Self-Governing the Art Academie: a case study on the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut

Naira is driven by the question: How well are members of institutions represented in the present conditions of access to informal, cultural lineage? How are the changing (political) narratives within and beyond them relayed to the present and future and how does it affect our artistic development as a whole? If you don’t want to engage in politics, that’s your choice (we’re lucky enough in the western world that we have that option) but you must recognise that political engagement rests as a privilege. It means you have the choice to deny access to information, to a certain education. In the project ‘to self-govern the art academy’ Naira questions how well the students are represented, if their initiatives are not properly archived; as a consequence, how is this affecting art education? This is not an artwork but a case-study that proposes a practice of 'commoning'.