---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [transversal] call for applications to the School of Missing Studies From: "School of Missing Studies" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, January 13, 2013 11:20 pm To: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------
BE REALISTIC, DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE SCHOOL OF MISSING STUDIES 2013-2015 We are pleased to announce the launch of the School of Missing Studies, a one-time only, two-year Masterâs program on Art and Learning, headed by Bik Van der Pol. Commencing September 2013 at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, the School of Missing Studies is now open for applications. Application deadline: April 1, 2013. http://www.sandberg.nl/sandberg_apply.php#artandlearning http://www.facebook.com/missingstudies âAs political and economical forces have come to shape the perception of culture, (art) education â regarded to be a place of cultural production â has fallen behind. Education and learning need to reclaim space, as they are means to participate in politics, creating forms of political socialization.â â Bik Van der Pol, course directors. The School of Missing Studies takes its title from an ongoing project initiated by Bik Van der Pol in 2003, in collaboration with artists, thinkers, and architects. Since its initiation, The School for Missing Studies (SMS) has functioned as a nomadic, collaborative platform for experimental study and research of the public environment (public space, public time, public good) marked by, or currently undergoing abrupt transition. In 2013, SMS will also operate as a one-time only, two-year Masterâs program at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Following the observation that singular disciplines sometimes fail to discern or capture significant knowledge about uncommon or unprecedented situations, SMS brings together practitioners with diverse educational or professional backgrounds, who share a common ideal to make âthe missingâ their mission and are interested in (artistic) practice as a modus operandi for imagination and productive speculation. Both art project and MA course, SMS proposes to find common and uncommon grounds for research and practice, from where acute political, social, educational and urban challenges can be articulated and further debated. The School of Missing Studies will run from September 2013 to July 2015. COURSE In a world where the value of art is challenged, it is timely to reinvest in its place in society. The School of Missing Studies strongly believes in the intrinsic qualities of artistic practice as a means to disclose â make public â what is at stake in public space. As a platform for experimental learning, the School of Missing Studies considers education as a space of experience and encounter, a strategy for emancipation, and a potential response to public issues. While functioning as a collective space of discourse, analysis, and experimentation, SMS also turns to itself â the space of education â as a model and manifestation of âpublicnessâ, taking the paradoxical but necessary form of a âclosedâ study program. Within the institutional setting of the art school, SMS proposes to formulate a notion of artistic practice that is articulated in dialogue with other fields of knowledge, and that could generate a political attitude towards the need of a more âgeneralâ practice for effecting change and innovation in society, that takes the speculative, the undefined â âthe missingâ â into account. SMS welcomes students who believe that practice has the potential to turn the School into a public sphere. Collectivity is not the result of dialogue, nor is dialogue the result of collectivity. Learning is a time-based art that implies action, ritual, theatricality: a tutorial team of thinkers and practitioners will assist students in developing and formulating new processes of learning. We imagine a way of learning that is rooted in practice as a process for continuous reconfiguration, using dialogue as its major mode of transfer. Collectivity is the means, not the end: in the collective attempt to find common and uncommon ground, with public space as the (literally) common denominator, students will enable themselves to develop conceptual tools and methods for a form of critical (self-) education. SMS tutors and guests include: Ayreen Anastas, Samira Ben Laloua, Bik Van der Pol, Maria Boletsi, Rene Gabri, Ernst van den Hemel, Maria Lind, Sarah Pierce, Praneet Soi, and others to be announced, This pioneer program is open to 12 students from varied backgrounds including, but not limited to, arts, design, architecture, and social and urban sciences. For more information about the program, the Sandberg Instituut, admission requirements and application procedure, please visit our webpage at www.sandberg.nl or follow us on facebook. BIK VAN DER POL The artistic practice of Bik Van der Pol is collective, leaving the studio as a place of production and using the artistic workplace itself â practice â as a site for research and production. This conscious political and artistic choice has set the conditions for a (social) space generated by dialogue and collaboration where an encounter may happen that might result in a work of art. www.bikvanderpol.net Best wishes from the School of Missing Studies, School of Missing Studies Sandberg Instituut Fred. 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