CULTURAL DIVERSITY
NEW EARTH
POWERPLAY
COLLECTIVE/ASSEMBLY
Focuses on understanding the norms that govern institutions, human behavior, and representations of power, searching for ways to subvert dominant (visual) narratives. DECOLONIAL LISTENING, NON-VIOLENT DOCUMENTATION, SENSORIAL ETHNOGRAPHY. SHIFTING THE GAZE. MAKING PUBLIC.
Explores notions of identity and how it can be embodied, influenced, sedimented, or experienced across cultural, economic, political, and social lines. POST/DE-COLONIAL THEORY. EMBODIMENT. INTIMATE COLLECTIVITY. CARE. MENDING. QUEERING SOCIALITY. ARCHIVAL BODIES. MAKING PUBLIC.
Questions sustainability paradigms like the circular economy and researches equitable design and art practices in the wake of climate change. REFRAMING. CIRCULAR ECONOMY. RESOURCE NETWORKS. POST-HUMANISM. POST-ANTHROPOCENE. SYSTEMS THINKING. MAKING PUBLIC.
Experiments with un/learning how to work, study, make, circulate, in solidarity/collective. And nourishes forms of physical/digital assembly that destabilize hierarchy. Slash, and, et cetera. DEEP LISTENING. (UNDER)COMMONING. CIRCULAR LABOR. ADJACENCY AS METHOD. NON-TOXIC SELF-ORGANIZATION. FERMENTATION. FOOD AS CRITICAL MATTER. URGENT PUBLISHING. ARCHIVING AS YOU GO. MAKING PUBLIC.
THIS COURSE IS CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT!!!
It was formerly known as PERFORMATIVE ACTION
YOU CAN CHECK OUR DEV WORK HERE:
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/CollectiveAssemblySANDBOX
WdKA SOCIAL PRACTICES SEES CULTURAL PRODUCTION AS A
POLITICAL ACT THAT CAN RESHAPE DISPOSITIONS OF POWER.
IT EXPLORES FORMS OF AGENT ASSEMBLY, BUILT ON A DEEP ATTITUDE OF CARE FOR THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL LANDSCAPES WE INHABIT. The department considers the act of making public—publishing in its most expanded form—as inherent to socially engaged cultural practice. It is committed to building bodies of knowledge in common.
BEGINS IN APRIL
RECORDING VIOLENCE
DECOLONIAL LISTENING
BEGINS IN APRIL
QUEERING SPACE(S)
EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE(S)
BEGINS IN APRIL
BEGINS IN APRIL
CHANGEMAKERS MAP
UNINHABITABLE EARTH
STUDY KITCHEN (Working Title)
FORMS OF WE (Working Title)
PP Practice 2.3
PP Practice 3.1
PP Minor 4.1
CD Practice 2.3
CD Practice 3.1
CD Minor 4.1
NE Practice 2.3
NE Practice 3.1
NE Minor 4.1
PENSION ALMONDE
CLASS ARCHIVES 2019-2020
EXTRACURRICULAR THEORY PROGRAM THAT ASKS GUESTS SPEAKERS TO PRESENT THEIR PRACTICE IN LIGHT OF A TEXT THEY HAVE READ OR WRITTEN THAT HAS LANDMARKED THEIR WORK. Guests are then interviewed by our research tutors to dive deeper into how theory is connected to their practice before the floor is opened up to questions from the student body.
Selected acts of making public—publishing understood in its most expanded form—carried out by faculty and students.
URGENT (HYBRID) PUBLISHING
GREY LITERATURE
MAKING PUBLIC(S)
COPYOTHER
DEMODERNISM
DIWO
ROLANDO VÁZQUEZ
ECE CANLI
FOSSIL FREE CULTURE
GRACE SAMBOH
In collaboration with Kunstinstituut Melly
RILEY HOOKER
UROK SHIRHAN
SILVIO LORUSSO
HAMJA AHSAN
Held in house at WdKA Auditorium
JEANNE VAN HEESWIJK
MIKO REVEREZA
HOUSE OF SEASONAL NEIGHBORS
SEAN YENDRYS
KATAYOUN ARIAN
NICK AXEL
In collaboration with WORM
SITUATIONER
VULNERABLE PUBLISHING
WGBS ARCHIPELAGIC RADIO
COVID TEACHING RESOURCES
PRINT KIOSK 2.0/3.0 --->>> E . L . A . I . N . E .
