Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

Powertools: Artistic Strategies for Social Change

Online publication about art and diversity

Powertools: Artistic Strategies for Social Change is an online publication about art and diversity. The essays you'll find in this publication examine the relationship between art and socio-political matters of power. This essay collection and the accompanying online course will be invaluable to teachers and students in art school and beyond.

Online Course: Powertools

an online course about art and diversity

POWERTOOLS is an online course about art and diversity. In 10 lessons you will examine the relationship between art and socio-political matters of power, as well as between inclusion and exclusion. This online course is a supplement to the online publication Powertools.

Secure Learning and Culture Environments

Making Cultures in Art Schools

The online publication Secure Learning and Culture Environments: Making Cultures in Art Schools shares some of the learning that has happened over the past couple of years in processes of formalizing social conduct and behavioural structures to create a culture of accountability and trust in shared spaces. Much of it is directed to the specific social and professional needs of working in art schools, but is also relevant in other organizations and communities.

Deep Democracy

For a good conversation a better conflict and the best decision

Are you sure you are able to hear the different ideas of somebody else while co-creating? How to give space to all the voices in your group or team? How to reach a decision that you and all your colleagues want to commit to? Ingrid van Aert and Marlies Leupen introduce in this toolkit to you a new way of thinking: Deep Democracy. This philosophy and method gives you tools to keep talking to each other in an open and constructive way, whether you meet each other physically or online. A tool to start difficult conversations and get as many issues on the table as possible, also in online meetings. A tool to make decisive decisions, even if you do not immediately agree.

Unheard Voices: podcast with Elaine Mitchener

In this episode of Radio ArtEZ, vocalist, movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener offers background to her work and her ideas with a focus on the unheard voices of statues, rooms and places. Who do monuments represent and who do they speak for? Central to Mitchener’s thinking is Benjamin’s concept and practice of memory: ‘Eingedenken’, that takes remembrance as an act of responsibility. How do we choose to remember?

Diversity Stories, season 1

The podcast series Diversity Stories presents a kaleidoscopic interpretation of the topic from a student’s perspective. With very personal stories about gender and identity, outspoken criticism of the fashion system and more. With contributions by Silas Neumann, Hester Brands & Chet Bugter & Chinouk Filique de Miranda, Asu Aksu & Zahide Fürstenberger, Femke Bosma, Renske van Gelder & Tosca Mitkowska & Marieke Sytema (WIIS), Nina de Haas, Christine Ayo and Pelumi Adejumo.

Intersectionality: Definition, Hindrances & Accelerators (Equality in the Arts Pt. 1)

Radio ArtEZ

This episode of a six-part podcast series based on the conference The Roadmap to Equality In The Arts, features a keynote by critical thinker Nancy Jouwe making a strong case for intersectional thinking and acting and an inclusive perspective in the art world in the Netherlands.
Learn more about the Roadmap to Equality conference and other episodes of this podcast in the subtopic within the topic of Feminism.

Eventually I’d have to disappear. Chapter one with Milo Rau.

Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically.

Dieuwke talks to the controversial artist, activist and artistic director of NT Gent Milo Rau about the difference between art and activism; the never-ending project of deconstruction; and theatre plays as traces of a revolution.

Eventually I’d have to disappear. Chapter two with Anna Schlooz.

Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically.

Dieuwke talks to ArtEZ Theatre in Education- graduate Anna Schlooz who is now studying Autonomous Art- Performance in Ghent about real-life maps; the body of documentation; and a rhizome as political tool for documenting your work.

Eventually I’d have to disappear. Chapter three with Fonge Frieling.

Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically

Dieuwke talks to ArtEZ Theatre in Education- student Fonge Frieling, who is now the artistic director of the non-profit foundation TG Signum, on opening the archive of knowledge on deaf culture; her thoughts on living horizontally with the human and non-human; and she asked me some questions in return on my own archiving practises.

Eventually I’d have to disappear. Chapter four with Peggy Bouva and Maartje Duin.

Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically.

Dieuwke goes to Pakhuis de Zwijger to talk to Peggy Bouva and Maartje Duin, who collectively worked on the podcast ´The plantation of our forefathers´. Their conversation is about their working process and the difficulties with the archive, and rewriting your history by seeing all perspectives and all narratives.

Mounir Samuel en zijn bronnen

Radio ArtEZ, season 3, episode 3

In deze aflevering van Radio ArtEZ is Mounir Samuel te gast, pleitbezorger van het omarmen van pluriforme identiteiten. Hij gaat in gesprek met o.a. Lieneke Hulshof van Mister Motley over zijn drie grootste (inspiratie)bronnen.

Loose Fit

about diversity in fashion

One size fits all or one size fits nobody? In this episode of Radio ArtEZ you can listen to a broadcast of the radio platform Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee on inclusivity, diversity and a more embodied way of fashion with Daniëlle Bruggeman, Ruby Hoette, Adele, Julius, Pelumi Adejumo, Chet Bugter and Janice Deul. This broadcast coincides with the two-day conference Fashion Colloquium, Searching for the New Luxury (31 May – 1 June 2018) in Arnhem.

Reflecting on the letter: The precarious body: analysing the black experience within the art school (2018)

A blog by Nagaré Willemsen.
 After her performative reading of a letter entitled The precarious body: analysing the black experience within the art school as part of her graduation at art academy Rietveld/Sandberg in 2018, Nagaré Willemsen was offered a job as the coordinator of Black Student Union (USB). A year before, the USB was initiated by students of African descent who all shared the same racialized experiences within the art school. They strive to have a permanent space for the black identity within the institutional structure to give room to the voices that have been historically silenced through imperialism and colonialism, and that still remain heavily underrepresented in western academia.

