Artist in Residence Programme
Performing Heritage
The AIR is an AHK programme that aims to explore the edges of thinking and doing within the Academy. By talking, asking, imagining and simply being, outside the curriculum, space is created for something else.
This Artist in Residence (AIR) focuses on Performing Heritage. In the spring of 2025, we will explore artistic practices that work with archives, heritage or rituals in a different way than people in the heritage field are used to. Residents from contemporary and classical music, theatre makers and visual artists will investigate heritage in practice together with the students and staff of the Reinwardt Academy.
Programme
Each AIR consists of two parts: the performance and the deepening. These sometimes take place on the same day and otherwise in the same week. We share the programme here and on our social media, you can also see here whether it is necessary to make a reservation.
The line-up
Madeline Supatra, Apollon Kalamenios & Elizabeth Goh
Wednesday 2 April, 13:00-13:45 | Reinwardt Academy
Conservatorium van Amsterdam students Apollon, Elizabeth and Madeline aim to promote informal dicussions on topics such as cultural appropriation, orientalism, and outdated views in opera. Madeline Supatra is a soprano from Indonesia. Apollon Kalamenios is a Cypriot pianist, violinist, and composer. Elizabeth Goh is a Singapore-born classical pianist. Together with the master students of the Reinwardt Academy they look into the following question: How can we embrace change as part of performing classical music?
You are welcome to join the performance at the Grote Lichthof at the Reinwardt Academy around 13:00. You don’t need to register.
Marjolein Knottenbelt & Annabelle Schatteman
Monday 7 April, 13:30-16:30 / Thursday 17 April, 16:15-16:35 | Reinwardt Academy
Knottenbelt & Schatteman ask questions in their work and about their work as visual artists: why do I keep all this? What is the added value of everything, every shard, explaining it to the whole? And what happens to the storage space that all this work takes up? Together with the first- and second-year students, they are realizing an installation in the Grote Lichthof at the Reinwardt Academy.
The performance part can only be attended by first- and second-year students of the Reinwardt Academy.
Everyone is welcome to attend the festive opening of the installation in the Grote Lichthof at the Reinwardt Academy at the end of the afternoon; registration is not required.
On 17 April there will be a short Q&A with Marjolein Knottenbelt as part of the closing of the Heritage Festival. You do not need to register for this.
Sara Blokland
Tuesday 15 April, 15:00-18:00 | Reinwardt Academy
Sara Blokland's current artistic PhD research project focuses on museum politics, museum archives and the physical “body” of life-size human figures. The imitation of human appearance in the form of life-size figures always reflects the cultural and political vision of its time. Sara examines these figures which for decades depicted colonial histories in Dutch museums including the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam.
Inspired by concepts such as “radical fiction” and “critical fabulation,” Blokland examines these figures from both a visual and philosophical point of view in order to expose the violent and complex colonial power relations surrounding the production and display of the figures in a contemporary context. As an artistic researcher, Blokland examines these figures as though they were alive, with their own life history from conception to production, to storage. Drawing a parallel with humans and their lives under colonial violence, both past and present, Blokland considers these figures as potential emotional and historical witnesses.
In this AIR intervention, Sara will share her current artistic research into the life-size figures collection at the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam. All are welcome and we especially invite public who may have their own experiences, stories and encounters with these figures and this collection to join the discussion. Sara's performance will be in English.
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Janne Groen
Thursday 24 April, 16:30-18:30 | Reinwardt Academy
Janne Groen (alumna Academy of Theatre and Dance) is a versatile performer who brings personal experiences and discoveries to life through dance, spoken word and music. After graduating in 2018 from the Artist Dance Urban programme and in 2022 as a Dance Teacher, she is active as a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher. She currently works for the ReDiscoverMe Foundation and the Vrolijkheid Foundation. Her first solo performance, East, West, Home Away..., was presented at the RRReuring Festival in Podium Mozaïek. This performance will also be shown at the Reinwardt Academy for this AIR. In East, West, Home Away... Janne takes you on an emotionally turbulent journey, in search of a connection with her Indonesian roots. What does it mean to be Indonesian? Janne expresses this quest in dance, spoken word and in collaboration with guitarist Seyoum Yuno and saxophonist Wytze Minne de Swart. In the discussion afterwards we will reflect on this performance and have a conversation together about how we carry on our history from our identity in what we do.
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Gouden Haas
Tuesday 29 April, 13:30-16:30 | Reinwardt Academy
Together with theatre collective Gouden Haas we mourn the loss of biodiversity at the Reinwardt Academy. Together we reflect on the loss of the gentian blue, the slender-billed curlew and other species lost forever. What does it mean that they are no longer there? We ask what mourning and rituals can mean in our dealings with the climate crisis. What is the point of ‘passing things on to the future’ if that future is so uncertain? Can rituals help us with the psychological complexity of climate change?
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Terzij de Horde
Monday 9 June, 16:00-18:00 | Q-factory
The Reinwardt Academy invites the black metal band Terzij de Horde as AIR for a unique 'performance workshop'; a participatory investigative live show about (our) emotions and the (re)valuation of mystical experiences in a restless world. During the session we combine an intense live performance with emotion networks; to give meaning to music, but also with room for the conversation about how this meaning-giving may also harm the experience.
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