Teaching period: 31 March - 4 April 2025

Location: Helsinki, Finland

Teacher(s): Harri Monni KUVA, Josefina Posch HDK- Valand, Anna Liljedal HDK-Valand, Jonatan Habib Enqvist,Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen

ECTS: 2-3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 8

Level: BA /MA

Course description
To rethink the notion of “activity” in artistic practices and artworks, conversations and develop new knowledge being able to see the artistic practice anew.

The main objective of the course is to create a critical awareness and discussion around the notion of passivity in art. We will discuss laziness, non-doing and withdrawal and furthermore reflect on the incitement and reception of artworks by looking at both art historical and contemporary examples, as well as different theoretical tools.

“When conceptual artists dismissed the production line when making an artwork, the contemporary artist puts the spectator in a situation of passivity where nothing is going to happen and how that can make a change."

The learning outcome is to rethink the artistic processes and develop new knowledge being able to see the artistic practice anew.

Course contains lectures and workshops. Active participation is important. At the end of the course there will be an event or exhibition.

Application deadline: February 24th, 2025

How to apply: Please fill out this application form: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/96D815CA666200CC

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact ulla.tissari@uniarts.fi 

Teaching period: 17-28 March 2025

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Teacher(s): Ida Lundén, Björn Larsson

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 4

Level: BA /MA

Course description
What is a sound?   

The first, still existing, recorded sound was created by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860 in Paris. Sixteen years earlier, in 1844, Nils Månsson Mandelgren founded the Söndags-ritskola för Handtverkare (Sunday Drawing School for Craftsmen) in Röda bodarna (the Red sheds). Since then, the Konstfack school has operated at eight different addresses before the school, its library and archives moved to Telefonplan in 2004. 

Despite the fact that we have been able to record sound for 164 years, there are today very few sounding objects preserved in Konstfack's archives. Maybe there is still information about sound in the many works of art, pictures, objects, books, letters and other text documents that are in the archive? 

The course investigates, on several different levels, what a sound object is, and can be based on questions about conservation, archiving and sustainability through seminars, lectures, site visits, and workshops. In addition to this, there is also individual and group-based practical, creative work. 

More information about the course

Application deadline: 23 February 2025, 23:59

How to apply: Please send a free-form motivation letter along with your CV to ida.lunden@konstfack.se . Please state the course name “KUNO Hidden Sounds” in the email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact ida.lunden@konstfack.se or course administrator tomas.nilsson@konstfack.se

Teaching period: 17-21 March 2025 (in Trondheim), plus 13-20 February 2025 (online)

Location: Trondheim, Norway

Teacher(s):

 Annett Busch, Prerna Bishnoi among other guest lecturers

ECTS: 4 ECTS (for those who join online and in Trondheim) / 2 ECTS (for those who join in Trondheim only)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 12

Level: BA /MA

Application deadline: 20 January 2025, 23:59

How to apply: Please fill out this form with a short motivation statement and other information.

Course description:
ARTISTIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP argues for an agency that involves and engages new combinations and new forms of cooperation among researchers, concepts and ideas, technologies, resources, and machines. It paves the way for a different kind of entrepreneurship in the truest sense of the word: Rather than just a business model, it is the undertaking or new beginning of acting together across sectors, across actors and across disciplines, to inspire people to tackle the challenges society faces. How does Artistic Entrepreneurship extend the studio practice? What if Artistic Entrepreneurship is the new Punk Rock?

The course combines artistic practice and critical artistic research through project based thinking and reframing exercises. We are creating a playful glossary, rewriting and counter-mapping the rules of Monopoly, reimagining innovation by analysing rural frameworks, stimulating collaborative ideas and looking at dissemination and publishing formats.

As a KUNO express mobility course, “Exploring Artistic Entrepreneurship” is embedded in an elective course at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. Participants are encouraged to attend at least one introductory session online in preparation for the intensive course days in Trondheim.

In conjunction with the introductory elements, the course builds on the participants' artistic practice and aims to develop entrepreneurial ideas and themes collectively to foster strategic artistic agency against monoculture.

Learning Outcomes

Students can use relevant methods for research and artistic entrepreneurial development. The students can reflect on and articulate the significance and potential of art and artists in relation to society. Students will have the skills and training required to work collaboratively.

