transart institute – creative international low
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transart institute – creative international low
TRANSART INSTITUTE – CREATIVE INTERNATIONAL LOW-RESIDENCY MFA + PHD An un-school art school, Transart positions itself in the gaps where art practice, knowledge production and research processes operate; in the tensions between, across, through and beyond recognised paradigms. cover above Kelly Reyna assists Analia Sirobonian install work at Mila Kunstgalerie. Curator portfolio review sessions. ALL BERLIN RESIDENCY PHOTOS BY ALEKS SLOTA. W H AT I S T R A N S A R T ? Transart Institute is small, responsive and agile. We are an independent, utopian art school without geographic location offering accredited creative practice graduate studies. Our students and faculty—from all over the planet— meet each year in Berlin and New York as we continue to work wherever we live actively supported by advisors, student-run critique groups and the TI community. Founded and run by artists, TI is a student-centered program where participants create their own course of study. Using the prefix “trans” to denote a crossing, a passing through and over we nudge concepts and incite boundary skirmishes between differing opinions and beliefs. Using individual and collective experiences of contemporary life Transart seeks to modify and expand the meaning of whatever the trans prefix precedes: transact, transcribe, transgress, translocate, transmit, translate, transdisciplinary. We fully expect and encourage our students to expand their inquiry across whatever boundaries and frontiers they choose or are confronted by. An un-school art school, Transart positions itself in the gaps where art practice, knowledge production and research processes operate; in the tensions between, across, through and beyond recognised paradigms. Just as we come from across national, cultural, material and conceptual boundaries our student body includes recent graduates, mid-career artists, writers, teachers and thinkers who come to Transart Institute to expand their points of view and invigorate their practice by participating in intensive immersive residencies including workshops and seminars, presentation and critique, peer dialogue and debate and becoming part of an international artistic research community. MFA Program The two-year MFA program comprises three intensive three-week long summer residencies in Europe and two shorter winter residencies in New York. In the four semesters between residencies, students create their own course of study realizing individual art and research projects with the support of faculty and self-chosen advisors. 4. Niko Solorio, preparing to perform at Somos Project Space Berlin—The space remained silent and the audience wore headphones. During residencies, MFA students present their work and ideas in seminars and workshops, in small critique groups and in individual sessions with faculty, getting the benefits of many different perspectives on their work. Issues of delivery, content, aesthetics, technique, audience, media, genre, gender, culture and process are discussed. Resources are shared and students learn to present their work to audiences of varied size and purpose. During the summer residencies, students prepare project plans with input from faculty in group and individual planning sessions throughout the residency as their ideas develop, submitting year-long plans for approval by the end of the first and second summer residencies. The establishment of critique groups is initiated at each summer residency. These groups continue throughout the year either in person or through virtual channels. In addition to the individual critique sessions with advisors, students enter various modes of exchange and critique. Creative Practice Research Transart encourages and promotes active artistic research that links traditions of the past to the unknowns of the future through the connective tissues of collaborative, borderless current practices establishing an open ended, vibrant and responsive international artistic research community. MFA Since each MFA student is responsible for their own course of study TI has no formal curriculum. Rather completions are directed by and predicated on individual proposal strategies and ongoing formative assessment. Summer intensive workshops and seminars-chosen annually by students-are thematically rather than media based and participants find themselves working alongside and collaborating with a variety of trans-disciplinary artists. Each summer and winter students participate in pop-up events, exhibitions and performances, receive critique and input from visiting artists, curators and alumni; attend talks, cultural events and excursions. PHD As with our MFA programme the TI PhD offers candidates the necessary luxury of undertaking advanced creative research without major disruption to their lives. PhD students attend summer and winter intensives which offer specially designed research workshops, seminars, presentation and critique, research dissemination opportunities and cultural excursions. As well, invited faculty and PhD candidates from other institutions take part in each summer residency and our students regularly participate in international research symposia and conferences. 