DAI-bulletin 2006-2007 number eleven July 2007

This is the eleventh issue of the monthly DAI-bulletin in the academic year 2006-2007, informing you about our program, about important dates and events.

Students: please, PRINT THIS TEXT and keep it with you as an extension to your diary.
Alterations and additions to the program will be e-mailed to you.
SO PLEASE READ YOUR E-MAILS EVERY DAY.


DAI PROGRAMME JULY 2007

WEEK 27
THE ASSESMENTS

Three days of individual presentations by all DAI-students in the presence of the DAI-staff and two external experts per day. The discussion between the guests and the DAI-students will be moderated by Gabriëlle Schleijpen, course director DAI.

Invited guests:

Jennifer Steetskamp is a curator who studied Modern Art History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies in Amsterdam and London (including a curating training by the University of Amsterdam and the Sandberg Institute), Jennifer Steetskamp has been working for the collection of the Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo/Time Based Arts since 2005. Her freelance activities include writing articles and giving lectures. Currently, she is also conducting historical research for the Jan van Eyck Academy. From September 2007 onwards, she will be working for the Media & Culture department of the University of Amsterdam, being a PhD fellow at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA).

Independent curator Angela Serino graduated (with honours) in mass communication at the University of Siena in 2003.
After completing De Appel Curatorial Training Program in April 2006 with the collaborative exhibition ‘Mercury in Retrograde’, she has curated ‘Contemporary Passages: temporary roots and interweaving paths’ as guest-curator at TENT in Rotterdam and a solo show of Ursula Mayer at the Centraal Museum Utrecht. She co-curated the project ‘Beauty Unrealized’, at PSWAR, Public Space With a Roof, Amsterdam and the exhibition ‘Catalyst’ at de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (together with T.Giblin).

Marianne Brouwer studied art history in Leyden and in Paris. She has been working as a critic and until the end of the nineties she was a curator at the sculpture department of the Kröller Muller museum.She curated numerous shows, also as an independent curator.In 2003 she received the AICA Netherlands prize for her monograph and exhibition on Dan Graham. Supported by a grant from the Fonds BKVB she is now conducting a reseach project on the history of Non-Western women pioneers in the modern‘avant-garde’.

Roel Arkesteijn is freelance curator and writer. After his studies in art history at Leiden University, he has worked as a curator of modern art at the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam and the GEM, museum of contemporary art, in The Hague. For the GEM, he curated exhibitions of Raymond Pettibon, Ni Haifeng, Marcel van Eeden, Elke Krystufek, Jimmie Durham, Hans Op de Beeck, Chen Zhen, Ricardo Brey, Daniel Pflumm, Gavin Turk and Yoshitomo Nara, to mention a few. Other recent shows include Respect! Forms of community in Marrakech (2005) and Drawing Typologies at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2007).

Sunday July 8
17.00 – 19.00
Booklaunch (& short diploma ceremony)
at
the Lloydhotel
Oostelijke Handelskade 34
in Amsterdam

This year DAI will release
11 small individual publications
on the work of
11 participants in our programme.

The booklets are a result of a collaborative project with students from the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem.
This collaboration was mediated by guestadvisor Maureen Mooren and organised by Janna Meeus and DAI. Final editing by Mariëtte Wijne and translations by Walter van der Star.

END OF THIS ACADEMIC YEAR
The DAI–office will be closed from July 14 – August 20.
The programme for 2007-2008 starts at September 17.
On Wednesday September 19, DAI-students and staff will embark on a trip to Kassel.