Stedelijk X Rietveld Academie: Studium Generale & Rietveld Uncut
Radical Accessibility – Crip Pedagogies, Crip Theory, Crip Practice
From March 19 up and until 23, the Stedelijk and Gerrit Rietveld Academie present Radical Accessibility: Crip Pedagogies, Crip Theory, Crip Practice, a multi-day event featuring lectures, presentations, screenings, and performances by international artists, theorists, and Rietveld students. Part of the collaboration is the conference series Studium Generale, which this year explores disability justice and the accessibility of art through a ‘Crip’ perspective. Rietveld Uncut is an exhibition with projects by students and collectives related to the same theme. Read more about the exhibition here. The event culminates in a festive Friday Night.
- Locatie
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- Datum
- March 19 – 23, 2025
- Taal
- English
- Toegang
- Tickets Studium GeneraleTickets Friday NightExhibition Uncut (museumticket)
The annual collaboration between the Stedelijk Museum and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie consists of two parts: a conference (19, 20 and 21 March) and an exhibition with performance program (19 until 23 March). Studium Generale presents a three-day conference in which three curators each fill a day with diverse artistic perspectives on the theme Radical Accessibility – Crip Pedagogies, Crip Theory, Crip Practice. Following this theme, students create new work for the exhibition Rietveld Uncut. Read more about the exhibition here. On Friday 21 March this exhibition will be activated with a special programme of performances and interventions.
Radical Accessibility – Crip Pedagogies, Crip Theory, Crip Practice
Studium Generale & Rietveld Uncut 2024-25 explore the accessibility of art and cultural practices through a ‘Crip’ perspective. This approach emphasizes interdependency, mutual solidarity, and shared responsibility among our diverse bodies and minds. Once a term used negatively to describe people with disabilities, ‘Crip’ has been reclaimed by artists, activists, and scholars as a positive and empowering term, akin to ‘queer.’ It challenges harmful norms and prejudices and examines how disability intersects with gender, race, class, sexuality, and the environment, encouraging us to consider these connections on both personal and political levels.
Conference Program
19, 20 & 21 March 2025
- Wednesday March 19
- 'The World is Our Corner: Neurodivergent Homelands and Landscapes'
Guest curated by Hamja Ahsan, with Sarah Browne and Ipek Burçak - Thursday March 20
- 'Unsettling Acces: Care, Touch and Institutional Change'
Guest curated by Unsettling Rietveld Sandberg, with Judith Leysner, Carolina Calgaro, Grace Turtle & Romany Dear, CAConrad, Elio J. Carranza - Friday March 21
- 'Sexy Freaks'
Guest curated by Johanna Hedva, with Tamara Antonijević, Nik Timková, and Zuzana Žabková, of the collective björnsonova
More info
Tickets Studium Generale
Performance program
19 – 23 March 2025
On 21 March from 18.30 on, we celebrate Friday Night with performances, talks and interventions by students and an interactive presentation by independent designer Gabriel Fontana.
Friday 21 March
Entrance Hall
6.45pm – 7pm: Opening speech
7pm – 7.15pm: Constricted Spaces (hemicranial press moulting) – Mia Kokine Joensen
8pm – 8.30pm: Crosswalk Talk – Sohju Kim
ABN AMRO gallery
8.45pm – 9.30pm: Unto This Last – Handa Youn
Studio object
7.30pm – 8pm: Unrecognisable Syllables – Katinka K. Olrik
Auditorium
7.30pm – 9.30pm: Queer Sports – Gabriel Fontana
Education room
7pm – 7.30pm: knock, ʞɔonʞ – Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song
8pm – 8.30pm: knock, ʞɔonʞ – Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song
8.45 – 9.30pm: A Room to Escape (Is there a Backdoor?) – students of VAV - moving image guided by Mariken Overdijk
For more info: Rietveld Academie
Credits
Participating students
Agathe Plouzennec, Anahit Yakubovich & Lau Vander Mijnsbrugge, Carla Chibude Seidemann, Chichy Freja Udsen Obi, Clément Lobjoy, Yun Kwon, Greta Wegmann & Domitille Marchiol, Gabrielle Bouriat—Hardouin, Handa Youn, Kadri-Ann Kivisild, Katinka K. Olrik, Lujza Kramárová, Maïder Hastoy, Mia Kokine Joensen, Minky Kim, Niloofar Salehi, nisan gunalcin, Pauline Oosterhoff & Annemarie Vogel, Simone Winder & Isabel Heatley, Siri Tvorup, Sohju Kim, Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song
Collaborative presentations
Workshop presentation by Staci Bu Shea, Mira Thompson and students, Performance by VAV – moving image students, Queer Sports by Gabriel Fontana.
Team
Rietveld Uncut: Tarja Szaraniec and Tomas Adolfs
Studium Generale: Jorinde Seijdel and Jort van der Laan
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: Anouk van Amsterdam, Claire van Els, Fenna van Halsema
Graphic design: Idun Wahlgren and Sasha Anguelovskaia
Special thanks to Iskra Vukšič, all workshop specialists at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and all (guest) tutors involved