ACT 1, SCENE 7
WED 11 MAR AT THE MAAGDENHUIS / APPROPRIATION
ADRESS: SPUI 21, AMSTERDAM
Studium Generale Rietveld Academie received an invitation to relocate it's March 11 session from the Rietveld's GYM to the occupied Maagdenhuis. We have accepted and will join the staff and students at the University of Amsterdam as an act of solidarity and as an alternative mode of "looking at art through the lens of theatre".
13.30 - 14.15
'Are You Alive Or Not?' introduction to the program of the upcoming conference-festival & master classes Are You Alive Or Not ? March 18-22 by Gabriëlle Schleijpen / Lauren Alexander, Tarja Szaraniec, Nikos Doulos
14.15 - 14.45
'I committed a Happening' is a lecture performance especially created for this occasion at the Maagdenhuis, that tours some of the works of a generation of artists in Argentina during the 1960´s who understood artistic practice as a form of action towards a social change.
Mercedes Azpilicueta (AR) is a visual artist and performer currently in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
14.45 - 15.30
Open discussion around art, theatre, democracy, autonomy/heteronomy, academy, university and how to reclaim the commons (air, water, land, food, care, education, culture, art) from 'capital'.
15.30 - ....
An attempt will be made to create a group performance as a collective gesture of re-appropriation. This is a Rietveld student & alumni initiative.
Photo: Renata Cervetto