"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”
Toni Cade Bambara
In September 2021, I joined the newly launched Ecologies of Transformation 2021–2023 temporary master's program at the Sandberg Institute, curated and led by Camille Barton. Over the course of two years, I will be working closely with a small group of artists to explore how art and embodied practices can act as agents of social change, within a community rooted in care and pleasure.
Together with Rietveld alumni Danielle Alhassid, Nadja Schlenker, and Irene Ha, Mayıs Rukel took part in monthly conversations with Edo Dijksterhuis over the course of six months following their graduation in August 2020. The result is an article in Het Parool, offering insight into how four newly graduated artists -each with distinct practices-navigated the specific conditions of the pandemic. The piece is accompanied by webcam portraits by Jitske Schols.
You can read the interview here.
New conversation with Nele Brökelmann for Metropolis M as part of the Diaspora Dialogen issue is now online.
"In the current issue of Metropolis M (Diaspora dialogen) Mayis Rukel is presenting an artist contibution, wrapping up the strange but intense last twelve months showing tables with Tarot cards, inspiring books, personal notes and a funding application form. Nele Brökelmann talks to the 2020 recipient of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Award for Autonomous Art about his widely praised graduation work The Pendant and his plans for the future."
You can read the full interview here.
