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Jan van Eyck Academie
Post-academic Institute for Research and Production
Fine Art, Design, Theory
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Call for applications
Deadline: Friday 13 April 2007
Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and
production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck
Academie. Candidates can either apply with a topic of their own or for
a project formulated by the institute itself. In order to realise these
projects, the Jan van Eyck offers the necessary made-to-measure
artistic, technical and auxiliary preconditions.
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Profile
The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production
in the fields of fine art, design and theory. Every year, 48
international researchers realise their individual or collective
projects in the artistic and challenging environment that is the Jan
van Eyck. The institute is not led by predetermined leitmotivs.
Artists, designers and theoreticians can submit independently
formulated proposals for research and/or production in the Fine Art,
Design and Theory department or candidates can apply for collective
research projects formulated by the Jan van Eyck (see below). The
miscellaneous nature of these research projects and productions makes
the Jan van Eyck into a multi-disciplinary institute. This also shows
in the programme of the institute. Researchers, departments and the
institute organise various weekly activities, to which special speakers
are invited: lectures, seminars, workshops, screenings, exhibitions,
discussions … External interested parties are welcome to attend these
activities. The result is a dynamic and critical exchange between the
different agents from within and outside of the Jan van Eyck.
Facilities
Researchers are advised by a team of artists, designers and
theoreticians who have won their spurs globally. They receive their own
studio and a stipend. Furthermore, researchers can make use of all
kinds of facilities which support their projects, from first concept to
public presentation: the library, the documentation centre and various
workshops (wood and other materials; graphic productions and
photography; digital text & image processing and editing; time-based
media). They can also get assistance with their print work, the editing
and distribution of publications and the publicity of events.
Application
Candidates can apply to a department or a collective research project
(see below). The academic year runs from 1 January to 31 December.
Research candidates can apply for a one-year or two-year research
period starting annually on 1 January. It is also possible to apply to
do research for a different period and with a different starting date.
More information about the application procedure can be found at
http://www.janvaneyck.nl/_devices/frames_applications.html
Contact
For practical questions concerning the application procedure or to
request an information brochure, please contact Leon Westenberg
([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
For content-related questions on the Jan van Eyck Academie in general,
its departments or on the collective research projects, please contact
Kim Thehu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
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Departments
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Fine Art department
The Fine Art department encourages both personal and discursive
exchange amongst its researchers. It thus wants to establish a context
of practice-oriented discussion - a context that considers
issue-orientation alongside other artistic approaches, as well as being
driven by processing, producing, organizing and going public.
Advising researchers: Orla Barry, Aglaia Konrad, Hinrich Sachs, Imogen
Stidworthy
More information:
http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/fineart_statement.html
Design department
The Design department focuses on design as research, design as
discourse, design as publishing. It initiates and supports research
projects in the areas of cultural and corporate identity, mapping,
print and new media publishing, urban and regional identity, and book
design. While the department formerly focused mainly on graphic and
communication design, it has been widening its scope to include
spatial, product and service design.
Advising researchers: Wim Cuyvers, Will Holder, Daniel van der Velden
More information:
http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/design_statement.html
Theory department
The Theory department offers a stimulating environment for critical
inquiry and intense debate to explore alternative ways of shaping
intellectual horizons. The department welcomes researchers who pursue
their artistic and/or intellectual vision anywhere on the interface of
critical theory, philosophy, aesthetics and psychoanalysis with the
visual arts.
Advising researchers: Norman Bryson, Katja Diefenbach, Hanneke
Grootenboer, Dominiek Hoens
More information:
http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/theory_statement.html
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Collective research projects
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Logo Parc. Challenging the aesthetics of economy
Logo Parc is a design research project for public space. Its main focus
of interest is the Zuidas (South Axis) in Amsterdam: a prestigious area
of high-rise office blocks, residential and cultural facilities on both
sides of the A10 motorway. The Zuidas is considered a new typology of
the city, dedicated to the symbolic representation of economy,
information, knowledge and mobility. Logo Parc is driven by a critical
interest in the representation of power and economy – both to
deconstruct it, and to create it. As a machine for comments, ideas and
visions for the Zuidas, the project aims to fuel discussion as well as
trigger actual design issues, operating freely in an area in-between
architectural, spatial and communication design.
