On March 18, join us for the first afternoon of the Rietveld Academie Studium Generale  loVe making – love as a creative act and site of resistance at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam!
 
If I Can’t Dance has invited writer and curator Dani Blanga Gubbay to create a dramaturgy of moments drawn from his four-part Mousse Magazine column, Notes on Spitting, which explores the relationship between dance and choreography, and sex and pornography, merging theory and fiction within a 24-hour storyline.
 
Notes on Spitting is presented as an expanded reading in which the text is interwoven with video works by Anchan/Anna Daučíková and Christina Della Giustina, an exhibition of drawings by Alina Popa (1982–2019), a score of ghostly gestures conceived by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, and soundscapes by Krzysztof Bagiński that merge into a DJ set. The result is a constantly shifting atmosphere, exploring unproductive pleasures, sexual drives, non-phallic eroticism, and the eruptive forces of volcanoes and bodily movement.

The afternoon will be accompanied by two  drinks.
 

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Teijin Auditorium
Wednesday 18 March
13-17hr
 
Tickets via the Stedelijk Museum.

Accessibility

• The Teijin Auditorium can be reached with the elevator from the ground floor
• Seating includes chairs and pillows
• Language: English
• More extensive access info can be found on the website of the Stedelijk Museum
• The event will be live-streamed via the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie YouTube Channel

Image: Detail from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film Querelle, 1982

Image description: Flyer for Notes on Spitting. Magenta serif text appears over a dark, warm-toned photographic background. The image shows the partial profile of a human face rendered in deep amber, brown, and golden hues. Moisture and glossy highlights give the surface a wet, viscous look. The text lists Dani Blanga Gubbay with several participating artists, along with the date, time and location.
 

Daučíková and Della Giustina’s videos are in dialogue with the exhibition ‘yOu aRe VarIatioNs’, jointly organized by If I Can't Dance with Vleeshal, Middelburg, where it is still on view until March 22 2026. The exhibition is curated by Sara Giannini and Martha Jager.