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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My Response to Racism is Anger: Transforming Rage into Power
Naomie Pieter

My Response to Racism is Anger: Transforming Rage into Power is a performance lecture by Naomie Pieter. The title is inspired by Audre Lorde’s essay The Uses of Anger: Women* Responding to Racism (1981). Pieter reflects on and responds to the essay through the political actions she (co)organised and choreographed. She will also share some of her Afro-Caribbean spiritual practices which she uses to create art performances and political actions.

*Pieter adds: Black Queer, Trans, Enby, Gender-non conforming people.
Intersectional queer and anti-racist activist

NAOMIE PIETER (1990) is the founder of Pon Di Pride and co-founder of Black Queer & Trans Resistance NL, as well as the founder of Black Pride NL. She won the Roze Lieverdje award 2020 for her work within the LGBTQIA+ community and she recently won the Pax Peace Award 2020. After her training as a choreographer at the Academy for Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam, Naomie effortlessly mixes the organisation of protest rallies with designing choreographies. “Protest is a social choreography. We’re organizing body, space and time. Who walks up front, what are the visuals, what is the stage?“ Pieter is one of the artists who has been invited by the Amsterdam Museum to participate in the museum’s new exhibition of the Gouden Koets 2021.