Logo Parc is a joint project of Jan van Eyck Academie, Lectoraat Kunst
en Publieke Ruimte, Gerrit Rietveld Academy / Amsterdam University and
Premsela Dutch Design Foundation.
Advising researcher: Daniel van der Velden
More information: http://logoparc.janvaneyck.nl/
Tomorrow book studio
The project Tomorrow book studio aims at carrying out research into the
future of the book, taking a multi-disciplinary approach. At the same
time, the project concerns itself with commission-based book design
where research can be directly tested and applied in practice.
Convinced that the book will never cease to exist, the Tomorrow book
studio focuses on the specific qualities of the book as a medium. After
all, the book has a physical reality which is part of a complex and
process-like entity, involving acts such as conceptualizing, making,
distributing, reading, using, reusing and keeping.
The Tomorrow book studio is a joint research project of the Jan van
Eyck Academie and the Charles Nypels Foundation.
Advising researcher: Will Holder
More information: http://tomorrowbookstudio.janvaneyck.nl
Traces of autism. Wander-research in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine
This research project concerns the search for public space in the
Euregion Meuse-Rhine. ‘Walks’ (on foot, by bike, car, bus, train)
through the region are essential part of the research. These walks and
the ensuing inventories are determined by strict ‘protocols’: for
instance, during the research, the inner borders of the Euregion
function as a reference line and a kind of reading axis. As was evident
from earlier research, the vulnerable (gypsies, refugees, migrants,
drug addicts…) can function as indicators. Another indicator is
provided by the patterns which appear after observation of the
opposite: leisure activities that assail public space. Maps are
constantly used and developed, but the project is not at all about
cognitive mapping. During the entire research period, the French
pedagogue Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) is considered a supporter,
someone who walks in the footsteps of the researchers, as he did for
thirty years: following autistic patients, without intervention, only
registering, not even wanting to ‘learn’ anything.
Advising researcher: Wim Cuyvers
More information: http://tracesofautism.janvaneyck.nl
After 1968. What is the political?
The project After 1968 debates the notion of the political in
Post-Marxist theory, reflecting how an entire wave of minoritarian
militancy, which emerged during the 60s and 70s, has failed and led to
a controversy about the mode of political struggle. In
Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Feminism and Marxism, this
theoretical conflict is shaped along the following lines: Butler's
Levinasian ethics of the vulnerability and passivity of a precarious
life-form; Badiou’s event of truth; Derrida's messianic expectation of
an event which evades any expectation; Zizek’s idea of a neo-Leninist
decision; Agamben's notion of a potentiality that is in any relation to
the act; the concept of an empty universality in hegemony theory; the
post-operaist ontological belief in the autonomy of the multitude and a
coming communism of creative doing; Rancière's suggestion that the
political conflict resides in the tension between the structured social
body and the part with no-part, etc. After 1968 negotiates these
enormous differences concerning the question of a constituent moment or
an ontological founding of the political, of its organisational form,
of activity and passivity, doing and event.
Advising researcher: Katja Diefenbach
More information: http://after1968.janvaneyck.nl
Circle for Lacanian ideology Critique
The Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique (CLiC) gathers
researchers who are interested in Lacanian theory and consider it an
open set of tools for critically considering contemporary (post-)
modern culture. CLiC intends to activate the psychoanalytical – and
especially Lacanian – background of many current philosophers and
critics, such as Agamben, Badiou, Jameson, Laclau, Mouffe, Negri,
Derrida, Nancy, Rancière, Žižek and Zupancic. Insight into the Lacanian
background of these theories is indispensable in order to discover the
very core of their critical potentialities, which is why a
confrontation with and a reading of the Lacanian text is one of CLiC’s
objectives.
Advising researcher: Dominiek Hoens
More information: http://clic.janvaneyck.nl
The pensive image
The pensive image is a research project on thinking images. This
project studies the extent to which images (painting, photography,
cinema etc.) are able to philosophize on the status of their own
representation, and on the nature of vision. The project is based on
the hypothesis that monocular models of vision such as perspective and
the camera have shaped our binocular perception of the world. Following
Hubert Damisch and Roland Barthes, among others, The pensive image aims
at formulating a theory as to how images ‘think’ about vision through a
study of images that ‘look back’ at us, viewers.
Advising researcher: Hanneke Grootenboer
More information: http://thepensiveimage.janvaneyck.nl
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