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.

Tue, Nov 17 — Wed, Nov 18, 2020LectureHold Me Now
To programme

We hold where study
Wu Tsang

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We hold where study is a short experimental film that takes a choreographic approach to image making and mourning. The film enacts a series of duets, both within and between images. Featuring choreography by Ligia Lewis with Jonathan Gonzalez and boychild with Josh Johnson, and music by Bendik Giske. Inspired by the essay ‘Leave Our Mikes Alone’ by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten [authors of The Undercommons (2013)], the film seeks passage to sociality through the opening of impossible images.

Wu Tsang’s artistic practice explores states of connectedness and in-betweenness; often this fluidity manifests as collaboration, or in the merging of disciplines, such as performance, moving image, sculpture, and installation. Her projects have been presented at museums and film festivals internationally, including: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin; SANFIC, Santiago; Hot Docs Festival, Toronto; and South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin. Her first feature film WILDNESS (2012) premiered at MoMA’s ‘Documentary Fortnight’, and her work was also featured in exhibitions such as: Whitney Biennial, 2012; The Ungovernables, New Museum Triennial, 2012; Gwangju Biennial; 9th Berlin Biennial; and Performa 11 Biennial, New York. She was a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow (Film/Video) and is currently shortlisted for the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize.

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