6. Sanja Hurem serving a communally prepared dinner, part of Konjit Seyoum’s project. Everyone cut onions and cried together. Berlin. WHY TRANSART? Transart encourages and promotes dialogue and collaboration between artists, writers, curators and thinkers across cultures; we applaud risk-taking aspiring to innovate and experiment; creative problem-solving. As we continue to congregate and disperse TI engages a respiratory model breathing ideas across boundaries and frontiers, between concepts and beliefs, and seeding possibility. Utopian in vision we engage in the belief that all that is solid melts into air; that the pleasure of the text is valuable; that pleasure and participation themselves are subversive; and that artistic research produces new knowledge. As recent MFA graduate Mark Roth wryly noted: “I don’t know if the world needs art but I know it needs artists.” Other Transart Initiatives The Transart Triennale brings together exhibitions and events including concerts, discussion groups, seminars and workshops, performances, screenings, critiques, tours and alternative tours and multi-author book launches. ELSE is the journal of international art, literature, theory and creative media. Published annually ELSE welcomes experimental and alternative representations of creative work. Peer-reviewed works, projects, and research thematically gravitating towards memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive; language/image; gender; software, materiality and mediality; international diaspora and post-colonialism; cultural engagement through food; role of art in peace meditation; performance activism; liminality; space/place; temporary architecture; foreignness, wandering ecologies, otherness and the uncanny. Research Interests Memory, Forgetting, Trauma and the Archive; Language/Image; Gender; Software, Materiality and Mediality; International Diaspora and Post-Colonialism; Cultural Engagement through Food; Role of Art in Peace and Mediation; Performance Activism; Liminality; Space/Place; Temporary Architecture; Foreignness, Otherness and the Uncanny. 8. Barbara Minishi, Gabriel Deerman and Shark Roth move a piano in the “Alienation” workshop at the Bertolt Brecht Theater in Berlin. FINANCIAL AID Merit Awards are given for Transart MFA and PhD work to an applicant whose practice and proposed projects are of the highest level of artistic achievement. Award is not limited to any media, theme or specific field. Six Transart Merit Awards are available to incoming MFA students. Two Transart Merit Awards are available to incoming PhD students per year. $600.00 is awarded for the Summer Academy Certificate Program. Earth Awareness Prize is awarded for Transart MFA work that raise environmental awareness and is exemplary in dealing with the many challenges we face in advancing stewardship for the earth. Award is $1000.00 per semester for second year of program (2 semesters). One prize is awarded per year. Social Change Prize is awarded for Transart MFA work championing social change through direct involvement with communities or through raising awareness on a specific issue. Award is $1000.00 per semester for second year of program (2 semesters). One prize is awarded per year. Peace and Mediation Prize is awarded for Transart MFA work dealing with the role of art in peace and mediation. Award is $1000.00 per semester for second year of program (2 semesters). One prize is awarded per year. Writing Prize is awarded for Transart MFA work that eloquently and effectively articulates the relationship between research and practice in the first year research paper in a way that expands our understanding of the role writing can play in support of artistic practice. Award is $1000.00 per semester for second year of program. 