Thursday December 15 2011, 19:30 hrs

Location: Piet Zwart Institute
Address: Mauritsstraat 36, 3012 CJ Rotterdam

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

Location: Piet Zwart Institute
Address: Mauritsstraat 36, 3012 CJ Rotterdam

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 ‘…’
In here one can add, abstract and connect information or visual data.
Mapping our ever changing reality of wondering. We invite you to wonder with us’.

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
Collecting: December 7 2011 until January 9 2012
Connecting: date to be announced

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
Address: Mauritsstraat 36, Rotterdam

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.

• Part 1: Ibiza Black Flags Democracy & Hinterhof (past performances)
• Part 2: Performer, Audience, Mirror (to propose a definition of the live)
• Part 3: A Life, and Time: Alfred Leslie’s letter to Frank O’Hara + Roland Barthes on Racine (performance)

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 2 and November 10 2011, 20:30 hrs

Location: WORM
Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam

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
Date: Saturday November 12 2011
Time: 10:00 – 15:00 hrs
Location: Blaak 10 / Wijnhaven 61 Rotterdam
Classroom number: W.1.145

Date November 4 2011, 19.30 hrs

Location: WORM
Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam

BELIEVABLE FICTIONS + OVER THE BONES – Charlotte Ginsborg (UK, 2009, 30 min)

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.

Forty years after the height of structuralist filmmaking, we are witnessing a growing interest in the complex role of dramatic narrative structure in artistic production. With this in mind, and within the framework of a project devised by Derek Brunen, Piet Zwart Institute MFA students had 48-hours to script, shoot and edit their own videos.

This screening celebrates the fruits of their labour, as well as providing an opportunity to catch Over the Bones, a remarkable film where the incongruous worlds of Spektrum and Chrome Hoof singer – Lola Olafisoye, and lorry driver – KB Forbes collide, as we ourselves question whether what we’re seeing is documentary, fiction or perhaps something inbetween?

Believable Fictions and the Politics of Intensity is a thematic project, designed by Derek Brunen for the Master of Fine Art program at the Piet Zwart Institute. Over the course of the project, students examined structuralist film strategies as well as basic narrative structure, looking at a range of artists and filmmakers exploring fiction while also employing degrees of reflexivity. A week of film screenings, readings, discussions and technical workshops prepared students for an intensive, 48-hour production period, during which students worked collaboratively over these two days to script, shoot and edit their own film.

October 26 2011, 20:00 hrs

Location: Rotterdam Plaza – Piet Zwart Institute
Address: Karel Doormanhof 45, Rotterdam

Director’s Cut

Piet Zwart Institute is very pleased to inaugurate its new exhibition space Rotterdam Plaza with the exhibition Director’s Cut curated by Vanessa Ohlraun.

A director’s cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials, comic book or video games, that is supposed to represent the director’s own approved edit. ‘Cut’ explicitly refers to the process of film editing: the director’s cut is preceded by the rough editor’s cut and followed by the final cut meant for the public film release. In this exhibition, departing director honors the artistic practices of the current students of Piet Zwart Institute’s Master of Fine Art programme with her very own edit of art educational drama in various forms – the talk show, the fashion parade, the soap opera, the animal programme, the dance performance, …

With works and performances by Zayne Armstrong, Lars Brekke, Edward Clive, Edmund Cook, Olivia Dunbar, Jane Fawcett, Toon Fibbe, Kevin Gallagher, Jasper Griepink, Joakim Hällström, Jason Hansma, Fiona James, Anna Maria Luczak, Frode Markhus, Fran Meana, Anouchka Oler, Catarina de Oliveira, Kirsty Roberts, Vikram Uchida-Khanna, Deniz Unal, Kymberley Ward and James Whittingham.

On the set of „Monarchs an Men“, a film by Jan-Phillip Hammer, 2011, copyright Felix Ensslin

October 27, 2011, 19.30h

Location: Piet Zwart Institute
Mauritsstraat 36, Rotterdam

The Artist and the Psychoanalyst: Two Sides of the Same Discourse?

A public lecture by Felix Ensslin

Jacques Lacan famously created the four discourses of the master, the hysteric, the university and the analyst. Absent from this list is the artist. The talk will approach the question if in fact Lacan’s theory of art is implied in his theory of the psychoanalyst. Since the victorious days of Critical Theory it has been a commonplace that good art deals with the „non-identical“, with that which has no place in the pseudo-ontological constructions of reality of our social world or within the discourses of our contemporary lien social. Lacan offers this as a description of a discourse: it is a social bond. The social bond of psychoanalysis is a peculiar social bond, one that seems to exist only in its negation – bringing it close again to a thought of non-identity. Yet it might be possible that psychoanalysis offers us a way to bring this thought of subversion and non-identity together with a constructive side: e.g. in the making of art. If this is the case, then each making of art is equivalent with making an artist; just as each analysis in the discourse of the analyst is equivalent with making an analyst.