Plug In ICA Summer Institute 2010: Session 2
Posted on Mar 14 2010
Plug In is again presenting the Summer Institute — an opportunity for artists and creative practitioners from a variety of fields and creative practices. (Application Deadline: April 6).
This year, the Institute will have two sessions with different visiting artist and curator faculty during each session. Plug In invites applications for participants who will work collaboratively in a peer-to-peer environment based upon their own interests and projects, as well as exploring and aligning their work with collaborative or group activities which will be planned during the session.
Plug In is pleased to announce the visiting faculty for Session 2 will be London, UK-based artist Shezad Dawood and curator Sara Raza. Session 2 will take place from July 5 to 25, 2010 (inclusive).
Session 2 will feature this artist and curator and Institute Director Anthony Kiendl playing a leadership role in an open studio environment with approximately 8 other participants who have submitted applications. Selection will be made by a committee based upon artistic merit.
Deadline for applications for both sessions is April 6, 2010 (postmarked). You may download applications by following the link at: www.plugin.org.
Synopsis and Curriculum
Operating on the basis of an informal art school Plug In’s 2010 Summer Institute: Session 2 will be transformed into a laboratory of creative collectiveness where individuals are invited from a variety of creative disciplines such as, but not limited to, theatre, live art, fashion, literature, music, magic and dance to participate in a unique re-appropriation of Winnipeg’s electric live art cultural history. Central to Session 2 will be the unique opportunity to work alongside visiting curator Sara Raza and multi-faceted guest British artist Shezad Dawood who will be staging a remake of Buster Keaton’s epic “Steamboat Bill Jr,” (1928) within the form of “a mystery play” where both the legendary magician and escapologist Harry Houdini and the Devil make guest appearances all the while incorporating the city’s rich theatrical history. Subsequently, participants of the Summer Institute will work alongside Dawood as active participants in re-staging history and enacting happenings and visual art projects of their own within their respective creative disciplines through both collaboration and individual projects with Dawood and Raza acting as respondents.
The Summer Institute will take place at 286 McDermot Avenue as well as artist studios, cinemas, parks, libraries, bars and cafes and may be composed of three weeks of combined practice and seminar/workshop based sessions that will explore a wide variety of creative disciplines ranging from contemporary magic, alternative theatre, film, poetry, prose, mime, circus to the fashion runway.
The Summer Institute is aimed at emerging and mid career practitioners — and university/college Masters or post-graduate level participants (or equivalent) who will come together to form a cultural mass of experimentation in creative learning and practice. Everyone is welcome to apply.
Participants from the fields of fashion, dance, literature, architecture, theatre, science & visual arts are encouraged to submit one page proposal for their own work, bearing in mind the opportunity to also collaborate with others within the context of being a co-participants among up to eight other applicants and faculty.
Fees, Accommodations, facilities
A tuition of $295 + taxes is due upon the first day of each session for all accepted participants. There is no application fee. Up to eight participants will be accepted in each session.
Participants will be provided with space to work at Plug In’s facilities. Facilities will be accessible generally from 9 am to 10 pm, with variable hours on weekends. Participants may attend according to their own schedules, however, to ensure genuinely collaborative opportunities, participants will be expected to make Plug In their primary site of work during the Session. While attendance is not compulsory, those applicants who do not expect to be available most of the time should consider not applying until they can contribute most of their time to this opportunity.
Accommodations are available for Summer Institute this year at the University of Winnipeg campus.
Conveniently located several blocks west of Plug In ICA, McFeetors Hall offers artists individual rooms for only $585 for one month.
Built on the north-east side of the University of Winnipeg’s Furby/Langside Campus, McFeetors Hall offers new, modern dorm-style units with individual washrooms. The units are close to transit, shopping, restaurants and entertainment.
McFeetors hall models a range of leading edge environmental technologies to foster sustainability and energy efficiency, including:
- Fully air-conditioned units
- Wireless internet in student lounges
- Electronic, monitored security systems.
- On site SmartCard technology, energyStar laundry facilities.
- Communal kitchens on each floor with stove, dishwasher, microwave and fridge
- Well equiped communal space with television, vending machines and gaming entertainment
- Diversity Meal Services are also available for an additional fee
Foreign residents will are responsible for their own health and travel insurance.
Program and details are subject to change without notice.
Applications:
All applications must consist of the following:
- Application form
- One-page proposal of work or research to be undertaken during the session
- Curriculum vitae
- Support material (up to 20 JPEG images, DVDs, printer matter, etc.)
- Self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of materials.
(Materials from successful applicants will be kept for our files). Sorry, e-mail applications are not accepted. For more information please contact: info@plugin.org.
Faculty bios
Shezad Dawood was born in London in 1974 and trained at Central St Martin’s and the Royal College of Art before undertaking a PhD at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Dawood works across many different forms of media, and much of his practice involves curating and collaboration, frequently working with other artists to build on and create unique networks of critically engaged discursive circles. These networks map across different geographic locations and communities, and are particularly concerned with acts of translation and restaging. For example, his collaborative ‘Feature’ film (2008), which relocated the action of a traditional western to the English country-side, slipping into other sub-genres such as the zombie-flick, and Wagnerian opera (and features cameos from artists Jimmie Durham and David Medalla). And ‘Insha’allah’ 2009, which restaged Beckett within Islamic immigrant communities in Milan.
Dawood’s work has been exhibited internationally, including as part of Altermodern - curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at Tate Britain, and the 53rd Venice Biennale (both 2009). And his further extensive exhibitions include projects in cities such as: Dubai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Fribourg, Hamburg, Sydney and Singapore. Upcoming projects include the Busan biennale in Korea (2010), a collaboration with contemporary dance choreographer Jasmin Vardimon at Sadlers Wells in London (2011), and a feature-length sci-fi film, which will go into production in the summer of 2011. He currently lives and works in London, where he is Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in Experimental Media at the University of Westminster.
Sara Raza is a London-based independent curator, writer and co-editor for ArtAsiaPacific Magazine. A former curator of public programmes at Tate Modern, she has programmed and chaired 100 events on contemporary art practice with a focus on international photography, performance and architecture. Previously, she was the recipient of a curatorial fellowship at the South London Gallery where she pioneered the Gallery’s public programme and assisted on exhibitions by Steve McQueen, Henrik Plenge Jacobson and curated ShowCASe Preview an exhibition of 17 leading British artists from the collection of the Contemporary Arts Society, which included works by Turner Prize nominee Mark Titchner, Shezad Dawood, Maria Marshall and others. She has also worked as an independent curator and associate editor at the Haus der Kultern der Welt, Berlin on the seminal South East Asian exhibition “Politics of Fun,” and “Dreams and Trauma” new media works by leading Israeli and Palestinian artists (2005).
Sara has published over 80 texts for books, magazines and exhibition/ festival catalogues. In 2009 she programmed Bastakiya Art School, Dubai’s first experimental free art school, composed of a fluid faculty of 20 internationally operating cultural practitioners.
Anthony Kiendl is Director of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg, and winner of the 2009 Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art. In 2007 he was Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Arts, Middlesex University, London. He was the Director of Visual Arts, Walter Phillips Gallery and the Banff International Curatorial Institute at The Banff Centre in Alberta from 2002 until 2006. In 2002, he served as Acting Director of the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library in Saskatchewan where he was Curator since 1997.
He has lectured internationally and has been instrumental in the delivery of several symposia including those for Tate Modern, the Banff International Curatorial Institute and Plug In ICA. His most recent curatorial project was the creation and direction of the Summer Institute (Plug In ICA), an inter-disciplinary alternative art school/residency program for professional artists and curators.