Teaching period: 17 – 21 February 2020 from 10:00 – 16:00
Teacher: Gerry Bibby, australian visual artist
ECTS: 2 study points
Number of available place for KUNO students: 4
Level: BA & MA
Requirements: see below

Application deadline: 14th January 2020
How to apply: short written motivation to frontdesk@djk.nu (Susanne)
Please note, we will get back to you a.s.a.p.

Course description:
The processes of words are everywhere! Even when they’ve not been assigned the signs that make up the visual appearing of words, they’re directing/assisting us all the time. A simple arrow on a traffic sign expresses much more than just a shape & not a word. In an arrow's absence, or in a place where the language is not our own, we still move in space according to how we read it, requiring layers of translation of us.

If we were to de-code space as a set of instructions, specifically for how the body, as content, should/could be qualified and quantified; how it inserts itself/is incorporated into a space, would it be possible to re-imagine those instructions &/or that space, by adding to the information our bodies bring? Or more dramatically, by replacing it with a text that is not ours/us?

Strangely enough, the introduced text might then become some of sort of costume worn into a space. This kind of fiction might even provoke both a disruption of its conventions, and our understanding of our own behaviours.

The workshop will look to isolate and experiment with a selection of spaces both inside the school and in the city’s surrounds, where one or more data-sets/texts will be introduced to/worn by each of the workshop’s participants.

Generating a series of observations/computations from each idiosyncratic combination of text, space, and behaving body/carrier, these activities will then find a way to collectivise their findings.