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UNIDEE Residency Summer 2022

Sustaining Embedded Arts Practice
Open Call

Concluding the research arc around embedded arts practices curated by Andy Abbott¹, UNIDEE and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto are pleased to invite applications for the next UNIDEE Residency taking place June 2022 at Cittadellarte, Biella, Italy.

The residency is an opportunity to share and unpack your ongoing practice or action research with a group of peers and guest mentors including artist and co-leader of the Victoria Square Project Maria Papadimitriou (Greece), economic geographer and co-author of Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities Professor Katherine Gibson (Australia), artist, activist, and author of Art as Social Action and Dark Matter Gregory Sholette (USA), cultural producer and director of the creative regeneration practice Media and Arts Partnership (MAAP) Sue Ball (UK), and curator, writer, researcher and artistic director of the East Leeds Project Dr Kerry Harker (UK).

Over the course of two weeks two groups of up to eight residents will engage in a programme of seminars and presentations, group discussions and critiques, workshops, visits, and other responsive and informal activities through which you will gain multiple perspectives on the work you are undertaking in your locale. There will be a focus on practical methods for sustaining long-term and durational embedded arts practices.

For more context and information about the background and concept for the residency see ‘Curatorial Statement’.

HOW WILL IT WORK?

The programme will be split into two sequential week-long residencies for up to 8 residents each, with a seminar and handover session to link the two. The residency will take place at Cittadellarte Fondazione-Pistoletto using the UNIDEE Residency Program space as a shared studio for group discussions, sharing sessions and presentations, with the opportunity for exploration and engagement with the postindustrial and rural landscapes of Biella. Participants will visit the exhibitions in Cittadellarte as an entry point to its practice.

The methods we will draw upon include group critiques - at which you will be expected to give a short presentation of the practice or action research you are sharing as part of the residency - as well as group exercises, workshops and less formal activities (group meals, walks etc.). At the end of the week you will be asked to leave a trace of your experience as a basis for a handover and a ‘toolkit for embedded practice’.

Residents will stay in accommodation within Cittadellarte that includes basic cooking facilities.

PROGRAMME AND PRACTICALITIES

Participants of week one will arrive on evening of Sunday 5th June and depart Monday 13th June. Maria Papadimitriou will be the guest mentor for this week.

Participants of week two will arrive Friday 10th June and depart Saturday 18th June. Gregory Sholette, Katherine Gibson, Sue Ball and Kerry Harker will be the guest mentors for this week.

There will be a symposium and seminar on Saturday 11th June with all guest mentors and a handover session on Sunday 12th June for both groups.

There is a €280 fee to cover participation in the residency and accommodation whilst in Biella. Participants will be required to arrange and cover their own travel to/from Biella and food/living costs whilst in Cittadellarte.
A limited number of part and full bursaries (including a contribution towards travel costs) are available to those that would not otherwise be able to participate; please state in your application if you would need to be considered for these in order to take part.

WHO IS IT FOR AND WHAT IS EXPECTED OF ME?

We hope to select a cohort of 8 participants per week from an open call that will include previous UNIDEE alumni. For alumni of previous programmes the ongoing embedded practice you will share can be that which you developed during your previous UNIDEE 2020-22 residencies, an extension of this or a related project. Selection will be based upon participants’ willingness and ability to share the practice they are engaged in, and collectively reflect upon this with peers. We will aim to select cohorts with a range of practices, location/perspective and experience.

HOW DO I APPLY?

Application is by Expression of Interest by filling out the application form with the following requirement:
• Indicate the week of preference
• Up to 150 words about yourself and your practice and/or experience, and your suitability for the programme.
• Up to 200 words about the ongoing project or research that you will share as part of the residency including details about the local context (place, communities, audiences) and what long-term change you could hope to facilitate. For alumni of the previous UNIDEE embedded arts residencies the ongoing embedded practice you will share can be that which you developed during your previous residency, an extension of this, or a related project.
• Up to 150 words about how you may share this practice with others and what you hope to gain and learn from the residency.
• If you would like to apply for a bursary to go towards travel expenses and/or cover the residency fee up to 150 words explaining why you would like to be considered for a bursary and an outline of costs.
* and a CV / Portfolio in PDF format (max 8mb).

