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SUMMER SCHOOL IN CURATORIAL STUDIES

AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

VENICE OPEN CALL

3rd June – 1st September 2020

The School for Curatorial Studies is an ambitious and challenging project promoted since 2004 and conceived as a school committed to experimentation and interdisciplinary thinking. The main goals are to spread the knowledge in the field of visual arts and to introduce the students to the professions related to the art world, focusing on contemporary curatorial theory and practice and contemporary museology. The School’s activities are meant for all those interested and passionate in art, graduated students or professionals who want to deepen their knowledge and improve their practical skills. The School’s teaching staff is formed by Italian and international professionals, scholars, historians and art critics of recognized experience. Among them: Matt Williams (curator), Filippo Lotti (Sotheby’s), Chiara Barbieri (Peggy Guggenheim Collection), Francesca Colasante (Pinault Collection), Andrea Goffo (Found. Prada), Nicola Lees (Serpentine London).

The program:

The Summer School in Curatorial Practice will take place during the International Biennale Venice. With an interdisciplinary approach, the course provides practical training and experience within museums and exhibition settings. Its international faculty includes curators and museum professionals, artists and critics. The course is designed to increase students understanding of the intellectual and technical tasks of the curator figure. English-taught lectures cover both theoretical and practical topics that go from the history of contemporary visual arts and practices of exhibition-making, to Exhibition Management. The students will participate in weekly activities, such as artist studio visits, tours of exhibition spaces, networking events and workshops. The program culminates with the set up of the exhibition.

The Summer School includes visits of specific art venues all over the city of Venice during the International Venice Biennale. A series of selected case studies will offer the students an opportunity to observe the development of contemporary art. The School’s goal is to align these specific theoretical lectures with a practical approach. Besides the theoretical lectures, a series of laboratories and workshops aims to introduce the students to the work of critical text writing, press releases and to structure all the different aspects of publishing. The students will be offered the possibility of a gallery training and of setting up together - with one of our tutors, their exhibition in Venice, as a final project of the course.

The first module:

June 3rd – August 5th, 2020

The first module involves 350 contact hours:

1. History of Curatorial Practices
2. Exhibition Design
3. Aesthetics and Cultural Theory
4. Contemporary Art History
5. Cultural Events Management and Organization
6. Curating Exhibitions
7. Fine Arts Management.
8. Fundraising and Marketing / Workshop
9. Communication Strategies and Artistic Events Promotion / Workshop
10. Workshop on Critical Writing
11. Artist Studio Visits and Visits of the International Biennale

Optional: Trip to a European Art center.

Meeting artists, curators, institution directors, art collectors.

August 7th –12th, 2020

We warmly recommend to take part.
The program is very intensive:

Bruxelles is an art city and is offering many opportunities: private galleries, collections. We will visit artist studios and public galleries and Museums of contemporary art.

The second module:

August 17th – 21th, 2020

The second module is dedicated to individual researching and finalizing the exhibition project. During this period of time the students will have to face practical duties, such as coordinating the artists, managing transportation and insurance policies, promoting and curating the promotional material.

The third module:

August 24th - September 1st, 2020

The last part of the course lies in the production of the event. During this period of time all the work concerning the final event will take place. The students will coordinate the arrival and the display of the works of art and supervise all the different aspects related to the event, such as promotion, organization, last details about the publication, opening. After the presentation to the public, the student will be given the tools to professionally document the event.

Duration and structure

The course has a duration of 420 hours. The participants will develop themes as well as concepts, organization, acquisition, communication and the concrete implementation of their skills together with the course director and international guests (artists, curators, architects, critics, fine arts scientists and publishers of art journals).

Application deadline: March,1st 2020.

The application form must be sent by e-mail before the deadline (March 1st 2020) of the Curatorial Program to:

Xac – School for Curatorial Studies
San Marco, 3073, 30124 Venice
Email: curatorialschool@gmail.com
Tel: +39 0412770466

The application form can be downloaded at www.corsocuratori.com, where you can find more information about our curatorial program and your stay in Venice.

