Curating and writing about art – apply now for grants!
The course programme of the 2020 Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts is now online. I would like to draw your attention to the courses devoted to theory: Sammy Baloji with Lotte Arndt, Marina Fokidis and Nicolaus Schafhausen are directing courses on curatorial theory and practice, and Louisa Elderton with Klaus Speidel will teach writing about contemporary art.
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
20 July–29 August 2020
Applications for grants for participation in one of these courses should be sent in by 1 April 2020: www.summeracademy.at/en/studies/grants/
SAMMY BALOJI / LOTTE ARNDT
Vocabularies for counter-histories
3-15 August 2020
Creative artists, writers and curators are invited to join in exploring collaborative practices that open the way to alternative scenarios. Possible interdisciplinary approaches include speculative gestures, narrative fabulation, collage and montage techniques, organised as active artistic or curatorial research in an exchange of ideas between participants.
Sammy Baloji, who works with photography and installation is co-founder of Picha Encounters, the Biennial in Lubumbashi, where he grew up.
Lotte Arndt, a member of the French artists’ and writers’ group Ruser l’image and the research group Global Art Prospective (INHA Paris), publishes articles on artistic strategies that aim to subvert Eurocentric narratives and institutions.
MARINA FOKIDIS
Everything you always wanted to know about curating and a few more questions
20–29 July 2020
Conceived with the task of formulating as many questions as possible, the course will explore the ever-changing nature of curatorial practice within the rapid socio-economic, political and environmental transformation of our times. The aim is to be able to formulate a set of ten core questions (in analogy to the Ten Commandments) which might add to the overall pursuit of the advancement of curatorial research and praxis.
Participants may choose to work in smaller groups or collectively towards the formation of the final project.
Marina Fokidis was head of the Artistic Office in Athens and curatorial adviser for documenta 14. She is the founder of Kunsthalle Athena and the culture magazine South as a State of Mind.
NICOLAUS SCHAFHAUSEN
The present and disharmony
30 July–8 August 2020
The basis of the social, political and aesthetic questions in the course is: how can we establish a model that ensures the essential achievement “freedom of art” now and in the future? The course aims to develop intervention strategies and forms of communication which do not lead to the false belief that better arguments can bring about change, but which show that practice itself must change.
Nicolaus Schafhausen is the Artistic Director of Tell me about yesterday tomorrow (November 2019 – August 2020), an exhibition at the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism about the future of the past.
LOUISA ELDERTON / KLAUS SPEIDEL
Writing in, on and through art. From art criticism to creative writing
19–29 August 2020
After a sound introduction into writing about art, the focus of the course will be on the practice of writing and editing. Different forms of art writing, from the Renaissance up to the present day, will be discussed and examined to see how form, style, voice and narrative can be used to different effect. The course will give basic tools and precepts to develop participants’ own style of writing.
Louisa Elderton is a British writer, editor and critic living in Berlin, specialising in art and contemporary culture. She writes for many papers and journals, including Flash Art, The New York Times, Frieze and Artforum.
Klaus Speidel writes in German, English and French for various print media, including Frankfurter Allgemeine, Der Standard, Spike Art Quarterly and Art Newspaper. He currently teaches art history, art and curation in Vienna and image theory in Paris.
Further information on the courses and the whole programme of the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts: www.summeracademy.at/en/
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