The Shadow Cabinets offer a side program to the main program in the Gym and consist of master classes and workshops, a cinema, a reading room, daily exhibitions in the Rietveld Academies Glass Pavilion and special projects in the hall of the main building.
MASTERCLASSES & WORKSHOPS
MONDAY & TUESDAY – MARCH 11 & 12: EI ARAKAWA
Join Ei Arakawa and Green Tea Gallery from Fukushima, Japan
for a two-day MASTERCLASS and participate in a
contemporary situationist performative piece.
Ei Arakawa is well known for his performative works that create series of eccentric topological movements, merging moments of confusion, exhilaration, embarrassment and joy de vivre. They often revolve around make – shift structures and facilitate collective and
improvisational exercises. Green Tea gallery is a roving pop-up platform set up by Ei and his brother Tomoo, as a response to the earthquake disaster and the following nuclear meltdown catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan, where the brothers come from.
During the master class some core scores of the performance on the 13th as well as a live music mix will be exercised, including Iwaki Odori, a local dance from Fukushima. With fabric provided by Ei Arakawa or with other materials, you will create structures or
sculptures that will serve as the props for the performance in the Gym.
After moving from Fukushima, Japan, to the United Sates in 1998, Ei Arakawa has lived and worked in New York. Arakawa participated in the Whitney Museum of American Arts Independent Study Program and has exhibited at venues like the Tate Modern,
Performa and New Museum
Limited availability! Reserve at reservations@rietveldacademie.nl with the indication EI ARAKAWA – MONDAY and/or TUESDAY WORKSHOP and provide your name.
TUESDAY 12 MARCH
15:00–18:00 (room 105) Navigational advice to nowhere in particular: on how to get things done
A workshop offering organizational feedback on things YOU want to do. Stuck on an idea for a book, but don’t know how to move forward? Hit a roadblock, while preparing your first exhibition? On practical solutions to theoretical problems, and cerebral loopholes for obstacles in the real world. We can’t show you where to go, but will try to help you get there. Bring a good idea!
Manuel Klappe is an art historian who curated the large scale exhibitions ‘Beeld Hal Werk’ (2010) and ‘Present Forever’ (2011). Fleur van Muiswinkel is also an art historian. After completing the Appel Curatorial Program she went on to curate the latest edition of de Kunstvlaai (2012).
Limited availability! Reserve at reservations@rietveldacademie.nl with the indication MANUEL FLEUR – TUESDAY WORKSHOP and provide your name.
WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH
15:00–18:00 (room 104) ‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…’ The poetic foundations of the American counterculture.
In this masterclass we will take a closer look at the work, ideas and lifestyle of some Beat Poets: Alan Ginsberg (Howl), Gregory Corso (Bomb), Diane di Prima, LeRoi Jones. We will try to find out if a cultural critique can be recognized and to place it in the right context. This will be done by swiftly examining protest movements (Free Speech Movement, Students for a Democratic Society) and some influential texts (One-dimensional men by Herbert Marcuse and Port Huron Statement by Tom Hayden). The period is late 1950s, early 1960, the roots of the counterculture.
We will also try to make a comparison between the cultural critique of this period and that from the Transcendentalist era with works of Whitman (Leaves of grass) and Thoreau (Walden, Resistance to civil government).
The purpose of it all is to find ways to translate a cultural critique inspired by Beat Poets and Transcendentalists into your own work, maybe your own poetry.
Olaf van Muijden is an historian specialized in the counter-culture of the ‘60ies and ‘70ies. He is also a poet recently nominated for the Turing poetry price.
Limited availability! Reserve at reservations@rietveldacademie.nl with the indication OLAF VAN MUIJDEN – WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP and provide your name.
15:00–18:00 (room 105) Masterclass with Fernando Garcia-Dory
Your totemic animal…
Or how to milk a sacred pet? Wondering about ways in which contemporary human beings understand animals and nature and the development of different attitudes towards them; how did we understand animals in the past? How will we understand them in the future? As artists and cultural producers we can ask ourselves what role we want to play in this process, configuring new symbolical references for social change. In this workshop a consultancy is offered for art students rethinking art, its function and its context in relation to a broader notion of co-existing species within ecosystems, or ‘commonwealth of breath’. Philosophy is cross-referenced with works of the participants in an attempt to re-awaken the countryside.