Performance, activisme en angst

Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 was de Nigeriaans-Amerikaanse curator, dichter en performancekunstenaar Jaamil Olawale Kosoko te gast bij Studium Generale in het programma White State – Black Mind.
 Hoe kan performance helpen om vormen van geweld en onderdrukking, met name in relatie tot Black identities, bespreekbaar te maken? Kosoko ging in op deze vraag tijdens een filmvertoning met nagesprek, dat werd geleid door curator Lara Staal.

Als dekoloniseren makkelijk was, zou iedereen het doen

Rita Ouédraogo, curator, Research Programmer en (Community) Collaboration Officer voor het onderzoekscentrum van het Tropenmuseum, Museum Volkenkunde, Afrika museum en het Wereldmuseum schrijft over de verantwoordelijkheid van degene die ‘het verhaal’ vertelt. Wanneer ben je in de positie om het verhaal van een ander te vertellen? Is er een aan te duiden grens en hoe voelen we deze empathisch aan zonder artistieke vrijheid te verliezen? Deze vragen komen voort uit haar onderzoek naar samenwerkingen en solidariteit binnen institutionele, museale praktijken waarbij haar focus ligt op het ontrafelen van machtsverhoudingen en het decolonial framework. 

Interview met Patty Pontier

Over het belang van feminisme in deze tijd

Patty Pontier (docent Filosofie ArtEZ Academie voor Art & Design Zwolle) spreekt in dit interview over de doorwerking van de meer verborgen vormen van ongelijkheid en het belang van een betere vertegenwoordiging van het vrouwelijke, queer en gekleurde perspectief in het kunstonderwijs.

I would like to tell you a story

Part 1 of a series of 4 blogs that were written by Pompadó Z.R. Martha, studying Theatre in Education at ArtEZ, and originally from Curaçao on his experiences studying at ArtEZ with obstacles coming from eurocentric hetero normativity. Dealing with topics of Diversity, (De)Colonialism, and Inclusion he describes the concept of multi-vocality to come to creating more collectiveness within the school. The other blogs belonging to this series can be found at the bottom of this page.

Precarious Days: PART 1

At the end of 2019, WALTER books, ArtEZ Studium Generale and Focus Filmtheater Arnhem, organised Precarious Nights, a series of evening film screenings, accompanied by talks, interviews and lectures.

Precarious Days: PART 2

At the end of 2019, WALTER books, ArtEZ Studium Generale and Focus Filmtheater Arnhem, organised Precarious Nights, a series of evening film screenings, accompanied by talks, interviews and lectures.

Solidariteit heruitvinden / Reinventing Solidarity

Deze tekst is voorgedragen door Joram Kraaijeveld (Platform BK) tijdens het filmprogramma Precarious Nights op 16 december 2019

Deze tekst is voorgedragen door Joram Kraaijeveld (Platform BK) tijdens het filmprogramma Precarious Nights op 16 december 2019. “Kunst = solidariteit”, is de leus die klonk tijdens protesten in Vlaanderen en Brussel tegen de forse besparingen van de cultuurbegroting, in november 2019 ingezet door minister-president en minister van Cultuur Jan Jambon (N-VA). Maar wat is solidariteit, en hoe is dit concept te gebruiken in de 21ste eeuw?

Video registration online Kitchen Table Conversation with Elaine Mitchener

On December 7, 2020 ArtEZ Studium Generale organised an online Kitchen Table Conversation with vocalist, movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener. George Floyd’s killing at the hands of an institution which is supposed to ‘serve and protect’ unleashed a global outpouring of rage, anguish and despair. Around the world people mobilised and took to the streets demanding an end to institutional systemic racism. And in some countries, statues were toppled at the hands of the public. This begs the question: Who do monuments represent and who do they speak for? And what is your artistic practice for and what is its relevancy? The conversation has been moderated by Djuwa Mroivili (HALT, bachelor of Music, classical piano) and Ruth van Lenthe (alumna master Education in Arts).

Ama Josephine Budge & Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide: Tales from the Abyss

Video online event 13 May 2020

This registration of an online lunch event on 13 May 2020, organized in collaboration with Mister Motley features a conversation with writer and pleasure activist Ama Josephine Budge, moderated by Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, curator at the Van Abbemuseum. They talk about how the sience-fictional and resistant practices of the artist can reimagine the agencial capacity of queer Black bodies in relation to environmentally-changes futures in the face of what has been termed ‘climate colonialism’.

Chihiro Geuzebroek: Poetic Climate Justice & Indigenous Futurism

Videoregistratie online event 22 april 2020

Videoregistratie online event 22 april 2020. De registratie van een online lunchevent dat Mister Motley en ArtEZ Studium Generale organiseerden op 22 april 2020 met filmmaker and climate justice activist Chihiro Geuzebroek waarin we met haar spraken over het verband tussen de klimaatbeweging, racisme en de rechten van Inheemse volken. En over de kracht van protestliederen en science fiction om dingen te veranderen.

Interview Melanie Bonajo in SEX & the Sexual Politics of the Gaze

Melanie Bonajo speaks in this interview about her trilogy Nightsoil, three films that deal with interrelation, compassion and empathy and in which she works mainly with female body workers. She explanes why they can be seen as an act of feminist activism as they show alternative systems to capitalism.

Charl Landvreugd & Anke Bangma, interview: Keeping Memories Alive in Art

Interview with Charl Landvreugd (visual artist) by Anke Bangma (at this time curator National Museum of World Cultures). Charl Landvreugd engages with black culture and identity in order to shift our collective self-perception.