Teaching period: 25th – 29th November, 2024
Location: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus
Teacher(s): Stine Marie Jacobsen, artist and professor
ECTS: 2 study points (equal to 2 ECTS)
Number of available places for KUNO students: 6
Level: BA /MA (all years)
Requirements: no previous knowledge needed
Course description:
This course is an introduction to social art practices, conflict analysis, environmental and artistic inquiry where art students can reflect on their ethics and approach to working with/within different interests, cultures and other factors that influence their art projects. From a multifocal and multimedia perspective on the interactions and constitutive relationships between knowledge and art, we will discuss a transition from a production mode to a reproductive mindset in which art is not dominated by (individual) value extractions and hegemonic power/knowledge constellations. How can the reception of people's opinions, stories and information lead to new project ideas? What is at stake when artists make art that involves people? Artistic research can generate new collective knowledge about care and (ecological) care, motivated by a sense of political urgency.
COURSE METHOD
Students in this course will create their own art projects in contact with a person, a community or a specific place of their own choice. While practically applying the tools learned, conducting research, practicing negotiation skills, and learning tools of active listening through conflict analysis methods, students will reflect on their personal agenda, gather information and develop their ideas, to finally evaluate what impact their social art project has or will have on the person, community, or place they have chosen to work with or on during this 5-day workshop. Some parts of this course will be speculative due to the course time. The main goal is to develop a root concept of your own.
BIO
Stine Marie Jacobsen holds an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen, Denmark) and a B.F.A. in Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Los Angeles, California, USA. She also completed an advanced training program in conflict resolution and peacebuilding at the Chulalongkorn University Peace Center in Bangkok, Thailand. Over the past 15 years, she has gained extensive experience working in conflict zones and post-colonial contexts in countries such as Colombia, Lebanon, Greenland and Eastern Ukraine. Jacobsen has conceived and developed a series of participatory and educational projects such as Direct Approach, where people retell the most violent movie scene they have seen from memory and play either the victim, perpetrator or bystander in a cinematic re-enactment. Also Law Shifters, where, in collaboration with lawyers, she invites people to performatively re-enact real-life legal processes and then write their own legal proposals. Or Group-Think: a sports and protest project in which she trains collective intelligence and safety with large groups.
Application deadline: 14th October, 2024
How to apply: Please send an application form and short motivation to frontdesk@djk.nu. Please state the course name “When Theory lacks street” in an email subject title.
Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.
In case of any questions please contact Susanne Brokmann at: frontdesk@djk.nu
