XVI edition of the Advanced Course
in Visual Arts
Deadline: 4 April, 2010
Visiting professor: Hans Haacke
Title: Give and take
Dates: 29 June – 20 July 2010
Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio 19
22100 Como, Italy
http://www.fondazioneratti.org
The Advanced Course in Visual Arts is an experimental project in which dialogue and exchange among artists of different generations and nationalities stand at the heart of a unique artistic and didactic experience.
The course is open to twenty young artists of all nationalities, selected by a commission. The programme lasts twenty one days during which the participants develop a daily workshop activity with the Visiting Professor, the curators and attend conferences held by artists, critics and experts of various disciplines.
The programme includes an exhibition project developed from the workshop experience.
According to Hans Haacke’s project, students are expected to bring to the workshop – in the form of an exhibition something they consider significant from the place they are coming from (country, city, place of work, circle of friends, family, or other). In return, participants in the workshop are expected to prepare for an audience ‘at home’ an exhibition of something they found significant in Como, or in Italy.
Hans Haacke, born in Cologne, Germany, in 1936, has been living in New York since 1965. He taught at The Cooper Union, New York, from 1967 to 2002. A one-person exhibition, scheduled at the Guggenheim Museum in 1971, was cancelled by the museum because of a visitors’ poll and two works analyzing New York’s real estate empires.
One-person exhibitions of Haacke’s work were held at Tate Gallery, London; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Serpentine Gallery, London; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg/Akademie der Künste, Berlin. His work was included in four Documentas and numerous biennials around the world, most recently at the Gwangju Biennial, 2008. After a heated national debate, a permanent installation was inaugurated in 2000 in the Reichstag, the German Parliament building in Berlin. Haacke shared a Golden Lion with Nam June Paik for the best pavilion of the 1993 Venice Biennial. “Free Exchange, “a conversation by the artist with Pierre Bourdieu, was published in 1995 (Stanford University Press). Translations have appeared in eight languages.
The application is open to candidates over eighteen. No study certificate is required, but English is essential. Attendance to the course is free, while accommodation expenses in Como and costs for the production of artworks are to be covered by the participants.
The application form is available online on http://www.fondazioneratti.org, and must be filled in and sent online. The candidates will receive by email a copy of the application form that must be printed, signed and sent to Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio 19, 22100 Como, Italy until the 4th April 2010 (date of the postmark), enclosing documentation (preferably printed, or on CD or DVD for videos) of already produced artworks.
The selected participants will be contacted via email by 30st April 2010. The documentation is returned only on demand, to those who enclose a pre-stamped and addressed envelope.
Information
XVI Advanced Course in Visual Arts
tel. + 39 031-233111.213 / fax 233249
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