"The World is Our Corner: Neurodivergent Homelands and Landscapes", "Unsettling Access: Care, Touch and Institutional Change", "Sexy Freaks", "Queer Sports". Radical Accessibility: Crip Pedagogies, Crip Theory, Crip Practice invites you to a three day Conference-festival. Audiovisual -, participatory -, performative -, theatrical - and theoretical contributions and Rietveld Uncut at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Guest curated by Hamja Ahsan (March 19), Unsettling Rietveld Sandberg (March 20), Johanna Hedva (March 21). Friday Night with Gabriel Fontana! Conference-festival: 19, 20 & 21 March, 13:00-17:00, Friday Night, 19:30-21:00, Teijin Auditorium, Stedelijk Museum.
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March 19: "The World is Our Corner: Neurodivergent Homelands and Landscapes"
Guest curated by Hamja Ahsan
With Sarah Browne and Ipek Burçak
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Teijin Auditorium, 13:00-17:00
In his book "Shy Radicals: Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert", Hamja Ahsan envisions a transnational liberation movement and a utopian homeland—Aspergistan—for neurodivergent, quiet people and introverts. His presentation 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.
Hamja 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 its 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 autistic young people in the landscapes of Ireland.
These practices speculate on a shared future within real and imagined worldscapes, beyond the pathological, medical, and corporate frameworks.
March 20: "Unsettling Access: Care, Touch and Institutional Change"
Guest curated by Unsettling Rietveld Sandberg
With Judith Leysner, Carolina Calgaro, Romany Dear, Grace Turtle, CAConrad, Elio J. Carranza
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Teijin Auditorium, 13:00-17:00
Radical accessibility is not just about accommodating; it is about transforming. It is about rethinking how institutions function, how art is experienced, and how care can be embedded in the very fabric of our spaces and interactions. Institutions—including art spaces—have long been complicit in exclusion, separation, and harm. But what happens when we place care, embodied experience, and sensory engagement at the core of our practices?
Through readings, play, embodied experiences, and meditations, this afternoon disrupts, expands, breaks open, and reaches outward.
Guest curated by Johanna Hedva
With Tamara Antonijević, Nik Timková, and Zuzana Žabková, of the collective björnsonova.
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Teijin Auditorium, 1300-17:00
An afternoon of readings, discussion, and film screenings that languish in the themes of erotics, divinity, abjection, and monstrosity.
Starting from our writing and choreographic practices, we propose close readings of authors and artists who approach themes of embodiment and authorship as sites of loss, negativity, disjunction, and abjection. We will talk about consumption, intercourse with those beyond grave, disfiguration, and oozing glands as formulations of the problem that a body is—a site of resistance and its failures, but also where desire joyfully comes to rot. There’s a distance to one’s own experience that we’re interested in and that the authors and artists we will focus on also explore (Justine Frank, Caren Beilin, Rosalind Belben, Orion J. Facey, to mention some). To approach the themes of dysfunctional bodies and ascetic, invisible, mystical erotics, we will watch an excerpt of the vampire movie Dark Angels, zooming in on the struggles of toothless vampires and perform a score for angelic sex after Ida Cradoock’s manual. Within the discourse focused on self healing and betterment, we want to question how the ideas of the self, and our own desires of belonging, and being whole, maintain the systems that perpetuate the violence we’re claiming to be against.
Friday Night with Gabriel Fontana at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
March 21 | 19.30 - 21.00, Teijin Auditorium
What if sports weren’t about winning or losing, but about reimagining how we relate to one another? Through combining action and reflection, the presentation at Stedelijk reimagines sports as a means to foster inclusivity and challenge traditional group dynamics. By creating alternative team sports, Gabriel’s work highlights how play can encourage social empathy and solidarity. The goal of his methods is to give people a playful way of experiencing what the prevailing norms of identity, community and belonging really mean, and how we can bring about change. For this, he uses sport as the perfect metaphor, where the idea of playing ‘against each other’ is usually the norm. By subverting traditional norms and suggesting deviations, this session reinvent sports as a queer pedagogy. Come play differently. The game is ours to reinvent.