10. Alumnus Khaled Hafez painting his thesis in Cairo. Scholarships and prizes are awarded by the Admissions Committee to new applicants, based on admissions applications received before March 1st, 2016. Scholarship recipients announced on April 1st. All other awards and scholarships for returning students are awarded by the Transart Faculty Board based on year end projects. Note: One award per student. There are no full scholarships. Alumni Awards All Transart MFA Alumni are awarded a 50% tuition scholarships for 1–3 weeks of the Transart Berlin Summer Academy, space permitting. Alumni Project Funding Grants are awarded to Transart MFA and PhD alumni whose practice and proposed projects are of the highest level of artistic achievement. Award is not limited to any media, theme or specific field. Award is $1000.00 per project. Two prizes are awarded each year. Transart Support Transart offers all Transartists (faculty, students and alumni) as well as acccepted applicants a minimum of four hours of consulting support with scholarship searches, grantwriting, funding advice, project strategy advisement and research resources, selected from the Transart Consultant Pool. Student Loans Plymouth University is certified by the U.S. Department of Education as a foreign school, DOE code 02352100. U.S. students may apply for private student loans through Sallie Mae International. The Federal and Provincial Governments of Canada offer financial aid to Canadians studying through Plymouth University, code PVBZ. 12. Action led by Jean Ulrich-Desert for the workshop “Art and the Echo Chamber(s)” at Uferstudios. C U R R E N T FA C U LT Y, G U E S T, A D V I S O R S 3D3 Researchers (UK) Katy Macleod PhD (UK) Angeliki Avgitidou, PhD (Greece/UK) Elena Marchevska PhD (Macedonia/UK) Sonia Barrett (Germany/UK) Herman Mendolicchio PhD (Italy/Spain) Sarah Bennett, PhD (UK) Lee Miller (UK) Michael Birchall (Germany) Linda Montano, MFA (US) Michael Bowdidge, PhD (UK) Christine Nippe (Germany) Barbara Bolt PhD (Australia) Ece Pazarbasi (Turkey/Germany) Lynn Book, MFA (US) Simon Pope PhD (UK/Canada) Jean Marie Casbarian, MFA (US) Heiko Pfreundt (Germany) Cella, MFA Susie Quillinan MFA (Australia/US/Peru) Andrew Cooks, PhD (Australia/US) Kate Hers Rhee (Korea/US/Germany) Geoff Cox, PhD (UK/Denmark) Deborah Robinson, PhD (UK) Jean-Ulrick Desert, MA (Haiti/Germany) Julia Rosenbaum (Germany) Nicolas Dumit Estevez MFA (US) Merete Rostad, MFA (Norway/Germany) Kerstin Godschalk (Germany) Evi Sfikaki (UK) Laura Gonzalez, PhD (Spain/UK) Marieke Spendel (Germany) Khaled Hafez MFA (Egypt) Radhika Subramaniam PhD (India/US) Valeska Hageney (Italy/Germany) Wolfgang Suetzl, PhD (Austria/US) Caroline Koebel, MFA (US) Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley (UK) 14. PhD student James Charlton’s “Three Actions in 56 Bytes” involves math, bouncing balls, water, and tyres. FA C U LT Y Our diverse faculty and advisors come from a wide range of academic and artistic backgrounds, and equally far-flung geographic locations. Current areas of theoretical expertise include: curatorial work; art activism, cyberfeminism; African diaspora; interface technologies; digital arts; continental philosophy; media; social studies in colonialism, capitalism, and tourism; word and image relationships; psychology, and contemporary Asian art history. Our studio faculty and advisors are international artists working with sound, animation, performance, dance and choreography, painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, film and video, intervention, and installation. Lynn Book creates media-diverse works across a range of cultural sites on questions of embodiment, otherness, social structures and states of public imagination. These works are performance-based and take form in music concert frameworks, multimedia productions, audio recordings and site-specific encounters. Her aim is to rework epistemological relations between bodies, book objects, print and digital media to propose new maps for constructing meaning in a highly mediated cultural regime, magnified by a super-saturated technological one. Book has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacArthur Foundation, and Franklin Furnace. Research includes: embodiment, otherness, social structures and states of public imagination. Critical French feminisms, issues of exile, nomadism, critique of power, and language structures and linguistic invention also inform her work. www.lynnbook.com Michael Bowdidge is an artist who works with found objects, images and sound. He received his undergraduate degree in Fine Art from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1989, and completed his doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh in 2012. His project took the form of a practice-based investigation into the relationship between the later. philosophy of Wittgenstein and assemblage sculpture. This research was fueled by the same curiosity about the possibilties of objectbased sculptural practice which has driven 20 years of creative production in this medium. The notion of the sculptural as a distinctive set of qualities and criteria (after Koed) also informs his work. Michael works in a variety of educational contexts which include academic and community settings. All of these activities enrich his teaching practice and by extension his creative output—since these areas of endeavour are fundamentally intertwined. Born in England Michael lives and works in Scotland. www.michaelbowdidge.co.uk 16. Alumni Mariana Rocha and José Drummond performing “The Knot” at Somos