New International School
Hosted by V22, London 2011
www.newinternationalschool.org
www.v22collection.com
Application: July & August 2011
Start: 16 August 2011 for 1 week
Fees: £250.00
New International School: A Reformatting of The Art School and Discourse sees interdisciplinary art practice and pedagogy as a way to re-think the function of art, the role of artists and the purpose of art education. The emergence and growth of art in response to social, political and environmental urgency has necessitated a re-examination of structures that support and facilitate art and its various modes of being. Institutions tend to present a challenge to practitioners to find ways for art to contribute to or question communities and cultures in a local and global context. We will think through and discuss these tendencies and examine the role of the artist in relation to theses developments.
Today, what do we imagine when we think of "art practice"? If the city is the site of practice what do we imagine as the relationship between this practice and the way a city works? In what way is art production contributing to the life of the city? How does art resist a culture of commodification and consumption, assuming these are inimical to art’s agenda? How have the roles of art, artists, and audiences been resituated? What is the potential for art to create civic sites for public discourse and expression within and outside of education? What are the ways in which art might be complicit in upholding the narratives of modernism, capitalism, and other contested perspectives? What is the potential for practice to contribute research and knowledge that will support a constructive relationship to the city? And what kinds of discourse assist and facilitate and are critical to the work of production?
N.I.S. is delighted to be working with V22 who are hosting this event in Bermondsey this August.
Call for Participation:
New International School: A Reformatting of The Art School and Discourse aims to be open to unexpected intersections, evolving through inquiry-based discourse, performative interventions, and generative dialogue that is intended to provoke and mobilize diversity of thought and practice.
We welcome the participation of practitioners across the artistic disciplines, including those whose practices are post-studio, or performative; and those who work outside of traditional systems of support and exposure. We also invite proposals from those working in other disciplines who have insight to bring to the conversation, and who can contribute diverse ways of arriving at new knowledge, which is at the core of New International School’s pedagogical mission.
The aim is to broaden participants’ horizons in terms of their critical and artistic range, offering a series of different points of view and the conceptual tools to assess their work and its development, as well as an opportunity to discuss and critically influence the future of The New International School itself.
During the month of August, participants will develop a critical judgment and historical perspective while furthering their body of work during dedicated classes, seminars and critiques. It is expected that the participants will attend all classes, lectures and studio seminars. All participants will be required to accommodate at least one formal studio visit in their respective studios or in cases where this is not appropriate (post-studio practices) to be able to demonstrate their practice for critical evaluation by the rest of the group.
The lecture series draws together speakers from different disciplines. Details to be announced later in the year.
Modules:
1) The Painting Course | Theoretical
2) Changes in Robo-environment | Practical
3) Urban Ethnography | Practical
John Chilver
Painting today, while far from dead, remains caught in the crossfire between laissez-faire post-everything picture-merchandising, on the one hand, and the self-styled, self-righteous high grounds of post-object art and participatory social sculpture, on the other. Over a series of seminars the course will consider paths of ontological invention along which painting can critically navigate these polarities. More specifically, approaches involving painting’s disincarnation or its temporalization will be proposed and examined both discursively and practically.
Guy Bar Amotz
Offering participants an introduction to the practice and thinking of robotic installation and its historical and philosophical applications.
The workshop will be a practical investigation of the possibilities of this new media. The participants will be able to experiment with a variety of media and output delivery methods, such as surround-sound, surround video and dynamic light as movement of objects, materials and the participation of audiences.
Henrike Donner
We will explore some methods commonly employed by social anthropologists in order to produce ethnographic insights into urban processes through projects that centre around the collection of ethnographic data.
Urban space and urban politics shape our lives, but are either seen as a backdrop against which the social takes shape, or are studied in terms of static units (built environment; infrastructure; networks) rather than as processes that make and remake social worlds in a dialectical manner.
The unit will therefore consist of a teaching and reading segment during which foundational texts related to the current study of urban space and the ‘urban turn’ in the social sciences will be considered, and the practical application of methods regularly employed in fieldwork settings.
Biographies of Tutors
John Chilver
John Chilver is an artist and writer. He teaches in the Dept. of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London. His solo exhibitions have included Asprey Jacques, London (2000), Casey Kaplan, New York (2001) and Keith Talent, London (2009). His texts have appeared in Art Monthly, Afterall, Art Papers, Untitled and Starship and elsewhere.
Guy Bar Amotz
Guy Bar Amotz is an artist. He lives and works in London. He studied at the Bezallel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Goldsmith’s College, London, the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, and has exhibited widely including The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), Tate Britain (London), CCA (Geneva), Project (Dublin) the Ein-Harod Museum, the Stedelijk Museum's Bureau (Amsterdam), Kwangju Biennale (South Korea), The Biennale of Sydney 1998, The Ikon Gallery (Birmingham UK).
Henrike Donner
Henrike Donner is an urban anthropologist with extensive fieldwork experience in Calcutta, India and teaches at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen, Germany. Selected Publications: Donner, H. 2008. Domestic Goddesses: Maternity, Globalisation and Middle-Class Identity in Contemporary India, Aldershot: Ashgate. Donner, H. (ed.) 2011. A Way of Life: Changing Middle-class Identities in Postliberalisation India, London: Routledge. With G. De Neve (eds) 2006. The Meaning of the Local: Politics of Place in Urban India, London: Routledge. With G. De Neve (eds) 2006. The Meaning of the Local: Politics of Place in Urban India, London: Routledge.
Cooperations:
V22 Collection
New International School
Treignac projet
www.treignacprojet.org
nõde
www.nodenet.org
A.E.S.D.
www.aesd.nl
Please note: English language skills are required for the enrolment into the program.
Additional information:
For additional information on N.I.S., V22 Collection, the conditions of admission and the application procedure and the dates follow links below:
www.newinternationalschool.org
www.v22collection.com
For inquiries please contact:
Adam Thomas, Administrator
V22 London
adam@v22london.com