Becoming Bologna, Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, IUAV University of Venice, 53rd Venice Biennale

Becoming Bologna
International project on Graduate Education in the Visual Arts

Research Interventions: Tolentini, Santa Croce 191
Eija Liisa Ahtila, Jeremiah Day, Jan Kaila, Pekka Kantonen, Glen Loughran, Andrew Stones, Steven de Vleminck and Mick Wilson.

Symposium: Terese, Dorsudoro 2206, 6 and 7 June
Keynote statement: Daniel Birnbaum, Artistic Director of the 53rd Venice Biennale. Introductions: Medardo Chiaponni, President of the Faculty of Arts and Design and Angela Vettese, Director of the Graduate Program in Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design, Venice.

Becoming Bologna: Parallel project organized by MaHKU (Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design) in collaboration with EARN (European Artistic Research Network), Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design, and IUAV University of Venice, Faculty of Visual Arts and Design.

Research Interventions
The entrance of IUAV’s central building, the Tolentini, seems to strikingly symbolize the rite de passage art education goes through today, i.e. the process of academization and the transition of studio-based tutorials to research-based seminars. The display system in the Tolentini corridor is the point of departure for a series of eight artistic reflections on the current transient position and situation of art, education, and research. Contributions by Eija Liisa Ahtila, Jeremiah Day, Jan Kaila, Pekka Kantonen, Glen Loughran, Andrew Stones, Steven de Vleminck and Mick Wilson.

Symposium
The starting point of the symposium is Daniel Birnbaum’s keynote statement – open to the general public – on Saturday, 6 June. Location: Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, Sede delle Terese, Dorsoduro, 2206, 11-12.30pm.

Next, three workshops will take place also based on the research interventions pre-sented in the Tolentini corridor. The workshops will focus on specific issues such as:
1. Competencies: Is it possible to map the various skills required for a post-graduate (research) program? Presentations: Pekka Kantonen (Helsinki), Glen Loughran (Dublin). Moderated by Jan Cools, Sint-Lukas Brussels and Henk Slager, MaHKU Utrecht.
2. Didactic Strategies: Could one determine how a graduate program (MA, PhD) is characterized? Presentations: Jeremiah Day (Utrecht), Steven de Vleminck (Brussels). Moderated by Jan Kaila, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki.
3. Research Environment: Is it the task of the academy to develop a specific artistic research environment? Presentations: Eija Liisa Ahtila (Helsinki), Andrew Stones (London). Moderated by Mick Wilson, Gradcam, Dublin.

Participating Academies
Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design: Willem de Greef, Jan Cools, Steven de Vleminck, Richard Venlet. GradCAM, Dublin: Mick Wilson, Glen Loughran, Martin McCabe, Conor McGarrigle, Georgina Jackson. Staedelschule, Frankfurt: Daniel Birnbaum, Simon Starling. Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki: Eija Liisa Ahtila, Maria Hirvi-lja, Jan Kaila, Pekka Kantonen, Markus Konttinen. Slade School of Fine Art, London: John Aiken, Penny Florence, Andrew Stones. ENSBA, Paris: Guillaume Paris, Henry-Claude Cousseau, Tony Brown. MaHKU, Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design: Tiong Ang, Jeremiah Day, Klaas Hoek, Henk Slager. Faculty of Arts and Design, IUAV Venice: Angela Vettese, Medardo Chiapponi, Marco De Michelis, Carlos Basualdo, Giulio Alessandri, Agnes Kohlmeyer. Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna: Tom Holert, Axel Stockburger,
Nina Stuhldreher. Kai Meier-Rothe, Felicitas Thun.

Related Publications
MaHKUzine # 5, Summer 2008: A Certain Ma-Ness. Concerning the specificity of MA Fine Art education. MaHKUzine #7, Summer 2009: Nameless Science. Concerning Doctoral Studies.

Download Mahkuzine. Journal of Artistic Research: http://www.mahku.nl/research/mahkuzine7.html

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