Welcome to the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie website! To encourage critical making and thinking, Studium Generale offers a diverse and transdisciplinary programme every year on an urgent theme. Read more about the set-up and structure here.

This website consists of 3 substantive and informative layers that constantly feed each other.

The Programme Overview home page displays announcements of ongoing events and activities, and provides instant access to their live streams when appropriate.

Below the Programme overview is the Archive Picks area, which presents varying selections of older programme contributions, curated by guests or by ourselves. Older contributions can thus regain attention or meaning, or be presented in alternative arrangements.

At the bottom is the Archive. There you will find material from 2011 to the present: part of the video-recorded contributions to the annual conference of Studium Generale and since March 2020 also recordings of events and presentations of the preliminary programmes. The archive is searchable in various ways and offers a chronological overview of previous editions and links to the associated project websites. It also contains announcements and descriptions of previous programme components, which can no longer be relived, but do provide some glances in the histories of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

The purpose of the website is to inform and present what is happening at the moment, but it is also a memory, in which a lot can be found and unexpected encounters can take place.

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N.B. This website is still under construction! Not everything has been completed yet and the search functions in the Archive are not yet fully functional.

No Bra (vocal performance)
Susanne Oberbeck

The program will continue with a vocal performance by Susanne Oberbeck (No Bra).

SUSANNE OBERBECK (NO BRA)
Forming No Bra whilst living in East London, Susanne Oberbeck has since moved to New York, where she recorded part of her new album Candy – released this year on the Address label – with NYC based musicians. She runs a night in NYC called Gay Vinyl, toured the US with Savages and in December completed a residency at East London’s Vogue Fabrics. No Bra’s debut single Munchausen was BBC Radio DJ Pete Tong’s “Eclectic Tune of 2005” and James Hyman’s “Tune of the Year 2005” and was described as essentially the London art-school answer to “Losing My Edge’s” Williamsburg smack down. Her music has been described as beat driven messthetics coupled with Sprechstimme, speak-singing poetry fuelled by the desire to “smash kyriarchy and turn gender on its head.” Writer and musician Johanna Fateman listed No Bra as “Best of 2013” in Art Forum’s round up of last year.