How can staying together be an artistic practice? Coming from last year’s powerful learnings about Resting and Assembling as artistic and resistance practices, this Spring Funding we continue offering support to fellow students who want to put their creative energy into building connections with each other in spaces, circumstances, and times when being disconnected may seem, instead, the most accessible possibility.
We are trying to cultivate and foster our practice as artists and creators in this context, and we are wondering, how can artistic practices help us bond and build collective resilience to stay soft and connected while doing resistance work? How can artistic practices be themselves resistance work? For this open call centering and exploring art and creativity as forces that can feed resilience and resistance, that can hold us in our deepest grief, that can direct us towards change in our burning anger. In this fragmented world we need artistic practices as dreamspaces, as opportunities for radical imagination, as sites and tools of liberation. How can we rebel against our practice being a commodity and a pursuit for success? How can we make art that is not extractivist but rather regenerative? How can we build and defend common spaces and spaces for the commons in our practice? How can we center the process of making, centering our bodies and creative power?
Pleasure Providers Pillow Talk
Kami Million (she/they)
Pleasure Providers Pillow Talk is a space that allows for the Sex-Worker-community to gather, dream and be soft. This is in contrast with the usual fight and screaming we do in order to be heard.
Dragging Satire
Eirini Kakopierou
‘Dragging Satire’ is a series of workshops hosted by selected guests, escalating to a community lunch and a satiric drag show.
UNIONIZE
Nina Blume (she/her), Sebastian Guzman Olmos (he/him)
Cultural work is work. Why unionize artists, architects, designers, and cultural workers? How can we organize to oppose precarious conditions and demand fair wages? This initiative aims to deepen the conversation on today's labor rights and why bad practices go unchallenged.
Bitter Tongue(s)
Niam Madlani (they/them), Parsa Adibi (he/him)
With Bitter tongue(s), our intention is to highlight the voices of resistance from within the academy, from both students and staff. We want to provide a vocal space to experiment and express ourselves. We want to host a series of 3 or 4 sessions during April, where we release Open Calls for students and invite alumni to share collective performances. We will host in the Rietveld and Sandberg Library initially, and end with a Dinner catered by Mama Haq’s.
Dorian Milović (he/him), Maas van Duijnhoven
Building a treehouse together with the student community in a series of workshops with guidance from the teachers of the wood workshop and other artists working with wood, resulting in a new communal space.
Inka Hilsenbek (they/them), Elinos Tenaille D’Estais (they/them)
FKA is a weekly gathering to try-out and experiment with text in any form, expand knowledge on writing and reading and performative presentation. We focus on active, caring listening, non-competitive exchange and fruitful feedback.
Emma Leu (she/her), Fara Verhoeven (she/her)
Musical Playground is meant to bring playfulness into the academy by means of collective sound experimentation. We foster a safe space to decompress together, be soft and practice being heard since there are many social constructs tied to the voice. With this initiative we can bring playfulness into the school, it is the most important part of the sessions. The musical playground creates an environment for our playful and vulnerable side to come out. The sessions are open for Rietveld, Sandberg students and friends.
Pleasure Providers Pillow Talk
Kami Million (she/they)
Pleasure Providers Pillow Talk is a space that allows for the Sex-Worker-community to gather, dream and be soft. This is in contrast with the usual fight and screaming we do in order to be heard.
Dragging Satire
Eirini Kakopierou
‘Dragging Satire’ is a series of workshops hosted by selected guests, escalating to a community lunch and a satiric drag show.
UNIONIZE
Nina Blume (she/her), Sebastian Guzman Olmos (he/him)
Cultural work is work. Why unionize artists, architects, designers, and cultural workers? How can we organize to oppose precarious conditions and demand fair wages? This initiative aims to deepen the conversation on today's labor rights and why bad practices go unchallenged.
Bitter Tongue(s)
Niam Madlani (they/them), Parsa Adibi (he/him)
With Bitter tongue(s), our intention is to highlight the voices of resistance from within the academy, from both students and staff. We want to provide a vocal space to experiment and express ourselves. We want to host a series of 3 or 4 sessions during April, where we release Open Calls for students and invite alumni to share collective performances. We will host in the Rietveld and Sandberg Library initially, and end with a Dinner catered by Mama Haq’s.
Dorian Milović (he/him), Maas van Duijnhoven
Building a treehouse together with the student community in a series of workshops with guidance from the teachers of the wood workshop and other artists working with wood, resulting in a new communal space.
Inka Hilsenbek (they/them), Elinos Tenaille D’Estais (they/them)
FKA is a weekly gathering to try-out and experiment with text in any form, expand knowledge on writing and reading and performative presentation. We focus on active, caring listening, non-competitive exchange and fruitful feedback.
This is an event sharing our experience of daily rest through making/having spicy food together .We`ll offer a free Tteokbokki which is popular spicy korean food to people at canteen and wanna talk and listen how other react to spiciness according to their experience, memory, culture etc.
You can come down to canteen and enjoy food! :) For notice, there will be filming during the event which is participants would be better to know before .
May 12th Friday around 3pm , Rietveld Canteen