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tranzit. hu is launching the Free School for Art Theory and PracticeJens Hoffmann, artistic director, Insitute of Contemporary Arts, London18 December 2006 - 19 December 2006 The Free School for Art Theory and Practice considers as the basis of its philosophy the concept that contemporary art and culture produce an excess of knowledge and experience, which can be recycled and used in broader social discourse, beyond their own primary context. The aim of the Free School is to increase the theoretical and practical arsenal of the local art scene based on active participation and dialogue in seminars, and also by analyzing artistic positions, critical aspects and the institutional system. With its name, the school marks community gatherings for people to meet with a view to exchangeknowledge and learn from one another. The school will function in the form of regular weekend seminars, held by invited curators, theoreticians and artists, allowing for the specificities of the contemporary Hungarian art scene and local discourses. Jens Hoffmann is a curator and writer based in London where he is the Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. He is appointed director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts San Francisco. He is faculty member of the Curatorial Studies Program of Goldsmiths College, University of London. Since 1998 he has curated over three-dozen exhibitions internationally and written over 100 articles on visual art and curatorial practice for art magazines and museum publications. Emerging, unusually, from a training in theatre rather than art history or curatorial studies, Jens Hoffmann has used his directorial knowledge in particular to articulate his unique approach to curating. Of key importance for all of his exhibitions is the actual staging of the experience<ranging from the design of the space and installation, the conceptualization of the catalogue and related programming, to the attention paid to the performance of the work itself. The Ostage-set1 or rather the exhibition space, site, or geographical location is itself an important factor in the development of his ideas which respond to both time and place. Hoffmann takes into account both the larger historical and socio-political context in which an exhibition takes place as well as the relevant curatorial or art historical relationships pertaining to a project. Using the ideas and strategies of artists, in particular a conceptual tradition of art making, and applying this approach to a curatorial idea of authorship is a defining characteristic of Hoffmann1s work and results in a personalized exhibition history reflective of a creative development not dissimilar to that of an artist. Attendance at the free school is free. On request we can help in organization of accommodation. Send applications to: tranzit@enternet.hu Location:
Free School for Art Theory and Practice
Collegium Budapest tranzit@enternet.hu Szentháromság u.2. 1014 - Budapest, Hungary http://tranzithu.media7.sk/ Organizers:
Tranzit
Vit Havránek kiki@mybox.cz Phone: +420 777 154 864 Fričova 11 120 00 - Prague, Czech Republic http://www.tranzit.org Sponsors:
Česká spořitelna, a.s.
csas@csas.cz Phone: 261071111 Olbrachtova 1929/62 140 00 - Praha, Czech Republic http://www.csas.cz
Slovenská sporiteľňa
Phone: +421 2 5850 3111 Fax: +421 2 5850 4111 Suché mýto 4 816 07 - Bratislava, Slovakia related projects |
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