Project Space, Berlin. Jean Marie Casbarian is an interdisciplinary artist who incorporates photography, film and video projections, sound, sculpture and performance into her artworks. In 2000 she received her MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College in New York. Jean Marie has exhibited her works throughout the United States, Europe, Central America and Asia and has received a number of awards and artist residencies including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation nomination, The LaNapoule Foundation Grant in LaNapoule, France and an Associateship with The Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute. As an educator, Jean Marie currently teaches and advises graduate students at Transart Institute, a low-residency MFA program based in Berlin and New York City and is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She has taught in the film and photography departments at Hampshire College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and for the ICP–Bard MFA program in New York. Jean Marie lives and works in New York City. www.jeanmariecasbarian.com Artist Cella’s current work explores “living in liminality” in a phenomenologically-driven practice centered around architecture and the spaces and experiences it creates through post-documentary photography, projections, installation, memoir and film. She exhibits internationally, most recently in the Berlin Biennale, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Tallinn Print Triennale, Rochester Museum of Fine Arts Biennale, Santorini Peace Biennale and Melbourne Photo Biennale. She co-founded the Transart Institute, is editor-in-chief for Else Journal of art and culture, and artistic director for the international Transart Triennale. She lives and works wherever she is. www.everythingflows.com Andrew Cooks was born in Sydney and completed his PhD with Monash University in Melbourne. A ramble through the paradoxes of space his peripatetic practice addresses the pleasure garden as a model of created/curated space vis-à-vis imagining. Using pattern to effect pictorial space his body of work—painting, drawing, photographic sideglances, writing, talking and teaching—examines the traverse and occupation of real and imagined space. Made up of sideways glimpsing and glancing his works are accumulations which attempt a communication of a comprehensive glance; a poetic visual totalising of space both inhabited and imagined. He describes his practice as a garden where he is the gardener. Andrew has undertaken studio residencies in Budapest, Vienna, Paris and Melbourne and his work has been exhibited in Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States. He has been teaching in a variety of academic and community settings in Australia and the United States since 1982, and as well as his work with Transart Institute he currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. www.andrew-cooks.com 18. Analia Sirabonian examines designing skin for her first year project in Argentina. Geoff Cox is Associate Professor in the Department of Aesthetics and Communication, and Participatory IT Research Centre, Aarhus University (Denmark). He is also an occasional artist, Associate Curator of Online Projects Arnolfini, Bristol (UK), and part of the self-institution Museum of Ordure. His research interests lie in the areas of contemporary art and performance, software studies, network culture and a reappraisal of the concept of publicness. He is an editor for the DATA Browser book series (published by Autonomedia), and co-edited Economising Culture (2004), Engineering Culture (2005), Creating Insecurity (2009) and Disrupting Business (for 2013). His latest book (with Alex McLean) is Speaking Code: coding as aesthetic and political expression (MIT Press 2013). He co-runs a yearly workshop/ conference in collaboration with transmediale and is co-editor of the associated open access online journal APRJA. He is currently working on a book project about live coding. www.anti-thesis.net Laura Gonzalez is an artist and writer. Her recent practice encompasses film, performance, dance, photography and text, and her work has been exhibited and published in the UK, Europe and the U.S. She has spoken at numerous conferences and events, including the Museum for the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, the Medical Museum in Copenhagen, College Arts Association and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx’s footsteps with her camera she lectures and supervises postgraduate students at the Glasgow School of Art and at various institutions around the world. Her doctoral project completed in 2010 investigated the practice of seduction and her recent book Make Me Yours—How Art Seduces is to be published in 2016. She is currently immersed in an interdisciplinary project exploring knowledge and the body of the