In the belief that art students can only learn to think independently when knowledge, imagination and reflection combine to work together in an unorthodox and critical way, Studium Generale Rietveld aims to encourage critical forms of learning, making and thinking. It follows a new research trajectory every year around a specific theme that links up with current events, issues and discussions in the (art) world. Artists and theoreticians from home and abroad offer a broad spectrum of perspectives on the overarching themes with lectures, performances, presentations and screenings.

After a preliminary programme, which also includes film screenings, reading groups, workshops and publications, there is an annual four-day conference festival in collaboration with guest curators who make contact with urgent critical discourses from different perspectives and practices. This takes place at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and is open to the public.

Since 2014 Studium Generale teams up with Rietveld Uncut; departments and individual students develop projects in relation to the theoretical framework of Studium Generale. The presentation and exhibition of these programmes is simultaneous to the conference, bringing ‘the making and the thinking’ together.

Fri, Dec 11, 2020BeamclubWhat is Happening to Our Brain?
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Amazonian Shamanism, Psychedelic Revelations, and the Future of the Brain
Daniel Pinchbeck

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In this talk, we will consider the effects of psychedelic substances, particularly the Amazonian visionary medicine ayahuasca, on our conception of the brain as an expression of the greater universe. Many people who explore this these substances discover their mechanistic or materialist perspective on the nature of consciousness is challenged by phenomenological experience. These phenomenological encounters also have a nascent political dimension. They suggest that our current model of the world is delightfully incomplete, and there are future frontiers for humanity to explore.

Daniel Pinchbeck is an American author living in New York’s East Village. He is the author of Notes from the Edge Times (Tarcher/Penguin, 2010), 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) and Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (Broadway Books, 2002). He is a co-founder of the web magazine, Reality Sandwich and of Evolver.net, and edited the publishing imprint, Evolver Editions, with North Atlantic Books. He was featured in the 2010 documentary, 2012: Time for Change, directed by Joao Amorim and produced by Mangusta Films. He is the founder of the think tank Center for Planetary Culture, which produced the Regenerative Society Wiki. His new book How Soon Is Now? will be published in February 2017 by Watkins Press.

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