The Summer school has a limited number of places available.

Information:
info@corsocuratori.com

An intensive program on the history of contemporary visual arts and practices of exhibition-making, taking place during the Venice Biennale. Through interdisciplinary lectures, the course provides practical training and experience within museums and exhibition settings. Its international faculty includes curators and museum professionals, artists and critics.

FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY Educational Residency

OPEN CALL FOR FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY Educational Residency
near BERLIN, GERMANY
16 August - 11 September 2019
APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR SCHOLARSHIP & PARTICIPATION: 23 June 2019

Robert Lippok/ Raster @ nGbk Berlin (CTM 2019). Photo by: Udo Siegfried

Open call for an educational residency with:
JULIANA HODKINSON (composer and musician)
EMMA HOWES (contemporary dancer)
ROBERT LIPPOK (composer and visual artist) & ALI M. DEMIREL (visual artist)
HANS PETER KUHN (sound and visual artist)
JI WOO & SUN WOO (Zen masters)
JUHANI PALLASMAA (architect)

Chef in Residence: BETÜL İNSEL KARAHAN

Selection committee: Ursula Block, Cevdet Erek, Brandon Labelle, Mario Asef and Ece Pazarbaşı


The FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY is an interdisciplinary educational residency programme that gathers artists/ creative minds, a resident chef and prominent experts from different fields together around a kitchen table through mind-opening acts and actions.

A total of 10 interdisciplinary residents will be selected to join the upcoming FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY in its two modules. Curated by Ece Pazarbaşı, this year, under the title of SILENCE WITH THE CONSENT OF SOUND, we will use the notion of silence in sound as a gateway to opening various sensory experiences. We will experiment towards transgressing the well-accustomed idea that silence as used as a “sound” component in sound art and music, which creates an aspect of empowering the work itself by making it stronger. Use of silence can accentuate the other frequencies, and at the same time sound might accentuate the silence further. Yet, silence in sound also creates a passage to other senses of the body. With silence, the journey with sound enables quick shifts and glitches from auditory senses to the enhanced senses of sight, touch, smell, and taste.

Composed of two intertwined modules, the program is open to application from all disciplines and all walks of life. The selected residents will have the opportunity of pursuing processes of experimentation, discussion, trial and error, the progression of knowledge, and know-how in working sessions during the first 3 weeks. The last half week will be the ‘simmering,’ listening, reflection period where the residents are expected to do NOTHING.

The Field Kitchen Academy offers 1(one) SCHOLARSHIP to a successful applicant to cover the entire residency fee for Module #1 (between 16 August-11 September) together with accommodation and meals.

Location: GUTSHAUS WÜSTEN-BUCHHOLZ, Perleberg, (Brandenburg) Germany /
App. 1 hr. away from Berlin. Selected participants and the scholarship holder will be announced by 8 July 2019.


FOR MORE INFO on content, location, fees & registration:
www.fieldkitchen-academy.org
www.facebook.com/fieldkitchenacademy
www.facebook.com/events/276595266565873/

Our mailing address is:
fieldkitchenacademy @ gmail.com

 

UNIDEE - University of Ideas

UNIDEE welcomes your application to participate in one or more of its modules for the 2019 Spring and Summer Terms.
Application deadline: 29 April, 2019

Chto Delat, Still from video film 'The Excluded At the moment of danger', 2014

Initiated by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto in 1999, UNIDEE – University of Ideas is the higher educational programme for art and social change of Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy). Based on interdisciplinary research, knowledge sharing and field activities, the programme fosters processes of cross-pollination to investigate the relationship between art and public sphere. Organized around intensive modules, the programme is open to artists and other practitioners from all over the world to develop formal, theoretical and critical skills and provides enrolled fellows with feedback and resources to facilitate and support their practices. Each module is moderated by a visiting mentor and is specifically designed to train "artivators”, people who intend to use art as a methodology, practice and language advancing the notion of art as a public sphere and political action.

