DAI-week number 1: kick-off in Arnhem

SCHEDULE DAI-WEEK 17-22 September 2016 

Saturday September 17

13:00

The DAI-team is looking forward to greet all incoming & returning students, our Roaming Assembly #7 guests as well as our 2016-2017 core tutors at Kortestraat 27 in Arnhem. We will kick off the upcoming year with a communal lunch, cooked by Karin & Annemarie (Pick Up). 

14:00

The incoming students will embark on a SONSBEEK'16 transACTION city-walk guided by artist and educator Anneke Ingwersen (DAI, 2015). 

The second year students will stay at the DAI and engage in (face to face)meetings with: Gigi Argyropoulou, Banu Karaca, Didem Pekün, Hypatia Vourloumis and Mary Zygouri as well as with DAI's 'roaming ambassador' Margret Wibmer.

19:30

Festive dinner at Stella by Starlight (Coehoornstraat 33, Arnhem). 

22:45

Students: departure of touring car to this week's accommodation at Buitengoed Panoven, Panovenweg 18, Zevenaar

Please note:

there is no other means of transport to Panoven available - missing out on the bus means no bed !

Sunday September 18

11:30 Departure ( after breakfast) of touring car from Panoven to the DAI

13:00 Communal lunch at the DAI cooked by Karin & Annemarie (Pick Up catering)

14:00 ROAMING ASSEMBLY #7

Art, Struggle, and the City: Athens and Istanbul

Curator: Hypatia Vourloumis 

Location: Huis Oostpool, Nieuwstraat 58, Arnhem

With contributions by Gigi Argyropoulou, Banu Karaca, Didem Pekün, Hypatia Vourloumis and Mary Zygouri

19:00 Dinner cooked by Konstantina Roussou at Huis Oostpool

22:00 Departure of touring car to Panoven.

Monday September 19

9:30 Departure (after breakfast) of touring car to the DAI

Introduction to the four 2016/2017 reading groups/seminars of our module How To Do Things With Theory:

10:30 Marina Vishmidt: Speculation as a Mode of Production ~ Taking on speculation as both a cultural logic and a method, this seminar will focus on the con/texts of theory, history, poetry and criticism to follow the materialities of (abstract) value as they summon the art and politics of the ongoing present.

12:00 Sven Lütticken: Legalize Everything ~ The reach of the juridical keeps expanding, as do the ambitions of artistic or aesthetic practice. This reading group will examine multiple interferences between law and art, between the juridical and the aesthetic - ranging from issues of copyright to citizenship and illegality to animal rights and plant rights.

13:30 communal lunch cooked by our vegan chefs Mari Pitkänen and Asia.

14:30 Rachel O'Reilly: At the Limits of the Writerly: Which Dispositif? The dispositif is a concept inherited from film and media philosophy and post-structuralist theories of governmentality that is able to gather together questions of comportment, movement and relation around non-suspended infrastructures. This seminar continues its focus on in/commensurability, postcolonial inquiries into the aesthetic, and performativity in language work, to attend to contemporary experimental and theoretical writing exemplarily attendant to subjects, qualities and stakes of de-naturalized, (re)productive/thanatic, and counter/infrastructural projects of the contemporary.

16:00 Bassam El Baroni: Intervention ~ (How) can we develop a plausible concept of (artistic) intervention under the current state of affairs?

Location: DAI's project room

18:00 Meditation & Motion by Pascalle Thijs (optional).

Location: DAI's Quiet Space

19:00 Communal dinner cooked by our vegan chefs Mari Pitkänen and Asia.

Evening: time to write a statement about each student's current research and reading & writing interests, to be handed in on Thursday and to be read by the four presenters of today.

22:00 Departure of touring car to Panoven.

Tuesday September 20

9:30 Departure (after breakfast) of touring car to the DAI

Introduction to four new, year-long trajectories of the Roaming Academy: 

10:30 Teaching as a Form of Art - this class will deal with the problem of how to develop a practice that is truthful to and serious about the formation of aesthetic experience without losing touch with everyday life. Curated and tutored by Ruth Noack.

12:00 On praxis an unstated theory. (Writing out loud) with the artist Jon Mikel Euba as its core tutor, proposes the creation of an experimental workshop comprising exercises on scores, notations, translation, literalness and equivalences as a means to explore the production of art as a filter. Curated by If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution.

13:30 Communal lunch cooked by Mari Pitkänen and Asia.

14:30 South & Opening (working title) is a space for radical pedagogy and a radio station, practicing the notion of “opening” as its calling, delving into the notion of “the South” as a political soil. Curated and tutored by Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory.

16:00 In Dialogue with Robotics - What can and what should we learn about and from robotics without ceding sound judgment to the tragic scenario of the rise of robots and the end of humanity? Curated and tutored by Bassam El Baroni.

19:00 Communal dinner cooked by Mari Pitkänen and Asia.

Evening: Time to write motivation texts for today's projects, to be handed in on Thursday and to be read by today's presenters.

22:00 Departure of touring car to Panoven.

Wednesday September 21

9:30 Departure (after breakfast) of touring car to the DAI

Introduction to four new, year-long trajectories of the Coop Academy: 

10:30 I Left my pdf in Arnhem, curated and tutored by Sarah Pierce & Tirdad Zolghadr. This class unfolds in close collaboration with the Werkplaats Typografie and will also be attended (partly) by WT-students.

12:00 Curating Positions - curated and tutored by The Showroom.

13:30 Communal lunch at the DAI cooked by Karin & Annemarie (Pick Up catering)

14:30 Hyperthymesia (working title) - curated and tutored by Open! Platform for Art, Culture and the Public Domain.

16:00 Practicing Deviance: Methods for art and curating - curated and tutored by the Van Abbemuseum.

11:00 - 18:00 walk-in meetings with Rik Fernhout for all your questions about study progress, credits, reference letters and other study related subjects.

18:00 Lado Darakhvelidze - FINISSAGE Cooking the New Planet

19:00 Communal dinner cooked by Karens Keuken

Evening: last chance to write the motivation texts for all projects before handing them in on Thursday!

22:00 Departure of touring car to Panoven.

Thursday September 22

9:30 Departure (after breakfast) of touring car to the DAI - don't forget to take your luggage!

10:30 Round table with director Gabriëlle Schleijpen & DAI-team for Q & A on all things DAI 2016-2017:

you are most welcome to share your questions, concerns and deliberations.

Please note: today all students are asked to hand in their motivation texts !

13:00 Communal lunch at the DAI cooked by Karin & Annemarie (Pick Up catering)

14:00 End of program Introduction Week 2016-2017