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Open Call Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, 2018, Berlin

Deadline: 19 May 2019
15 May 2018

Applications being accepted now for:
SAAS-FEE SUMMER INSTITUTE OF ART, 2018, BERLIN: ART AND THE POETICS OF PRAXIS IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM
July 9 - 21, 2018
Application period begins now and continues to May 19th, 2018
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) | Berlin, titled Art and the Poetics of Praxis in Cognitive Capitalism, will engage with critical concerns of past programs —estrangement, individuation, and collectivity— in order to consider the performative power of poetry. Through deep readings, workshops, and performative lectures, we will strive to discover new words, meanings, and rhythms of resistance and reconstruction. In the tradition of Rimbaud, we seek a deregulation of language, as well as,  alternative vocabularies and models which are necessary to understand and act upon our present predicament: cognitive capitalism, neo-colonialism, data surveillance. The hope is to create an experimental platform for debate and mutual self-education, with poetry and its production as a reference point for undertaking interdisciplinary, intersectional, epistemological adventures beyond our present cognitive confines. We hope to create a new concept of homo poeticus. SFSIA encourages applications from scholars and artists, as well as inquisitive graduate, postgraduate, and undergraduate students from fields such as art, architecture, critical writing, poetry, cognitive neuroscience, medicine, technology studies, critical theory, cultural studies, film and media studies, though all disciplines are welcome.  
SFSIA Hosted by Spike Magazine, Berlin
Faculty:
Warren Neidich, Founding Director
Andrew Berardini, Anke Henning, Ariana Reines, Armen Avanessian, Barry Schwabsky, (co-director) Beatriz Colomina, Boris Groys, Daniel Falb, Georgia Sagri, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Isaac Julien, John Yau, Julieta Aranda, Hubertus von Amelunxen, Karl Holmquist, Marcus Steinweg, Marie-Luise Knott, Marina Fokidis, Marjan Sharifi, Mathieu Copeland, Meena Alexander, Olu Oguibe, Quinn Latimer, Raimundas MalaĊĦauskas, Tino Sehgal, Yuk Hui and others.
Applications by email must arrive by 11:59pm UTC+1 May 19, 2018
For inquiries, please contact: info saasfeesummerinstituteofart.com
Last modified:09 July 2018 12.23 p.m.

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