VOICE ~ CREATURE OF TRANSITION

Episode 8: March 12, VOICES ~ INSIDE / VOICES ~ OUTSIDE

"What does it matter who is speaking," someone said, "what does it matter who is speaking"

Gabriëlle Schleijpen, curator in chief of the Studium Generale program will introduce the 4 invited curators and connect the lectures and the performances they will be presenting during 4 succeeding days at theatre de Brakke Grond
Look Inside, Nils Bech delivers the final conclusion to the 8 VOICE ~ CREATURE OF TRANSITION sessions
The Clash between Body and Artwork, Ricardo Basbaum opens the session with a reflection on text, voice and collective speech

Episode 7: March 5, Siren Songs

The voice returned was not his own voice, although it merely sent his own words back to him.It was his voice turned into the other, and he would rather die than abandon himself to the other.

Chiara Fumai reads Valerie Solanas (2013), an interview between Chiara Fumai and Arnisa Zeqo
The echo of the voice is speaking to us… is speaking to me, a listening session contributed by noalanguageschool with excerpts from works by Meredith Monk, Joan La Barbara, Diamanda Galàs, Cathy Berberian and others

Episode 6: February 19, THE LIVING VOICE: POWER & PLEASURE

All knowledge is accessible to everyone in the textbook, but the school as institution functions only by the voice.

Lacan Parle (1972), screening of an excerpt from a documentary film by Francoise Wolff
Future Vocabularies, Maria Hlavajova, artistic director of BAK, in conversation with Gabriëlle Schleijpen, head of Studium Generale Rietveld Academie
Live performance-lecture by Otobong Nkanga

Episode 5: February 12, VOICE AS A PERFORMATIVE EVENT – SILENCE AS A PERFORMATIVE EVENT

…and one would say anything that happens to come into one's mind to interrupt the silence, to silence this voice, to silence the silence…

Ekphrastic Objects, performance by Jeff Guess and Q & A with Alena Alexandrova
Silence as a Performative Event, Samuel Vriezen gives an overview from Allais till Wandelweiser

Episode 4: February 5, Computer Voice: The Ghost in the Machine

You cannot believe, my dear friend, how we were all seized by a magic feeling when we first heard the human voice and human speech which apparently didn't come from a human mouth. We looked at each other in silence and consternation and we all had goose-flesh produced by horror in the first moments.

The Acousmatic Voice, presentation by philosopher and writer Aaron Schuster on the phenomenon of the acousmatic voice
Computer Voice; the Ghost in the Machine, collaborative presentation by Martine Neddam, Arthur Dirksen and Andre Castro in three parts

Episode 3: January 22

The object "voice" started its career in psychoanalysis on the stage and in the limelight with the work of Lacan.

An interview about the role of the voice in the work of Ansuya Blom, conversation between curator Laurie Cluijtmans and artist Ansuya Blom
An introduction to Jacques Lacan, Keynote lecture by philosopher Dominiek Hoens
Sequenza III (for female voice) by Luciano Berio, 1966, a performance by mezzo-soprano Antje Lohse

Episode 2: January 15

The voice is elusive, always changing, becoming, elapsing, with unclear contours.

I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head, screening of the registration of a performance by Valie Export
Learning to Play the Instrument of Loss, a lecture performance by Marianna Maruyama
The Naked Voice, a performance by Jaap Blonk

Opening: January 8

The first obvious quality of the voice is that it fade away the moment it is produced.

In 2014 Studium Generale Rietveld Academie and Rietveld Uncut are teaming up for a new, exhaustive artistic research project: VOICE ~ CREATURE OF TRANSITION

Studium Generale Rietveld Academie 2014:

VOICE ~ CREATURE OF TRANSITION
An exhaustive artistic research project.

An exhaustive artistic research project.

Preliminary Program