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LAND; about climate breakdown, ownership, territory and colonialism

LAND; about climate breakdown, ownership, territory and colonialism was the main theme of ArtEZ Studium Generale for the 2020/2021 academic year. Can we understand how we have ended up in the present precarious situation?
Civilization, climate breakdown
Never has the temperature in the Arctic region been as high as it was last summer. Every year, wildfires are getting larger, hurricane seasons are getting more severe, grasslands in the Eastern Netherlands are getting drier. 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?

Programme and Publications
ArtEZ Studium Generale collaborated with the online art magazine Mister Motley and took the topic of land as a starting point for a debate with students, artists and thinkers about climate breakdown, property, territory and colonialism. Can we understand how we ended up in the current precarious situation? What does ‘property’ mean for our relationship with each other and with the land? What role does language play as a reflection of the way we treat each other, nature and the earth? Can art and imagination help us to imagine other worlds? We searched for insights and actions to preserve our planet.

Online cursus

Deze gratis online cursus geeft je inzicht in hoe begrippen als eigendom, territorium, kolonialisme en klimaatafbraak zich tot elkaar verhouden. Je leert hoe je je op verschillende manieren en vanuit verschillende vormen van (onderbelichte) kennis kunt omgaan met de natuur en kun je vervolgens deze kennis praktisch toepassen in je creatieve werk.
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online courses – 01 mrt. 2022

Online lessenserie: LAND

Een gratis lessenserie over de relatie tussen eigendom van land en klimaatafbraak

Deze online cursus LAND gaat over de relatie tussen eigendom van land en klimaatafbraak. Volg hem op je eigen moment en in je eigen tempo. Met filmpjes, teksten, theoretische en praktische opdrachten.

Essays, blogs en interviews

ArtEZ Studium Generale and Mister Motley jointly published stories and essays written by artists, writers and artistic researchers. This series is in Dutch. We also organised an online interview, the video recording you can watch below.
ArtEZ Studium Generale en Mister Motley publiceerden samen verhalen en essays geschreven door kunstenaars, schrijvers en artistiek onderzoekers. Ook organiseerden we een online interview waarvan je hieronder de registratievideo kunt bekijken.
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video – 11 jan. 2021

Videoregistratie online lunch event met Fiep van Bodegom, Lietje Bauwens, Jasper Griepink en Chihiro Geuzebroek

ArtEZ studium generale x Mister Motley

Op 16 december 2020 bracht Lieneke Hulshof, hoofdredacteur van online kunsttijdschrift Mister Motley, de vier auteurs Fiep van Bodegom, Lietje Bauwens, Jasper Griepink en Chihiro Geuzebroek samen in een online lunch event om de inzichten uit hun essays met elkaar in verband te brengen.

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essay Fiep van Bodegom – 16 sep. 2020

Onpeilbaar

Over natuur, land en eigendom

Dit essay van Fiep van Bodegom is het openingsessay. Het essay behandelt het begrip eigenaarschap in relatie tot land.

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podcast – 16 sep. 2020

Onpeilbaar: over natuur, land en eigendom

Dennis Gaens in gesprek met Fiep van Bodegom

In deze aflevering van Radio ArtEZ gaat Dennis Gaens in gesprek met Fiep van Bodegom over het essay Onpeilbaar.

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interview Lieneke Hulshof – 09 dec. 2020

Wanneer taal poëzie wordt, komen we dichter bij de werkelijkheid

in gesprek met Jasper Griepink

Jasper Griepink is een kunstenaar die al meer dan tien jaar bezig is met de relatie tussen natuur, spiritualisme en eigendom. Griepink heeft een diepe interesse in indigenous knowledge, maar hoe gaat hen met die kennis om als witte, westerse kunstenaar?

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essay Lietje Bauwens – 08 okt. 2020

Er woont iemand in het moeras

Lietje Bauwens schrijft in haar essay over het moeras. Het moeras wordt vaak geromantiseerd als uitgestorven natuurfenomeen. In het licht van historische droogleggingpraktijken in Amerika, plaatst Lietje Bauwens hier kritische vraagtekens bij.

