Shared Campus Summer Schools 2019 未来wèilái: Yau Ma
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Shared Campus Summer Schools 2019 未来WèiLái: Yau Ma Tei: 17 June — 5 July ↗ Hong Kong The Fabrication of Relics: 17 — 30 June ↘ Hong Kong Hacking Global Pop Icons: 5 — 23 August ↗ Zurich Improvise!: 25 — 29 August ↘ Singapore 2019 Shared Campus Summer Schools 2019 Shared Campus Summer Schools Shared Campus — A brief introduction Partners Shared Campus is a cooperation platform Shared Campus Partners: ● China Academy of Art, Hangzhou for international education formats and (CAA) → eng.caa.edu.cn research networks. The platform has ● Hong Kong Baptist University, Academy been launched by eight arts universities of Visual Arts and Department of Music (HKBU) → hkbu.edu.hk from Europe and Asia. We consider close ● Kyoto Seika University (SEIKA) → kyoto-seika.ac.jp cooperation as imperative to tackling ● LASALLE College of the Arts, issues of global significance. We are Singapore (LASALLE) → lasalle.edu.sg ● School of Creative Media, City University convinced that especially the arts can, of Hong Kong (SCM) → scm.cityu.edu.hk and indeed ought to, play an important ● Taipei National University of role in this respect. the Arts (TNUA) → tnua.edu.tw ● University of the Arts London (UAL) → arts.ac.uk ● Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) → zhdk.ch Shared Campus endeavours to create connections that bring value to students, faculty and researchers by developing and offering joint transnational education and research activities. Shared Campus launches its first These collaborative ventures will enable activities in 2019 with various education participants to share knowledge and formats and research initiatives. competencies across cultural and We are happy to announce the following disciplinary boundaries. The platform is four summer schools as an important designed around thematic clusters of part of these activities. They have been international relevance with a distinctive jointly developed between the partner focus on transcultural issues and cross- universities and are open to students from disciplinary collaboration. all the Shared Campus institutions. 2019 Shared Campus Summer Schools 2019 未来 Wèi Lái: Yau Ma Tei 未来Wèi Lái: Yau Ma Tei is an 未来WèiLái: Yau Ma Tei interdisciplinary, practice-based and socially engaged art summer programme that invites artists and designers from 17 June — 5 July 2019 various disciplines and origins to research, develop and test innovative propositions Academy of Visual for a Hong Kong neighbourhood. Arts/Hong Kong Baptist The case study focuses on the street culture of Yau Ma Tei, with a critical University eye on urbanisation and displacement in radically-changing neighbourhoods. As ways of life and work as well as ↗ Hong Kong streetscapes dissolve and experience rapid acceleration, how would you as an artist or designer react and share the habits and stories of the community in engaging and transformative ways? The three-week summer school introduces students to two spaces, a recycling centre/antiques shop run by the Wong family and a post-capitalist 未来 WèiLái: Yau Ma Tei is an interdisciplinary, street market stall called Kai Fong practice-based and socially engaged art summer programme that invites artists and designers Pai Dong. Both spaces have an informal from various disciplines and origins to research, develop and test innovative propositions for a Hong aesthetic, but on closer inspection, Kong neighbourhood called Yau Ma Tei. 2019 Shared Campus Summer Schools 2019 未来 Wèi Lái: Yau Ma Tei DATES STUDENT COSTS they have rich object-based histories, 17 June — 5 July 2019 → 3 weeks ● Accommodation will be provided for students from ZHdK and collective memories and strong bonds PARTICIPANTS LASALLE. Other students’ The programme offers places to 25 accommodation arrangements with the neighbourhood community. students from the participating partner will be made in agreement institutions from a wide range of arts with their home institution. and design disciplines, including ● Travel expenses to/in Hong Kong performing arts, film, music, fine arts, ● Visa fee: Participants need The workshop emerges from the fields media arts, design, and art education. to apply for a study visa. More of socially engaged art, social design information will be provided after ADMISSION CRITERIA the confirmation of participation. and community-driven creative practices, AND REQUIREMENTS ● Proficient in English APPLICATION PROCESS and will offer serendipitous ethnographies ● Level: BA, MA, MPhil, ● Submission deadline: 1 April 2019 PhD & researchers ● Contact for application enquiries and opportunities to collaborate with ● Disciplines: all arts and and submission of documents: design disciplines local students and neighbours living in Yau Kevin