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Open call: Arts and the Politics of Estrangement
SAAS-FEE Summer Institute of Art
June 5–June 23, 2015
http://saas-fee-summerinstituteofart.blogspot.com/

Deadline for applications: April 2, 2015, 11:59pm UTC+1

SAAS-FEE Summer Institute of Art
Linienstrasse 160
10115 Berlin
Germany

saas-feesummerinstituteofart.blogspot.com
www.egs.edu


The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art is a new initiative happening in
Saas-Fee, Switzerland that focuses upon the politics of art making and
thinking. It is associated with but not part of the European Graduate
School. Each summer different topics will be explored and emphasized. This
session will concern Art and the Politics of Estrangement.

Inquisitive students and professionals hailing from artistic discourses
such as painting, drawing, film making, sculpture, performance and sound
studies as well as the aligned fields of poetry, cultural studies,
philosophy of mind, neuroscience, sociology and politics, are asked to
apply.

Directors: Warren Neidich and Barry Schwabsky

Esteemed faculty: Armen Avanessian, Franco Berardi, Anselm Franke, Charles
Gaines, Suzana Milevska, John Rajchman, Gerald Raunig, Dorothee Richter,
Hito Steyerl, Ben Vickers



Art and the Politics of Estrangement
June 5–June 23

This year’s Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, engages a range of
contemporary discourses to renegotiate a seminal idea formulated in high
modernism, ostraniene or estrangement: the process or act of endowing an
object or image with strangeness by removing it from the network of
conventional formulaic, stereotypical perceptions and linguistic
expressions. Times have changed since the term’s coinage, and so has the
surrounding discursive environment. What are the implications for artistic
ostraniene today? For instance, in the networked environment of “super
signifiers” and branded associations, can we still contravene in the
stereotypical perceptions they engender? If so, would that be a form of
emancipation in which artistic production can play a role, or is it
trapped in the new spirit of capitalism and its cycles of recuperation?
The Summer Institute uses the term estrangement as a foundation on which
to collage a multiplicity of contemporary metaphysical and epistemological
practices and terminologies: the Anthropocene, Speculative Poetics,
Cognitive Capitalism, Accelerations—can any of them help find an answer to
the question of estrangement? For art students and recent graduates
seeking a deeper theoretical understanding of their practice, or for those
in the fields of critical theory, philosophy, politics, neuroscience, and
media and literary theory who aspire to challenge their presuppositions,
this course will provide a theoretical bridge to these important emerging
discourses.

School and program
Twenty students will be selected to attend the school. Applications will
be assessed by members of the faculty. Two scholarships will be available
for students with financial needs.

Application submission
Please go to the website for details.

Applications by email must arrive by 11:59pm UTC+1 April 2.
For more information please contact SAAS-FEE Summer Institute of Art
coordinator:
saasfeesummerinstituteofart at gmail.com.


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