The City
In 2016, Studium Generale organized the one-day event U Staat Hier. This is a selection of presentations of this event by artists, scientists and technologists who were, together with students, invited to explore the city, (co)existence in the city and the role that you as an artist can play in the city. Together with other artists, scientists and technologists you will exchange ideas, identify challenges and maybe even develop strategies for the future. Where do you stand? The one-day event, U Staat Hier (You Are Here), is part of a series that ArtEZ Studium Generale programmed between 2011 and 2018.
Lecture: Chris Keulemans: The city as a podium for the artist’s imagination
Chris Keulemans (writer, journalist and lecturer) made a short tour past artists who unsettle the city with their work, opened it up, took control of it, made it human. Artists such as Benjamin Verdonck, Laser 3.14 and Nathan Coley.
Lecture: Ruben Jacobs on ‘The ‘common’ city
Lecture by sociologist and writer Ruben Jacobs.
Lecture: Jennifer Miller on 20 years Circus Amok in NYC
In this talk its founder Jennifer Miller (playwright, performer and associate professor of performance at Pratt Institute (New York) will look at the specific approaches that Circus Amok uses to create a theatrical language that speaks to wildly diverse audiences across the city. You’ll look at how they choose their theme, use of audience plants, playing with scale, publics and counter publics, negotiating the weather and notions of queering public space. The ring master is a women with the beard, the lions are training the trainer, and the acrobats are discussing police brutality.
Lecture: Anthony Heidweiller
Lecture by Anthony Heidweiller (opera maker, director AHK). In times of crisis everything becomes fluid, firmly entrenched practices start to drift and chances arise to do things differently. That kind of time has now arrived, in the world and consequently in the city as well.
Lezing: Erwin Jans – De kracht van openbaarheid
Erwin Jans (dramaturg/schrijver) houdt een pleidooi voor een nieuwe openbaarheid, voor kunstinstellingen die voor sociale en politieke ademruimte zorgen, voor nieuwe publieke sferen van convivialiteit en actieve reflectie.
Talkshow: Fedor Teunisse (Slagwerk Den Haag) en Aurelie Lierman
Interview door ArtEZ docent filosofie Patty Pontier. Fedor Teunisse (Percussionist, motivator and educator) en Aurelie Lierman (radio producer, vocalist, componist) en deelnemers vertellen over hun workshop The City as a Source of Sounds.
Performance: Circulation by Wermke/Leinkauf
Visual artist Matthias Wermke (1978) and filmmaker Mischa Leinkauf (1977) grew up in Berlin in the 1990s, when they learned to value and exploit the city’s possibilities. Doing a handstand on a church tower, driving across Berlin’s metro network in a home-made cart, climbing a skyscraper in Tokyo: the actions undertaken in their multimedia video installations are often illegal and almost invariably physically dangerous. It could be described as situationism meets Jackass. One of them performs the act, the other one records it on camera – unannounced and without spectators. They are in search of the city dweller’s possibilities for play in the overregulated city. Wermke & Leinkauf taught the workshop ‘Play Time’ at U staat hier on 10 November 2016. The workshop result is the video Circulation.
Lezing: Eric Frijters – Wat is gezonde verstedelijking?
Eric Frijters (architect/lector Future Urban Regions) gaat in op de vraag: Wat is gezonde verstedelijking? ‘Om gezonde verstedelijking te doorgronden is het essentieel om ook naar het metabolisme van de stedelijke regio’s te kijken.’
Talkshow: Lotte van den Berg over Het parlement van de dingen
Theatermaker Lotte van den Berg gaf de workshop Het parlement van de dingen. In Parlement der dingen onderzoekt Van den Berg of het mogelijk is voor mensen om namens de dieren en de dingen om ons heen te praten en beslissingen te nemen. En als dat zo is, wat betekent dat dan voor onze verhouding tot de stad? Interview door ArtEZ docent filosofie Patty Pontier.
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. In 2021 schreef architect en programmamaker Irene Edzes deze blog als onderdeel van LAND waarin we de relatie onderzochten tussen land, eigenaarschap en klimaatafbraak.