2019 marks the 20th anniversary of UNIDEE and to celebrate the beginning of its third decade, Cittadellarte has organized a dedicated programme with new activities and special themes. Curated by visiting curator Valerio Del Baglivo, the modules programme is organized around three key concepts that exemplify the mission and history of Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto:

COLLECTIVE AGENCY – a series of modules exploring the potential of collective action and its political implications: artists Chto Delat and Adelita Husni Bey will introduce participants to pedagogic embodiment, anti-authoritarianism togetherness and perfomativity;

CLIMATE ACTION – a summer camp to rediscuss the human impact on our planet and imagine a postpetrol society: artists Brett Bloom, Luigi Coppola and Fernando Garcia Dory will discuss how to engage in long-term art projects considering agroecology, microorganisms as social systems and forms of de-industrialization of the self in times of climate breakdown.

MODES OF INSTITUTING – a series of meetings rethinking how we can establish ethical principles to build our institutions not only as centres of power, hierarchy, control and discipline (names to be announced in May).

Furthermore, new exciting features have been added to the 2019 UNIDEE programme: underlying its interdisciplinary nature, each of the key concepts is introduced by a public talk of an expert from another discipline (venues and names to be announced soon); reinforcing UNIDEE publishing activity, a CALL FOR PAPERS is launched offering artists and theoreticians to respond the 2019 key concepts; and finally a new rich package of fee reductions and fee waiver is available - including free spots for artist-mothers, reductions for newly arts graduates, a seven days free module supported by Zegna, and much more.

Since 1999 the programme has registered the participation of more than 480 students from 52 different countries.
Previous mentors have been Assemble, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabi, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Viviana Checchia, Etcetera, Iliana Fokianaki, Germano Celant, Rick Lowe, Matteo Lucchetti, Viktor Misiano, Antoni Muntadas, Adrian Paci, STEALTH.unlimited, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Jason Waite among others. UNIDEE Air programme has established collaborations with organizations such as Fundación Museos de la Ciudad (Ecuador), Yarat Contemporary Art Space (Azerbaijan), Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation (India), A.M. Qattan Foundation (Palestine) and many others.

Cittadellarte
Instituted in 1998 by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto as a concrete development of his Progetto Arte Manifesto — a direct call to artists to initiate social changes in their own contexts —, Cittadellarte aims at inspiring and producing responsible changes in society through ideas and creative projects. Pistoletto has translated the Foundation’s mission into the symbol of the Third Paradise: in his words “a reconfiguration of the mathematical infinity sign, made of three consecutive circles. The two external circles represent all the diversities and antinomies, among which nature and artifice. The central one is given by the compenetration of the opposite circles and represents the generative womb of a new humanity”. Since then, Cittadellarte has built a network of autonomous and connected "ambassadors of the Third Paradise," a group of agents that represent initiatives of social and political transformation worldwide. These ambassadors follow the practices of Demopraxia, a methodology leading the whole society to participate concretely in the exercise of the government.

Application procedure
Applicants must submit their application by email to: unidee@cittadellarte.it stating “UNIDEE 2019 application (your name)” as a subject line.
Applicants must attach the following documents (up to 8 MB in total):
(1) the application form (download here)
(2) a selected portfolio (max 3 projects, one single pdf, max 6 MB)

Application deadline: Monday 29th April

Partners
UNIDEE patrons are Piedmont Region, Compagnia di San Paolo, CRT Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, Fondazione Zegna, illycaffè S.p.A.
UNIDEE AIR partners are A.M. Qattan Foundation (PS); Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation (IN); Fundación Museos de la Ciudad (EC); Yarat Contemporary Art Space (AZ).

For further informations, discount, etc please visit UNIDEE – University of Ideas website or contact: unidee@cittadellarte.it

 

OPEN CALL FOR the FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY Educational Residency at WÜSTEN BUCHHOLZ, near BERLIN, GERMANY

16 August - 11 September 2019

SILENCE WITH THE CONSENT OF SOUND
Deadline 23 June 2019, 23:59
Application fee: none

The FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY is an interdisciplinary educational residency programme that gathers artists/ creative minds, a resident chef and prominent experts from different fields together around a kitchen table through mind-opening acts and actions.

