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This year’s Studium Generale Rietveld Academie is about bots, bodies and beasts. It focuses on the notion of the posthuman and the blurring of the traditional distinctions between the human and its others – be these bots or beasts. How can a notion of the posthuman be a tool for understanding the present? How can it help us make sense of our flexible and multiple identities? Can it redefine humanity's place in the technological and biological continuums we are part of?

On Wednesday January 13 at 13.30 hrs SHARP at RIETVELD'S GYM this year’s theme, reading group, design, Rietveld Uncut, practicalities and conceptual framework will be introduced by Tomas Adolfs, Johanna Ehde, Amelia Groom, Till-Michael Hormann, Jort van der Laan, Gabriëlle Schleijpen, Jorinde Seijdel, Tarja Szaraniec, and Anton Westbom Weflö, and followed by a keynote lecture by Maria Hlavajova

IMPORTANT: Rietveld students are kindly asked to bring their Rietveld student card. All students are welcome, for students in the basicyear and first year of specialization participation in Studium Generale is obligatory.

January 13, 20; February 3, 10, 17, 24; March 9, 16, from 13:30 to 15:30 to 17:30: talks, readings, presentations, performances, screenings at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. 6 to 10 April: installations, actions & conference-festival at de Brakke Grond.

Curator Claire Tancons

Xavier Le Roy performing Product of Circumstances

Geo Wyeth, performance Tennis Player 2.0

Intro (and curtain introduction) by curator Joanna Warsza

Andrea Božić perfomance Day For Night led by David Weber-Krebs & Julia Willms

Gabriëlle Schleijpen

Natascha Noack & Ruth Noack

the Grand Rietveld Choir

James Parker

questions from audience

PROGRAM:

I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head, Screening of the registration of a performance by Valie Export

Learning to Play the Instrument of Loss, A lecture performance by Marianna Maruyama

The Naked Voice, A performance by Jaap Blonk

PLUS:

Introduction hub~bub, news from Rietveld Uncut, a Beam Club sneak preview, and an in-depth Reading Group introduction to Mladen Dolar's book A Voice and Nothing More by Clare Butcher.

Marianna Maruyama (1980, California) is an artist based in the Netherlands (where she moved after living in Japan). Through writing, audio recording, drawing and play, she looks for ways that sound and movement facilitate an understanding of position. Orientation and voice, specifically loss of position as it relates to loss of voice are dominant themes in her practice.

Jaap Blonk (1953, Woerden) performs an on-the-spot choice from his huge repertoire: sound poetry and voice pieces from the tradition (from Hugo Ball to John Cage), and from his own work (experimental texts, phonetic etudes, invented languages, improvisations).

PLEASE TAKE GOOD NOTICE:

The program starts at 13:30 NOT at 14:00.

The GRAND RIETVELD CHOIR will kick off from 16:00 till 17:00 in the GYM with composer/conductor Samuel Vriezen and the famous self-taught composer, voice performer and sound poet Jaap Blonk.

RIETVELD UNCUT is an annual joint presentation by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Within the Rietveld the process of making, from concept to work, is an important element throughout the whole study. This process often stays invisible to the outside world; Rietveld Uncut aims to shed a light on this unique, dynamic and experimental part of the academy and reveals this process to the public. Departments and individual students contribute to Rietveld Uncut with projects evolving around a collective content, topic or title.

STUDIUM GENERALE RIETVELD ACADEMIE is a rambling theory program that addresses students and faculty across all departments and disciplines at the academy, as well as the general public. It wants to understand how art and design are entangled with other domains (from the personal to the political, from the vernacular to the academic), how 'now' is linked with past and future, 'here' with 'elsewhere'. Studium Generale invites you to join it's annually settled, slightly unruly, but always relevant research trajectories where knowledge, imagination and reflection are put to work together in a critical and unorthodox way.

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