* please state in your application whether you would need to be considered for a bursary in order to participate, with a note as to why

Applicants must submit their application by email to: unidee@cittadellarte.it stating: “UNIDEE 2022 Summer Residency application (your name)” as a subject line.

Deadline for submissions is 7th April 2022 and we will let successful applicants know a decision by 15th April 2022.

Partners
UNIDEE patrons are Regione Piemonte, Compagnia di San Paolo, CRT Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, illycaffè S.p.A., Fondazione Zegna
UNIDEE AIR partner are A.M. Qattan, Institut Français Italy

 

¹ See 2020’s Embedded Arts Practice in a Postpandemic Future, 2021’s Groundwork for Embedded Arts Practice residencies and Tools and Technologies for Embedded Practice Arts Labs, and 2022’s Tools for the Commons Arts Labs.

 

 

Open Call: Summer School for Land and Environmental Art

Alps Art Academy
(Deadline) April 24, 2022
(Application fee) no application fee

Badel/Sarbach, Animal Remains, 2018.

Application deadline: April 24, 2022
Academy dates: August 25–September 3, 2022

Alps Art Academy
The fourth international Alps Art Academy will take place between August 25–September 3, 2022, in the Safiental (Grisons, Switzerland). Located in Tenna, 1650 metres above sea level, the summer school focuses on Land and Environmental Art. In a dialogue with the canonical Land Art of the 1960s–70s, the Academy focuses on contemporary approaches to Land and Environmental Art by bringing them into a relationship with the Alpine landscape. We wish to create a platform of potentialities for contemporary and future Land and Environmental Art, which integrates not only the natural landscape and the environment but also other media and the wider social and cultural context.

We encourage proposal submissions from artists working with landscape and the environment across genres and media, as well as from theoreticians, facilitators and curators engaged in research on the topic of Land and Environmental Art. We welcome applications accompanied by a concrete concept that can be realised during the period of the summer school. The concepts should reflect the 2022 Alps Art Academy theme Learning from the Earth. It is an invitation to rethink our relationship with the Earth. It is a call to action and a question about how we can artistically and scientifically create a more ecological and just future. The Academy is both a school about change and a catalyst for change.

Program
Gathering circa twenty participants over a period of ten days, the Academy offers a rich program of workshops, seminars, field trips, artist talks and presentations, as well as a thematic symposium. Participants have the opportunity to explore what it means to create in, and interact with, the Alpine landscape and apply their experience in their work. Participants work together with local and international instructors who offer practical and theoretical mentoring. The Academy is linked to the ILEA Institute for Land and Environmental Art and the outdoor biennale ART SAFIENTAL (July 2–October 23, 2022) during which the final projects of the academy will be presented.

Instructors
Main Faculty: Badel/Sarbach (CH), Laura Bodenmann (CH), Gerber/Bardill (CH), Fabian Gutscher (CH), Hanna Hölling (CH/UK), Kaspar König (CH), Sascha Skraban (CH).
Guest faculty: Othmar Arnold (CH), Mirja Busch (D), Johannes M. Hedinger (CH), Michèle Hürlimann (CH), Marcus Maeder (CH), Dharmendra Prasad (India), Shazeb Shaikh (India) amongst others.

Registration/information
The conditions of participation, application form and further information can be obtained here.

Fees
1,400 CHF, 1,450 USD, 1,350 EUR. The fee covers ten days of participation in the academy, accommodation in a single bedroom, board and excursions: Travel expenses to and from the Academy are not included and have to be borne by the participants. For participants in need of financial support there is the possibility to apply for funding.

Funding
The academy is committed to a diverse group of participants (age, gender, origin, underrepresented groups). Lower-income applicants may apply for a stipend. To qualify for funding, applicants should provide a justification letter in addition to the regular application form.

Deadline
The deadline for submissions is Sunday, April 24, 2022.

Organization
Sponsorship: Naturpark Beverin / The Municipality of Safiental;
ILEA Institute for Land and Environmental Art; Director: Johannes M. Hedinger.

