on 16.02.2021
Crushing Boundaries, Embracing Queerness
with Storm Vogel
Time: 17:00 to 19:00 (ONLINE)
Email unsettling@rietveldacademie.nl for more information and to join!
In this workshop, we will start at the beginning of how people have come to see sex and gender in Europe. To understand what queer actually means, we will start with a brief outline on the situated histories of queerness in Europe and how categories like heterosexual and transgender were created? We will look at how the gender binary came to be seen as the epitome of civilization that only rich, mentally sane white people could achieve; learning that to understand what queer means, one also needs to understand intersectionality as a framework to looking at the world.
We will then move into looking at what does having this knowledge mean for daily practice. How does the gender binary create language and the other way around? How can an institution and the people in it become more inclusive towards gender non- conforming and trans/ non- binary individuals? Since modern times, art has always been a place where a certain experimentation with gender and sex was possible- think Prince for instance- so what does that mean for an art school? We will discuss how deconstructing these ideas is an important part of creating boundary crushing art.
Storm Vogel (they/them) worked as a theatre director, teacher, cleaner, writer, performer, as team member of the political party BIJ1, as illustrator and as operator of a giant swing in the shape of a ship. During and after their studies at the theatre academy ArtEZ, they worked mainly as a maker of performances with children between the ages of 10 and 15. Their bachelor thesis explored the history of the term 'queer' and what it has come to mean over time, and analyses the position that queerness holds in art institutions today, looking specifically at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Recently Storm is exploring writing and filmmaking. They wrote short stories for 'Queering the City of Literature' in Utrecht and a science fiction story for the 'Other Futures Festival'. They love - and have always been fascinated by - science fiction's power to imagine and create different worlds and ways of being together. At the moment Storm is working on a video performance about the binary gaze that creates their body, as part of 'CINECLUB: Queer Diasporas', in Haarlem.
We will then move into looking at what does having this knowledge mean for daily practice. How does the gender binary create language and the other way around? How can an institution and the people in it become more inclusive towards gender non- conforming and trans/ non- binary individuals? Since modern times, art has always been a place where a certain experimentation with gender and sex was possible- think Prince for instance- so what does that mean for an art school? We will discuss how deconstructing these ideas is an important part of creating boundary crushing art.
Storm Vogel (they/them) worked as a theatre director, teacher, cleaner, writer, performer, as team member of the political party BIJ1, as illustrator and as operator of a giant swing in the shape of a ship. During and after their studies at the theatre academy ArtEZ, they worked mainly as a maker of performances with children between the ages of 10 and 15. Their bachelor thesis explored the history of the term 'queer' and what it has come to mean over time, and analyses the position that queerness holds in art institutions today, looking specifically at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Recently Storm is exploring writing and filmmaking. They wrote short stories for 'Queering the City of Literature' in Utrecht and a science fiction story for the 'Other Futures Festival'. They love - and have always been fascinated by - science fiction's power to imagine and create different worlds and ways of being together. At the moment Storm is working on a video performance about the binary gaze that creates their body, as part of 'CINECLUB: Queer Diasporas', in Haarlem.
unsettling Consultant
Judith Leysner
unsettling Coordinators
Nagaré Willemsen
Emirhan Akın
Judith Leysner
unsettling Coordinators
Nagaré Willemsen
Emirhan Akın
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On Thursdays from 10.00AM to 17.00PM at the unsettlingbar.
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☎. + 31 20 588 2406
w. www.rietveldacademie.nl
w. www.sandberg.nl
unsettling visiting address:
Fred. Roeskestraat 96
NL – 1076 ED Amsterdam