[spectre] International Summer Academy, Frankfurt/Main

[Martina Aschmies]

True Truth about the Nearly Real
4th International Summer Academy - Frankfurt/Main, K=FCnstlerhaus Mousonturm
23. - 31. August 2002

Workshops / Lectures / Performances / Specials by:
The Atlas Group (RL / USA) // Damaged Goods (B) // Diedrich Diederichsen
(D) // Tim Etchells (GB) // Harun Farocki (D) // William Forsythe (D) //
Adrian Heathfield (GB) // Nikolaus Hirsch (D) Hygiene Heute (CH/D) // Jan
Kopp (D/F) // Hans-Thies Lehmann (D) // Andr=E9 Lepecki (USA) // Xavier Le
Roy (F/D) // Gerhard Johann Lischka (CH) // Hans Peter Litscher (CH) //
Molly Nesbit (USA) // Hans Ulrich Obrist (D/F) // Walid Raad (RL / USA) //
Martha Rosler (USA) // Rebecca Schneider (USA) // Gerald Siegmund (D) //
Meg Stuart (B) // Unfriendly Takeover (D) // Markus Weisbeck (D) //

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATON: 25 JUNE 2002!

=46urther information, program and application form under
www.internationale-sommerakademie.de

The 4th Summer Academy is addressed to each and everybody curious to dig
deeper into what artistic practices today imply.

Modes of passing on knowledge: Over a frame of eight formations occupying
Mousonturm, the participants will be invited to create their own maps,
within a scheme of activities ranging from formal lectures,
workshops/sessions, performances, to any kind of work/communicative events.
Each formation will be hosted by an internationally renowned
artist/thinker/theoretician who in turn invited his/her own hosting partner.

New representational frames, shifts of cultural, political-, and scientific
paradigms question our concepts of identity, reality and ethics.But how and
in which respect are our realities cracking? What new decipherings are
needed to understand the world? In which way can these decipherings either
be a departure for or the effect of an artistic event?

The 4th Summer Academy will take questions as such into account by focusing
on the act of perception itself: On the one hand it will investigate the
concept of fake as a means of questioning traditional notions of biography,
reliability of perception-, and quality of representation as
intersubjective denominators. What "is" that screen upon which I look, and
how does this screen affect my gaze? On the other hand, the notion of
perception implies the question of perspective and spectatorship. Through
which modes have spectatorial positions been reorganized ?.


A project by: K=FCnstlerhaus Mousonturm and Institute for Theatre-, Film and
Media Studies, University of Frankfurt.
In coorporation with: Institute for Applied Theatre Science, University of
Gie=DFen - Frankfurter Kunstverein - Centre for Performance Research (GB) -
Magazine in Residence: Janus (B) - Kunstencentrum Vooruit (B) - Rotterdamse
Schouwburg (NL) - supported by: European Central Bank and Hessisches
Ministerium f=FCr Wissenschaft und Kunst.
The Title "True Truth about the Nearly Real" is a commissioned work by Tim
Etchells (Forced Entertainment)
Curators: Christine Peters; Florian Malzacher, M=E5rten Sp=E5ngberg