07/09 INTRODUCTION AT THE DEPARTMENT FROM 11AM UNTIL 13PM
FORMER STUDENT - GEORGE BAKKER - WINNER OF WESTERPARK COMPETITION
14/01 HET DUVELTJE IN HET DOOSJE
Het duveltje en het doosje,
donderdag 14 december om 20.30 uur
Presentatie van filmmaker Ruud Bakker, 90 minuten
Ruud Bakker zoekt zijn onderwerpen in zijn eigen stad Utrecht. Daarbij komt hij vaak uit op het individu versus collectief, overheid versus eigenheid. Rond dit thema presenteert hij o.a. een documentaire over vrije kavelbewoners in Utrecht, korte stadsimpressies en archiefmateriaal over stadsvernieuwing in de jaren zeventig.
Toegang: 5 euro. Kaartverkoop aan de zaal vanaf 15 minuten voor aanvang. Voorstelling start om 20:30 uur. Theater Vrijburcht, Jan Olphert Vaillantlaan 143, 1086 XZ Amsterdam
11/01 Cooperation ArchitecturalDesign and MSc2 RMIT TU Delft on Rietveld@Rietveld
Project: Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, research and intervention (foto at the NAI in Rotterdam)
In this design course you learn to do research and recognise the architectural and cultural values of the existing buildings in the urban context. A design for redevelopment of a building complex needs preconditions from an architectural historical point of view to respond to certain demands of aesthetics, building technology and function.
The institution for fine arts and design located in Amsterdam is founded in 1924 after a fusion of three older art academies. In the 1960s Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld designed a new, more functional building for the institute. Gerrit Rietveld died quite some years before the realisation of the building and to honour its architect, the academy was renamed in 1968 to Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
At this present moment the academy needs more functional space. The intention to move to a bigger building, like the former GAK-building, wasn’t continued last year. The academy stays at her current location, but needs an extension. The theme of this extension will be ‘connecting and meeting’. The monumentality of the building, the technological problems of the building climate, the artist Gerrit Rietveld, the former intervention of Benthem Crouwel, densification and the urban context are aspects of study. We have a combination of studios of Architectural Design of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam and MSc2 RMIT TU Delft. The kick off of this combined studio will be in the afternoon of Monday 11 January at the NAi, Rotterdam and will continue in February.
01/03 BRAINSTORM ABOUT NEW INTERIOR OF THE DEPARTMENT
On Monday the 1st of March there will be an open brainstorm session about the new interior of the Architectural design department. Come with plan’s, drawings, propositions, idea’s, comments, open mind and a bag to collect your old works.
01/03-07/03 HAVE A LOOK AT PETER STUYVESANT COLLECTION BY SOTHEBYS
Exhibition:
Monday, 1 Mar 10, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Tuesday, 2 Mar 10, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Wednesday, 3 Mar 10, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Thursday, 4 Mar 10, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Friday, 5 Mar 10, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 6 Mar 10, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday, 7 Mar 10, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Adress: De Boelelaan 30, 1083 HJ Amsterdam
‘STICHTING NUTTELOOS’ WITH JULIA FISCHER AND OTHERS
Project proposal ‘The Never Used Church ’
Nutteloos is an artist collective focused on finding un-used spaces and transforming them into spaces for site-specific art installations. These spaces become an entrance in which to connect to the history of the site and to the community around.
This project we want to realize in a church in the village Chateaugay in France. The reason we chose this specific church is because of its unique history. It was built in secret in the back yard of two sisters as a gift for the village, but because of the circumstances the authorities of the village never acknowledged the church building, and it was not officially consecrated. The few church activities that took place in the church had to be performed in secret. The church remains a sensitive subject in the village still after 200 years.
This led us to a discourse on when is a church a church and how does a space relate to its use.
We want to make an exhibition about ‘Traces’ in the church.
As a group we would like to take the chance of getting inspired on the location to realize an authentic site-specific project. The investigation on the spot is the central aspect in our working method.
For us it is very interesting that the church never had an official religious purpose but that the community has found so many alternatives uses for the building.
Two-hundred years of existence must have left physical evidence of activity in the church. We are eager to investigate the traces that are left behind.
We will begin with documenting traces that catch our interest. We are planning to use the traces to create stories or emphasize certain qualities and characteristics.
We are not only aiming to find out more about the church’s history. We are also interested in exploring what the traces tell us and what happens if we try to form our own story from those traces.
As a result we see a collective installation using the full potential of the unique space including different media such as sculpture, video, installations, drawing, interventions, and sound.
The mayor of the village has agreed on letting us use the location in the period of 26th of July to the 15th of August. The participants of the project are nine students from different departments of the Rietveld Academie.
The method of the Rietveld is to teach its students to work independently and to become autonomous artists. This is an initiative brought together by this spirit and as such it should be encouraged. It is an important step to take the initiative to form a collective in which we can work together towards future projects that could not be realized by anyone of us on our own. We are a group of very motivated and hardworking students and learning to realize a project of this size would be a very important step in our developments as artists.
For the project we need financial support to cover the costs of material and publishing. See attached budget.
Vincent Knopper (BK), Maria Gondek (VAV), Emilia Bergmark (VAV), Julia Fischer (Architecture), Tim Mathijsen (BK), Anne van Duren (BK), Rosa Sijben (BK), Sandra Christiensen (BK), Linn Hallstrom (VAV), Nadja Voorham (VAV), Ada Kruszynsky (BK)
Stichting Nutteloos.