Readings: 

Antonio Negri / Michael Hardt, ‘Entrepreneurship of the Multitude’, in: Assembly, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Bernard E. Harcourt, Cooperation—A Political, Economic and Social Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 2023

Keller Easterling, Medium Design , Verso, 2021

Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Francis de Vericourt, Framers, Penguin Random House, 2021.

Explore and learn from Fluxus artists: https://monoskop.org/Fluxus

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €

Financial support is not provided for online participation. 

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions:

In case of any questions please contact annett.busch@ntnu.no

Teaching period: March 10-14, 2025

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

Teacher(s): prof. Žilvinas Lilas

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA

Course description
What shall we do? Is Alice in Wonderland a new real? Fakes everywhere, “deep” or shallow, freaky or banal, everybody and everything lies, can’t trust our eyes (and other senses) anymore. Images lie, appearances lie. Well, it seems we are cornered… But we still have to find the way out. Nihilism is not an answer. Diligent and resolute warriors of the phenomenal truth as we are, we are facing an onslaught of existential falsity. Plato rightly suspected that it will come to this and as a precaution, banned us from his City, Hegel retired us from History, cheerfully proclaiming that our mission is “accomplished”. By “we” I, of course, mean us, artists. Is there still any meaning left in creation of appearances? Perhaps sticking to fidelity? Fidelity to small things (within the reach of your arms—cups, pine cones, twigs, small neglected gestures). Rabid fidelity. Why don’t we go back to basic sensorics of taste, touch, smell? Flushing out the concept and keeping just an idea. If there’s nothing left to see, perhaps we shall close our eyes and try to remember? To remember instead of  imagine, remember actively, not re-actively. Finding something of a guidance in Deleuze’s Painting and the Question of Concepts? Let’s see…

Application deadline: January 31st, Friday, 23:59

How to apply: Please send a free-form motivation letter along with your CV to zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt Please state the course name “KUNO image detox” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact Zilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt

Teaching period: 22nd – 28th January, 2025

Location: Mizarai recreation and workshop base, Lithuania

Teacher(s): dr. Vygintas Orlovas

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 7

Level: : BA /MA (all years)

Course description
The main aim of the workshop is to provide a theoretical background and terminology (based on Strategies of interactive art by Ryszard Kluszczynski) to discuss interactive art and the practical tools to create interactive works via the use of a visual programming language - Pure Data. The next step could be extending Pure Data via microprocessors (such as arduino).

Pure Data allows us to transform any input from the environment (sound, motion, touch, change in lighting, the conductivity of a plant etc.) into a number. That number can control any other parameter (modulation of sound, changes of an image, flow of electricity, values in different pieces of software etc.), thus it can be a handy tool when creating interactive artworks.

Throughout the workshop, I would like to discuss the methods for creating audio signals, graphic elements, electric currents, and manipulating and connecting various types of signals. And using microphones, webcams, microprocessors and other types of sensors while having Pure Data as a connection between these input and output devices and interactions.

The workshop will take place at Mizarai recreation and workshop base, which can be not only a place to share, but also a site to explore: https://www.vda.lt/en/facilities/mizarai-recreation-and-workshop-base

Example plan of the workshop: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oSqvJBU46tLCHzG9uhn6DVVSB1E0ZRKP/view

Application deadline: January 10th, 2025

How to apply: Apply by filling out this form, https://forms.gle/wA9BBEgJ38uoA8jPA

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact the coordinator of the workshop: vygintas.orlovas@vda.lt

Teaching period: 25th – 29th November, 2024

Location: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus

Teacher(s): Stine Marie Jacobsen, artist and professor

ECTS: 2 study points (equal to 2 ECTS)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA (all years)

Requirements: no previous knowledge needed

Course description:
This course is an introduction to social art practices, conflict analysis, environmental and artistic inquiry where art students can reflect on their ethics and approach to working with/within different interests, cultures and other factors that influence their art projects. From a multifocal and multimedia perspective on the interactions and constitutive relationships between knowledge and art, we will discuss a transition from a production mode to a reproductive mindset in which art is not dominated by (individual) value extractions and hegemonic power/knowledge constellations. How can the reception of people's opinions, stories and information lead to new project ideas? What is at stake when artists make art that involves people? Artistic research can generate new collective knowledge about care and (ecological) care, motivated by a sense of political urgency. 

