DEADLINE APPLICATIONS 2012:
1 APRIL
http://www.sandberginstituut.nl/apply/
The remodelled Fine Arts department of the Sandberg Institute retains its focus on the notions of autonomy and making while simultaneously addressing the social and economical roles and implications of these traditional parameters of art production.
The structure of the program rethinks conventional notions around the division of artistic labour by placing different aspects of production into three open models; Language, Image, Play/Object. A main tutor develops the curriculum for each model over the course of two years, whereby the Sandberg Institute will function as headquarters from which each program can modify and manifest itself internally as well as externally.
Fine Arts is thus a more tailor-made form of education, with the ambition to guide artistic practitioners / artists to position and differentiate their existing body of work. The course offers a constructive pallet in which the student applies with a proposal for one specific model. This causes each group to become smaller and more flexible, enabling them to properly research and reflect upon the different aspect within their practices.
Program 2011 – 2013
Students can apply with a proposal for one specific model but nevertheless will have the opportunity to follow the other models as a minor. This allows each group to be small, flexible and focussed.
LANGUAGE
Language concentrates on the usage of discourse (writing, speech etc.) as a speculative mode of artistic production, representation and display. The program will form a reading group focused on a selection of texts from philosophy and theory of art (topics may include: sense and non-sense, repetition, language and the body, madness and culture, etc., and materials may also include artworks and films) and there will be time for individual discussions. Part of the program will be devoted to visits from philosophers, writers, curators, and artists working on themes related to those in the reading group.
Main tutor: Aaron Schuster, philosopher (US)
IMAGE
Image centres around the notion of ‘representation’, ‘time’ and ‘ephemerality’ in plural (audio)visual practices. The program is essentially in service of the production of work, but strongly embedded in the larger (conceptual) framework of the course. With production is meant the moment between input and output; the translation and materialization of thought, intuition and concept; perhaps the moment that is classically experienced in a studio. Although the program will not exclude technical or formal considerations, nor issues of public presentation, the emphasis will be on the development of individual strategies for production. Strategies found through working experience and through the consideration of the strategies of others. Individual talks are available to the students. The program will also bring back the classic ‘group crit’: elaborate collective sessions of thinking and talking through students’ existing works (in progress). Common interests that emerge through these, can be addressed with the help of expertise that is invited accordingly.
Main tutor: Nicoline van Harskamp, artist (NL)
PLAY/OBJECT
Play/ Object focussed on the contemporary constructions of performativity and object-based productions within a cross-disciplinary (public) context (theatre, dance, music). It will concentrate on the invention and exercise of one’s discipline that is open to conversation as a mode of developing thoughts. This could include walks in the forest, studying the same subject with experts of various disciplines, art’s role in life-writing at large, autobiography as a tool of collective speculation, infinite games where one is not fully aware of what type of decision will be asked to be made next, time-based ways of being, collective forms of authorship, insurrection of experience and emotions, non-causal reasoning, spaces of attention
Main tutor: Raimundas Malašauskas, curator (LT)
Course director: Krist Gruijthuijsen, curator (NL)
Guests 2011-2013
a.o. Goldin + Senneby, Celine Condorelli, Katya Sander, Carey Young, Jason Dodge, Mladen Dolar, Trisha Donnelly, Ben Kinmont, Robert Snowden, Angie Keefer, Vilem Flusser Archive, Lisa Oppenheim, Tirdad Zolghadr, Dennis Cooper, Pierre Bismuth, Lisette Smits, Marcos Lutyens,
Cristiana Ricupero, Tim Etchells, Koen Brams, Stuart Comer, Bruce LaBruce, Robert Wilhite, Gabriel Lester, Maxine Kopsa, Praneet Soi, AA Bronson,
for more information: www.sandberg.nl