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.

Thu, Aug 6, 2020 — Tue, Mar 23, 2021Reading GroupVOICE ~ Creature of Transition
To programme

Episode 2: January 15
Jaap Blonk, Valie Export, Marianna Maruyama

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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

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.

GUEST SPEAKERS / PERFORMERS
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).

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