Related events

Biennial Art Safiental: Learning from the earth
July 2–October 23, 2022, Safiental, Switzerland.

Artists: Lara Almarcegui, Badel/Sarbach, Ursula Biemann, Julius von Bismarck, Com&Com, Valentina Demicheli, Saskia Edens, Lithic Alliance, Marcus Maeder, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Dharmendra Prasad, Simon/Odermatt, Steiner/Lenzlinger, Ben Vautier. Curated by Johannes M. Hedinger.

Symposium ILEA Talks: Learning from the earth
August 27–August 28, 2022, Tenna, Switzerland and live stream.

Speakers: Ursula Biemann, Annemarie Bucher, Damian Christinger, Johannes Hedinger, Hanna Hölling, Catherine Hug, Marcus Maeder, Naturpark Beverin, Dharmendra Prasad, Boris Previšic, Re Source ZHDK, Shazeb Shaik amongst others.

Alps Art Academy
c/o Naturpark Beverin
Hauptstrasse 35
CH - 7104 Versam
Switzerland
T +41 81 630 60 16
info@alpsartacademy.ch

Website: www.alpsartacademy.ch
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alpsartacademy/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/land_and_environmental_art/

 

SUMMER SCHOOL IN CURATORIAL STUDIES VENICE OPEN CALL

AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
8th June – 1st September 2021
Deadline March 1st 2021
Application fee 4500,00 euro

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. 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 8th – August 6th, 2021
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.
August 10th –14th, 2021
Meeting artists, curators, institution directors, art collectors.
We warmly recommend to take part.

The program is very intensive:

The second module:
August 16th – 21th, 2021

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, 2021

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,1st 2021.

http://www.corsocuratori.com/

 

OPEN CALL FOR the FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY Educational Residency near Berlin, Germany

15 August - 9 September 2020
Deadline: APPLICATION DEADLINE for SCHOLARSHIP and PARTICIPATION: 22 June 2020, 23:59 CET
Application fee: n/a

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

1,5 hrs. away from BERLIN, GERMANY

15 August - 9 September 2020
APPLICATION DEADLINE for SCHOLARSHIP and PARTICIPATION: 22 June 2022, 23:59 CET

Open call for an educational residency with:

BILL FONTANA (composer and video artist),
HANS PETER KUHN (sound and visual artist),
SEBASTIAN MULLAERT a.k.a MINILOGUE (producer and DJ),
OVE HOLMQVIST (sound artist),
HANS ROSENSTRÖM (sound artist),
STEFFI WEISMANN (sound artist),
JI WOO & SUN WOO (Zen masters) and
PROF. DR. URSULA KOCH (Neurophysiologist)

Chef in Residence: EMRAH TAŞ

Selection committee: Peter Cusack, Ali M. Demirel, Juliana Hodkinson, 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.

On its second edition, a total of 11 interdisciplinary residents will be selected to join the upcoming FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY in its three modules. Curated by Ece Pazarbaşı, this year, under the title of THE CURIOUS LOOP, we will use the notion of loops-in-sound as a gateway to other concepts of repetition, offering a variety of individual and collective experiences. Loops represent a time that is suspended, which is a compressed source of the past, present and the future. The loop also oscillates between the known and the unknown; as for the viewer and listener it could unfold to a future of known (as it repeats the same material over and over again), but also it may relate to an unknown (as surprises are always welcome), and one never knows if the loop will be broken with an unknown sound or visual component - no matter how well defined and repeated the loop has developed in the past. If one cannot step into the same river twice, and if one opens to perception with all senses, what differences can we find in each loop?

Composed of three intertwined modules that allow for different durations in the residency, 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’ period where the residents are expected to do NOTHING but only LISTENING.

* for the Covid-19 measures at the Field Kitchen Academy /// The Curious Loop, please visit our website.

** The outcome of the Field Kitchen Academy’s three working sessions will be presented as part of The Curious Loop Public Program. The Public Program is partially supported by Musikfonds and Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

Location: GUTSHAUS WÜSTEN-BUCHHOLZ, Perleberg, Germany / app. 2 hrs. away from Berlin. Selected participants will be announced by 6 July 2020.

