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.

Opening: January 8
Gabriëlle Schleijpen

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In 2014 Studium Generale Rietveld Academie and Rietveld Uncut are teaming up for a new, exhaustive artistic research project:

VOICE ~ CREATURE OF TRANSITION

Tomas Adolfs ~ Raoul Audouin ~ Samuel Beckett ~ Cathy Berberian ~ Paul Bernhard ~ Clare Butcher ~ John Cage ~ Frederico Fellini ~ Quinsy Gario ~ Nam Hee Ji ~ Alfred Hitchcock ~ Franz Kafka ~ Martin Luther King ~ Brakke Grond ~ Jort van der Laan ~ Joris Lindhout ~ Tarja Szaraniec ~ Gabriëlle Schleijpen ~ Samuel Vriezen ~ Willem van Weelden ~ the Wizard of Oz and many others

are going to act, show, perform, screen, scream, speech, speak and sing by means of an introduction to master classes, a Mladen Dolar-reading group, a beam club, a spoken word workshop, a website, lectures, performances and a 100 person choir on

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