So exited to move into a new studio in broedplaats ACTA. Great things are happening!

Honoured to have been able to curate and contribute to this publication on behalf of the Gerrit Rieveld Academie about their ‘Research Fellowship project’. 

I was asked to produce this book to present the projects of the artists that participated in Research Fellowship project. In this first pilot project alumni, staff and third parties are able to apply for a ‘fellowship’ in order to develop their projects specifically as artistic research. It came out in March 2020 and will be presented during the presentation/exhibition of the current fellows, on October 9th 2020 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

Design: Ronja Andersen & Marius Schwartz

A nice image of the exchange we had during our performance at Avans.

February 5th, Rosanne will present her artistic practice to the Artistic Research Research Group! Read more: The Artistic Research Research Group focuses on Artistic Research as a new approach to tackling research questions and it aims at promoting the exchange of ideas between artists and scholars from a wide range of fields and disciplines. A series of five seminars will be organized between October 2018 and June 2019 to promote the exchange of ideas and experiences among artistic researchers and others interested in the field, and during which members of the group will present their research and receive feedback from their peers.

During this third seminar Rosanne Jonkhout and Clare Butcher will both give a presentation on their research and practice.

| Rosanne Jonkhout graduated studying Fine Art at ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem in 2016 and finished the research master Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam last summer. Besides publishing texts and exhibiting work as part of her own practice and a collective, she currently works for the research department at Rietveld Academie and as artist assistant. Together with Nagaré Willemsen, Rosanne founded the collective ‘Rosanne & Nagaré’. This collective employs diverse media, ranging from performances to workshops, that centre vulnerability. In these installations, they create new realities that reconsider our daily life and hereby approach the conversation about decoloniality in a different way.

Performance & workshop by the artist collective ‘Rosanne & Nagaré’ at AVANS Hogeschool Breda, Februari 1st! The duo is ready to tackle contemporary politics and discrimination in a world full of hybrids and cyborgs: Western culture asks us to live in tight neo-liberalist frameworks that dominate our thinking and form our identity. One of these frameworks is that order and structure are given more value than, for example, noise and creativity. Change and progress often arise from the friction between order and disorder. Reality is that we live in a world that is chaotic.

Within and Against the Academy: Study, Rehearsal and Improvisation

On November 9, 16 and 23, Studium Generale Rietveld presents a series of events on expanded notions of ‘study’, ‘rehearsal’ and ‘improvisation’ in relation to the art academy, art making and social life. From the making and the thinking, study is being regarded as 'unrestricted sociality', escaping fixed structures, policies and identities.

You are cordially invited to join us November 9, 2 - 4 pm Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Auditorium FedLev building), Amsterdam

Singing the Blues and Coming up for Air: Not Just Overcoming but Embracing the Odds

The Act of Listening Performance by Nagaré Willemsen and Rosanne Jonkhout

Keynote talk by Aminata Cairo Followed by a conversation hosted by Unsetting Rietveld Sandberg

Drinks and blues music!

Programme

- Singing the Blues and Coming up for Air: Not Just Overcoming but Embracing the Odds

Diversity and inclusion, you hear nothing but these days. In the world of the arts this should not be an issue. After all the arts unite and reflect everybody, are not limited by culture, are about expanding vision and perception, and go beyond the world of division, or do they? Using the metaphor of the blues we will look at opportunities and challenges of diversity and inclusion and what that might mean for us as artists.

Aminata Cairo was born and raised in the Netherlands but pursued her entire academic career in the United States. She obtained bachelor’s degrees in physical education and psychology, a master’s degree in clinical psychology, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in medical anthropology. She has dedicated her academic work to community engagement and giving voice to overlooked, silenced, or otherwise marginalized populations, while including students in that process. She worked as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Upon return to the Netherlands she has worked in diversity and inclusion policy at Leiden University.

- The Act of Listening

A performance that allows the audience to question their position in the uncomfortable conversation about racial inequality.

By combining design and applied art, Nagaré Willemsen (1992, Democratic Republic Congo) creates new realities in installations that reconsider our daily life. Using performance, installations and drawings, Willemsen’s work revolves around postcolonial discourse, identity, family, symbolism and human behaviour. Rosanne Jonkhout (1991, Netherlands) is an artist whose work focuses on confronting the viewer with their fragility.

- Unsetting Rietveld Sandberg

A conversation with Aminata, Nagaré, Rosanne and members of the audience around their experiences of the talk and performance, focusing on how their unsettling questions could operate within the context of the Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut.

Unsettling Rietveld Sandberg is an intra-curricular initiative working actively between and beyond the structures and discourses of the academy to unsettle the Rietveld and Sandberg from the roots up. Together with the dynamic input of students, staff, external advisors and management, Unsettling Rietveld/Sandberg aims to not only shift the ways we work together but also ask the question: who is the “we” in the first place? The unsettling consultant is Judith Leysner and unsettling coordinator is Clare Butcher. For more information see here.

Immensely honored to be asked to partake in the exhibition ‘Best of Graduates’ Opening 5th of August, at 17:00 @ Konijnenstraat 16A, Amsterdam!

Here until August 27! Come take a look!

It’s finally here; graduation! Everyone worked so hard to put this together, all we need now is some funding.

30 students will show artworks varying from sculptures, to performance art, to video-installations. We want to create a dynamic spot where people come together and where there’s always something happening. Not just a place where you can hang out and meet people, read, drink, play; there will be fun activities, lectures, performances, special tours and much more! 

This thursday is ‘family heritage’-theme at Generale Oost in Arnhem’s city centre. During this weeks ‘Uurtje Oost’, Rosanne Jonkhout will be presenting the newest version of the film; Mies (1891 - 1984).