Dai-week 8

This week with Benjamin Thorel.

Dai-week 7

23 April, Tuesday: Why I Write Part I

18:30 – 19:30 Dinner at DAI canteen with Werkplaats Typografie.

19:30 – 22:00 Design concept presentation by Werkplaats Typografie and reflection on individual & collective text drafts.

25 April, Thursday: Speculating Aloud

10:00 – 17:00 Face to face meetings with Pieter Verbeke and Elisabeth Klement of San Serriffe – art book store in Amsterdam.

26 April, Friday: Why I Write Part II

10:00 – 16:30 Collective writing session

18:00 Opening of Japan Syndrome – Utrecht Version by Tadasu Takamine at Casco. take the 17:16 train to reach Utrecht Central station at 17:52.

Dai-week 6

Tuesday 19 March

19:00 – 22.00 Meeting with Werkplaats Typografie. Location: DAI 

Elaborated content from DAI students & design concept elaboration

Thursday 21 March

Face to Face meetings with Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri

Friday 22 March

Workshop with Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri with materials from their And And And project in dOCUMENTA (13)

March 16 & 17 additional weekend in Utrecht

with Yolande van der Heide and Binna Choi

Saturday, 16 March 11:00 – 22:00 Collective writing sessions part I-III

* Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri of the 16 Beaver Group will join part of the day as guests

Sunday, 17 March

10:45 Arrive at Rietveld Schroder House for audio tour, Utrecht

14:00 – 22:00 Collective writing sessions part I-II

Dai-week 5

21 & 22 February 2013 

Thursday: Speculating Aloud Present: Christian Nyampeta 10.00 – 21:00 Face-to-face meetings.

Friday: Why I Write / Present: Binna Choi, Yolande van der Heide, Werkplaats Typografie. This part of the seminar will be dedicated fixing the editorial configuration and production of the final publication.

10.00—13.00 Discussion of proposals

LUNCH

14.00-17.00 Students from the Werkplaats Typografie will join this part of the session. Together, we will determine the working pairs and/ or groups for the remainder of the year.

DAI-week 4

17/ 18 January

Thursday 10:00 - 17:00: Speculating Aloud Present: Binna Choi

Face-to-face meetings whereby students present their individual writings.

Friday 10:00 - 17:00: Why I Write Present Binna Choi, Yolande van der Heide

11.00 meet Yolande at Utrecht Central Station, together we will take the bus to the UU Library at the Uithof Bucheliuszaal
11.30-13.00 Review of 60s/70s conceptual artists books,*below please find the list of books we will be looking into
13.00-14.00 Lunch and travel back to Casco
14.30-17.00 Meeting with Binna/ collective feedback session about the class writings
18.00-22.00 For those that are able, we would like to recommend a trip to San Serriffe- art book shop, in Amsterdam for the launch of 'The Tiger's Mind' with Will Holder, 
& screening of Beatrice Gibson's 'The Tiger's Mind'

*Book List:
Broodthears, Image MODZ 589
Warhol, Index MODU 445
Festival non art MODU 564
Roth, Gesamte Scheisse MODU 384
Acconci, Pulse MODA 129 obl
Baldessari, Choosing MODZ 45
Feldmann, Bilder MODJ 285, MODJ 286 obl
LeWitt, Arcs MODA 317
Roth, 246 Little clouds MODJ 424
Weiner, Having been done MODA 452
Weiner, Having from time MODA 454
Long, Along a riverbank MODA 316
Brouwn, 1000 mm MODA 162
Cage, Interview MODZ 122
Aspen magazine vol. 5/6 1967 AF v 56

DAI-week 3

November 29

10:00 - 21:00 Face to face meetings

A Room Where We Conspire, Musically

Presentation by Hong-Kai Wang. Wang will present the "discussion series", which she has been developing over the past year. Previously staged in various frameworks and premises respectively in Copenhagen, Vienna, Rome and Taipei, this series explores how "discussion" as a commonplace social practice can be of critical potentiality and resistance as to avoid reproducing itself as a given mechanism.

November 30

10:00 - 17:00 Face to Face meetings with Hong-Kai Wang.

DAI-week 2

November 1

09.00 - 11:00 Workshop on how to conduct collective writing scenarios led by Tea Hvala and Christian Nyampeta

11:00 - 17:00 Face to face meetings

17:29 leave together by train to Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam

19:30 Film The Otolith Group: Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar of The Otolith Group will be interviewed by film scholar and critic Eric de Bruyn. Location: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

November 2

For its first gathering, Publishing Class III will be joined by artist Christian Nyampeta, whose long-term research trajectory on the same question inspired the third phase of Publishing Class very much. Writer, Tea Hvala will workshop the question "how to conduct collective writing scenarios?"

10.00 - 13.00 Christian Nyampeta will talk about his research on Barthes, and then respond to the question: "Imagine a room (drawing from your concerns and vision) in the scope of your practice. Use this room to discern a speculative method and a mode for producing a theory around the question of living together."

14.00 - 17.00 Continued writing exercises. Additional writing and individual writing will have to be followed up outside the DAI week along with homework.

DAI- week 1

September 18

Introduction by Yolande van der Heide