ACT 2 MARCH 18–22, 2015 CONFERENCE-FESTIVAL & EXHIBITON AT De Brakke Grond, Nes 45 Amsterdam

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MARCH 22 Curated and presented by Claire Bishop
With Gavin Butt, Annie Dorsen, Alexandra Pirici, Jesse Darling and student interventions activated and fueled by Mårten Spångberg during the masterclass Post Dance - Beyond The Social.

MARCH 21 Curated and presented by Joanna Warsza
Featuring Claire Bishop, Joanna Warsza, Milo Rau's Moscow Trials, Ekaterina Degot, Chto Delat's Dmitry Vilenski, a Holy Mass by Artur Zmijewski, Florian Malzacher and a curtain inspired by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Kazimir Malevich.

MARCH 20 Curated and presented by David Weber-Krebs
With contributions by Andrea Bozic, David Weber-Krebs, Andre Eiermann, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mettte Ingvartsen, André Lepecki, Maximilian Haas and Jeroen Peeters.

MARCH 19OPENING PROGRAM
Featuring Nicolina Eklund, Rana Hamadeh & Theodor Ringborg, Claire Tancons & Florian Göttke & Jack Santino, Andrea Bozic.

MARCH 18 VERNISSAGE ARE YOU ALIVE OR NOT?
Featuring costumes, props, installations, stage designs, scripts & performances. Devised by individual students and by departments.

MARCH 16 & 17 POST DANCE - BEYOND THE SOCIAL
A masterclass by choreographer Mårten Spångberg aiming to reach all the students in the 'Basisjaar'.

Framework exhibition: Rietveld Uncut ~ annual presentation revealing the process of making within the academy to the outside world. Guided by Tomas Adolfs & Tarja Szaraniec.

Framework conference-festival: Studium Generale Rietveld Academie ~ exploratory theory program aimed at all departments and open to the public. Chief curator: Gabriëlle Schleijpen.

ARE YOU ALIVE OR NOT?
Looking at ART through the lens of THEATRE

action, actor, affect, alienation, altar, arena, audience, body, dance, effect, emancipation, event, carnival, class, collaboration, collective, costume, cruelty, desire, director, gesture, happening, idea, image, intervention, magic circle, mass, masquerade, mediation, movement, moving image, mystery, participation, performance, play-ground, power, practice, presence, process, protest, puppet, re-enactment, relation, screen, situation, social, space, spectacle, spectator, stage, staging, state, subversion, temple, text, theatricality, time, voice, zombie

Through talks, readings, live performances, screenings and masterclasses, ARE YOU ALIVE OR NOT? Looking at ART through the lens of THEATRE proposes itself as a ‘modus operandi’ for generating knowledge, ideas, questions, collaborations, happenings and things. The project takes it's intial inspiration from a wish expressed in the introduction to Claire Bishop's book Artificial Hells, Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship:

"It is hoped that these chapters might give momentum to rethinking the history of twentieth-century art through the lens of theatre rather than painting or the ready-made".

ACT 1 Preliminary program at the Rietveld Academie
In January and February and the beginning of March, the visual art and design students at the Rietveld Academie were offered to familiarize themselves with Artaud, Badiou, Bakhtin, Boal, Brecht, Debord and Rancière by means of theoretical infusions and a wide variety of artistic (research) projects, including their own. 

ACT 2 Conference-festival & exhibition at De Brakke Grond
Around 35 individual and collaborative student projects will be displayed in the theatre of the Flemish Community in Amsterdam, De Brakke Grond, intersecting with a four-day symposium convened and moderated by invited curators:

Claire Bishop (art historian, writer New York),
Claire Tancons (curator, researcher, writer New Orleans),
Joanna Warsza (curator, Berlin) &
David Weber-Krebs (theatre maker Brussels).

Each day will follow it's own unique trajectory with audiovisual, participatory, performative, theatrical and theoretical contributions.