 

Alps Art Academy

Open call: Summer School for Land and Environmental Art
Deadline: March 8th, 2020
Application fee: No application fee

Alps Art Academy

Open call: Summer School for Land and Environmental Art

The third international Alps Art Academy will take place between June 25–July 4, 2020, in the Safiental (Grisons, Switzerland). Located in Tenna, 1650 meters above sea level, the summer school focuses on Land and Environmental Art.

In a dialogue with the canonized Land Art of the 1960s–70s, the Academy focuses on contemporary approaches to Land and Environmental Art by bringing them into a relationship with the Alpine landscape. We wish to create a platform of potentialities for the contemporary and future Land Art, which integrates not only natural landscape and the environment but also other “media” and the wider social context.

We encourage proposal submissions from artists working with landscape and the environment across genres and media, as well as from theoreticians, facilitators and curators engaged in research on the topic of Land Art. We welcome applications accompanied by a concrete concept that can be realized during the period of the summer school. The concepts should reflect the 2020 Alps Art Academy theme “ANALOG – DIGITAL.”

Program

Gathering circa thirty participants over a period of ten days, the Academy offers a rich program of workshops, seminars, field trips, artist talks and presentations, as well as a thematic symposium. Participants have the opportunity to explore what does it mean to create in, and interact with, the Alpine landscape and apply their experience in their work. Participants work together with international instructors who offer practical and theoretical mentoring. The Academy is linked to the Land Art Biennale Art Safiental (July 4–October 18, 2020) and offers an opportunity to present final projects.

Instructors

Matthias Bildstein (AT), Les Frères Chapuisat (CH), Sally de Kunst (BE/CH), Fragmentin (CH), Gabriela Gerber / Lukas Bardill (CH), Hanna B. Hölling (CH/UK), Richard Saxton (USA), Ella Tetrault (CAN), Lucie Tuma (CH) and additional guests.

Registration/Information
The conditions of participation, application form and further information can be obtained at: www.alpsartacademy.com

Fees
CHF 1‘200.–, USD 1‘200.–, EUR 1‘110.–

The fee entails 10 days academy, accommodation in double room, board, excursions during the academy: Travel expenses to and from the Academy is not inclusive and have to be carried by the participants. For participants in need of a financial support there is the possibility to apply for a funding.

Funding
The academy is committed to a diversified group of participants (age, gender, origin, underrepresented groups). Lower-income applicants may apply for a reduction of the tuition fee and / or a travel funding. To qualify for the funding, applicants should provide a justification letter in addition to the regular application form.

Deadline
The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 8, 2020.

Organization
Sponsorship: Naturpark Beverin / The Municipality of Safiental; Director: Johannes M. Hedinger

Contact

Alps Art Academy
c/o Naturpark Beverin
Hauptstrasse 35
CH - 7104 Versam
Switzerland

T +41 81 630 60 16
info@alpsartacademy.ch

alpsartacademy.ch
Facebook / Instagram

RELATED EVENTS:

Symposium ILEA TALKS: 27th–June 28th, 2020
Biennale ART SAFIENTAL: July 4–October 18, 2020

 

OCAD UNIVERSITY CONTEMPORARY FLORENCE STUDIO

OCAD UNIVERSITY CONTEMPORARY FLORENCE STUDIO
Spring/Summer 2020 Residencies and Courses

Image: Fahmina Ahmed

OCAD University, Canada’s leader in preparing the next generation of contemporary artists, is pleased to open the doors of our Florence studio to the international art and design community!

These programs are open to members of the OCAD U community as well as creative practitioners world-wide. In addition to utilizing OCAD U’s studio and emphasizing our approach to contemporary practice, this programming also includes the opportunity to engage with local practitioners and workshops.

