Positions

(in no particular order) that DAI, as a "school in a space ship" is committed to "curate", to care for:

*our critical reading of the freedom of the autonmous artist, as “a veiled projection of the bourgeoisie”

*our ongoing opposition to bureaucracy and so-called neutrality of governing bodies in (art) education  

*our functionning as a largely self-organised para-institution, rather than a cog in the machine of the overriding University.

*our inclination towards unorthodox teaching methods, thus in many ways exceding the limits of conventional art education.

*our strong focus on content driven research and meaningful production. 

*our progressive orientation allowing for an inspirational and thought provoking variety of artistic, political and theoretical positions; from 'commonist' engagement with the rural, to Xenofeminism's (conditional) embrace of technology and science-fiction.

*our desire to co-develop and co-promote new perspectives on collaboration and exchange, production and distribution, ethics and aesthetics.

*our 'porous' curriculum with its annual transformations, grounded in ongoing productive dialogue between students, tutors, and the world.

*our un-disciplinary study groups through which the poetical and the political can be fueled by research and collectively  explored.

*our rejection of the "private studio space + studio visit" as a pedagogical tool.

*our DAI-week's holistic point of departure: living, roaming, studying and working together during one full week per month. 

*our communal meals, student-led feed back sessions, nightly karaoke parties, curated city-walks, yoga classes and "campsite" workouts; all considered integral constituents of our modus operandi.

*our funky student body, its transnational and diverse composition, based on our intuitive understanding of “elective affinities” (as in the German notion of "Wahlverwandschaften").

*our thriving, interconnected alumni community and our aspiration to support affective, self-steering "live after DAI-relationships" and to co-develop effective strategies to empower them. 

*our pioneering, long-standing collaborations and partnerships with art organizations that continue to constitute “interfaces” between 'academy' and (art)world, offering our students close involvement with other institutional practices, outside of the educational framework.

*our worldwide intellectual linkages and exchanges with friends and allies, powered by our 'Planetary Campus'.

*our fleeting community of brilliant, devoted, candid, anti-hierarchical, independent tutors, where a deep commitment to the notion of 'complexity' is shared by all.

*our responsibility towards individual needs, temperaments and temporalities, in the context of a permeable, non-homogeneous, non-fascist, plurivocal WE.