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interview – 20 apr. 2020

‘Wanneer land de basis vormt van betekenis, is groei een gekke obsessie’

In gesprek met Chihiro Geuzebroek

Mister Motley gaat in gesprek met Chihiro Geuzebroek over de kracht van de protestsong en waarom muziek zo’n belangrijk medium is volgens Geuzebroek.

essay Barbara Collé – 07 dec. 2020

Rood zijn

Over de verbindingsdraad tussen natuur en kleur

In deze bijdrage licht Barbara Collé het visuele onderwerp kleur uit en verbeeldt daarmee de mogelijkheid van een andere relatie met onze omgeving. Het belicht traditionele kennis, de westerse scheiding tussen subject en object en de rol van ervaring in onze relatie met de aarde.

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blog Wouter Engelbart – 07 jun. 2021

water + bodem + wier ≈ een verstrengeld scenario

Wouter Engelbart (platform DIS) vertelt over het onderzoeksproject

Zeewieren kunnen ons helpen met een steviger positief ecologisch perspectief op de toekomst. Waarom? Dat lees je in dit blog waarin Wouter Engelbart ons meeneemt in het onderzoek.

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essay Judith van der Elst – 14 dec. 2020

POLAR-IZATION

Judith van der Elst is an archaeologist and creative entrepreneur currently residing on the EU continent. She studied and worked in New Mexico from 1999-2012. Her studies in New Mexico included collected earth sensory data at Native American sites of survival and struggle millennia ago where cultural materials and traditions were initiated through land based knowledge systems.Can we balance opposing forces, our quest for innovation and exploration and our desire to live sustainably on our home planet?

interview Lieneke Hulshof – 22 feb. 2021

Art Outside the Fossil Fuel Fence – An Interview with Monique Peperkamp

Monique Peperkamp looks at art about the relationship between nature and culture in the light of ecological catastrophe. Lieneke Hulshof asks her which abilities she ascribes to art when it comes to environmental degradation, and how she, with a background in art, relates to philosophy.

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interview Lieneke Hulshof – 07 jun. 2021

‘Kunstenaars zouden wel eens mogen loslaten dat ze alleen maar werk maken voor mensen.'

In gesprek met Stefan Cools en Sandra van den Beuken

Stefan Cools is een kunstenaar die woont en werkt in Bunde, Zuid-Limburg. Samen met landschapsontwerper Sandra van den Beuken hebben ze een praktijk ontwikkeld die zo veelzijdig is, dat ze ons totaal anders laten nadenken over wat een kunstenaar anno 2021 is of kan zijn. Want kan het maken van autonome kunst samengaan met het behalen van ecologische winst? Kan een kunstpubliek bestaan uit planten?

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blog Irene Edzes – 07 jun. 2021

Is de openbare ruimte wel van ons allemaal?

“Voor wie is de stad?” en “Van wie is de stad” zijn vragen die nauw met elkaar samenhangen. De antwoorden op deze vragen bepalen de sfeer en het karakter van een stad. Met de inrichting van straten en pleinen wordt de toon gezet, maar net zo bepalend is hoe we ons tot dit openbare domein verhouden.

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essay Georgia Kareola – 05 jul. 2022

To live and die with soil

An essay by Georgia Kareola

This essay unpacks the exhibition’s prompt “Sensing Sacred Soils” in light of the current soil crisis, and works with critical theory on soil ecologies and new materialist thought to further our understanding of sensing as a way of relating, and soil as a complex living, multi-species assemblage with both earthly and transcendental qualities.

Video interviews with artists, thinkers and makers

In this series of film interviews, as part of the LAND project, guest-curator Irene Constandse talks for us with various artists, thinkers and makers.
In deze serie filminterviews, als onderdeel van het LAND project, gaat gastcurator Irene Constandse voor ons in gesprek met verschillende kunstenaars, denkers en makers.
video – 19 apr. 2021

Our house is on fire

Choreographer Nicole Beutler talks about her triology ‘Rituals of transformation (towards a new humanity)’.

Nicole Beutler looks with astonishment and powerlessness at the enormous mess in which man has maneuvered himself when it comes to the climate. We feel the threat, but we don't seem to be able to really get a grip on it yet.

video – 20 jan. 2021

'Land is a narrative that can talk about all kind of things.'

Head of BEAR at ArtEZ Edward Clydesdale Thomson talks about his project about the Swedish forests.

Edward Clydesdale Thomson is a Scottish/Danish artist based in Rotterdam. Together with Priscila Fernandes he is head of BEAR at ArtEZ. Land is a topic that keeps returning in his work.

video – 11 jan. 2021

Hydrofeminism

Artist Lucy Cordes Engelman talks about her project ‘Nehalennia’.