A total of ten residents will be accepted to join the upcoming FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY in its two modules. Curated by Ece Pazarbaşı, this year, under the title of SILENCE WITH THE CONSENT OF SOUND, we will use the notion of silence in sound as a gateway to opening various sensory experiences. We will experiment towards transgressing the well-accustomed idea that silence as used as a “sound” component in sound art and music, which creates an aspect of empowering the work itself by making it stronger. Use of silence can accentuate the other frequencies, and at the same time sound might accentuate the silence further. Yet, silence in sound also creates a passage to other senses of the body. With silence, the journey with sound enables quick shifts and glitches from auditory senses to the enhanced senses of sight, touch, smell, and taste.

Composed of two intertwined modules, in its first edition in 2019, the program offers 10 residents through applications from artists, chefs, and other creative minds to address these issues.

The 10 selected residents will have the opportunity of pursuing processes of experimentation, discussion, trial and error, the progression of knowledge, and know-how in working sessions during the first 3 weeks. The last half week will be the ‘simmering’ period where the residents are expected to do NOTHING.

The selection process will be pursued by a jury including Mario Asef, Ursula Block, Brandon Labelle, and Ece Pazarbaşı.

Module #1 (17 - 23 August 2019) Working Session: Nothing Breaking the Losing with JULIANA HODKINSON (composer and musician) and Performance: Choreomania by EMMA HOWES (contemporary dancer)

MODULE #2 (24 August - 11 September 2019) Working Sessions: cycle.silence.rhythm with ALI M. DEMIREL (visual artist) & ROBERT LIPPOK (musician, composer, visual artist and set designer); In the Silence with Diligence with JI WOO & SUN WOO (Zen masters); sssshhhh… with HANS PETER KUHN (sound and visual artist); The Multi-Sensory Essence of Our Existential Experience with JUHANI PALLASMAA (architect) and the simmering session.

Chef in Residence: BETÜL İNSEL KARAHAN

Tuition fee:

690 Euros - Both Module #1 and Module #2 for the entire period (16 August - 11 September 2019)
540 Euros - For Module #2 (24 August - 11 September 2019)

The participation fee covers a shared room for two people for the entire period, 3 meals (breakfast, lunch and dinners) every day cooked according to the concept of each session, and the programme fee for the entire working sessions and participation in the public programme.

Location: GUTSHAUS WÜSTEN-BUCHHOLZ, Perleberg, Germany / 50 mins away from Berlin
Selected participants will be announced by 8 July 2019.
For more information on the modules, the team, and application:

www.fieldkitchen-academy.org

fieldkitchenacademy@gmail.com

 

 

CAMP - 2019 Program

Live, work and study with Laure Prouvost, Adbusters, Bill Drummond, Laurel Halo, Center for Political Beauty & more.
Deadline: various workshop dates
Application fee: No application fee, courses cost €1299 / $1429 / £1119, grants, bursaries and discounts are available

CAMP is the first of a new breed of arts residency. We run five-day residential arts, music, writing, philosophy, environmental and arts-activist sessions. These are no ordinary courses - they are intense, artistic catalysts run by internationally acclaimed practitioners; creative flashpoints designed to change the lives of everyone involved. Our current program includes opportunities to study with Turner Prize winner Laure Prouvost, celebrated composer Gavin Bryars, Cabaret Voltaire founder and world-famous sound recordist Chris Watson, electronic producer of the moment Laurel Halo, KLF/K-Foundation co-founder Bill Drummond, NYC avant-garde composer/sound artist Eli Keszler, art-activists Adbusters, the Center for Political Beauty, and many others.

