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.

Sun, Jan 10, 2021WalkHold Me Now
To programme

Luminous Images, Hidden in the Senses

Laura U. Marks

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Centum allatus vilis. Color aeneus curto. Supellex audeo chirographum.

In the wake of the “bodily turn,” a tendency in thought attributes all agency to the body while dispensing with mind and spirit altogether, while another diminish bodies to just some of the particles banging around the universe. In contrast, this talk gently draws together body, spirit, and cosmos in a way that may sound old-fashioned but is actually beautiful, practical, and fun. Through embodied thinking, ecology, and the process philosophies of Mulla Sadra Shirâzî—who wrote, “What are perceived by the five senses,” Sadra wrote, “are luminous hidden images existing in another world”—and others, I sketch how we humans’ intimate sensory experiences can assist a creative becoming with the cosmos.

After the lecture Staci Bu Shea moderates a short conversation with Laura U. Marks and the audience.

N.B. The programme with Laura U. Marks is the result of a collaboration between Studium Generale Rietveld and Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons.

Laura U. Marks, a scholar and programmer, works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus. Her most recent books are Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image (MIT, 2015) and Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (MIT, 2010). She is Grant Strate Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

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