Oslo, Norway Aug 8–13th 1857 The Ventriloquist Summerschool

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Ventriloquist
Summerschool
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Oslo, Norway
Aug 8–13th
1857
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Apply until
Jul 1st!
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The Ventriloquist
Summerschool 2016
is made possible
through the Grafill
­Stortstipend 2016
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We’d like to thank
­Arctic Paper and 1857
for partnering up with
our efforts
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From 8–13th of August
2016 the second edition of
The Ventriloquist Summerschool will happen in Oslo,
hosted by the gallery 1857
in the Grønland neighborhood. Students and
professionals of any age or
country, from within design
and all other creative fields
are encouraged to apply.
Do we need to
keep it real?
Apply until
Jul 1st!
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Oslo, Norway
Aug 8–13th
1857
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Tutors
Talk Magazine
Harry Gassel is a New
York based art director,
graphic designer and writer
focused on editorial, branding and creative strategy.
He has recently worked
with DKNY, The Standard
Hotel, Moran Bondoroff,
Like Clothing, Virginia’s
NYC, COS, Downtown
Records and Eric Mack.
Previously, Harry was the
art director of The FADER
magazine. He has contributed writing to Bad Day,
The FADER, GRAPHIC (kr)
and Supermodels. He has
a BA in Creative Writing
from Oberlin College and
an MFA in Graphic Design
from the Yale School of Art.
Eric Hu is a designer
based in New York City
and a partner at Nothing
in Common, a design
and technology studio
in Brooklyn. He received
his BFA from Art Center
College of Design in 2011
and his MFA from the Yale
School of Art in 2013. Eric
was honored as an Art
Director’s Club Young Gun
in 2010 and became the
recipient of the Bradbury
Thompson Memorial Prize
in 2013. Recent clients
have included Nike, 3.1
Phillip Lim, Columbia
Records, Verso Books, De
La Soul, West SF, The New
York Times and Columbia
University Graduate School
of Architecture.
Anu Vathra (1982) is an
artist who mainly works
with photography and
installation addressing
site-specific space-related
problematics, however she
has also been involved in
numerous collaborations
across fields. She is one of
the founders of Lugemik
Publishing and Bookshop,
has taught at several institutions and is the winner of
Köler Prize 2015 grand prix.
Currently lives and works in
Tallinn, Estonia.
Nicole Killian was born the
year the first cd player was
sold in Japan. Her work
uses graphic design, publishing, photography, video,
sculpture and installation
in various combinations to
investigate how the structures of the internet, mobile
messaging, and shared
online platforms affect contemporary interaction and
shape cultural identity from
a queer, feminist perspective. She is interested in
the repetition, looping, and
dissemination of content.
Nicole is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Kristina Ketola Bore
(1986) holds an MA in Design Writing Criticism from
London College of Communication. She works
as a design writer and
critic, editor and a partner
in the publishing house
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The 2015 edition attracted
professional applicants
and students at ­Bachelor
and Master levels from
global institutions such
as Kunsthøgskolen i
Oslo, Westerdals, Royal
College of Art and University of Brighton (UK), ISIA
­Urbino (IT), Gerrit Rietveld
Academie and Sandberg
Institute (NL), Yale University, ­Princeton University,
Cranbrook Academy of Art
and Pratt Institute (USA),
among others.
We’d like to thank ­Arctic Paper and 1857 for partnering
up with our efforts.
The Ventriloquist Summerschool is made possible by
a Grafill stipend.
The school is free of charge,
but participants must apply
for the 35 available places
through the application
form on the website. The
deadline is July 1st, 2016.
The selected participants
will be notified by Week 28
(Jul 12 max).
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http://the.ventriloqui.st/
summerschool/
Get in touch if you have
something to say:
the@ventriloqui.st
Organised by João Doria
(NO/BRA), graphic
designer, and Kristina
Ketola Bore (NO), design
writer – they are joined by
Talk Magazine (Eric Hu +
Harry Gassel / US), fine
artist Anu Vahtra (EE) and
designer Nicole Killian
(US) in teaching five workshops that will run parallel
throughout the week.
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Workshops
Particular Facts. Recently
she co-curated Kunsthall
Stavanger’s 150th anniversary exhibition Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, and
organized the international
seminar series, The Forms
of Politics. Kristina is a
lecturer in graphic design
history and theory at the
Oslo National Academy
of the Arts and is also a
guest lecturer and external
examiner at the Estonian
Academy of the Arts.
