Teaching period: 17-21 March 2025 (in Trondheim), plus 13-20 February 2025 (online)
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Teacher(s):
Annett Busch, Prerna Bishnoi among other guest lecturers
ECTS: 4 ECTS (for those who join online and in Trondheim) / 2 ECTS (for those who join in Trondheim only)
Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 12
Level: BA /MA
Application deadline: 20 January 2025, 23:59
How to apply: Please fill out this form with a short motivation statement and other information.
Course description:
ARTISTIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP argues for an agency that involves and engages new combinations and new forms of cooperation among researchers, concepts and ideas, technologies, resources, and machines. It paves the way for a different kind of entrepreneurship in the truest sense of the word: Rather than just a business model, it is the undertaking or new beginning of acting together across sectors, across actors and across disciplines, to inspire people to tackle the challenges society faces. How does Artistic Entrepreneurship extend the studio practice? What if Artistic Entrepreneurship is the new Punk Rock?
The course combines artistic practice and critical artistic research through project based thinking and reframing exercises. We are creating a playful glossary, rewriting and counter-mapping the rules of Monopoly, reimagining innovation by analysing rural frameworks, stimulating collaborative ideas and looking at dissemination and publishing formats.
As a KUNO express mobility course, “Exploring Artistic Entrepreneurship” is embedded in an elective course at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. Participants are encouraged to attend at least one introductory session online in preparation for the intensive course days in Trondheim.
In conjunction with the introductory elements, the course builds on the participants' artistic practice and aims to develop entrepreneurial ideas and themes collectively to foster strategic artistic agency against monoculture.
Learning Outcomes
Students can use relevant methods for research and artistic entrepreneurial development. The students can reflect on and articulate the significance and potential of art and artists in relation to society. Students will have the skills and training required to work collaboratively.
Readings:
Antonio Negri / Michael Hardt, ‘Entrepreneurship of the Multitude’, in: Assembly, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Bernard E. Harcourt, Cooperation—A Political, Economic and Social Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 2023
Keller Easterling, Medium Design , Verso, 2021
Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Francis de Vericourt, Framers, Penguin Random House, 2021.
Explore and learn from Fluxus artists: https://monoskop.org/Fluxus
Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €
Financial support is not provided for online participation.
General KUNO Eligibility Rules:
- 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
