Read back : experience as infinite differences

In October 2006 the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam started an experimental honours program. A group of students from both educational institutions worked together on a number of projects for the duration of one year. The show at Ellen de Bruijne Projects is but a disquieting tease of their ‘results’. It is an attempt to challenge the very confines of pre-conceived experience, as well as preconfigured regimes of (aesthetic) response to politically correct vocabularies of expression.
For the students, the project (Honoursprogram) became a challenge to fight against the idea that has branded ‘experience’ as ‘suspicious’ by the dominant voices within their multidisciplinary domains (academic as well as artistic).
It is a challenge to correct the image of suspicion that has been eternally glued to the idea of change and emancipation. It plays with the suffocating concept of the ‘eternal yardstick’, that rules over every possible domain, the exhibition tries to recruit the infinite differences to shape and inform the learning eye to overcome the poverty of experience.