PRINT KIOSK 1 . 0 --->>>
A DEPARTMENT OF THE
WILLEM DE KOONING ACADEMY
STICHTING SARMAD
TENDER CENTER
I'M SURE THERE WILL BE LUNCH
QUEERING NOT JUST THE BODIES BUT THE GAME ITSELF
ELECTRONIC LIBRARIAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORKED ENTITY
WdKA MAKES A DIFFERENCE READER
COLLECTIVE CLAY MANOUVRE
A collaboration with Reinaart Vanhoe, Varia, and Etniko Bandido Infoshop
Co-published with Publication Studio
Co-authored by many
A collaboration with Tender Center, Multiform, and Z Blace
Exhibited at the 2019 New York Art Book Fair @ MoMA PS1
Because wikis are sometimes painful
Published by WdKA Research Station
In collaboration with WdKA SPIN, Maria Thereza Alves, and Kunstinstituut Melly
TO LEND A HAND
Performative Action 2019 Class Publication
CA Practice 2.3
CA Practice 3.1
CA Practice 4.1
OUR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH EXTENDS OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL'S WALLS. We try to use the CLASSROOM AS A
LABORATORY for our own practices, and see the FIELD OUTSIDE OF THE DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL AS A NECESSARY FLUID TO LEAK INTO
OUR CURRICULUM. Here is a small collection of PROJECTS THAT HAVE ARISEN FROM OUR HABIT OF TRANSDISCIPLINARY
TEAM WORK and our sincere enthusiasm for being in each other's company. WELCOME TO OUR TINY UNDERCOMMONS.
FICTIONING COMFORT
Exhibition at Showroom MAMA Gallery
ROTTERDAM 2020
CURATORS
Worknot
(((( Arvand Pourabbasi AUTONOMOUS PRACTICES ))))
(((( Golnar Abbasi POWERPLAY ))))
ARTISTS
(((( Clara Balaguer COLLECTIVE/ASSEMBLY ))))
(((( Cristina Cochior AUTONOMOUS PRACTICES ))))
(((( Tomi Hilsee COLLECTIVE/ASSEMBLY ))))
Sarmad Magazine
and MANY MORE
QFPCSSBBXOXO
Queer and Feminist
Physical and Critical
Self-Defense and Support
Bloc of Bodies XOXO
Workshop at Basis voor Aktuele Kunst (BAK)
Commissioned by Jeanne van Heeswijk
Trainings for the Not-Yet
UTRECHT, 2019
(((( Clara Balaguer COLLECTIVE/ASSEMBLY ))))
(((( Gabriel Fontana CULTURAL DIVERSITY ))))
(((( Sarafina Paulina Bonita ALUMNX CULTURAL DIVERSITY ))))
RADIO SLUMBER
Residency and Radio Show
Commissioned by Motel Spatie
ARNHEM and ELSEWHERE, 2020–2021
ARTISTS
(((( Amy Suo Wu CULTURAL DIVERSITY ))))
Elaine W. Ho
CONTRIBUTORS
(((( Angeliki Diakrousi BEYOND SOCIAL ))))
(((( Clara Balaguer COLLECTIVE/ASSEMBLY ))))
(((( Seecum Cheung POWERPLAY ))))
(((( Teana Boston-Mammah CULTURAL DIVERSITY ))))
(((( Zoénie Liwen-Deng CULTURAL DIVERSITY ))))
and MANY MORE
UNFAITHFUL TRANSCRIPTS
Performance
Commissioned by Page Not Found
DEN HAAG, 2020
ARTISTS
(((( Amy Suo Wu CULTURAL DIVERSITY ))))
(((( Clara Balaguer COLLECTIVE/ASSEMBLY ))))
CONTRIBUTORS
(((( Florian Cramer AUTONOMOUS PRACTICES ))))
(((( Reinaart Vanhoe AUTONOMOUS PRACTICES ))))
Ming Lin
(((( Sami Hammana HONOURS PROGRAMME ))))
(((( Simon Kentgens AUTONOMOUS PRACTICES ))))
GUILTY PLEASURES MEMETIC
THINK TANK 4.0
Workshop on Memetic Strategies
For Sandberg Institute, Dirty Art Department
AMSTERDAM, 2020
FACILITATORS
(((( Clara Balaguer COLLECTIVE/ASSEMBLY ))))
(((( Gabriel Fontana CULTURAL DIVERSITY ))))
Jonas Staal
(((( Florian Cramer AUTONOMOUS PRACTICES ))))
HOW DO WE ORGANIZE AND
NOT JUST SIMPLY WHY
Workshop on Collectivization
For Sandberg Institute, Dirty Art Department
AMSTERDAM, 2021
FACILITATORS
(((( Catherine Somzé AUTONOMOUS PRACTICES ))))
(((( Clara Balaguer COLLECTIVE/ASSEMBLY ))))
(((( Gabriel Fontana CULTURAL DIVERSITY ))))
Kate Rich
Tom Kemp
Varia
Formerly Known As: PERFORMATIVE ACTION
