SummerAcademy Blog

APPLICATIONS WELCOME – DEADLINE 15 MAY

Baerbel Hartje — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:57:39 +0000

Nothing planned yet for this summer? Please send your application for one of our 22 courses until May 15. Click here for the full programme of courses. Click here for application details. In the unlikely case of troubles, please write an e-mail to office@summeracademy.at, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Christoph Schäfer - Topografie der Gemeinheit

Baerbel Hartje — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:43:37 +0000

Christoph Schäfer takes part in the group exhibition raumsichten - kunstwegen, opening on 4 May in Bad Bentheim/Nordhorn, with the new work Topografie der Gemeinheit [topography of the commons]. This three-part installation marks three places in Samern, and unveils their forgotten history of the commons, of the resistance against their expropriation and of militant anabaptism - and connects them with the Peasant Revolt & Albrecht Dürer's nightmare of 1525, and a female revolutionary songwriter from 1534. At the 2012 summer academy, Christoph Schäfer is teaching the course Drawing as desiring-machine: Reinventing the city from 16 July to 4 August.

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Christopher Roth

Baerbel Hartje — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:04:41 +0000

We are happy to announce Christopher Roth as a partner of Arno Brandlhuber for teaching the course "Crises, changes, clash - towards a new contemporaneity" from 6 to 25 August at Alte Saline Hallein. Christopher Roth is a Berlin based writer, film director, and artist. Recently, his work has been on view in a solo exhibition at Esther Schipper gallery in Berlin. Find more information on Christopher Roth here

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Emergency architecture – housing and community rebuilding after disaster

Baerbel Hartje — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:11:44 +0000

In conjunction with the exhibition "Tsunami Architecture" by Christoph Draeger and Heidrun Holzfeind at OK Centrum Linz, a Symposium on emergency architecture will take place at AFO (Architectural Forum Upper Austria) in Linz on FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2-9 pm. Introduction and round table moderated by the artists. In the 2012 Summer Academy, Christoph Draeger will teach the course "The age of collage" from 16 July to 4 August.

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application deadline grants April 15

Hildegund Amanshauser — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:56:32 +0000

please apply online ONLY

http://www.summeracademy.at/Grants_94.html

in the unlikely case of troubles write an e-mail to office@summeracademy.at, we will get back to you as soon as possible...

good luck

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Opening Hanspeter Hofmann - Chemische Bilder in Basel

Baerbel Hartje — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:31:47 +0000

If you happen to be in Basel, please join the opening of Hanspeter Hofmann's exhibition "Chemische Bilder" tonight (3 April, 6 pm) at STAMPA Gallery. Hofmann will teach "How to paint" at this year's summer academy from 6 to 25 August.

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Performing Recalcitrance

sommerakademie 2010 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:26:05 +0000

Performing Recalcitrance, a week-long public programme TAKING PLACE at Kungl. Konsthögskolan | Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm STILL UNTIL March 30, 2012, has been conceptualized and programmed by Olav Westphalen and Stefanie Hessler. Olav Westphalen will teach "a course on cartoons, jokes, and innovative actions" at this year's summer academy.

Performing Recalcitrance comprises performances, lectures and workshops. It is a symposium, festival and meeting point for discussion. It serves as the public culmination of a thematic cluster of courses and academic events around recalcitrance, which are being held throughout the academic year at the Royal Institute of Art.

While "resistance" and "revolt" are commonly employed as positive terms, "recalcitrance" has overwhelmingly negative connotations. The current definition of the word "recalcitrance" dates back to the 17th century (Fr. récalcitrant, lit. "kicking back," 17c.–18c.). It describes a stubborn, obstinate, at times even passive-aggressive or lazy attitude. Nevertheless, it seems to be an appropriate description of the nature of certain current social and political confrontations.

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Radio for example

Baerbel Hartje — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:23:28 +0000

Juan A. Gaitan, together with Maria Lind, will teach the curatorial course this year at Summer Academy. These days, he is concerned with a research trip to the United Arab Emirates, effected through Radio 22, a web radio station that focuses on socially and politically engaged forms of cultural production. In partnership with The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, Art Dubai has invited Juan A. Gaitan and Rabat's L'Appartement 22 founder Abdellah Karroum – together they form the collective The Curatorial Delegation – to present Radio for Example (R22-Dubai), a live transmission of mobile conversations with leading artistic practitioners, recorded on the move, around Dubai, during the week of the fair.

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