hysteric. She has edited a collection of essays titled “Madness, Women and the Power of Art” (2013). Laura is a keen reader and together with Ian Macbeth founded the Dialectical Materialist Book Group. Laura was born in Spain and lives and works in Glasgow. www.lauragonzalez.co.uk Susie Quillinan is an independent curator, artist and arts worker based in New York and Lima. Intrigued by ideas of post-subjectivity, collective knowledge production and bureaucratic utopias; Susie’s recent work has focused on building para institutional models and re-activating underused public spaces such as libraries and decommissioned transport stations. Susie holds an MFA from Transart Institute and has exhibited in Melbourne, New York, Lima, Paris, Berlin and Barcelona. www.planautopoiesis.com 20. Knoll+Cella, Transart founders, from the photo series “On Oahu”. Wolfgang Suetzl is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer and educator, media theorist and (continental) philosopher. He earned his PhD in philosophy from the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón (Spain) with a thesis on the contemporary Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo. Prior to doctoral studies Wolfgang completed a Master’s degree in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK, and a Mag. phil. in translation (German, English & Spanish) at the University of Vienna. Previously he was Senior Researcher, research project on media activism, University of Innsbruck (2009–2012) and Chief Researcher at World-Information.org (2000–2006). In addition to Transart, Wolfgang is faculty in the MA Program Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria and visiting assistant professor, School of Media Arts and Studies, Ohio University, where he currently lives and works. www.wolfgangsuetzl.net STUDENTS Transart students vary widely in age, experience and work and come from most continents currently including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Colombia, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Grenada, Greece, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Qatar, South Africa, United Arab Emirates and United States. Khaled Hafez (MFA 2010) is an interdisciplinary visual artist born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963. He studied medicine and independently at Cairo Fine Arts. After attaining a medical degree in 1987 in 1992, Khaled gave up his medical practice to pursue a career in the arts, and in 2010 earned his MFA in new media from Transart Institute. Khaled’s practice spans the mediums of painting, video, photography, installation and interdisciplinary approaches. International group exhibitions include: 55th Venice Biennale, 2015; 11th Havana Biennale, Cuba, 2012; 9th Bamako Photo Biennale, Mali, 2011; 8th Mercosul Biennale, Brasil, 2011; 12th Cairo Biennale, Egypt, 2010; Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain, 2010; 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece, 2009; 3rd Guangzhou Triennale, China, 2008; 7th Sharjah Biennale, UAE, 2007; 1st Singapore Biennale, 2006; 6th & 7th Dakar Biennale, Senegal, 2004, 2006. Khaled’s work has been shown in: State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2011, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, 2011, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2011, Yuchengco Museum, Manila, Philippines, 22. Site specific commission “A Blossoming” by faculty Andrew Cooks at Glyndor House, Wave Hill, New York City. 2011, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, USA, 2010, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France, 2010, The New Museum NY, USA, 2010, Casa Arabe, Madrid, 2010, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2009, The Queens Museum, NY, USA, 2008, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, 2008, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2007, MuHKA Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007 & 2011, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, 2007, Bamako National Museum of Art, Mali, 2007, 2011, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, 2007 & 2011. Khaled lives and works in Cairo. www.khaledhafez.net/home.htm Mariana Rocha (MFA 2015) is a visual artist, ballerina and lawyer. She has a BA in Fine Arts from Escola Guignard (UEMG/Brazil), specialized in drawing and sculpture and a Post Graduation Course in Performance Art from Faculdade Angel Vianna (RJ/Brazil). She most recently earned her MFA at Transart Institute/Plymouth University. Her work is interdisciplinary and has been shown in Brazil and abroad. Part of the performance duo Rocha & Polse her work researches the body and its relation to sound, movement, weight and decay. Her collaborative work is interdisciplinary, site and context responsive and bridges performance art to sound, photography, video and installation. Mariana lives