Law APPLICATION DOCUMENTS Administrator 未来WèiLái Ma Tei. ● Short Statement (max 1 page): Summer School What perspectives would → [email protected] you bring to the workshop? ● Leung Mee Ping — Professor, Coordinator What are your expectations ● The selection will be done from this workshop? by the Academy of Visual Arts, of Studio and Media Arts Division, ● Portfolio: One sample of work Hong Kong Baptist University. Research Centre Director (AVA/HKBU) related to the summer school ● Final confirmation of (as pdf, video or sound file) participation: 8 April 2019 ● Michael Leung — Artist/Designer, Urban Farmer and Visiting Lecturer (AVA/HKBU) CREDITS Credits stipulated by corresponding ● Annemarie Bucher — Co-Lead MAS home institutions. Art & Society, Lecturer BA Fine Arts (ZHdK) ● Guest Speakers Learning Outcomes Knowledge of relational aesthetics/contemporary visual culture/social practice/co-creation/inventive methods and processes/ethnographic research 2019 Shared Campus Summer Schools 2019 The Fabrication of Relics (Arts, Crafts and Digital Natives) Today when “readymade” can be The Fabrication of Relics renewed for a creative purpose, its (Arts, Crafts meaning can be only manifested when we are able to contextualize and Digital Natives) its importance with reference to our cultures and histories. 17 — 30 June 2019 Relics, beyond their original religious context, ranging from the Bergamon Altar in Berlin, the abandoned statues at School of Creative the Waterfall Bay of Hong Kong to the Media/City mammoth fossil in the installation by Danish-Vietnamese conceptual artist University of Hong Kong Danh Vo, have provided diverse creative possibilities for our perception of history. In a contemporary context, fabrication is ↘ Hong Kong not limited to the intriguing imaginative address to the history but also the physical production and presentation of objects that draw our attention to the history. Historical sense connects us to the past, present Participants will examine by case and future. The notion of “relics” is considered and expanded for artistic purposes, which can be studies the close relationship between truly contemporary for the new conception beyond their physical state. By case studies the participants artistic agenda and the production/ will examine the close relationship between artistic agenda and the production/representation representation or presentation of relics or presentation of relics and art objects. 2019 Shared Campus Summer Schools 2019 The Fabrication of Relics (Arts, Crafts and Digital Natives) DATES STUDENT COSTS and art objects. They will explore various 17 — 30 June 2019 → 2 weeks ● Accommodation will be provided for students from ZHdK artistic approaches to historical subjects PARTICIPANTS and LASALLE. Other students’ The programme offers places to 25 accommodation arrangements in physical materials and/or digital media, students from the participating partner will be made in agreement institutions from a wide range of arts with their home institution. and develop their own work, which will and design disciplines, including ● Travel expenses to/in Hong Kong performing arts, film, music, fine arts, ● Visa fee: Participants need be concluded in an open studio event media arts, design, and art education. to apply for a study visa. More with guest critiques. information will be provided after ADMISSION CRITERIA the confirmation of participation. AND REQUIREMENTS ● Proficient in English APPLICATION PROCESS ● Leung Chi Wo — Visual Artist, Associate ● Level: BA, MA, PhD ● Submission deadline: 1 April 2019 Professor and Programme Leader of MFA ● Disciplines: all arts and ● Contact for application enquiries design disciplines and submission of documents: in Creative Media (SCM) ● William Davis — Composer, Recording Artist, APPLICATION DOCUMENTS Leung Chi Wo ● Short Statement (max 1 page): Associate Professor, Programme and Music Producer (ZHdK) What do you bring in? Leader of MFA in Creative Media, ● Guest Speakers ● Portfolio: One sample of work School of Creative Media, (as pdf, video or sound file) City University of Hong Kong Learning Outcomes → [email protected] Historical consciousness/material indexicality CREDITS /critical reflection/conceptualizing ability Credits stipulated by corresponding ● The selection will be done home institutions. by the School of Creative Media /fabrication skill /City University of Hong Kong. ● Final confirmation of participation: 8 April 2019 2019 Shared Campus Summer Schools 2019 Hacking Global Pop Icons Global Icons have local meanings: Hacking Global What do they say about our identities, Pop Icons society and culture? What makes an icon? How can we deconstruct, remix and hack it? In this three-week 5 — 23 August 2019 summer school, a global pop icon will serve as the common starting point for cultural analysis