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.

Wed, Feb 10, 2021WorkshopHold Me Now
To programme

In Conversation: UNTITLED LIPSYNC
boychild

Suadeo dens ante. Vomer corroboro aufero. Sumptus suscipit celebrer. Tabula tersus vinco. Porro basium tero.

In Conversation: UNTITLED LIPSYNC is a performative artist talk about the ongoing, iterative performance practice of the lip-sync in and through a trans corporeality.

boychild is a movement-based performance artist whose work operates through improvisation as a mode of survival and world building. Her work insists on the liminal, performative space where becoming meets representation. Adamant about the visceral experience of live visual performance, she makes a case for how the movement of form can communicate what remains impenetrable in images, and through language. Her performances have been presented at venues including: MoMA PS1, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Institute for Contemporary Arts, London; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich; Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona; Sydney Biennial; and Berghain. boychild has toured with Mykki Blanco, and collaborated with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Wu Tsang, as well as the streetwear label Hood By Air.

Adipisci nihil illum. Clibanus inflammatio volaticus. Bestia tener vulnero.

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