DAI-bulletin 2002-2003 number six June 2003

Dear participants, visiting artists, members of staff and friends,

"Gentes and laitymen, fullstoppers and semicolonials, hybreds and lubberds!"
(says James Joyce in Finnegans Wake),

This is the sixth issue of the monthly DAI-bulletin informing you about our program, about important dates and events. Please, PRINT THIS TEXT and keep it with you as an extension to your diary. Meanwhile participants are strongly advised to not give up keeping a keen eye on the billboard in the cantina. Alterations in the program will be posted there as usual.

DREAMS AND CONFLICTS - Entitled' Dreams and Conflicts' the 2003 edition of the Venice Biennale will be opened in June, lasting till November 2003. DAI has arranged for a touringcar and a hotel. We will depart on the 12th and be back in the Netherlands on the 18th of October.

The trip is compulsory for all 2003-2004 DAI students.

 http://www.labiennale.org/

JUNE 2003

WEDNESDAY 4
Studiovisits by Debra Solomon, Rik Fernhout, Larissa Zvezdochetova.

THURSDAY 5
Studiovisits by Debra Solomon, Rik Fernhout, Larissa Zvezdochetova and James Beckett.

FRIDAY 6
With John Heymans to the Impaktfestival in Utrecht.

SATURDAY 7
At 11.00 AM meeting in DAI's cantina between curator Manel Esparbe y Gasca and the participants in NOT HOMESICK, DAI's final show at Villa de Bank and the Rijksmuseum Twente. If you are not able to attend, please inform Hilly. Futher appointments between participants and curator will be dealt with by themselves. 

Painting by Sanjeewa Kumari

TUESDAY 10
Workshop 3D-max with Martin Sollmann.Info:Hilly

WEDNESDAY 11
Workshop 3D-max with Martin Sollmann.Info:Hilly

FRIDAY 13
At 12 PM meeting in DAI's cantina for ALL students that are intending to continue their studies at DAI next year, with the coursedirector (Gabriëlle) and a future mentor of DAI public (Debra). - more information about DAI 's new profile : DAI private & DAI public - information & making of a schedule for the coming assesments - information & making of a schedule for the THE LEIDSCHE RIJN- PARASITES project in wich DAI is invited to participate together with the Sandberginstitute, De Ateliers, DAS-arts, the Frank Mohrinstitute, the Piet Zwart Institute and  others - information about the developments in regard to the availability of studiospace next year. -discussion about DAI's houserules and other 'inconveniences'. If you are not able to attend, please inform Hilly. TUESDAY 17 Studiovisits by Curtis Anderson. Please put your self on the list by e-mailing Gabriëlle.

WEDNESDAY 18
Studiovistis by Curtis Anderson, Martha Colburn (information about her is provided at the bottom of this bulletin) Rik Fernhout Jos Kruit, Debra Solomon, Peter Struycken, Emo Verkerk (not confirmed)

Please put your self on the list for Anderson, Colburn, Struycken & Verkerk by e-mailing Gabriëlle . Rik,Jos ,Debra do visits at random and on request. THURSDAY 19 Studiovisits by Curtis Anderson, Martha Colburn (information about her is provided at the bottom of this bulletin), Rik Fernhout, Jos Kruit, Debra Solomon, Peter Struycken, Emo Verkerk (not confirmed).

15.00 PM Filmscreening (16 mm) in the cantina by Martha Colburn*.
Goes without saying that we expect all of you to come and enjoy this performance!

FRIDAY 27 12.00 PM meeting at SKOR in Amsterdam for those who are going to participate in the  Leidsche Rijn Parasites project. 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: assesments July 10 & July 11

-festive opening of DAI's final show: NOT HOMESICK Sunday the 13th of July. Graduation and end of the year-party at and around Villa de Bank in Enschede.

All participants and collaborators and friends of DAI are most welcome (spread the news).

From July 14 till 18: clearance of studios graduates(contact Hilly about details).  

So long,

Gabriëlle Schleijpen
Course director DAI

* Martha Colburn (b. 1971) grew up on a farm in the red-necked woods outside of Gettysburg, PA, where inbetween chopping wood, hunting and tending to the animals, she managed to work at her art. Prior to moving to Holland to attend the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten (2001 - 2003) she lived ten years in the ghettos of Baltimore City, producing over 30 films, and releasing 7 albums of her music. With hundreds of screenings of her films under her belt (including The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney), she is now extending her vision into new visual and auditory mediums. Awards 2003 'Best Animated Film' New York Underground Film Festival,

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