João Doria (1982) is a
polymath wannabe. His
work interviews editorial
strategies in opposition to
concision and simplicity,
drawing knowledge from
fields such as digital projection, filmmaking, architecture and installation art
from a (graphic) designerly
perspective. Doria received
an MFA from the Yale
School of Art in 2014 and
is currently a researcher at
the Van Eyck for the year
2015–16 as part of Fazed
Grunion*. Doria is a guest
lecturer in Norway at Westerdals ACT Graphic Design
BA, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo’s
MA Design and VCUArts’
MFA Graphic Design
Affiliate Graduate Faculty
member. Recent exhibitions include The Digital
vs. the Archaic (Van Eyck/
NL, 2015), 26th Concours
International (Chaumont/
FR, 2015) and It’s a Book
(Leipzig/DE, 2015).
In the summer of 2016
The Ventriloquist Summerschool will look into
the role of illusion as a
way of being, working and
generating knowledge.
How does illusion take
part in the constructs we
build for ourselves and for
the other? What’s involved
in accepting, rejecting,
validating and iterating
such constructs and how
do we use them to project
and deal with what’s in
front and ahead of us? The
participants will get space,
time and infrastructure to
develop their own projects.
This way the discussion
can happen through the
work itself in addition to
a public programme of
three evening lectures
which will create the
space for public debates
and conversations.
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The participants will be
distributed into groups,
which will be headed by
one of the five tutors.
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Affirmative Poetics
- We reserve the right
to not be understood.
We reserve the right
to ­establish non-centres.
- We suggest new macrocosms and new origins.
- We make affirmations
in order to construct our
­cosmos, acknowledging
that also parts can be
a whole.
- We ask: How do we create
without linearity? What
does the languages we
establish say about us,
and how does it say what
it says?
It is for us possible to be
the same and yet to be the
different.
We leave room for
­exchange and for plurality
of reading.
This is a continuous
­exchange.
Projection as
­Program+me
What do program, programme and programming
have in common? Where
do architecture, filmmaking,
graphic design and performance meet? How can a
loop take a life of its own,
and what are the relevant
feedback loops and structures to be constructed in
order to make this living
loop physical through living
situations in real life? Am I
being repetitive?
Look Who’s Talking Now
As publishers of a magazine, we are interested in
how information travels. Between countries,
from designer to reader,
around a city metro. We
are also interested in
the exchange of ideas
that takes place when
different types of writing,
imagery, culture, identity
get the chance to meet in
one place and hang out
bit, listen to each other
talk. The Ventriloquist
Summer School gives us
the unique opportunity
to bring a world ranging
group of perspectives into
Oslo, and to broadcast the
experience of the city from
within. Our workshop will
focus on understanding
the networks of the city of
Oslo and different ways of
amplifying those findings.
Our method is to make
use of the quick, dumb,
casual, intuitive, persistent,
iterative. To make a lot and
to see what sticks. To talk
as fast as we think.
A Probability of
­Being Seen
“The PLACE is neither a
construction nor a destruction. It comes into
being as a result of an
indemnified decision. The
PLACE has no sufficient
reason in the world. It is in
the artist that this reason
subsists. It is he/she that
calls for the PLACE. It is
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created by him/her who
steps within it. It is only
in the PLACE, and not
outside of it, that “art is
created by all”. The PLACE
cannot be mechanically
fixed up but it must be
incessantly perpetuated.”
— From “An introduction
to the general theory of
PLACE” (1966) by Wiesław
Borowski, Anka Ptaszkowska and Mariusz Tchorek,
founders of Foksal Gallery
in Warsaw, Poland.
Cover + Reveal
Language archiving.
Folder boulders.
Snippets, crumbs and
bits of words.
Manipulation of found
vernacular.
The language is leaving
me and going right to you.
And back to me. Repeat.
The words and the form of
the words. Using Oslo as
our studio and place of inspiration — if we can name
something, then it can
exist. How can poetry be
a tool of the designer? We
will hunt and we will gather.
How can we hammer out
words just as we could
flatten out a mangy piece
of metal? What if you made
your own dictionary? Your
own language?
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