Hamja will be in Amsterdam 18th March - 28th March 2023 with public events at Stedelijk & Artistic Research Studios
Hamja will be in Amsterdam 18th March - 28th March 2023 with public events at Stedelijk & Artistic Research Studios
Hamja Ahsan is an award-winning artist, writer, public speaker, curator and activist
Livestream online 19th March 1pm-5pm (CET time - check your local time zone. GMTUK time 12pm-4pm) here
Amsterdam Events - March 2025
Stedelijk X Rietveld: Studium Generale
Radical Accessibility – Crip pedagogies, Crip theory, Crip practice
Events — 19 until Mar 21, 2025
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Gerrit Rietveld Academie present Radical Accessibility: Crip Pedagogies, Crip Theory, Crip Practice, a multi-day event featuring lectures, presentations, screenings, and performances by international artists, theorists, and Rietveld students. Part of the collaboration is the conference series Studium Generale, which this year explores disability justice and the accessibility of art through a ‘Crip’ perspective. The event culminates in a festive Friday Night. Find more information on the project here.
Price
Museumticket + €3,- (per day)
Rietveld students free of charge on presentation of student card on March 19, 20 & 21.
Location
Auditorium
Time
19 until Mar 21, 1 pm until 5 pm
Main language
English
Admission
Tickets
Studium Generale 2024-25 explores the accessibility of art and cultural practices through a ‘Crip’ perspective. This approach emphasizes interdependency, mutual solidarity, and shared responsibility among our diverse bodies and minds. Once a term used negatively to describe people with disabilities, ‘Crip’ has been reclaimed by artists, activists, and scholars as a positive and empowering term, akin to ‘queer.’ It challenges harmful norms and prejudices and examines how disability intersects with gender, race, class, sexuality, and the environment, encouraging us to consider these connections on both personal and political levels.
Despite this, numerous barriers persist in our daily lives and learning environments. Many spaces remain inaccessible due to poor design and a lack of adequate accommodations and tools. Educational materials often marginalize or overlook diverse voices and bodyminds. By working with Crip artists, activists, and thinkers, we aim to reimagine the academy, our community, and our artistic practices through this Crip lens. How can we make accessibility a core aspect of our learning, thinking, and creating, rather than an afterthought or add-on?
PROGRAM
MARCH 19: The World is Our Corner: Neurodivergent Homelands and Landscapes
Guest curated by Hamja Ahsan, with Sarah Browne and Ipek Burçak
Hamja Ahsan envisions a transnational liberation movement and utopic homeland of Aspergistan—for neurodivergent, quiet people and introverts—within his book Shy Radicals: Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert. His keynote will explore the expansive practice of Shy Radicals, which extends beyond the book through film, installation, zine archives, and, more broadly, as a decentralized curatorial culture.
He invites İpek Burçak, the first artist to bring the concept of Aspergistan and its coined terms into another space through her risograph book The Autistic Turn and accompanying multidisciplinary practice in sound, publishing, film, and performance.
Joining the conversation, artist Sarah Browne will present her film project Echo Bones: A Parallel Play, which reinterprets Samuel Beckett’s fiction by working with a community of adolescents diagnosed with autistim in Ireland.
These practices speculate on a shared future within real and imagined worldscapes, beyond the pathological, medical, and correctional.
