The theme of the 2012 Shanghai Biennale is Reactivation, emphasizes the propositions including social mobilization and structure of community, and implies the critical role of education. Thus, the curatorial team decides to place seminars, lectures and other communication events into the framework of a short-term training program. We replace the usual forum and lecture with the means of short-term training program in autumn to pursue the efficiency and production of communication.
The program is named “the Academy of Reciprocal Enlightenment”, as “Academy” refers to a Platonic-style community of wisdom and criticism. It embodies our educational philosophy: education is a self-governing action by learner communities, which serve as a platform of exchanges and dissemination of opinions.
1. Art Writer/Journalist Workshop
Today, we are forced to confront with universal uncertainness in the global new economic and political circumstance. In such context, contemporary art need to rethink and re-define its uncertain relationship with the contemporary world in order to survive. As one of important factors in the process of art production, contemporary media therefore also need to reconsider its function in the contemporary world when the cliché or the former dominant way of observation and expression are no longer suitable to the new trend. How the traditional mass media transform its responsibility and function when everyone can distribute his opinion (cultural, political, and economic) and have privilege to take part in the public discussion on internet.
As an echo to the theme of 9th Shanghai Biennial “Reactivation”, “Art Writer/Journalist Workshop” plans to invite media experts from all over the world to join in this event to approach round-table discussions, lectures, and site visits. The young international media workers could have an opportunity to communicate with and practice with teachers who work for global influential media and media agencies such as New York Times, Time Magazine, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Xinhua News Agency, Associated Press; ARTINFO, Modern Painters, Kunstforum International (Germany); e-flux journal, BOMB Magazine, The Third Text and so on. Meanwhile, the student will have an opportunity to have an interaction with the curators and artists of the Biennial as well as Shanghai art scene.
Time: 23rd Sep –9th Oct , 2012
Application submission: 15th Jul – 25th Aug, 2012
Announcement of final participants: 1st Sep, 2012
Teaching language: English (or Chinese with interactive interpretation)
2.Curatorial Practice Workshop
In collaboration with the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco and China Academy of Arts (CAA) in Hangzhou, the 9th Shanghai Biennale calls for application for its 1st edition of the Shanghai Biennial Curatorial Workshop. The workshop consists of two parts, each organized by faculty from CCA and CAA respectively.
The first part, titled ‘Typologies’, runs from Oct.2 to Oct.7. The course will provide the participants, by means of a number of lectures and discussions, with an overview of some of the basic exhibition formats such as the solo exhibition, the Biennial, the retrospective, the collection, art in public space and others.
Drawing on the knowledge pool provided by the first part, the second part, titled “The Next Biennial”, will focus on the future of the biennial. Organized by CAA, the workshop will be from Oct. 9 to Oct. 14 and addresses the issues of art and its relationship to local institutions and traditions, of social engagement and cultural construction, and of cultural policies. The lectures are given by international curators experienced with Asia and transnational cultures.
Course dates: 2nd Oct – 14th Oct, 2012
Application submission period: 15th Jul –1st Sep, 2012
Announcement of final participants: 5th Sep ,2012
Teaching language: English (or Chinese with interactive interpretation)
3. IMMERSION – Art | Technology Workshops
IMMERSION is an experiment, a free state of mind between real and unreal where human consciousness is drawn away from the physical world to reach non-linear time and space. In the artistic field, IMMERSION specifically refers to Virtual Art, very often in a three dimensional environment, using interactivity and Virtual Reality (VR) to immerse the viewer into a computer art world based on aesthetic-technological logic and expression.
Responding to the 9th Shanghai Biennial’s theme of “Reactivation”, we attempt to track the history of art and technology through our workshops focusing on the theme of IMMERSION in order to redefine the field and its development in the future, thus to reflect on man and the social environment he’s living within.
Our program will gather a group of international key figures, who greatly contributed the discipline’s evolution, to deliver a series of lectures combining theoretical studies and workshops to communicate with creators and researchers in China.
Students and young art practitioners can apply for participation by submitting the following materials. Participants are expected to have a solid understanding of the history of IMMERSION, and handle the basic technical skills at the end of the program. They will also have the opportunity to interact with the Biennial’s major artists and curators as well as other important personalities in the Chinese art scene.
Time: 3rd Oct – 14th Oct , 2012
Application submission: 15th Jul –1st Sep, 2012
Announcement of final participants: 5th Sep, 2012
Teaching language: English (partially with Chinese interactive interpretation)
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