Digging Grounds/Kaput - Honours Programme Art and Research Final Presentation
14 April – 15 April 2018

The University of Amsterdam and Gerrit Rietveld Academie offer a multidisciplinary Honours Programme: Art and Research. Seventeen outstanding students are selected from the Rietveld Academie and the UvA to spend fourteen months pursuing project-based artistic and academic research under the tutelage of distinguished lecturers and industry professionals. To conclude their programme, graduating students organise and present an exhibition, which this year is entitled Digging Grounds/Kaput. The exhibition is realised under the supervision of Anja Novak (coordinator), curator/artist Mariana Lanari, Maartje Fliervoet and Paula Albuquerque.

Digging Grounds/Kaput will be hosted by Looiersgracht 60 from April 14-15 and will be accompanied by a publication about the student’s research. Working in small interdisciplinary groups, the students explored four separate yet connected themes concerned with unearthing the hidden power structures that, unbeknownst to us, affect our daily activities. Working collaboratively allowed the students to pursue interdisciplinary research, share knowledge and exchange skills. Using visual, performative and writing experiments, the groups’ projects reflect upon in/sanity, play, (abstaining from) work and mediations of reality.

Participating students:
Abe Hendriks (Physics UvA), Alma van de Burgwal (Ceramics GRA), Andreas Noyer (Philosophy UvA), Inna van Engen (Art History UvA), Juliëtte Krol (Media and Culture UvA), Lianne Zwanenberg (English Language and Culture UvA), Marieke van der Steen (Philosophy UvA), Naomi Veenhoven (Cultural Anthropology UvA), Patricia Mascarell Llombart (Textile GRA), Pienk de Gaay Fortman (Cultural Studies UvA), Qianfu Ye (VAV-moving image GRA), Sophie Wurnig (Photography GRA), Suni Satoinong (Architectural Design GRA), Teun Grondman (Beeld en Taal GRA), Wanda-Maria Thormeyer (VAV-moving image GRA), Xinzhu Wu (VAV-moving image GRA), Yvonne ’t Hoen (Ceramics GRA).

Opening hours: 14-15 April, 12-8pm
Opening: 13 April, 5-8pm

Interested visitors are also warmly invited to attend the public programme. On Saturday April 14 there will be some student performances at 15:00. On Sunday April 15 you can attend a lecture by Christel Vesters at 13:00 or join for an exhibition tour led by Florian Göttke at 14:30.