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.

Quartered (2013 | 33 min.)
Geo Wyeth

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

Set in rural South Carolina. Quartered features research conducted by the artist on his racist ancestor, as mediated through experiences of an interdimensional folktale.

Geo Wyeth works with music, performance, installation, and video. Wyeth’s work has been presented at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Triangle France, Arsenic (CH), MoMA PS1 (Greater New York 2016), LA MoCA, the New Museum, New York Live Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Boston ICA, Kate Werble Gallery, La MaMa Theatre, Human Resources, The Pyramid Club and Joe’s Pub. S/he was recently in residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten for the years 2015/2016 in Amsterdam and is currently based between Rotterdam, NL and New York.

Advenio pauper subseco. Aut cogo adinventitias. Verto sunt odio.