and works in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. www.mariana-rocha.com James Charlton (current PhD candidate) was born in the UK and gained his BFA from Auckland University, Elam School of Fine Arts in 1982 and completed his MFA at the State University of New York at Albany in 1986 as a Fulbright scholar and then remained in the United States for five years exhibiting extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout the USA, and was represented by Akin Gallery in Boston and John Gibson Gallery in New York. During this time he lectured in sculpture at the University of New Hampshire, Monserrat College of Art and the State University of New York at Albany. Since returning to New Zealand in 1991, Charlton lectured at the ASA School of Art before becoming the Curriculum Leader for Sculpture and Interactive Media at Auckland University of Technology. Since 2005 he has been Program Leader in the newly established Interdisciplinary Unit. While his practice is clearly located in visual arts context he engages a range of physical, digital and performative approaches in an exploration into the nature of the artefact as a field of activity in which the viewer is implicated. Strategically constructing credibility within the work Charlton consistently subverts the expectations he establishes as a means of questioning the role of artwork and the assumptions of the audience. His current research projects 24. On break during a the workshop, summer residency, Uferstudios, Berlin. with interactive digital object technologies center around the integration of digital and physical content to question the definitions and inherent nature of time-based media. James lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. www.idot.net.nz Analia Sirabonian (current MFA student) has a Bachelor’s degree in Clothing Design from the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires. Her approach to the world of art comes from this background, a discipline that refers to the human body in constant bond with objects. She is most interested in bodies which differ from others, that modify over time; that vary in relation to context, wear signs; are marked, parceled; that carry and transfer meaning: tattoos; scars, marks or stains; warts and wrinkles; or are suntanned. Some bodies wear dresses or suits, others a corsé for scoliosis. The human body is loaded with significance and linked to its surroundings in different ways. Most of Analia’s work is photo and/or video based, digitally manipulated. Her use of digital tools and virtual representation offer a way of talking about the present and placing value on ideas of artifice, hyperreality and simulation. Chromosonal encoding, various states of body adornment, dress and nondress (identity signifiers), body orifices and intersections between the natural world and an inferred cyber world are loaded symbols that play a part in her conceptual toolbox. She makes work that addresses a continuum of simulated reality and life in virtual space where artificiality might come to grips with nature and her investigations seem to hover more in the realm of humanist philosophy and existentialism that want to knock on the doors of science fiction. Analia is enthusiastic about being at once a student and a teacher, a simultaneity that enables her to generate a shared environment of constant reciprocity; of learning and teaching. Analia lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. www.analiasirabonian.com 26. Michael Bowdidge, “The Agent,” 2014, found wood, metal and plastic components with graphite pencil, size variable A C C R E D I TAT I O N A N D H I S T O R Y Born out of a recognition that graduate work for artists was calling out for a different model than the two year full time programs offered by bricks and mortar schools, Transart Institute was founded by two artists in 2004. It began as a low-residency Master of Fine Arts program with an international body of 25 students and eight faculty. Transart Institute’s Creative Practice MFA and PhD programs are accredited by the School of Art and Media at Plymouth University in the UK. TI students also have registration with Plymouth University and as such have access to University infrastructure including library and library support, and the university’s infranet. 28. Current MFA graduating class, Uferstudios, Berlin. “I don’t know if the world needs art but I know it needs artists.” — Mark Roth 30. right “Intensities—Extending Bodies and Voices” workshop, Uferstudios, Berlin. back cover Zeerak Ahmed sings by request at her Q&A—part of her first year MFA presentation, summer residency, Uferstudios, Berlin. www.transart.org admissions@transart.org +1 (347) 410 9905 Accreditation Plymouth University School of Art & Media www.plymouth.ac.uk Transart U.S. non-profit #87-0739960
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