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 ‘Rise Again’ at International Film Festival Rotterdam
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Our Alumna Katarina Zdjelar will show her film ‘Rise Again‘ at the International Film Festival [...]
 ‘Sobota’ at International Film Festival Rotterdam
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 PIET ZWART INSTITUTE RECOMMENDS: Edmund’s Bedroom
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The Piet Zwart Institute organises an ongoing public event series based on issues related to the curriculum, but reaching beyond the framework of the study programme. The public events are an important resource for students, tutors and guests, serving as bridge to the city and building a community around broad areas of interest. In this section you will find information about past public lecture series, exhibitions, workshops and events from 2004 – today. 
Wednesday January 18 2012, 19:00 hrs Location: Piet Zwart Institute ‘Cause I Only Have Eyes For You A solo show by Kirsty Buchanan, curated by Deniz Unal Seeing and drawing and touching and feeling. Seeing and feeling and touching and drawing. Feeling and touching and drawing and seeing over and over again. Kirsty Buchanan’s first solo show comprises of an installation of drawings made whilst blindfolded; she choses to close her vision to allow the imagined out more forcefully. Through this action every drawing is a surprise, a moment of discovery yet each drawing has its own repetitive language encoded within it. As if the walls of her imagination want her to know the same thing over and over again. Here desire, fantasy, imagination ask no questions-they want just to see the depictions of abstract, naughty, awkward pleasures and the hands mercifully deliver. Click to view the ‘Cause I only Have Eyes For You Playlist 
Wednesday January 18 2012, 20.00 hrs Location: Salon Populaire Anthem for the People’s Tomorrow A Living Room Suite Presentation with the Master of Fine Arts graduates of the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, 2011, and Bernd Krauß Please join us for a variety of table top presentations with the Piet Zwart graduates, spread through the etablissement of Salon Populaire – the place where they went through the intense conception of our collaborative book project Anthem for the People’s Tomorrow. Guided through the evening by the terrific Timmy van Zoelen and Lee Welch in snakeskin-leather jackets, the audience will experience a headphone performance, a script of an imaginary film, tin foil faces occupied chairs, fortune telling at the bar, one Non-native German, and DJ Uncle Very Thin. With: Giles Bailey, Martijn in’t Veld, Rachel Koolen, Serena Lee, Arvo Leo, Anna Okrasko, Susana Pedrosa, Linda Quinlan, Lee Welch, Camilla Wills, Timmy van Zoelen. NOW AVAILABLE: Anthem for the People’s Tomorrow 
On Saturday January 21, the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University will organise an Open Day. During this time staff members and students of the Piet Zwart Institute will be present. Visitors have the chance to see our workshops, facilities, talk to our students, and ask the staff members questions about the master courses we offer. While this is a smaller Open Day, the Piet Zwart Institute will have its larger annual Open House on March 24 2012. Please keep an eye on our website for more information. Open Day Willem de Kooning Academy For more information, please contact coordinator Vanessa Tuitel at pzwart-info@hr.nl
Thursday December 15 2011, 19:30 hrs Location: Piet Zwart Institute The Academy and The Corporate Public A public lecture by Stephan Dillemuth Stephan Dillemuth examines the possibilities of artistic research in regard to the current shift in the concept of the public. He believes that this shift – particularly due to the impact of a totalitarian global economy – brings with it a different function of art, a different role of the artist and, something very important, a different quality of education and research. What role do artists, students, teachers, and researchers play in these developments? Is contemporary art production passively at the mercy of the present changes or does it instead grasp itself as a kind of epistemological tool? Keywords: academy and the corporate public, research, problem, bologna, bertelsmann, creditpoints, ects, hochschulrat, unirat, studiengebühren, student fees, tuition, akademie, universität, university, history, institutional research, pubescent research, bohemian research, sponsorship, branding, corporate social responsibility (csr), LLL, life long learning,WTO, GATT, GATS, privatisation, knowledge, knowledge society, knowledge capitalism, public access, copyleft, communisation, fight. 
