loVe making ᥫ᭡ love as a creative act and site of resistance

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.” — bell hooks

What if love is the wild glitch in the system — a creative act of care, queer becoming, and embodied refusal? Love is in the air, in the making, in the kernel of being alive — yet it leaks through every attempt to contain it.

The way we live shapes how we think about love. It’s not just a feeling — it’s something culture teaches us, something shaped by apps and social rules, something that keeps our economic system running. But at the same time, love can break those patterns. It can be a force for care, for connection, for pushing back against what controls us.

loVe making speculates on love as unruly practice: tender and fierce, collective and embodied — an invitation to love against power, to make and remake worlds otherwise.

How can we love-make-mobilise-repair-disrupt together?

With love,

Studium Generale

 

Programme Overview

Performance, healing yoga, talk, film screening, love-disco, workshop, dance, reading group & multi-day festival + Rietveld Uncut.

 

Preliminary Programme

Dates:

- 14 January: When the body says Yes | melanie bonajo

- 21 January: Cinema Circle | Derica Shields

- 28 January: Loving every-body as an act of resistance | Menko Dijksterhuis

- 4 February: Heart Brake | Giulia Damiani 

- 11 February: Give Piss a Chance. A Willing Suspension of Consequences | Simon(e) van Saarloos

- 18 February: Fatal Pleasure: The Sound of HIV/AIDS and Other Ghost Stories from the 1980s | Lynnée Denise, Unsettling Rietveld Sandberg

- 4 March: Lovesong Revolution | Urok Shirhan & Arcane mechanics of erotic image-making | Elio J Carranza

- 11 March: Mangrove Intelligence - Ecologies of Attachment | Huniti Goldox

Time:

14:00: Talks/performances

16:00: Cinema Circle

17:00: Reading Group, workshops, and seminars

Where:

Gym, Theory Stairs & Library

What:

- Performance, talk & more 

- Cinema Circle, curated by Derica Shields 

- Workshops, lead by Mira Thompson & Staci Bu Shea 

- Reading Group, moderated by Jay Tan 

- Critical Studies seminars, with Macarena Magaña Villar & Paul Schmidt, gervaise alexis savvias & Emma Ajdari, António Manso Preto & Mehmet Süzgün

 

Conference Festival & Rietveld Uncut

When: 18 - 22 March 

Where: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

 

Supporting publications:

Lexicon

Website & Eeeh-reader

 

Campaign & website design by Graphic Design students Nim Smit, Leonie Rolser and Oliver Matzner