Lucy Cordes Engelman is an artist, filmmaker and writer. She deepens and expands her ongoing artistic practice concerning film as enchantment, via hydrofeminist ethics. Hydrofeminism, refers to the ongoing linkages of water and the aims of feminism; especially referencing the work of Astrida Neimanis.

video – 05 jul. 2021

A fair ecological future

Sociologist and activist Darko Lagunas talks about his research and the project ‘The future of the delta’ at ‘The Embassy of the North Sea’.

The Dutch-Chilean Darko Lagunas (1987) has an urban sociology background (University of Amsterdam) and focuses on connecting ecological and social issues.

Podcast series Sounding Places / Listening Places

If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth. In the Radio ArtEZ podcast series Sounding Places / Listening Places writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, writer and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help us to do so.
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podcast – 12 mei 2021

#0 Sounding Places / Listening Places

trailer #0

If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth. In the Radio ArtEZ podcast series Sounding Places / Listening Places writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, writer and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help us to do so.

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podcast – 12 mei 2021

#1a The Natural Soundscape: Listening to Bernie Krause, Evelien van den Broek and Barry Truax

Sounding Places / Listening Places #1a

In this first episode we focus on the natural soundscape with musician and soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause, composer Evelien van den Broek and soundscape composer and Acoustic Communication Researcher Barry Truax.

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podcast – 14 mei 2021

#1b Deep Listening®: Pauline Oliveros and the Sonosphere

Sounding Places / Listening Places #1b

In the first mini-episode Sharon Stewart offers facets of her connection to Deep Listening® along with some of the history of the practice, as related to the sonic environment – or the sonosphere – with pertinent excerpts from Oliveros’ text scores. Together with Sharon Stewart you can perform a seminal Sonic Meditation, number VIII: Environmental Dialogue.

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podcast – 17 mei 2021

#2a Urban and Domestic Listenings: Peter Cusack and Elise ‘t Hart

Sounding Places / Listening Places #2a

In this second episode we focus on urban and domestic sounds with field recordist, musician and researcher Peter Cusack and sound artist Elise ‘t Hart.

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podcast – 19 mei 2021

#2b Deep Listening® and Reciprocal Listening with Tina Pearson

Sounding Places / Listening Places #2b

In the second mini-episode Sharon Stewart draws upon her own scores and the work of Canadian composer, multimedia artist and Deep Listener Tina Pearson, inviting you to contemplate some ways we can involve ourselves in a respectful, listening and playful dialogue with our sonic environment.

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podcast – 24 mei 2021

#3a Land, Listening, and Leaving: Talking to Ame Kanngieser and Lisa E. Harris

Sounding Places / Listening Places #3a

In this third episode, Sharon Stewart converses with geographer and sound artist Ame Kanngieser, Melbourne, Australia, and vocalist, writer, composer and interdisciplinary artist, Lisa E. Harris from Houston, Texas about themes of land, ownership and sound. Do we have an intrinsic right to record our immediate soundscape? Who owns sound?

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podcast – 26 mei 2021

#3b Deep Listening® performance scores with Lisa E. Harris

Sounding Places / Listening Places #3b

In the third and final mini-episode Sharon Stewart asks Deep Listening® practitioner, interdisciplinary artist, creative soprano, and composer Lisa E. Harris from Houston Texas to tell us about her connection to Deep Listening® and share with us some scores she has written. For those of you who love participatory vocalising, this one is for you!

Work by ArtEZ alumni, students and staff

Ook vroegen we verschillende studenten, alumni en medewerkers van ArtEZ om een bijdrage te leveren aan het thema LAND. Vind hier het mooie werk met o.a. InstaPoetry, een indringend web-essay, een verslag van een workshop en podcast.
We also asked various ArtEZ students, alumni and staff to make a contribution on the theme of LAND. The contributions were exciting, including InstaPoetry, an incisive artistic, workshop and podcast about and an essay.
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blog Willemijn Kranendonk – 18 mei 2022

Tranen van de dageraad

Gedicht Willemijn Kranendonk (ArtEZ Alumna Creative Writing)

Willemijn Kranendonk maakt deel uit van de klimaatdichters, een beweging van tientallen Nederlandstalige schrijvende woordkunstenaars die zoeken naar woorden om de ongekende klimaatcrisis beter te begrijpen.