December 7 2011, 19:30 hrs WONDERLAB // 2 A project by Piet Langeveld and Cathy Haan at Telephone Booth ‘ This lab, research method, or archive is a format in flux in which we try to offer a space or a tool or a ‘…’ Piet Langeveld and Cathy de Haan set up this project in 2010 as part fo their graduation thesis. Being very excited about the possibility to create a second version of their ‘wonderlab ‘at Telephone Booth at the Piet Zwart Institute, they would like to invite its residents to join them finding its next form. Introducing: December 7 2011, 19.30 hrs Piet Langeveld likes to explore that what ‘we don’t know’, and the way we give it shape and meaning. Trough improvisation in various media, with a focus on intuition and play, she conducts an ongoing research on the glittering universe. Piet received her BFA in 2011, after studying at the Utrecht School of Arts and the Academy of the Arts in Iceland. Recently Piet was a resident at the Banff Centre in Canada. The works of Cathy de Haan are made from a process-oriented view with the need to emphasize the potential notion of an idea. Supplying the need to preserve its current momentum the temporary aspect is arranged into a fundamental self activating system moulding into different directions. After obtaining her BFA in Utrecht her practice and future project agency are based in Amsterdam.
November 28 2011, 19:30 hrs Location: Piet Zwart Institute A Life, and Time (Three Times) A public lecture by Ian White He uncapped a black marker and, rings clacking made a quick sketch on a pad in front of him… Lagerfeld ripped the drawing from the pad, crushed it in his hands, and tossed it into a large wicker hamper… ‘I throw everything away!’ he declared. ‘…I keep no archives of my own, no sketches, no photos, no clothes – nothing! I am supposed to do, I’m not supposed to remember!’ John Colapinto, ‘You’ll Think I’m a Madman’, The Observer Magazine, 27 May 2007. We are in an auditorium. Here time passes, a particular kind of nothing to keep. Who are we? It is a room divided, and this division is connected to only an idea of the live. The lights are on or the lights are off. It is where cinema and theatre take place. A Life, and Time (Three Times) is a lecture in three parts that explores the relationship between cinema, theatre and the idea of the live.
Ian White is a curator, writer and artist. As an artist his practice is predominantly in event-orientated and performance work, often in collaboration. 
November 26 until December 15 2011 Location: Artblog Cologne c/o Kolnischer Kunstverein NOCATION – Hello To the People A project by Anna Okrasko, Anouchka Oler, Catarina de Oliveira, Deniz Unal, Edward Clive, Edmund Cook, Jane Fawcett, Kirsty Roberts, Lars Brekke and Toon Fibbe. In collaboration with Atelier Artblog Cologne. This summer just past, a group of students from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam stayed for a few weeks at Kunsthuis SYB in the peaceful Dutch village of Beesterzwaag, Friesland. Their goal was to question what sort of production could be achieved in this suspended state outside the strictures of art education; whether unforced conversation, group cooking, karaoke and piggy back races were as important as making anything at all. They now arrive in the urbane metropolis of Cologne for an extremely abbreviated visit to re-present their various projects, finding themselves as increasingly desperate and disorientated tourists trying to fashion attachments in their itinerant condition. They hope to translate this peculiar dynamic into an efforted but hospitable “HELLO”, furthermore to give an address “TO THE PEOPLE” from this awkward, acculturated non-place, whoever that might be. 
November 2 and November 10 2011, 20:30 hrs Location: WORM Self Made – Gillian Wearing [UK 2010. 84 min, HD) A screening presented in collaboration with WORM and the project, Believable Fictions and the Politics of Intensity. Please note the entry fee for this screening at WORM is 5 Euro. Piet Zwart Institute is very pleased to announce in collaboration with WORM and the project, Believable Fictions and the Politics of Intensity, the screening of SELF MADE by GILLIAN WEARING This intriguing documentary from the Turner Prize winning artist, Gillian Wearing, begins with the newspaper ad, ‘Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character’ before throwing its recruits headlong into a morass of method acting experiments. Asking questions about who we are – and who do we think we are – it’s an intense film, revealing Wearing’s harrowing quest for authenticity in the dramatic moment, just as fully as it dramatizes its actors’ cathartic search for their alter egos. Se
On Saturday November 12, the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University will organise an Open Day. During this time staff members and students of the Piet Zwart Institute will be present. Visitors have the chance to see our workshops, facilities, talk to our students, and ask the staff members questions about the master courses we offer. While this is a smaller Open Day, the Piet Zwart Institute will have its larger annual Open House on April 14 2012. Please keep an eye on our website for more information. Open Day Willem de Kooning Academy |