It's a place where great art is made, new movements are formed, new ideas are explored and groundbreaking people are nurtured. It's about generating revolutions, incubating creative minds and bringing the best emerging practitioners in all artistic fields to their full potential.
The focus of CAMP is to use what we have – our artistic network, our facilities, our various record labels and publishing operations, our relationships with acclaimed artists and our artist support platforms – to provide people with a catalytic, game-changing masterclass experience, in inspiring surroundings.

Local information: CAMP is located in Aulus les Bains, the last village before the France/Spain Pyrenean frontier chain. The location is spectacular - we are nestled at 750m above sea level, surrounded by snowcapped peaks over 3000m high, ancient forests and cascading waterfalls. There are eagles, lammergeiers, vultures, ibex and bears.
Walk out of the residency, and within ten minutes you are completely alone in one of the most beautiful mountain landscapes in Europe. Aulus les Bains is also a spa village - there are hot water springs, and a thermal spa in the village to take advantage of the healing and relaxing properties of the water.

CAMP provides accommodation for all participants on-site, in the form of private, peaceful rooms with mountain views. CAMP also houses advanced facilities available to all residential students - recording facilities, digital video and photography editing suites, rehearsal and performance spaces, fine art studios, a cinema, an arts library and numerous installation spaces. All food and drinks, including local specialities, wine and cheese, are included.

Artists benefit from an intense, catalytic learning experience studying their chosen discipline with one of the most celebrated artists in their field. They live, eat, study and create with their session leader(s) for a week, gaining new skills and insights, building their network, learning new techniques and approaches.

After the session, all participants benefit from our post-course support. We run an art gallery and performance venue in the UK, a publishing house, three record labels, a radio station and are part of an extensive European touring network. We provide ongoing support to all participants, offering exhibition, release, broadcast, touring and publication opportunities, as well as ongoing training and networking.
We're extremely keen that our sessions form a career-changing point in an artist's professional life.

Additionally, attendees can take part in optional activities to make the most of their stay in this incredible place - mountain expeditions, wildlife walks and visits to some of the most beautiful spots in the area.

Grants, bursaries and educational discounts are available - see campfr.com/funding for more details.

Link: https://www.campfr.com

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The Photography Master Retreat

A one-week summer workshop in the south of France
Deadline: 3 March 2019
Entry fee: none

The Photography Master Retreat is a one-of-a-kind, career-enhancing opportunity for established and emerging photographers to engage in artistic introspection and professional critique. It’s not a shooting trip but a rare chance to pause, reflect on your work, and bond with peers who are passionate about photography. It is designed for a select group of 14 artists who have to apply.

The Photography Master Retreat was founded in 2014 as an annual, one-week, immersive workshop in her family home by Martine Fougeron, herself a celebrated photographer and artist, as well as faculty at International Center of Photography, New York. She is one of the three mentors at the retreat. The other two are also renowned in the world of photography, Elisabeth Biondi, Visuals Editor, 1996-2011 at The New Yorker, also an independent curator and writer; Lyle Rexer, a critic and curator – both faculty at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

The Photography Master Retreat 2019 edition will take place July 6-13, 2019 in the South of France, right after the opening week of Les Rencontres d’Arles nearby.

Application deadline: March 3, 2019

Workshop dates: July 6-13, 2019

https://www.thephotographymasterretreat.com

 

SUMMER SCHOOL IN CURATORIAL STUDIES VENICE

AT THE 58th VENICE BIENNALE
OPEN CALL

DEAD LINE: 15th March 2019
Fee 4500,00

www.corsocuratori.com

4th June – 3rd September 2019

The School for Curatorial Studies is an ambitious and challenging project promoted since 2004 and conceived as a school committed to experimentation and interdisciplinary thinking. The main goals are to spread the knowledge in the field of visual arts and to introduce the students to the professions related to the art world, focusing on contemporary curatorial theory and practice and contemporary museology. The School’s activities are meant for all those interested and passionate in art, graduated students or professionals who want to deepen their knowledge and improve their practical skills. The School’s teaching staff is formed by Italian and international professionals, scholars, historians and art critics of recognized experience. Among them: Matt Williams (curator), Filippo Lotti (Sotheby’s), Chiara Barbieri (Peggy Guggenheim Collection), Francesca Colasante (Pinault Collection), Andrea Goffo (Found. Prada), Nicola Lees (Serpentine London).