Fernando García-Dory´s work engages specifically with issues affecting the relation between culture-nature now, embodied within the contexts of landscape, the rural, desires and expectations related with identity aspects, crisis, utopia and social change. He studied Fine Arts and Rural Sociology, and is preparing his PhD on Art and Agro-ecology.
http://fernandogarciadory.com/
Limited availability! Reserve at reservations@rietveldacademie.nl with the subject FERNANDO DORY – WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP and provide your name.
THURSDAY 14 MARCH
15:00–18:00 (room 104) Workshop: The writing on the wall
Together with the participants Dirk Vis will investigate the work of artists and poets who animate their texts and leave them on walls and buildings. Why did these artists want to project their words and make them blink and move? In this workshop you will create animations from your own texts and project them on the walls of the Rietveld Academie.
Bring your own laptop and laptop-to-projector-connector!
Dirk Vis studied Image & Language at the Rietveld Academy and Design at the Sandberg Institute, he made moving poems with K. Michel, is an editor at the literary monthly De Gids en teaches Interactive Media at the Royal Academy for Visual Arts in the Hague.
Limited availability! Reserve at reservations@rietveldacademie.nl with the indication DIRK VIS – THURSDAY WORKSHOP and provide your name.
FRIDAY 15 MARCH
15:00–18:00 (room 104) A participatory performance, a masterclass by Olof Olsson
Olof is the product of the emerging 1960s emerging charter tourism, his Dutch mother and Swedish father met in Mallorca. In his youth Olof made experiments in journalism, photography, and as a radio dj. Having studied languages, philosophy, and translation theory, Olof finally ended up in art school. After 15 years of attempts in ‘conceptual’ art, Olof started performing in 2007.
Limited availability! Reserve at reservations@rietveldacademie.nl with the subject OLOF OLSSON – FRIDAY WORKSHOP and provide your name.
11:15 room 007
Screening (open to all)
‘I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another’.
UK, 2012, 33 minutes 32 seconds
Colour, Sound (stereo), HD Video
Etel Adnan’s highly influential writings, in French, English and Arabic have been read around the world. Her recent epic poem, Sea and Fog, published by Nightboat Books, in 2012, evokes the sea and the fog as metaphors for power and time, exploring the nature of the individual spirit and the sentience of the natural world.
The Otolith Group‘s film, shot largely in Adnan’s Paris apartment, centers on a reading of the first chapter of her poem Sea. The sound of Adnan’s gentle voice, and the quiet but ever present ambient noise in her apartment, create a powerful, meditative atmosphere that draw upon the powers of philosophy to pursue the continuous mutation of matter into velocity. If poetry can be understood as a study in constraint, the film, I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another, can be understood as an experiment in concentration and a study of gestures, that speaks of the mobility of language and the movement of the ocean.
“Etel Adnan sharpens the starkness of the world of matter and anti-matter. These texts are psalms that stretch from the sublime to the violent, journey from Yosemite Valley to a soldier’s jeep in the desert, and gather from Dostoevsky to Scalapino. A history, a gospel, a prayer book, it dwells in the divine.”—Elmaz Abinader
Followed by a Masterclass / conversation with Etel Adnan (moderated by Arnisa Zeqo) for alumni only ( 12:00–15:00 room 105)
CINEMA
In room 007 a daily cinema program will be screened. Keep an eye on the website for the final program, but expect to see:
TUESDAY 12 MARCH
12:00 – 14:00
Zabriskie point (110min)
1970, Michelangelo Antonioni
Zabriskie Point, director Michelangelo Antonioni’s only American film, is an unusual, visually stunning examination of youthful rebellion against the Establishment. The film, initially presented in quasi-documentary style, presents a group of college activists discussing key issues of their political agenda.
14:00 – 16:00
The forgotten space (112min)
2010, Noel Burch & Allan Sekula
Documentary detailing the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles, seafarers aboard mega-ships shuttling between Asia and Europe, and factory workers in China, whose low wages are the fragile key to the whole puzzle.
16:00 – 18:45
Stalker (163min)
1979, Andrey Tarkovskiy
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH
12:00 – 15:00
Solaris (167min)
1972, Andrey Tarkovskiy
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting an alien planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
15:00 – 17:30
Melancholia (136min)
2011, Lars von Trier
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with the Earth.
