Teaching period: September 9-13, 2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Teacher(s): Magnus Quaife
ECTS: 2 ECTS
Number of available places for KUNO students 14
Level: BA /MA
Course description
Academies of art have always evolved often anticipating or reflecting changes in the wider art world. But over the last quarter of a century in many parts of Europe, where they have been subsumed into larger universities or merged with other schools to form arts universities, that change has often felt accelerated. Ane Hort Guttu has described how Nordic schools are no longer the “indefinable zone(s) of freedom” they once were. Art and art schools are constantly being asked to account for their value in neoliberal and economic terms, and yet Allan deSouza has argued that, ‘Without abandoning all else that they can achieve and produce, art and the MFA should also strive to be for absolutely nothing, the nothing that is resistant to being instrumentalized for other purposes, and that allow for other, as yet unconstrained possibilities.’ The challenge deSouza argues is “to teach art in ways for students to implement the known of the past in order to envisage futures and to adapt to continuous, threatening presents.’
What does this mean to a student studying art today and can we envisage a new art school for this part of the 21st century that might meet our collective needs? During this weeklong KUNO course we will reformulate what an art school/academy might need to be. It will be an exercise in collective imagination leading to the development and critique of collaboratively created formulas. Where should an art school be based, what should be taught, what kind(s) of ideology should it embrace, how does research fit in, who should attend, what kind of space is needed, what kind of pedagogies should be deployed, and what are the values and assumptions that underpin these decisions?
Application deadline: The course places are filled in the order of application. The application closes at the latest on 2 September, but may be closed earlier if the course is already full.
How to apply: Please use this link:
https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/KUNO_intensive_course_reFormulating_the_Art_School_1479
Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).
Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).
In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact ulla.tissari@uniarts.fi
