Equality / Equity

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.

Art at War | Episode 1: Anastasia Taylor-Lind

by writer Lisa Weeda

Art at War is a series about, well… Art and war. Each episode writer and ArtEZ alumna Lisa Weeda explores what art can do in times of conflict with a special guest. In this episode that guest is Anastasia Taylor-Lind.

Art at War | Episode 2: Mariia Ponomarova

by writer Lisa Weeda

Art at War is a series about, well… Art and war. Each episode writer and ArtEZ alumna Lisa Weeda explores what art can do in times of conflict with a special guest. In this episode that guest is Mariia Ponomarova.

Art at War | Episode 3: Bakr Al Jaber

by writer Lisa Weeda

Art at War is a series about, well… Art and war. Each episode writer and ArtEZ alumna Lisa Weeda explores what art can do in times of conflict with a special guest. In this episode that guest is Bakr Al Jaber.

Art at War | Episode 4: Mina Etemad

by writer Lisa Weeda

Art at War is a series about, well… Art and war. Each episode writer and ArtEZ alumna Lisa Weeda explores what art can do in times of conflict with a special guest. In this episode that guest is Mina Etemad.

Assouf: The Blues of the Desert

On the coldest day of 2021, musician and writer Samira Dainan went to Poppodium Duycker in Hoofddorp to meet with Ousmane Ag Mossa, the bandleader of Tamikrest. Named the new legend of Tuareg music, Ousmane speaks on what it means to write music in the solitude of the Sahara desert. In this podcast, he speaks on the power and the meaning of his music, and how each song breaths a whole life-world and history.

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.

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. She will focus on the unheard voices of statues, rooms, places. Who do monuments represent and who do they speak for?

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

Radio ArtEZ, season 3, episode 5

This six part miniseries is based on the conference The Roadmap to Equality In The Arts. This first episode goes deeper into the core tenet of the symposium and how it came into being. What models of change are there? How can we act together, from an intersectional and inclusive perspective? It features the complete keynote by Nancy Jouwe who kicked off the conference by making a strong case for intersectional thinking and acting in the arts and articulated the hindrances and accelerators for this in the Dutch art world.

Learn more about the Roadmap to Equality conference and other episodes of this podcast in the sub-file at the top of the page.

Diversity Stories, season 1

The podcast entitled Diversity Stories presents a kaleidoscopic interpretation of the topic of diversity 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.

With Rajae El Mouhandiz and Mariane Cortez Meirelles

Diversity Stories, season 2, episode 1

In the first episode a beautiful personal story with three life lessons of Rajae El Mouhandiz and a presentation by Mariane Cortez Meirelles, student of the Master Fashion Strategy, about what home means to her.

Stefan Kaegi from the artists’ collective Rimini Protokoll

Diversity Stories, season 2, episode 2

The second episode of the podcast Diversity Stories, season 2, consists of an interview with Stefan Kaegi, from the famous artists’ collective Rimini Protokoll, by Janet Schreurs, Barbara Braniff (both students of the International Master Artist Educator at ArtEZ) and Lotte Wandel (who works at that Master).

Krzysztof Czyżewski (Borderland) & Quining Chen

Diversity Stories, season 2, episode 4

This episode consists of 2 items: a presentation by Krzysztof Czyżewski from Borderland and a presentation by a student from the ISC, Quining Chen, including a song he made.

Nagesprek vertoning documentaire Man Made van Sunny Bergman.

Diversity Stories, season 2, episode 5

In deze (Nederlandstalige) aflevering een reportage over een bijeenkomst van de feministische leesgroep De kunst van het feminisme waar Man Made van Sunny Bergman bekeken werd. De avond vond plaats op 21 mei 2019 in het Focus Filmhuis in Arnhem. In deze documentaire onderzoekt Sunny Bergman wat de maatschappelijke ideeën over mannelijkheid zijn. Beluister in deze podcast het nagesprek met Sunny Bergman.

Mounir Samuel en zijn bronnen

Radio ArtEZ, season 3, episode 3

In deze aflevering staat een editie van de programmareeks Kitchen Table Conversations centraal. Wat dat precies is, vertelt Lieneke Hulshof van Mister Motley in de intro. Te gast is Mounir Samuel, pleitbezorger van het omarmen van pluriforme identiteiten. Hij gaat in gesprek over zijn drie grootste (inspiratie)bronnen.

The Power of Moroccan Roots Music by Samira Dainan

Radio ArtEZ, season 3, episode 12

In this episode, musician and writer Samira Dainan takes us on a personal and lyrical journey through Morocco and parts of the Sahara. It’s a biting and poetic exploration of what it means to find your own sound and voice.

Loose Fit

about diversity in fashion

One size fits all or one size fits nobody? Listen to the podcast about inclusivity, diversity and a more embodied way of fashion, recorded during the two-day conference Fashion Colloquium, Searching for the New Luxury (31 May – 1 June 2018) in Arnhem. The online radio platform Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee made a live broadcast that can be listened to here.

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

A blog by Nagaré Willemsen.