17:30 – 19:00
Godzilla (96min)
1954, Ishirô Honda
American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.
THURSDAY 14 MARCH
12:00 – 14:00
Grizzly man (103min)
2005, Werner Herzog
A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.
14:00 – 15:30
The incredible shrinking man (81min)
1957, Jack Arnold
When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
15:30- 16:15
I see infinite difference between any point and another (35 min)
2012, Otolith Group
The Otolith Group‘s film, shot largely in Etel Adnan’s Paris apartment, centers on a reading of the first chapter of her poem, Sea. The sound of Adnan’s gentle voice, and the quiet but ever present ambient noise in her apartment, create a powerful, meditative atmosphere that draw upon the powers of philosophy to pursue the continuous mutation of matter into velocity. If poetry can be understood as a study in constraint, this film can be understood as an experiment in concentration and a study of gestures, that speaks of the mobility of language and the movement of the ocean.
16:15 – 18:15
‘to be announced’
FRIDAY 15 MARCH
11:15 – 12:00
I see infinite difference between any point and another (35 min)
2012, Otolith Group
The Otolith Group‘s film, shot largely in Etel Adnan’s Paris apartment, centers on a reading of the first chapter of her poem, Sea. The sound of Adnan’s gentle voice, and the quiet but ever present ambient noise in her apartment, create a powerful, meditative atmosphere that draw upon the powers of philosophy to pursue the continuous mutation of matter into velocity. If poetry can be understood as a study in constraint, this film can be understood as an experiment in concentration and a study of gestures, that speaks of the mobility of language and the movement of the ocean.
12:00 – 13:00
Shadow Sister (52min)
1977, Frank Heitmans
Shadow Sister is a 1977 film biography of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) poet, activist and public speaker Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker). Oodgeroo took her people’s message and demand for freedom not just to white Australia but to the world.
12:00 – 14:00
Wolfen (115min)
1981, Michael Wadleigh
Detective Dewey Wilson is investigating several strange murders in New York City. All the victims look as if they have been mutilated by wild animals. His investigation leads him to a group of Native Americans who tell him about the legend of a superior species that once roamed the area, but who are now living and hunting in the slums of New York.
14:00 – 16:30
2001, A space odyssey (141min)
1968, Stanley Kubrick
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
16:30 – 18:00
Frankenstein (70min)
1931, James Whale
Horror classic in which an obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
GLASS PAVILION
In the Glass Pavilion a daily changing exhibition will be installed. A display of artistic and archival materials, thematically related to the conference programs in the Gym, on view throughout the day in the Glass Pavilion.
At the end of each conference day we will get together for a drink at the finnisage of these accompanying exhibitions.
Plus : on Tuesday in the Glass House
Tuesday 13:00 – 17:00
Regarding the Names of Flowers
‘Regarding the Names of Flowers’ questions our knowledge and memories
associated with flowers and nature. The symbolism of flowers in the West is
deeply influenced by the naturalisation of nature. Also the imagery of flowers
is connected to gender and sexuality. Not only do we often forget the hybrid
sexuality of flowers, we also tend to associate them with female
characteristics. But how are lilies connected to the Milky Way? And what is the
future of flowers?
In the glasshouse we will be engaging in an ongoing reading session, spanning
from poetry, literature and personal stories to comic books and movie scripts.
Stop by. Read with us. Have a drink.
Marinus Beer
Mie Frederikke Christensen
Lotte Fondse
Anastasija Pandilovska
Smari Robertsson
Arnisa Zeqo
READING ROOM
During the entire festival week the library will set up a dependance in the staircase of the main building. Here you can read the books mentioned and used during the entire Studium Generale WHERE ARE WE GOING, WALT WHITMAN ? – period.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Next to all of the above you will encounter a growing sculpture representing the physical part of the roadmap found on our website: HYPERLINK “http://wherearewegoingwaltwhitman.rietveldacademie.nl/road-map/” http://wherearewegoingwaltwhitman.rietveldacademie.nl/road-map/
On Thursday you can send a postcard from your roadtrip in the postoffice by Informal Strategies, and meandering on the ground floor you will encounter installations developed during the different Studium Generale sessions.