The program:

The Summer School in Curatorial Practice will take place during the 58th International Art Biennale Venice. With an interdisciplinary approach, the course provides practical training and experience within museums and exhibition settings. Its international faculty includes curators and museum professionals, artists and critics. The course is designed to increase students understanding of the intellectual and technical tasks of the curator figure. English-taught lectures cover both theoretical and practical topics that go from the history of contemporary visual arts and practices of exhibition-making, to Exhibition Management. The students will participate in weekly activities, such as artist studio visits, tours of exhibition spaces, networking events and workshops. The program culminates with the set up of the exhibition.

The Summer School includes visits of specific art venues all over the city of Venice during the 58th International Art Venice Biennale. A series of selected case studies will offer the students an opportunity to observe the development of contemporary art. The School’s goal is to align these specific theoretical lectures with a practical approach. Besides the theoretical lectures, a series of laboratories and workshops aims to introduce the students to the work of critical text writing, press releases and to structure all the different aspects of publishing. The students will be offered the possibility of a gallery training and of setting up together - with one of our tutors, their exhibition in Venice, as a final project of the course.

The first module:

June 4th – August 2nd, 2019

The first module involves 350 contact hours:

1. History of Curatorial Practices
2. Exhibition Design
3. Aesthetics and Cultural Theory
4. Contemporary Art History
5. Cultural Events Management and Organization
6. Curating Exhibitions
7. Fine Arts Management.
8. Fundraising and Marketing / Workshop
9. Communication Strategies and Artistic Events Promotion / Workshop
10. Workshop on Critical Writing
11. Artist Studio Visits and Visits of the 58th International Art Biennale

Optional: Trip to Bruxelles.

August 5th –11th, 2019

We warmly recommend to take part.

The program is very intensive: Bruxelles is an art city and is offering many opportunities: private galleries, collections. We will visit artist studios and public galleries and Museums of contemporary art.

The second module:

August 12th – 24th, 2019

The second module is dedicated to individual researching and finalizing the exhibition project. During this period of time the students will have to face practical duties, such as coordinating the artists, managing transportation and insurance policies, promoting and curating the promotional material.

The third module:
August 27th - September 3rd, 2019

The last part of the course lies in the production of the event. During this period of time all the work concerning the final event will take place. The students will coordinate the arrival and the display of the works of art and supervise all the different aspects related to the event, such as promotion, organization, last details about the publication, opening. After the presentation to the public, the student will be given the tools to professionally document the event.

Duration and structure

The course has a duration of 450 hours. The participants will develop themes as well as concepts, organization, acquisition, communication and the concrete implementation of their skills together with the course director and international guests (artists, curators, architects, critics, fine arts scientists and publishers of art journals).

Application deadline: March,15th 2019.

The application form must be sent by e-mail before the deadline (March 15th 2019) of the Curatorial Program to:

Xac – School for Curatorial Studies
San Marco, 3073, 30124 Venice
Email: curatorialschool@gmail.com
Tel: +39 0412770466

The application form can be downloaded at www.corsocuratori.com, where you can find more information about our curatorial program and your stay in Venice.

The Summer school has a limited number of places available.

Information:

info@corsocuratori.com

School for Curatorial Studies Venice
Xac / Corso in pratiche curatoriali e arti contemporanee
San Marco 3073
Venice 30124
www.corsocuratori.com
curatorialschool@gmail.com
Tel: +393477122456

 

 

TURPS CORRESPONDENCE COURSE

Catherine Cleary		Emma Roche

TURPS CORRESPONDENCE COURSE

Applications open now for 2018/19
Deadline: 31st August 2018

Turps Correspondence Course is an innovative project giving painters a critical perspective and challenging insights into their practice, wherever they are and at any point in their career, in the form of quarterly appraisals aimed at supporting their studio development.

During the year participants will engage in a structured two way process, during which time, they will present works and, in turn, receive feedback from a dedicated mentor as well as the wider tutorial team at Turps Art School.

Applicants must have a personal email address, access to the internet and reasonable facilities to document work digitally.

Participants will be provided with a dedicated online folder at privateviews.com that will be visible to both themselves and the tutorial team. Participants will be expected to upload works, drawings, works in progress, sketchbook pages etc. during the duration of the course. It is important this is an ongoing process that best describes their output as this will allow the mentors to track developments and compile their observations at dedicated feedback points.

The application process is now open and applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis until August 31, 2018, when the process will close until next year. Applicants can expect to hear about the success of their application within four weeks of Turps receiving it.

2017/18 mentors: Marcus Harvey, Phillip Allen, Phil King, Katrina Blannin, Geraldine Swayne, Luke Dowd, Dan Coombs, Phil King, David Leeson, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Colin Smith, Sofia Silva, Neal Tait, Emma Talbot, Covadonga Valdes.

“Painting can be really isolating and the Turps Correspondence Course connects you with world class mentors who provide invaluable feedback on your work. It’s a great alternative, affordable model for education and the reviews are generous and motivating. I’m certainly making more work in my studio since I started it.”
Emma Roche

“I was apprehensive about doing a painting course based online but this is so cleverly structured that I have been able to build a really good working relationship with my mentor through the written work reviews. Some of my feedback has been like a laser cut to the heart of my practice, unearthing and addressing the things that have held it back. My mentor is very generous with his advice and very challenging – I read part of my feedback to some close painter friends and they said they wished they had been given that kind of critique and advice and they all asked if I would give them a copy”
Catherine Cleary

“The Correspondence Course gave me mentors who really focussed on my work and whose feedback helped me understand the choices I was making. I loved how the CC gave structure to my studio practice -  it encouraged me to take risks in my work, gave me deadlines to stick to and time between the reviews when I was left alone to figure out the answers to the questions raised by my mentors. The course also meant that I was writing regularly about my work for the reviews and that was so helpful in helping me understand my process and what I was trying to say. I took the course for three years and it helped me become a more eloquent, confident and better painter.”
Amanda Mears

Course fees: £1600

Programme runs September 2018 – August 2019

Applications are now open and close on 31st August 2018.

Applications should be submitted using a file transfer website, such as https://www.wetransfer.com/ or https://www.hightail.com/ to scott@turpsbanana.com

Each application must include:

• A short statement of intent. What do you expect to gain from the studio programme? What will you bring to the programme? (Max 500 words)
• A CV including all educational and professional practice related information
• Full name, DOB, and contact details (inc. address, telephone, email)
• Up to 10 images. It is desirable that at least 5 of the images relate to work made in the last two years. You may include 5 further images of sketch book or supporting images. See Image requirements at end of document.
• It is desirable, but not essential that applicants have achieved at least a BA (hons) level of education or can show an equivalent level of engagement with their practice.
• Applicants must have their own personal email address, access to the Internet and ‘reasonable’ facilities to digitally record their work.

This is not an accredited educational qualification programme but an opportunity for painters who are experienced in their practice to further their exploration of the medium – and re-energize their practice through an intense work ethic, and dedicated critical response from practicing artists.

Application fee: £35 Payable: By cheque made payable to ‘Turps Education’ and delivered to Turps Gallery, Unit 11, Taplow House, Thurlow Street, London SE17 2UQ
Or
By email payment to subscriptions@turpsbanana.com via paypal (please put ‘correspondence course application fee’ in the notes box)
Or
By Bank Transfer to Turps Education. Sort Code 309447 Ac.No. 49374268 (please reference surname)

Applications will not be considered until payment has been received.

Notes on Supplying Images: Please supply images in Digital Format Digital Images must be supplied Jpeg format and RGB mode. Each file should be between 100kb and 1MB and formatted to be viewed on a Mac. Image files must be labelled clearly and listed on an accompanying word document. This should include the title, medium, size/duration and date of each work. Applicants should ensure that the list corresponds with file names supplied.