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blog Kseniia Anokhina – 16 jun. 2021

Lacing Lands: moving in relation

website by Kseniia Anokhina

ArtEZ Studium Generale presents this awe-inspiring and incisive artistic project, written, narrated, illustrated and coded by Studium Generale intern Kseniia Anokhina.

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podcast – 12 apr. 2021

How to Be With Plants?

With Lobke Meekes and Irene Urrutia

How does a plant live and feel? What can we learn from plants? And how can experience, conversations, and art help us explore new ways of understanding and living in connection? In this podcast visual artist and master’s student Education in Arts Lobke Meekes and Mexican/Canadian researcher and curator Irene Urrutia will explore our relationship to plants.

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video – 05 jul. 2021

Hello Plant! A Terrestrial Workshop: The DIY Version

Lobke Meekes, master's student Education in Art at ArtEZ, and Irene Urrutia, curator and researcher, developed the workshop Hello Plant! This blog post presents the results, including a Do It Yourself version of the workshop. Every day can be Earth Day!

essay Minke Schönthaler – 13 jun. 2022

Een onmenselijke aarde

Minke Schönthaler, student aan de docentenopleiding beeldende kunst en vormgeving van ArtEZ, schreef een essay over hoe beeldende kunst kan bijdragen aan een ander ecologisch mens- en wereldbeeld.

Videoregistratie online event

During this lunchevent, moderated by Chihiro Geuzebroek, we discussed this with lecturer Suzanne Dhaliwal from the master Ecology Futures (St Joost) and artist collective De Onkruidenier.
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video – 07 jun. 2021

How to bring eco-criticism into the art academy

A discussion with artists and teachers from various academies

Based on the assumption that contemporary art education educates critical and committed makers, we investigate what is needed to fruitfully discuss themes such as climate breakdown and eco-criticism with students. The question How important is it that the art academy itself is also sustainably organized? must be adressed in this discussion.

agenda

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Kunstenaarsgesprek met Marianne Nicolson, Chihiro Geuzebroek en Ama van Dantzig

Over de rol van Indigenous communities voor natuurbehoud en biodiversiteit en de rol van kunst daarin

08 sep. 2022
Museum Arnhem 19.30 - 21.00
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Terugkomdag LAND

met filosoof en ArtEZ docent DBKV Anouk Mulders

23 mei 2022
Auditorium, Oude Kraan 26 (OK26) Arnhem en online via Zoom 18.00- 20.00 uur
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online event

Sounding Places / Listening Places

Online lunch event with Joep Christenhusz, Sharon Stewart, Elise ‘t Hart and Lisa E. Harris

26 mei 2021
12.00 - 13.00 hrs.
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online event

How to bring eco-criticism into the art academy?

A discussion with artists and teachers from various academies

12 mei 2021
https://zoom.us/j/99463927186 12.00 - 13.00 hrs.

YouTube premiere and Q&A: Interview Edward Clydesdale Thomson

Scottish/Danish artist and, together with Priscila Fernandes, head of BEAR at ArtEZ

22 jan. 2021
https://youtu.be/iFhTu62kuWc 15.30 hrs.
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online event

Online lunch event met Fiep van Bodegom, Lietje Bauwens, Jasper Griepink en Chihiro Geuzebroek

ArtEZ studium generale x Mister Motley

16 dec. 2020
Dit event is via Zoom te volgen: https://zoom.us/j/99944623899 12.00 - 13.00 uur
online event

Online conversation with Kevin Headley, Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan

about the film Dee Sitonu a Weti / Stones Have Laws

07 okt. 2020
https://zoom.us/j/98649388896 12.00 - 13.00 hrs.
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film screening

Online film viewing: Dee Sitonu a Weti / Stones Have Laws

About a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony Suriname

03 okt. 2020 → 07 okt. 2020
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subtopic

Living with Land Otherwise Series

In the Topic LAND, we also made this specific series about Living with Land Otherwise. This starts with the story of a Maroon community living in and with the rainforests in the former Dutch colony of Suriname. Decedents of Africa who were enslaved by the Dutch for labouring on plantations in Suriname, their story is told in the captivating film Stones Have Laws (Dee Sitonu A Weti) made by filmmakers Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan and Tolin Erwin Alexander.