Research ideas intensive: live stream e-flux education

Over a period of five days of live stream guest presentations by invited artists, scientists, curators and researchers who deal with various aspects of artistic research and questions from the “imaginary”. The participants include: Jason E. Bowman, Charles Eschen, Vincenzo Estremo, Cătălin Gheorghe, Petra Johansson, Kerstin Mey, Andrea Phillips, Nuno Sacramento, Kisspál Szabolcs, Tasis Varga and Mick Wilson.

The presentations and conversations will deal with various aspects of the imaginary as a reserach construct within contemporary art practice and artistic research. During the week we examine a spectrum of concerns that range from larger questions of imagination to profiles of specific research projects, and at the same time introduce the idea of ​​organizational imagination and emerging research on infrastructures of sales. The intensive takes place personally in the Glasshouse of the University of Gothenburg with part of the program, which is described as described below. The online participation is open to specialists and non-specialists alike.

Participation free of charge, booking required. All times are cest.

Monday 1 May 19
4–5:30 p.m.: “Stretched: extended ideas of artistic practice through artistic cultures. “”
Jason E. Bowman artist with a curatorial practice, researcher, educator and director of the MFA Fine Art, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg.

5: 45–6: 45 p.m.: “The power of imagination? Aesthetic autonomy and criticism in contemporary art.”
Prof. Tünd Varga in conversation with Prof. Mick Wilson
Tünd Varga works in the Department of Art theory and curatorial studies, the Hungarian University of Art, Budapest with research expertise in contemporary art, visual culture, art theory, contemporary documentary, curatorial and museum studies.

Tuesday, May 20th
16. -17: “Field studies: an artistic research of a place.”
Petra Johansson, artistic director of Gothenburg Konshall, Sweden and co-curator with Caroline Malmström from Field Studies

5: 30–6: 30 p.m.: “Organizational introductions No. 1: peacock and the worm”
Dr. Nuno Sacramento, director of Peacock and The Worm, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Wednesday, May 21st
3: 30–4: 30 p.m.: “Organizational introductions No. 2: Vector”
Prof. Călin Gheorghe in conversation with Prof. Mick Wilson. Prof. Ghorghe is theoretician, curator, editor and professor (art theory, aesthetics, visual culture) at the George Enescu National University of the Arts in IA show, Romania.

4: 45–5: 45 p.m.: “Organizational imagination No. 3: Sales networks and the reproduction of cultural forms.”
Prof. Vincenzo Estremo, director of the Naba, Milan, Italy.

Thursday May 22nd
16. -17: “From fake mountains to faith (Hungarian trilogy)”
Prof. Kisspál Szabolcs, artist and extraordinary professor at the intermedial department of the Hungarian University of Art, Budapest.

5: 30–6: 30 p.m.: “Art, narrative and value: Research into eco-and climate ideas in contemporary art.”
Prof. Kerstin Mey, professor of visual culture at the Faculty of Art, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick, Ireland

Friday, May 23rd
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.: “Contemporary art and production of inequality”
Prof. Andrea Phillips, Baltic Professor and Director of the Bxnu Research Institute, Northumbria University and Baltic Center for contemporary art.

17 to 6 p.m.: “The museum is diverse”
Prof. Charles Esche, curator, writer and professor of curating and contemporary art at the University of the Arts London and the editor of the series and the program for the History exhibition.

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Investigations are a doctoral courses that is in partnership between HDK-Valand, Academy of Art and Design, the Hungarian University of Fine Art, Budapest (Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem, Hufa), Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem) is realized.AKademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki W Krakowie, ASP), with the participation of colleagues from the University of the Arts, Bremen (Hochschule für Künste Bremen, HfK) and the Nuova Accademia di Bella Art Milan (NABA) with the researchers of other institutions. The research of the imagination is a associated initiative of the Center for Art & the Political Imaginary (Capim) and enables Erasmus +to enable the intensive programs.