Rietveld Uncut 2025
RADICAL ACCESSIBILITY – Crip pedagogies, Crip theory, Crip practice
19 – 23 March 2025
Rietveld Uncut is an annual exhibition and performance programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Its collaboration with Studium Generale Rietveld Academie culminates in a simultaneous conference week and exhibition where ‘the making and the thinking’ come together. In response to Studium Generale’s theme, RADICAL ACCESSIBILITY -Crip pedagogies, Crip theory, Crip practice, Rietveld students have developed new work for Rietveld Uncut from various personal and collective perspectives.
Studium Generale & Rietveld Uncut 2025 explore accessibility and disability justice in art and culture through a ‘Crip’ perspective, emphasising interdependency and solidarity. Once a negative term, Crip has been reclaimed as empowering, challenging norms and highlighting disability’s intersections with gender, race, class and more. Despite progress, barriers persist in daily life and education, from inaccessible spaces to marginalising materials. By collaborating with Crip artists, activists and thinkers, we aim to rethink the academy and artistic practices. How can accessibility become a fundamental part of learning and creating, rather than an afterthought?
Participating students
Agathe Plouzennec, Anahit Yakubovich & Lau Vander Mijnsbrugge, Carla Chibude Seidemann, Chichy Freja Udsen Obi, Clément Lobjoy, Yunkyung Kwon, Greta Wegmann & Domitille Marchiol, Gabrielle Bouriat—Hardouin, Handa Youn, Kadri-Ann Kivisild, Katinka K. Olrik, Lujza Kramárová, Maïder Hastoy, Mia Kokine Joensen, Minky Kim, Niloofar Salehi, nisan gunalcin, Pauline Oosterhoff & Annemarie Vogel, Simone Winder & Isabel Heatley, Siri Tvorup, Sohju Kim, Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song
Collaborative presentations
Access Test Kitchen, presents the result of a workshop series by Staci Bu Shea and Mira Thompson with students Eden Carli, Elinos Tenaille Destais, Kelvin Dijk, Kalli Ioumpa, Shauna Jin, KIEM, Jessica Kuhn, Mirjam Meroth, Teodóra Róka, Anna Theunissen.
Mariken Overdijk (VAV – moving image) worked with students Anna Fastnacht, Jihwan Kim, Maria Goncalves Geraldes Pinto, Philippe Luptak, Rubin Verhoog, Ryu Koivukoski and Zina Tzioufa.
On Friday 21 March 2025 from 18:30 to 21:30, Rietveld Uncut will be activated with a special programme of performances and interventions by students, and Queer Sports by Gabriel Fontana.
PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME
Friday March 21
Museumplein Entree
18:45 – 19:00: Opening speech
19.00 – 19.15: Constricted Spaces (hemicranial press moulting) – Mia Kokine Joensen
20:00 – 20:30: Crosswalk Talk – Sohju Kim
ABN AMRO zaal
20:45 – 21:30: Unto This Last – Handa Youn
Studio object
19:30 – 20:00: Unrecognisable Syllables – Katinka K. Olrik
Auditorium
19:30 – 21:30: Queer Sports – Gabriel Fontana
Studio canvas
19:00 – 19:30: knock, ʞɔonʞ – Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song
20:00 – 20:30: knock, ʞɔonʞ – Wenzhu Song & Yunji Song
20:45 – 21:30: A Room to Escape (Is there a backdoor?) – students of VAV - moving image and Mariken Overdijk
Team
Rietveld Uncut: Tarja Szaraniec and Tomas Adolfs
Studium Generale: Jorinde Seijdel and Jort van der Laan
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: Anouk van Amsterdam, Claire van Els, Fenna van Halsema
Graphic design: Idun Wahlgren and Sasha Anguelovskaia
Special thanks to Iskra Vukšić, all workshop specialists at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and all (guest) tutors involved
https://rietveldacademie.nl/en/page/32848/rietveld-uncut-2025
https://radicalaccessibility.rietveldacademie.nl