Teaching period: September 16-20, 2024
Opening of the city festival “All Roads Lead to Roam”: 13 September (in Trondheim)
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Teacher(s): Annett Busch, Margarita Torrijos, Kristian Byskov Rasmussen
ECTS: 2 ECTS
Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 10
Level: BA /MA
Course description:
A week of festive artistic urban research that invites site specific thinking and experimenting: Starting point of the course is a student-initiated city and exhibition festival in Trondheim, all roads lead to roam, that opens right the weekend before the course. The exhibition consists of nine spots, located within walking distance to the art academy, situated in Møllenberg and facing Solsiden, neighbouring Lademoen & Svartlamon, Rosenborg and Bakklandet. The selected locations, where the artworks are then installed, and walks connecting those spots, lead to places that may not have been noticed before.
Places can open up new sights and perspectives, question everyday routines and blind spots, offer entry into historic narratives and struggles, point to economic and social divides and hidden infrastructures.
We will engage with these places, artworks and their context and surroundings, add scientific-fiction and theoretical readings on site (outdoor), create audio-visual recordings and imaginary maps. As we roam (physically and theoretically) we will try to understand how things appear, how they are and how we would like the urban-social fabric to become. Playing with experimental utopias, exploring the potential of play in the city beyond designated playgrounds. In that sense, roaming locally can propel ideas translocally, can become a model and a new starting point to develop second festival editions, here and elsewhere. Students will discuss and work collaboratively in smaller groups, drawing on their knowledge of the different places they come from, to develop their own proposal for a site specific city festival, or propose a continuation in Trondheim. Folded into the specifics of sight and sites. "We often see computers not cables, light not electricity, taps and water but not pipes and sewers.” (Brian Larkin, “The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure,” 2013)
Application deadline: 30 July 2024, 13:00
How to apply: Please fill out the following online application form with a short motivation statement and further information.
Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €
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:
In case of any questions please contact annett.busch@ntnu.no
