Global Institute: Experiments in Transnational Education - 7th Gwangju Biennale, Korea
Workshops in Seoul and Gwangju, Korea
August 11 to 23, 2008
Deadline for applications: July 18, 2008
The 7th Gwangju Biennale is accepting applications for the Global Institute as part of Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions. The Global Institute consists of two programs: Open Studio and Arenas and Systems, organized into a series of workshops and clinics beginning in mid-August. Participants are invited to apply to either program based on their area of focus. Applicants should be at an upper undergraduate or graduate level, and should be able to demonstrate knowledge of contemporary artistic practice. In both programs, participants will work with a rich community of artists, curators, critics, and intellectuals, to examine the theoretical and historical questions currently being raised around contemporary art.
Open Studio begins by raising questions about where the artist’s studio is located in the changing context of global art practice. At a time when the studio has shifted into a veritable factory floor, artistic production can be seen as moving from the ethos of small-scale production, to one of hyperproduction. In Open Studio, invited speakers, artists, and architects will consider the conditions of production, examining how artists shift between different modes of thinking and making. The meetings will address scales, modes, contexts, and sites of inquiry, including academies, residencies, workshops, and travel as part of a global network of artistic and cultural production.
Arenas and Systems
It is possible, in the year of the Beijing Olympics, a year when 11 major international art exhibitions open throughout Asia-Pacific, to suggest that we are witnessing the beginning of the Asian century. In the same way that the 19th and 20th centuries were respectively the domains of Europe and America, Asia today clearly embodies many forces and energies of modernity – some similar, some quite unique. Given this scenario, new situations and institutions are emerging in Asia, invariably deploying a politics of spectacle, in turn requiring critical consideration. Arenas and Systems will involve various curators, critics, artists, and thinkers, all working in a series of workshops designed to engage the production, and reception, of these new formations.
Participants will be provided accommodation in both Seoul and Gwangju, lunch vouchers, and roundtrip transportation between Seoul and Gwangju during the Global Institute’s Session 1 (8/11-8/23). Applicants will be responsible for covering their airfare to/from Korea, obtaining a visa (if necessary) to enter Korea, and living expenses during their stay. Should the participants decide to extend their visit at the end of Session 1, they will be responsible for all their own expenses, including accommodation. All sessions of the Global Institute will be conducted in English and Korean.
The Global Institute is held in collaboration with the Korean National University of Arts, Seoul; Chonam National University, Gwangju; the San Francisco Art Institute; and the Royal College of Art, London.
For further information, please contact:
LEE, Sohl
Project Coordinator, Exhibition Team
THE GWANGJU BIENNALE FOUNDATION
tel+82.(0)62.608.4335 fax+82.(0)62.608.4335
Biennale 2-gil Buk-gu Gwangju, South Korea
sohl.lee@gmail.com
or check http://www.gb.or.kr
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