DAI-bulletin 2003-2004 number two October 2003

This is the second issue of the monthly DAI-bulletin in the new academic year, 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. You don't have to read it at once, read it when applicable.
Alterations in the program will be e-mailed to you .So please read your e-mails every day and take good notice of the differences in the programmes of DAI private and DAI public.)

DIARY OCTOBER 2003

WEEK 40 THURSDAY 2
12.00 Private & Public
COFFEE & CONVERSATION IN THE PROJECT ROOM with Gabriëlle Schleijpen, course director of DAI
Private:
From 10.00 onward studiovisists by guesttutor Ge-Karel van der Sterren and by the mentors Jos Kruit and Rik Fernhout
Public:
Studiovisits by mentor Debra Solomon
16.00 lecture about his work by Ge-Karel van der Sterren in the Project Room

FRIDAY 3
Public
A4 project

WEEK 41
MONDAY 6
Introductory meeting between all DAI public students with Kodwo Eshun in the Project Room in order to prepare for his future project.
During this meeting a timetable will be put up in order to arrange for meetings between Kodwo and smaller groups of students.
You can find his biography at the end of this bulletin.

TUESDAY 7
9.30 - 16.30 Public
Meetings between Kodwo Eshun and small groups of students

THURSDAY 9
Private & Public
Crash visits of maximum 15 minutes to the studios of ALL students at DAI by Gabriëlle Schleijpen.
BE PRESENT IN YOUR STUDIO-Thank you
First visit:
10.30 Sanjeewa
Public only:
19.30 Project Room
Presentations by students DAI public

FRIDAY 10
Private & Public
Crash visits of maximum 15 minutes to the studios of all students at DAI by Gabriëlle Schleijpen.
BE PRESENT IN YOUR STUDIO -Thank you
First two visits:
9.15 Sverre
9.30 Li Min

SUNDAY 12
Private & Public
18.00 PM SHARP
Departure to Venice by bus.
The bus will be waiting for us in front of DAI's own entrance.
Bring some nice things to eat & to read, a small pillow, something warm to wear during the night.
In the bus there will be a screening of the two most famous Venice- movies ever made .
Death in Venice by Visconti about the artists continous search for beauty and
Don't Look Now by Nicolas Roeg an occult thriller about a horror laden visit to Venice.
Feel free to bring your own entertaining video's as well ,after the 'official' program we will vote for preferences.

DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR PASSPORT. BE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT IN VENICE YOU HAVE TO BUY a 72-hour boatticket that you need in order to bridge the distance between Venice and the place where our hotel is located. This costs ¤ 22,50 and will help you out for three days in line. For the other two days we will make arrangments with our busdriver. You will be informed about the schedule for this in the bus.

WEEK 42
Private & Public
VENICE-WEEK
MONDAY 13
While still in the bus a text by one of Holland's most challenging artcritics Anna Tilroe will be distributed in both an English as well as a Dutch version.This text , entitled 'The art, the curator and the big clean up' poses questions about the role of the curator and the possibilities for commitment in art. Anna Tilroe critically reviewed the actual Biennale in Venice in this regard.
ASSIGMENT: please read the text thoroughly and keep it in your mind while visiting the Biennale.
Back in Enschede we will put up a discussion with Anna Tilroe (see week 44).
Estimated arrival in Venice: 11.00 AM
No program today .
Suggestion: spent a leisurely afternoon on the beach at Lido di Jesolo where our hotel is located .
Dinner at 19.00 in
Hotel Colombo
Via Aquileia 127
30017 Lido di Jesolo, Tel : 00390 421 370779

TUESDAY 14
10.00 Collective entrance to the Venice Biennale part 1
Non DAI-travellers have to pay for their own ticket.
20.00 Dinner at the hotel Colombo

WEDNESDAY 15
ALFABETICO VENEZIANO
Citywalk with explanations by painter David Groot along the most important classical (as opposed to contemporary) art & architecture of Venice.
David made an alfabet of all things Venetian for the Dutch Art Institute that will serve as a guidebook
Maximum twenty people can join this tour.
Please inscribe at david.groot@wanadoo.nl
No dinner in the hotel - packed lunch instead.

THURSDAY 16
ALFABETICO VENEZIANO
Citywalk with explanations by painter David Groot along the most important classical (as opposed to contemporary) art & architecture of Venice.
David made an alfabet of all things Venetian for the Dutch Art Institute that will serve as a guidebook
Maximum twenty (OTHER THAN YESTERDAY) people can join this tour.
Please inscribe at david.groot@wanadoo.nl
No dinner in the hotel - packed lunch instead.

FRIDAY 17
9.30 Collective entrance to the Venice Biennale part 1
Non DAI-travellers have to pay for their own ticket.
19.00 PM Departure from Venice to Enschede

SATURDAY 18
Estimated arrival in Enschede around 11.00 AM

WEEK 43
THURSDAY 23
Public
The Parasites Project - MEETING with Hewald Jongenelis and/or Sylvie Zijlmans
Still to be confirmed

FRIDAY 24
Public
A4-project

WEEK 44
TUESDAY 28
Private & Public
11.00 - 16.30 AM in the Project Room at DAI
MEETING and DISCUSSION between all students and Anna Tilroe about The Venice Biennale and commitment in art by artists and curators.
Gabriëlle Schleijpen will be present as well.

THURSDAY 30
Private
studiovisits by Jos Kruit and Rik Fernhout
Public
studiovisits by Debra Solomon

FRIDAY 31
Private
studiovisits by Jos Kruit and Rik Fernhout
Public
A4-project

COMING UP IN NOVEMBER:
Private
Studiovisits Ansuya Blom
Private & Public
Theory-project with Petran Kockelkoren & a visual artist
Public
Crashcourse principles of sound explained for artists by Jorrit Tamminga
ALL STILL TO BE CONFIRMED

BIOPRINT
Kodwo Eshun is an independent cultural critic and curator. He graduated with a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Literary Theory from University College, Oxford. He is the author of the acclaimed theoretical text More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (Quartet, 1998). His research interests focus on the interfaces between 20th Century music,
media theory, diasporic art practice and science fiction.

From 1996-2000, he was an Associate Member of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick University. In 1999, he co-curated Dub Housing, the exhibition, symposium and concert for Steirische Herbst in Graz, Austria. In 1999 and 2000, he attended Ars Electronica as Judge on the Digital Music Jury. He is currently developing Untimely Meditations, the Retrospective Exhibition on the work of the Black Audio Film Collective supported by FACT and InIVA.

He has lectured extensively on the evolution of artistic practice in the age of networks. Recent symposia include Technophilia at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Question of Repetition at the Royal College of Art, MakeWORLD at the Kunsthalle, Munich, Sonic Process at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, Towards Afrofuturism at the University of Michigan, Longplayer at the Royal Institute and Wetware at the National History Museum.

Recent essays include Ghost Dances for the Sonic Process (Pompidou Centre) Catalogue, A Dialogue with William Gibson for Sound Unbound edited by Paul D.Miller (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2003), Makrolab’s Twin Imperatives (Arts Catalyst 2003) and An Unidentified Audio Event (Artangel,2003).