1. OPEN SESSION CREATOR-IN-RESIDENCE

SPRING SESSIONS:
April 14th - 20th, 2020
April 21st - 27th, 2020
APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 25th, 2020

SUMMER SESSIONS:
June 6th -12th, 2020
June 13th -19th, 2020
APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 14th, 2020

Immerse yourself in a city where the rich traditions of fine art and craftsmanship meet contemporary art and design! The Creator in Residence Open Residency supports the participation of artists, designers, writers and any creative practitioners that can benefit from the time and space to develop their practice in a studio environment. As a participant, you will receive access to space at OCAD U’s Florence studio in a quiet shared palazzo in Florence’s San Marco neighbourhood. Your own designated work space will be complemented by the proximity to other creative professionals from around the world, as well as an array of programming to help you reflect on and share your practice. The residency includes an introductory Italian lesson, group community events, studio visits with local practitioners and a facilitated weekly group critique session.

2. UNDERSTANDING NORTHWEST COAST INDIGENOUS ART WITH LUKE PARNELL

May 1st - 7th, 2020
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 20th, 2020

This workshop series will be aimed at helping participants be able to recognize the imagery of NWC art (from the Northwest Coast of North America), in addition to gaining knowledge of its historical and contemporary context. The lectures will trace the history of NWC art from pre-contact to modernity to now and the hands-on learning will teach the participants the elements of NWC art by drawing and copying traditional designs.

This course will be a 6-part studio/seminar, with an additional day dedicated to a group field trip. Each day will start with a lecture (approximately 1 hour), and finish with some hands-on learning. There will also be time for participants to explore Florence, as well as engage in critical, group dialogue reflecting on how the context and history of the city in relationship to the class focus.

3. REFRAMING HISTORIES: PHOTOGRAPHY IN SEQUENCE WITH APRIL HICKOX

May 10th - 16th, 2020
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 20th, 2020

This collaborative course, Reframing Histories: Photography in Sequence focuses on connections to the landscape, which embrace land use (urban and rural), sustainability, site-specific interactions, and personal relationships to the land.

Through the exploration of site and place, this studio-based photography course will propel participants to respond to a new environment while intertwining their personal areas of interest. During this seven-day experience, learners will be given a series projects asking them to respond using their personal cultural history or their experiences in Florence as inspiration. At the start of the session, each day will center around responding to a landmark in the city, including both the natural environment, historical sites and museums. The participants will have the opportunity to link the series of small assignments into a linked body of work or to use the tasks as a way to generate new directions for their creative practice.

4. WATER AND STONES WITH MICHÈLE WHITE AND KATHARINA GIRALDI-HALLER

May 19th - 25th, 2020
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 20th, 2020

COURSE DESCRIPTION
In a post-internet world, we will be looking at the origins of a culture from its material base. We’ll follow in the footsteps of Mary McCarthy who wrote The Stones of Florence (1959) influenced by John Ruskin’s book The Stones of Venice (1851).

Our week will involve exploring Florence and surrounding area using the art, architecture and history as the basis of our research into contemporary art production. Each participant will produce a suite of works exemplifying their individual interpretation of “The Stones of Florence”. A guiding principal will be to find and reuse and repurpose existing materials from the environment and make our own paint.

5. ON ‘DRAWN’ HISTORIES OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE WITH ADIL MANSURE (In Florence and Venice)

May 29th - June 7th, 2020
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 20th, 2020

This ten-day drawing workshop will offer a broad overview of the major art and architectural works has Florence to offer. The ever-changing city is a rich palimpsest of historical layers dating from antiquity to the present. Using Renaissance art and architecture as an anchoring point, this workshop will examine historical continuity and change by considering influences that shaped Florentine art and history from both within and without Florentine society.

The first six days will consist of walking tours in Florence where, following short lectures, students will draw both on-site and in studio. The final day in Florence will be dedicated to an intensive drawn thesis (or analysis) of a single selected artwork or theme. The instructor will provide individual critiques and the day will culminate in a celebratory drawing exhibition. The program will culminate in Venice with a visit to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020.

Spaces are limited, submit your registration fee to reserve your space!

Register or learn more at http://ocadu.ca/florence

At the link there is also photographs of our studios, details of what is included in each program, draft schedules and testimonials from past participants.

For any questions about any of these courses, contact:

JENNIE SUDDICK, MFA
MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS & PARTNERSHIPS
E jsuddick@ocadu.ca

Note: Our main studio is partially accessible. We would love to discuss individual requirements and how we can support them.

Image: Mashayla Ritchie

 

Image: Jennie Suddick

 

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