After my performative reading of the letter ‘The precarious body: analysing the black experience within the art school’ in 2018, I was offered a job as the coordinator of USB (Black Student Union) at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. A year before my graduation in 2017, the USB was initiated by students of African descent.

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.

Reading List Feminism & Art

This reading list is based on the Feminist Reading Group organized by ArtEZ Studium Generale and Mister Motley. We are also grateful for the additional suggestions of Mirjam Westen (curator Museum Arnhem) and Rajae El Mouhandiz (researcher, theater maker, filmmaker, curator) and the preparatory research by intern Christianne van der Leest. We are aware that this list is far from exhaustive and keep us recommended for further suggestions. If the text of the book or article is only in Dutch, the description is also in Dutch.

Als dekoloniseren makkelijk was, zou iedereen het doen

Kunstenaar Christoph Buchel liet tijdens de Biënnale van Venetië de romp van een Tunesische vissersboot naar een van de hoofdlocaties komen om daar als werk tentoon te stellen.

Deep Democracy for a good conversation a better conflict and the best decision

A blog by Ingrid van Aert and Marlies Leupen

Are you sure you are able to hear the different ideas of somebody else? What happens when your idea is (slightly) different from the rest and nobody is listening? Do you recognize how difficult co-working sometimes can be?

I would like to tell you a story

Hello, My name is Pompadó Z.R. Martha, and I’m studying Theatre in Education at ArtEZ, and I am originally from Curaçao but have been living in a lot of places, which gives me a broad insight of the topic Diversity, Sporadic (De)Colonialism, and Inclusion.

I would like to tell you a story: Multivocality

For ArtEZ Studium Generale, Pompadó writes about his personal experiences with racism within his education. These stories symbolize the many institutions where similar experiences are felt. When we have the will to change as an institute, we must also provide space for stories that can encourage change. That is why we think it is important to provide a platform for these personal stories.

Hello, My name is Pompadó Z.R. Martha, and I would like to tell you a story, do not worry, it will not take long; this was just the start… a story about multivocality.

The dialogue in between

A conversation on Instagram between Natasja Wagendorp and Ashly Ho

The dialogue in between is a conversation between Natasja Wagendorp (BA Teacher of Visual Arts and Design department) and Ashly Ho (BA Dancer/Maker), both first year students of the Honours Programme. This dialogue on Instagram is an artistic exploration of gender, race, decolonization and power relations.

What could ArtEZ do to reach out?

Recommendations audience of ‘How about Love? In the Wake of the Nashville Statement

In the wake of the Nashville Statement. A group of people came together to listen, share stories, thoughts, experiences and strategies.

We want to express our solidarity

We want to express our solidarity to all who suffer from oppression, racism and inequality. We, as human beings, artists and as an art institution, have a long way to go and therefore we hope to contribute with our programme to the conversation and actions needed for change, although we are aware that it is a small contribution. We all must remain aware of our imperfections, blind spots, and the work we still have to do to move forward in this fight for human rights.

Insta poetry by Amara van der Elst

We organized an event on ArtEZ’s fundamental attitude towards diversity entitled Diversity for What? Amara van der Elst (BA Creative Writing) did a spoken word performance that day on street culture in which she wants to flesh out the richness and coulorfulness of street culture and draw attention to the marginalized group that represents it. Our designer Corine van der Wal made 3 animations for Amara's poems and we published it here and on Instagram.

"My longing for clarity doesn’t always mesh well with the art academy"

Interview Coen van Kaam, fourth-year student of Illustration at ArtEZ Zwolle

Interview Coen van Kaam, fourth-year student of Illustration at ArtEZ Zwolle by Maja Brouwer.

Léon Kruijswijk: on AIDS activism and art

Video online event 17 June 2020

Voor het online lunch evenement The Way We Live Now nodigde curator Léon Kruijswijk je uit na te denken over twee verschillende stadia van de HIV / Aids-epidemie. Hoewel de kennis over en behandeling van het virus sinds de wereldwijde uitbraak aanzienlijk is verbeterd, is het virus al tientallen jaren wereldwijd verspreid en blijft HIV / Aids het dagelijkse leven van velen tot op de dag van vandaag bepalen.

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

Video online event 13 May 2020

We were pleased to host an online lunch event on 13 May 2020 in collaboration with Mister Motley. A conversation with Ama Josephine Budge, moderated by Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, curator at the Van Abbemuseum.

Chihiro Geuzebroek: Poetic Climate Justice & Indigenous Futurism

Videoregistratie online event 22 april 2020

Mister Motley en ArtEZ Studium Generale begonnen een online lunch event serie op woensdag 22 april 2020 met filmmaker and climate justice activist Chihiro Geuzebroek en spraken met haar 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.

Video registration online Kitchen Table Conversation with Elaine Mitchener

On December 7, 2020 ArtEZ Studium Generale organised an online Kitchen Table Converstation with vocalist, movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener.

Interview with Hamja Ahsan

Reading of Shy Radicals with Hamja Ahsan

Interview Izabella Finch in SEX & the Sexual Politics of the Gaze

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