form of Liquification happening in Oceanic Imaginaries. While all featuring performance works are autonomous pieces, the day should be understood as a collaborative form of Liquefaction.

Performances by: Charl Landvreugd, Joy Mariama Smith, Tarek Lakhrissi

Charl Landvreugd, artist / researcher / educator, grew up in Rotterdam in an environment and time when many different migrant communities were making the Netherlands their home. Being part of this vibrant space, he advocates for local continental European concepts and language coming out of these spaces, that have the potential to speak about the sensibilities specific to the area. Using a broad range of artistic disciplines, he applies the results of his research to think about citizenship and belonging and how this is expressed in the visual arts in continental Europe. As a Goldsmiths, University of London (BA), Fulbright and Columbia University (MA) alumnus he completed his PhD in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London. Landvreugd is head of research & curatorial practice at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He is on the supervisory board of the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and the board of the Akademie van Kunsten. Next to that he is connected to the Masters Institute of Visual Cultures AKV| St. Joost as Pathway Leader for Visual Arts & Post-Contemporary Practices. He has been a fellow at BAK – basis voor actuele kunst (2018–19), Utrecht and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (Deviant Practice, 2017–18). He advised the Dutch Council for Culture and the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. His work has been published by: Open Arts Journal (UK), Small Axe Magazine (USA), ARC Magazine (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Uprising Art (FR), NRC Handelsblad (NL), KIT Publishers (NL), Dominion of New York NY (USA), De Unie Rotterdam (NL), TENT Rotterdam (NL), Volkskrant (NL), HYCIDE Magazine (USA), Metropolis M (NL), Antilliaans Dagblad (CW), and NTR Kunststof (NL) among others.

Charl Landvreugd
Charl Landvreugd. Photo: René Bosch

ABOUT OCEANIC IMAGERIES

“Oceanic Imaginaries” conceives the oceans as sensors that feel, create and connect. From an ecological point of view, the oceans are 'critical zones' that require radical changes in our thinking and acting. They are also dark archives filled with suppressed stories of transatlantic trade in enslaved people or boat refugees in the Mediterranean. However, the oceans can also be experienced as immersive spaces of affect and liberation in which new forms of life can emerge. How can we liquefy our ways of being? How can we think from and with the ocean?