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

When:

- January 7 — Basicyear Workshop with Taka Taka

- Wednesday afternoons: 14, 21, 28 January, 4, 11, 18 February, 4 and 11 March 

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