MOBILE ACADEMY WARSAW
‚Ghosts, Spectres, Phantoms and The Places Where They Live'
25th of August - 10th of September 2006
Courses addressed to:
performers, actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, photographers,
media artists and participants interested in art theory.
Application Deadline: 15th of June 2006
International lecturers (among others):
Rabih Mroué and Linah Saneh, directors, performers, Beirut, Lebanon; Catherine Sullivan, visual artist, director, Los Angeles, U.S.A.; Akram Zaatari, film maker, photographer, Beirut, Lebanon; Hans Weigand, artist, musician, Vienna, Austria; Olaf Breuning, photographer, Zürich, Switzerland; Xavier le Roy, French choreographer, living in Berlin, Germany; Meg Stuart, American choreographer, Brussels/Berlin;
Stefan Kaegi, Suisse director, on the road; Klaus Weber, visual artist, Berlin, Germany; Georg Schöllhammer, author, curator, Vienna, Austria; Tino Sehgal, artist, London/Berlin and Dorothea Hantelmann, art theorist, curator, Berlin; Bojana Cvejic, musicologist, art theorist, Belgrad/Brussels and Jan Ritsema, director, Brussels.
Warsaw Experts in the Blackmarket II (among others):
The actor Jacek Poniedzialek, the artists: Pawel Althammer, Anna Baumgart, Oskar Dawicki, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz, Zusanna Janin, Jan Mioduszewski, the political activists: Robert Biedro´n, Ewa Charkiewicz, Jaroslaw Lipszyc, Magda Mosiewicz, the authors and journalists Bartek Chaci´nski, Kinga Dunin, Anka Grupi´nska, Piotr Pazi´nski, Piotr Rypson, Slawomir Sierakowski, the curators: Joanna Mytkowska and Andrzej Przywara Gallery Foksal Foundation; Michal Kaczy´nski and Lukasz Gorczyca, Raster Gallery, Michal Libera, the architects: Jacek Dominiczak (Gda´nsk), Przemyslaw Lukasik and Lukasz Zagala Medusa Group (Gliwice); the DJ and radio host Maciej `Magura`Goralski.
the program is accompanied by
- Warsaw field trips to ghost spaces, the nearest forest and the underground directed by artists
- lectures, work demonstrations and talks on making things, revenants and displacement visible
- a film program on the undead, spooky ones, vampires, and the hypnotized
- Cargo Sofia-Warszawa by Stefan Kaegi, a truck performance travelling through Warsaw
The complete program will be published in the beginning of April 2006
Mobile Academy Warsaw is a project by Hannah Hurtzig and Carolin Hochleichter. The project is taking place in the frame of 'Büro Kopernikus. German-Polish Cultural Projects', an initiative of Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) in cooperation with TR Warszawa.
Honorary President: Prof. Dr. Maria Janion
Further cooperating partners:
Akademia Fotografii, Polskie Wydawnictwo Audiowizualne, Teatr Narodowy, Kino Luna
Supported by: Pro Helvetia, French Embassy Warsaw
Scholarships: Goethe Institut Warsaw, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Czech Centre Warsaw
www.mobileacademy-warsaw.com