Email enquiries to scott@turpsbanana.com

Gareth Kemp

Amanda Mears

Stevie Dix

TURPS
magazine | gallery | studio programme | correspondence course | surgery

Turps Gallery, Unit 11, Taplow House, Thurlow Street, London, SE17 2UQ

www.turpsbanana.com
www.turpsgallery.co.uk

Summer Artist Residency, Ontario, Canada

Spark Box Studio
Deadline: ongoing
Application fee: $15.00

Spark Box Studio’s Artist Residency Program provides live/work space to accommodate both emerging and professional printmakers, photographers, painters, illustrators and writers. Artists-in-residence have access to our professional studio and resources. The Residency Program affords artists the space and time to support the advancement of their careers and to strengthen their practice. Our program also offers a variety of career building opportunities for artists including our Emerging Artist Guide, opportunities for business workshops with local professionals and consultations with local artists and curators.

Artists-in-residence stay with us, Chrissy and Kyle, in a charming century home located just outside the town of Picton in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. Interested artists may apply to live and work at Spark Box for a duration of one weekend to 2 months.

Spark Box Studio can facilitate up to three residents at any one time. Residents receive a bedroom and a dedicated semi-private studio space.

At Spark Box Studio we also offer 7 awarded residency programs each year. To find out more please visit our website.

Link: http://sparkboxstudio.com/residency/application/

 

Decompression Gathering Summer Camp 2018

Practising Decompression with visiting artist Steve Lambert
Deadline 16/06/2018
Application fee 450 euro

Can the act of gathering and isolation contribute to articulating new forms of mutual learning and group working? Does experiencing communal life in isolated areas shift social relations? Can the experience of leisure and unproductive daily tasks be a generative process with critical potential? Radical Intention addresses and discusses these issues by setting up Decompression Gathering Summer Camp, a one-week residency of decompression, communal living and group work that takes place at the end of the summer, before urban life and its busyness pick up again.

Invited by Radical Intention, Visiting artist Steve Lambert will be hosting the 2018 Decompression Gathering Summer and he takes decompression seriously. The field of Artistic Activism is rife with overcommitment and hard work is undervalued. There is a high risk of bitterness and burn out, for those who don’t quit entirely. To fight this tendency, the 2018 summer camp will structure fallow time (the irony of structuring fallow time isn’t lost on us), create boundaries to free participants from a continual internet connection, and leisure, wandering, and exploration – metaphorical and otherwise. During the week the group will have the chance to discuss projects and life in a relaxed atmosphere, create new relationships that might evolve, and explore the territory of the Mugello Valley.

Participants are encouraged to gather for daily meals and will have time to share their past research. From there, they will have the opportunity to gather at their leisure, and share what they learn together at the evening meals on the days that follow. The group will investigate folk culture in the area surrounding Corniolo art platform through thematic field trips to enchanted Castles, Giotto’s residence or walking tours through the woods in search of the spring of the Arno River. These educational experiences function as a different tool, and contribute to the overall conversation around decompression while disrupting the schedule of fallow time.

Steve Lambert has worked alongside artists and activists in 15 countries on 4 continents helping them to effect power. Trained in the arts, he is known for large scale, public projects that engage new audiences on difficult topics through the social science of comedy, games, theater, and democratic participation. Lambert is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training institute to help activists be more creative and artists to be more effective. As an artist, Lambert’s work has been shown both nationally and internationally, from art galleries to protest marches to Times Square, featured in four documentary films, and over two dozen books, and collected by museums and The Library of Congress. Lambert has presented at the United Nations several times. His research is included in a United Nations report on the impact of advertising on cultural rights and the basis of a book on popular understandings of capitalism. He is Associate Professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase College.

http://www.radicalintention.org/2018/03/19/open-call-decompression-gathering-summer-camp-2018-with-steve-lambert/