Research in and through the arts
With this series we show the breadth of research in and through the arts. The way research is handled in the arts is very diverse. We show the breadth of the topic by collecting various projects related to research in and through the arts. From podcasts about the role of research at art schools to research projects by students and staff at ArtEZ.
TIJD / TIME
This series explores the effects of time (and the pressure of time) on making. How do we ensure that making does not increasingly fall prey to the laws of capitalization? Can we make time for not-knowing as a productive force? In what ways can we resist, make activist time, break through what we maintain together? Can time be a creative tool?
Future Art School
Are the institutions in which artists are trained still appropriate for the new systems, questions and relations we need in the future? What will the Art School of the Future look like? How will it smell, taste, feel? In the series Future Art School we collect examples and challenging experiments that make us think about art education in the future.
Equality / Equity
ArtEZ Studium Generale organizes different projects that advocate for equality at every level and social justice for all people. In this series on Equality you will find projects on feminism, emancipation, justice and activism.
Body and power(lessness)
Body and Power(lessness) was the main theme of ArtEZ Studium Generale for the 2021/2022 academic year. Together with Mister Motley we dealt with a number of questions in response to developments in society and art: What happens when we find that we have far less control over our bodies than we thought we had, due to the external force exerted on our bodies by a disease, on our freedom of movement by the government and on our minds by technology?
LAND
Scientists warn of the imminent collapse of our civilization, but how can we speak of a civilization, if we are unable to do something about climate breakdown, if we are even allowing it to become worse? This series is about climate breakdown, ownership, territory and colonialism.
A Sense of Belonging
Technology/data, politics, laws, regulations, time and space determine where we are and where we feel at home. A human is not a being that is restricted to one place but rather a combination of all these strands. Where do we feel at home, how do we relate to these external forces and to other people? And where do we find the relationship with the other, where do we find solidarity?
Feminism
The underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women artists, non-binary and genderqueer artists in the Dutch art world is undeniable. Female students dominate the art schools, but the art world continues to be mostly male dominated. In this file you will find information about art and feminism from an intersectional perspective.
Rethinking Anthropocene
Unlike abstract concepts such as the Anthropocene, life on Earth is palpable, deeply emotional and consequential. How do we experience and endure life in a climate that is drastically and detrimentally transformed on a local and global level by the fossil fuel industry, racial capitalism, and political power in the last four decades? Not just here, or there. But everywhere, and all at once.
Precarious Days & Nights
A person's socioeconomic class has wide-ranging effects on access to education, culture, housing, health, and even justice. In this series you will find projects dealing with social class and existential vulnerability or precariousness.
Gender
Gender (identity) is the degree to which someone feels like a man, a woman, both or neither. In this file you will find projects that question the relationships between gender and society. Check also the files feminism and identity.
Sustainable Future
In August 2018, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg started her actions in which students call on governments to take measures against global warming. Her actions were followed internationally and grew into massive protests. "The strikes of students are inspiring because they break through all the bullshit of babbling necktie men and make it clear to everyone what matters: system change against the destruction of contemporary and future life, of possibility," writes Willem Schinkel (De Groene), Plea for pre-presentation 2019).
Fear
Between 2011 and 2018, Studium Generale organized one-day events on various themes. In 2012 FEAR, about those anxious gut feelings that are resounding throughout the arts and society at large.
Identity
Between 2011 and 2018, Studium Generale organized one-day events on various themes. In 2017 Lost in Transition. During Lost in Transition Studium Generale explored several questions together with artists and academics: What is your identity? How is it determined and what influence does our changing world have on our identity? Another question is what role our origins, roots and gender play in who we are. Or what role does our relation to other people and with other people play? And what can other cultures teach us in this regard?
Sexuality
Sex is all around us. On the internet and through other media as well, images of intertwined bodies and suggestive poses flash by constantly. How is sex being represented in art and the media and what does that say about our identity? Which stereotypes are being offered in this way? And is that changing in any way? In this file you can explore how some artists respond to this.
The City
More than half of the world's population lives in cities. And the number of people continues to grow. The desire to improve urban safety is shared worldwide, but to what extent does creativity play a role in this?
Activism
Between 2011 and 2018, Studium Generale organized one-day events on various themes. In 2017 Revolte in which Studium Generale explored the desire to change the world in a fundamental way. Together with artists, students and thinkers we explored the following questions: How to change the world? What do you change and how do you do that? Do you do that by going to the barricades, wearing a mohawk and a leather jacket, like people did in the eighties? Do you do that as an individual or can a revolution only be started by a large majority?
Spirituality
Astrology, mindfulness and yoga are hot right now. Spiritually-minded artists were deemed silly in years past, but now it's a serious area of inquiry. Here you can explore some information centered on a variety of spiritual practices and imaginaries.
Conflict
Between 2011 and 2018, Studium Generale organized one-day events on various themes. In 2016 Studium Generale organized a one-day event with the theme Chaos & Conflict. During Chaos & Conflict, we explored the meaning of conflict and war together with experts, artists and scientists. About the pros and cons of a chaotic and conflicting world. About the personal consequences for people in general and artists in particular.
Homo Ludens
In this series we deal with the arts in terms of play. The artist doesn’t so much play according to the rules of the game – he plays with the rules of the game. He creates his own world with its own codes, rules and players.
