Open call for Summer School as School 2016

Following the successful collaboration project initiated in 2015, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is pleased to announce the open call for Summer School as a School 2016.
 

Museum of American Art in Prishtina
Opening: June 17 
Venue: Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Zija Prishtina Street, Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo

Salon de Fleurus
July 3–August 26
Opening: July 3
Venue: Boxing Club, Mark Isaku Street, Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo

Summer School as a School (SSAS) is an art and schooling platform, stationed in Prishtina, envisioned as a guide and an intervention, designed to unite and disseminate critical knowledge and address relevant challenges of today, with new models and possibilities in art education and art collaboration.

SSAS 2016 is a challenging and inspiring program for participants and the public, structured as a hub with seven courses, which combine theory-based classes and production classes, public lectures and presentations, tours, exhibitions, conferences and performances, to produce a unique experience and a model.

The SSAS 2016 courses are as follows: 

Course 1: Exhibition Histories and Canons of Contemporaneity, with Jelena Vesić and Branislav Dimitrijević (July 3–8) 

Course 2: Storytelling, or a Box with the Sound of Its Own Making, with Felix Gmelin (July 3–9)

Course 3: Producing Shows: A Practical Guide to Exhibition Making and Project Management, with Martin Fritz (July 11–15)

Course 4: Should Contemporary Art Be Critical?, with Miran Mohar (July 9–17)

Course 5: How to Cook: A Conversation on Curating, Honesty, and a Guide for Workers in Culture, with Edi Muka (July 13–14)

Course 6: Video/Film: Expression in Motion pictures, with Pepi Sekulich (July 5–17)

Course 7: Housing: Making the Impossible Possible, with STEALTH.unlimited (Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen) (July 12–16).

Public lectures and presentations by Anne Barlow, Branislav Dimitrijević, Doorman of the Salon de Fleurus, STEALTH.unlimited, Felix Gmelin, Petrit Halilaj, Bujar Hoxha, Liburn Jupolli, Vjollca Krasniqi, Joa Ljundberg, Miran Mohar, Edi Muka, Nat Muller, Renaud Proch, Amila Ramović, Anri Sala, Leunora Salihu, Selma Selman, Milica Tomić, Jelena Vesić, Anna Witt, amongst others, are a constitutive element of SSAS 2016, designed for the wider public but also to function as interventions into courses held during SSAS.

In conjunction with SSAS 2016, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina will open the Museum of American Art in Prishtina and Salon De Fleurus.

The Museum of American Art is an educational institution dedicated to assembling, preserving and exhibiting memories primarily on the Museum of Modern Art in New York and its International Program of Circulating Exhibitions of American art.

Salon de Fleurus is an artwork, a contemporary reconstruction of Gertrude Stein’s Parisian salon that existed at 27 rue de Fleurus from 1904–34. It is a work that displays and references a story of modern art’s beginnings through one of the first gathering places for burgeoning young artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Stein herself. 

SSAS is a project by Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina initiated in collaboration with The Academy for Visual Arts (AVA), Ljubljana implemented in partnership with Museum of American Art in Berlin, Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, press to exit, and ArsAevi.

Main supporters of SSAS 2016 are ERSTE Foundation, The Austrian Federal Chancellery, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kosovo and Kosova Foundation for Open Society. 

SSAS 2016 is also supported by Culture for All - Phase III, Municipality of Prishtina, Independent Curators International, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Kosovo, Austrian Embassy in Pristina, AMM, X-Print and DZG.