PRAXIS study programme 2024

Applications are invited for PRAXIS 2024, the second edition of fluent’s educational apparatus, a structure for independent studies to take place from September 18 through December 22, 2024.

Following the same in–person format, it will run during 14 weeks (180 contact hours), aiming to instigate a theoretical and practice–based learning process that dives into the systems that constitute our material and immaterial lifes. The programme is structured in four dimensions—or learning modules—directed by:

–I Module: Vital Dimension, Michael Marder.
–II Module: the Dimension of Language and Identity, Anne Boyer.
–III Module: Structural Dimension, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney. 
–IV Module: Corporeal & Moving Dimension, Andrea Rodrigo. 

And it will feature a faculty of guest professors including CAConrad, Joy James, Manuel Segade, Yayo Herrero, PRAXIS I, The State of Reza Abdoh, Hypatia Vourloumis, Chus Martínez, Alejandro Alonso Díaz, Quinn Latimer, Itziar Okariz and many others. 

The second edition of the programme continues an ongoing enquire on the making of forms—social, aesthetic, linguistic, political, performative—as a means to propitiate knowledge and justice, in this time of genocide, cruel devastation and an increasingly morally-wounded world. Tracing its genealogy from PRAXIS I, this enquire considers the material and immaterial conditions of such forms, as well as the role of the arts and humanities in developing socially transformative prospects that repair the social realm from reduced listening. In this, the words of Audre Lorde resonate with the logics and dynamics that organize and structure PRAXIS: “(…)it is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into moretangible action. (…) It is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”

Building from this ethos, the programme is open to a maximum of twenty participants and encourages applications from different fields of knowledge (artists, poets, curators, agroecologists, filmmakers, sociologists, theorists, choreographers, writers, philosophers, land-practitioners, performers, activists, anthropologists and other arts and humanities-related researchers or professionals). The diverse spectrum of practices seeks to unfold an experimental, ephemeral community of learning thus providing participants with free accommodation throughout the programme’s duration. 

Applicants should take into consideration:

Application criteria
PRAXIS is an in–person study programme and participants are expected to be in Santander at least in a partially–based basis (Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays).

Applications should include a letter expressing their interest in the program (no longer than one page), and a CV including the most relevant work instances to their current practice. Applications should be sent via email to studies [​at​] fluentfluent.org (submissions accepted from May 20 until July 10, 2024). The selection process will be carried out by fluent’s team with members of the programme’s faculty and former participants from PRAXIS I.

The languages of PRAXIS are English and Spanish. Candidates who are able to follow the sessions in one of these languages only, are still legible to apply. fluent will provide the optimate resources to follow the sessions.

PRAXIS 2024 starts on September 18, running until December 22, with two breaks in between. Changes may occur during the course of the programme. 

Tuition fee is 1,200 EUR except for five granted applicants.

Support 
fluent provides free accommodation (single rooms) in Santander to participants in the programme. fluent provides five grants to selected candidates (if you are interested in applying to one of the grants, please state the reasons in your application). The programme offers support for obtaining legal documents, if necessary.

For further information about the programme please contact PRAXIS‘ office at studies [​at​] fluentfluent.org.

*Images above: (1) PRAXIS’ 023 participants engage in a session on energy politics. (2) Tables arranged at fluent for the welcoming of PRAXIS’ 023 participants (3) Study session with artist Ibon Aranberri.