2018 – 2019
TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE — Fabulating Alternative Imaginaries in Art and Life

“(…) It matters what stories tell stories. It matters what thoughts think thoughts. It matters what worlds make worlds (…)” — Donna Haraway

Studium Generale Rietveld Academie invites you to think of “fabulation”. As a means of “fabricating the real”, world-making or “speculative fiction”. As an artistic, social and political capacity, welcoming alternative histories and other regimes of wanting, being and becoming. Practices of fabulation may enable saying things that are not used in order to distinguish truth from lies but to effectively say things better, to unsettle and to include. Come and take a walk on the wild side with us!

With: Mieke Bal, Wayne Modest, Geo Wyeth, Patricia Kaersenhout, Charl Landvreugd, Simon(e) van Saarloos, Alison Sperling, Sher Doruff, Sven Lütticken, Kunstverein, Hypatia Vourloumis, Nwando Ebizie, Gayatri Gopinath, Monsur Mansoor, Amber Jamilla Musser, Shaowen Bardzell, Sarah Sharma, Sandra Ruiz, Jackie Wang, Daniela K. Rosner, Tavia Nyong’o, Tina Campt, Jayna Brown, Alice Chauchat, Rosalind Nashashibi, Isabel Lewis, Luke Willis Thompson, Naima Ramos Chapman, Tiona Nekkia McCLodden, and many others.

Poject website: https://takeawalkonthewildside.rietveldacademie.nl

Muck Signal from Muck Studies Department — Geo Wyeth

Brown Handbag — Monsur Mansoor

Nuclear Afterlives: Radioactive Ecologies in the Anthropocene — Alison Sperling

Privatised Futures and the Arts of Speculation — Theo Reeves-Evison

An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove — Tiona Nekkia McClodden

Fictioning: Mythopoesis, Myth-Science and Mythotechnesis — Simon O'Sullivan

Unruliness, Suspension, Deviation — Gayatri Gopinath

Militance Is an Alternative to Madness — Patricia Kaersenhout

Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love (2007 | 14 min.) — Steve Reinke

Restaging the Story by Crashing the Stage — Milena Bonilla, Luisa Ungar

Prelude to a New Black Gaze — Tina Campt

Tracing my Lover’s Wrinkles in a Non-linear Way (and Other Wild Attempts) — Simon(e) van Saarloos

Distorted Constellations: Afrofuturist Landscapes, Neurodivergent Possibilities, and Art as Science Playground — Nwando Ebizie

Imagining and Projecting: notes on Dutch aesthetics of nativeness — Charl Landvreugd

Monologue 5 and Monologue 6 — Özgür Kar

Domestic Goddesses: Housewives with Steak Knives and How Mum and Ah Ma Do Decoration — Jay Tan

Myth Gives Rise to Longing: A Listening for what Willfully Remains Unintelligible–Ioanna Gerakidi — Ioanna Gerakidi

Good Kid, m.A.A.d City (2014 | 15 min.) — Kahlil Joseph

Reasonable Doubt (2017 | 98 min.) — Mieke Bal

Fantasies for Knowledge — Mieke Bal

Dark as the Door to a Dream — Tavia Nyong'o

The Fabula of Last Year’s Notebooks — Sher Doruff

Galactic Extractivism: Alexander Kluge's Low-Budget Space Operas — Sven Lütticken

Attempted Aberrations in the Domain of Emergence — Jackie Wang

Sisters, Lovers, and Monsters: A Feminist Utopian Design Approach to Menopause Wellness — Shaowen Bardzell

Take a Deep Breath — Curated by Kunstverein/Maxine Kopsa

Quartered (2013 | 33 min.) — Geo Wyeth

LHB (2017 | 20 min.) — Charlotte Prodger

Who Gets to Future? — Daniela Rosner

Long Flow Dramaturgies in Heterotopic Space — Isabel Lewis

A Dance with Alice and Raimundas — Alice Chauchat, Raimundas Malasauskas

A Fierce Organicism: Ecologies of Enmeshment in Contemporary Speculative Art — Jayna Brown

Song — Mark Buckeridge

En Plein Air: Music of Objective Romance | Track #1. Healing in My House (2016 | 10 min.) — Jacolby Satterwhite

Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine — Rosalind Nashashibi

Un/Making Matters that Emerge in the Aftermath — Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl

Black Gaze, Black Skin, Black Feeling: A Conversation with Luke Willis Thompson and Tina Campt — Tina Campt, Luke Willis Thompson

Sensual Excess: Moving Through the Flesh to Elsewhere — Amber Jamilla Musser

Excess Swarm (Wild in the Wild) — Hypatia Vourloumis

Screening of short films by Dambudzo Marechera, Sam Icklow, Geo Wyeth, Naima Ramos Chapman, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Luke Willis Thompson, Vaginal Davis — Naima Ramos Chapman, Vaginal Davis, Sam Icklow, Dambudzo Marechera, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Luke Willis Thompson, Geo Wyeth

The Narrative of Objects — Wayne Modest

Études–Nikola Knežević hosted by unsettling Rietveld/Sandberg — Nikola Knežević, unsettling Rietveld/Sandberg

Don’t Feel the Same: Music Interlude with Voice-Over — Janine Armin, Malak Helmy

The Split Aesthetic in Anticolonial Time — Sandra Ruiz

Feminism of the Broken Machine — Sarah Sharma

Híbridos, The Spirits of Brazil — Vincent Moon, Priscilla Telmon

Playing with Magic: A Conversation with Naima Ramos-Chapman and Jayna Brown — Jayna Brown, Naima Ramos-Chapman

Roundtable discussion with Tavia Nyong'o, Tina Campt, Jayna Brown, Luke Willis Thompson, Naima Ramos-Chapman, Tiona Nekkia McCLodden — Jayna Brown, Tina Campt, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Tavia Nyong'o, Naima Ramos-Chapman, Luke Willis Thompson

Dislocation Blues (2017 | 17 min.) — Sky Hopinka