DAI Bulletin 2015-2016 no. 6

tags: Arnhem, Utrecht

DAI-week number 6

SCHEDULE DAI-WEEK 11-16 February 2016

February 11: Thursday

On the first day of each DAI week, the students split up in groups for the so-called COOP Academy; three commissioned projects tailored around specific research questions, organised and tutored by partnering organisations The Van Abbemuseum, Open! and Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory.

IN ARNHEM:

13:00-14:00 Communal lunch at the DAI for the VanAbbe and the Open! groups, cooked by Pick-Up (Karin & Annemarie)

14:00 Seminar Practicing with Institutions, Instituting Practice II

Today with curator and course-leader Nick Aikens, ruangrupa and Annie Fletcher.

14:00 Seminar Publishing Class: Between Animals or Beyond Being Human

Today with curator and course leader Jorinde Seijdel, Associate PHD researcher Florian Göttke and guest tutors Janine Armin and Rick Dolphijn

18:30 Dinner for these two groups; cooked by Karen's Kitchen

20:00 Continuation COOP Academy

Location: Kortestraat, Arnhem

IN UTRECHT

11:00-12:45 Face to face meetings, with students of the Inland Class

12:45-13:15 Lunch at Casco

13:15-15:00 Guided visit to Casco’s exhibition ‘We Are the Time Machines’

15:00-15:30 Discussion on last session and questions on the proposed texts.

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-19:00 Presentation by Kathrin Thiele and discussion

19:00-19:40 Dinner cooked by Mari Pitkänen for DAI/Casco

19:40-21:00 Further discussion on the questions of the day

20:00 Continuation COOP Academy

Location: Casco, Utrecht

February 12: Friday

Starting 10:00

One on one meetings between students and (guest) tutors. This week with: Nick Aikens, Janine Armin, Sarah Browne, Fernando Garcia Dory, Jon Mikel Euba, Susan Gibb, Florian Göttke, May Adadol Ingawanij, Ruth Noack, Sanne Oorthuizen, Sarah Pierce, Jorinde Seijdel, Tirdad Zolghadr, as well as with Rik Fernhout.

Location: DAI spaces on all floors

13:00-14:00 Communal lunch cooked by Pick Up (Karin & Annemarie).

18:30-19:30 Communal dinner prepared by Karen's Kitchen.

20:00 in the lounge/living room ~ Marina Vishmidt and students (everybody is welcome) meet to discus possible forms of active participation in her Sunday February 14 Roaming Assembly-session TIME RELEASE.

February 13: Saturday

On the Saturday of each DAI-week, the students split up in three groups for the projects that together form the so-called ROAMING ACADEMY.

10:00 -17:30 Seminar: Location, Location, Location today with Tirdad Zolghadr and Sarah Pierce

Location: Project Space

10:00 -17:30 Seminar: Non-Transmittable Form today with Ruth Noack and May Adadol Ingawanij

Location: Audi I

10:00 -19:00 Seminar: ACTION UNITES, WORDS DIVIDE (ON PRAXIS, AN UNSTATED THEORY) II by If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution & Jon Mikel Euba

Today with Jon Mikel Euba and Susan Gibb

Location: Quiet Space

13:00-14:00 communal lunch cooked by Mari Pitkänen

16:30 - 18:30 DAI's Associate PHD Research Collective closed session/research meeting with the participation of Lauren Alexander, Florian Göttke, Rosie Heinrich and David Maroto. Auditors: Eduardo Cachucho and Yunjoo Kwak. Today's invited respondent is Josefine Wikström.

18:30 - 19:30 communal dinner cooked by Mari Pitkänen

20:00 DAI's first year students team up with the Associate PHD Research Collective for a seminar with Josefine Wikström. Focus will be on the question of 'use' and 'function' in art and especially in relation to research of the arts in higher education. Recommended reading: Article by Josefine Wikström on the topic of research in the arts soon to be published by Walking Theory & Theodor Adorno's essay "Functionalism Today".
Location: Project Space

20:00 Concurrently: Round-table DAI-director Gabriëlle Schleijpen & second year students about Graduation 2016.
Location: Quiet Space

February 14: Sunday

11:00 - TAI CHI session for ALL at the Kortestraat - Project Space.

12:00 Lunch cooked by Mari Pitkänen at the DAI-Cantina

13:00 - 18:00 ROAMING ASSEMBLY #3

TIME RELEASE

A one-day symposium curated and presented by Marina Vishmidt.

With presentations by Sarah Browne, Cara Tolmie, Josefine Wikström and Hypatia Vourloumis.

Open to the public ~ no entrance fee ~ location: Showroom Arnhem

February 15: Monday

10:45-17:30: The Kitchen / Not The Restaurant; all students attend the lecture-presentations or lecture-performances by 8 students, this DAI-week's guest respondents are Hypatia Vourloumis and Cara Tolmie, with Natasha Ginwala in the audience. Natasha will act as a coach to these eight presenters, setting up a skype meeting with each of them and returning June 6 & 7, 2016 for final 'kitchen-coaching', a workshop in preparation of the concluding DAI-week in July.

Presenters: