2018 – 2019
Take A Walk on the Wild Side — Fabulating Alternative Imaginaries in Art and Life

Sub carus aeternus. Tabella cultura avarus. Vita ademptio voluptas. Minus altus sunt. Dolorum suus copia.

“(…) It matters what stories tell stories. It matters what thoughts think thoughts. It matters what worlds make worlds (…)” — Donna Haraway

Studium Generale Rietveld Academie invites you to think of “fabulation”. As a means of “fabricating the real”, world-making or “speculative fiction”. As an artistic, social and political capacity, welcoming alternative histories and other regimes of wanting, being and becoming. Practices of fabulation may enable saying things that are not used in order to distinguish truth from lies but to effectively say things better, to unsettle and to include. Come and take a walk on the wild side with us!

With: Mieke Bal, Wayne Modest, Geo Wyeth, Patricia Kaersenhout, Charl Landvreugd, Simon(e) van Saarloos, Alison Sperling, Sher Doruff, Sven Lütticken, Kunstverein, Hypatia Vourloumis, Nwando Ebizie, Gayatri Gopinath, Monsur Mansoor, Amber Jamilla Musser, Shaowen Bardzell, Sarah Sharma, Sandra Ruiz, Jackie Wang, Daniela K. Rosner, Tavia Nyong’o, Tina Campt, Jayna Brown, Alice Chauchat, Rosalind Nashashibi, Isabel Lewis, Luke Willis Thompson, Naima Ramos Chapman, Tiona Nekkia McCLodden, and many others.

Muck Signal from Muck Studies Department — Geo Wyeth

Fictioning: Mythopoesis, Myth-Science and Mythotechnesis — Simon O'Sullivan

Zero Day Patch – Misdirecting Weeping Angel — Darío Dezfuli, Heleen Mineur, Austin Redman

Galactic Extractivism: Alexander Kluge's Low-Budget Space Operas — Sven Lütticken

Nuclear Afterlives: Radioactive Ecologies in the Anthropocene — Alison Sperling

Privatised Futures and the Arts of Speculation — Theo Reeves-Evison

The Fabula of Last Year’s Notebooks — Sher Doruff

Militance Is an Alternative to Madness — Patricia Kaersenhout

Restaging the Story by Crashing the Stage — Milena Bonilla, Luisa Ungar

Long Flow Dramaturgies in Heterotopic Space — Isabel Lewis

Tracing my Lover’s Wrinkles in a Non-linear Way (and Other Wild Attempts) — Simon(e) van Saarloos

Attempted Aberrations in the Domain of Emergence — Jackie Wang

Roundtable discussion with Tavia Nyong'o, Tina Campt, Jayna Brown, Luke Willis Thompson, Naima Ramos-Chapman, Tiona Nekkia McCLodden — Jayna Brown, Tina Campt, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Tavia Nyong'o, Naima Ramos-Chapman, Luke Willis Thompson

En Plein Air: Music of Objective Romance | Track #1. Healing in My House (2016 | 10 min.) — Jacolby Satterwhite

Roundtable discussion with Luke Willis Thompson, Jesse Darling, Mirthe Berentsen and Joseph Grigely, moderated by Karen Archey — Shaowen Bardzell, Kristina Lindström, Vincent Moon, Daniela Rosner, Sarah Sharma, Åsa Ståhl, Priscilla Telmon

Fantasies for Knowledge — Mieke Bal

Screening of short films by Dambudzo Marechera, Sam Icklow, Geo Wyeth, Naima Ramos Chapman, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Luke Willis Thompson, Vaginal Davis — Naima Ramos Chapman, Vaginal Davis, Sam Icklow, Dambudzo Marechera, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Luke Willis Thompson, Geo Wyeth

Domestic Goddesses: Housewives with Steak Knives and How Mum and Ah Ma Do Decoration — Jay Tan

Myth Gives Rise to Longing: A Listening for what Willfully Remains Unintelligible–Ioanna Gerakidi — Ioanna Gerakidi

Take a Deep Breath — Curated by Kunstverein/Maxine Kopsa

Playing with Magic: A Conversation with Naima Ramos-Chapman and Jayna Brown — Jayna Brown, Naima Ramos-Chapman

Song — Mark Buckeridge

Excess Swarm (Wild in the Wild) — Hypatia Vourloumis

Good Kid, m.A.A.d City (2014 | 15 min.) — Kahlil Joseph

LHB (2017 | 20 min.) — Charlotte Prodger

Études–Nikola Knežević hosted by unsettling Rietveld/Sandberg — Nikola Knežević, unsettling Rietveld/Sandberg

Distorted Constellations: Afrofuturist Landscapes, Neurodivergent Possibilities, and Art as Science Playground — Nwando Ebizie

Brown Handbag — Monsur Mansoor

Dark as the Door to a Dream — Tavia Nyong'o

Un/Making Matters that Emerge in the Aftermath — Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl

Híbridos, The Spirits of Brazil — Vincent Moon, Priscilla Telmon

A Fierce Organicism: Ecologies of Enmeshment in Contemporary Speculative Art — Jayna Brown

The Narrative of Objects — Wayne Modest

Dislocation Blues (2017 | 17 min.) — Sky Hopinka

Sensual Excess: Moving Through the Flesh to Elsewhere — Amber Jamilla Musser

Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine — Rosalind Nashashibi

A Dance with Alice and Raimundas — Alice Chauchat, Raimundas Malasauskas

Don’t Feel the Same: Music Interlude with Voice-Over — Janine Armin, Malak Helmy

Imagining and Projecting: notes on Dutch aesthetics of nativeness — Charl Landvreugd

Monologue 5 and Monologue 6 — Özgür Kar

Prelude to a New Black Gaze — Tina Campt

Quartered (2013 | 33 min.) — Geo Wyeth

Unruliness, Suspension, Deviation — Gayatri Gopinath

Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love (2007 | 14 min.) — Steve Reinke

An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove — Tiona Nekkia McClodden

The Split Aesthetic in Anticolonial Time — Sandra Ruiz

Black Gaze, Black Skin, Black Feeling: A Conversation with Luke Willis Thompson and Tina Campt — Tina Campt, Luke Willis Thompson

Sisters, Lovers, and Monsters: A Feminist Utopian Design Approach to Menopause Wellness — Shaowen Bardzell