COURSE METHOD 

Students in this course will create their own art projects in contact with a person, a community or a specific place of their own choice. While practically applying the tools learned, conducting research, practicing negotiation skills, and learning tools of active listening through conflict analysis methods, students will reflect on their personal agenda, gather information and develop their ideas, to finally evaluate what impact their social art project has or will have on the person, community, or place they have chosen to work with or on during this 5-day workshop. Some parts of this course will be speculative due to the course time. The main goal is to develop a root concept of your own. 

BIO 

Stine Marie Jacobsen holds an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen, Denmark) and a B.F.A. in Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Los Angeles, California, USA. She also completed an advanced training program in conflict resolution and peacebuilding at the Chulalongkorn University Peace Center in Bangkok, Thailand. Over the past 15 years, she has gained extensive experience working in conflict zones and post-colonial contexts in countries such as Colombia, Lebanon, Greenland and Eastern Ukraine. Jacobsen has conceived and developed a series of participatory and educational projects such as Direct Approach, where people retell the most violent movie scene they have seen from memory and play either the victim, perpetrator or bystander in a cinematic re-enactment. Also Law Shifters, where, in collaboration with lawyers, she invites people to performatively re-enact real-life legal processes and then write their own legal proposals. Or Group-Think: a sports and protest project in which she trains collective intelligence and safety with large groups. 

www.stinemariejacobsen.com

Application deadline: 14th October, 2024

How to apply: Please send an application form and short motivation to frontdesk@djk.nu. Please state the course name “When Theory lacks street” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact Susanne Brokmann at: frontdesk@djk.nu

Teaching period:  25th – 29th November 2024

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Marthe Ramm Fortun

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2-3

Level: BA/MA

Course description:
"Slide into my DMs" is a class about textual artist exchanges, love letters and sustainable strategies with regards to an open ended and reciprocal communication with an audience, exploring boundaries, vulnerabilities and possible asymmetrical institutional relationships.

This is a project class that will result in both individual and group presentations.

Application deadline: 4th November 23:59

How to apply:  Please apply via this online form: https://nettskjema.no/a/461393

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact hannhatt@khio.no

Teaching period:  18th – 22nd November 2024

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Jan Verwoert

ECTS: 4

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2-3

Level: BA/MA

Course description:
Arguably one of the hardest moments about making art and being an artist comes when you need to step up and say: "This is a work and I want you to look at it and tell me how it makes you feel." You may have been more or less happy with what you were doing in the studio. Some parts about making art may even be fun and get you so excited you want to go back to where you left it the last day and do some more. But then we get to the deadline for a crit or show, and, on the doorstep of the soul, you wonder: "What the x am I doing? Who the x am I to do it? How the x am I going to get your attention?" Two main options present themselves. Number one is the conceptual claim: "Listen up, you need to consider my project because it's based on a good idea!" Number two is the holistic existential option: "Look, I give you all of me, so in return, give a little piece of your heart to me!" This is real. And it can drive you nuts. Giving the gift of your art feels like it's all about you. But when it comes to if and how the gift is received, it seems like it's not about you at all. How can you live with this contradiction?

This seminar series will consist of a series of talks about the histories, politics, psychologies and demonologies at play when a work is called a work, presenting different traditions and techniques for going about the transactions (between people, things, sensations, spirits and spaces) that shape art. The talks will be followed up by a seminar session in which participants are asked to coin concepts for building their own philosophy of handling how to call a piece a work.

Application deadline: 27th October 23:59

How to apply:  Please apply via this online form: https://nettskjema.no/a/457507

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

General KUNO Eligibility Rules:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please contact hannhatt@khio.no

Teaching period: 21st October– 1st November, 2024

Location: MALMÖ ART ACADEMY, Sweden

Teacher(s):  Michael Portnoy

ECTS: 6

Number of available places for KUNO students: 3

Level: BA

Course description:
The focus of this practice-based course is experimental creative writing. We’ll be looking at a diverse selection of short fiction and experimental texts from authors such as Richard Kostelanetz, Sheila Heti, Raymond Queneau, M. NourbeSe Philip, Lucy Corin, Edouard Levé, Claudia Rankine, R.A Lafferty, Padgett Powell, Greg Bordowitz, Lucy Corin, Daniil Kharms, Lydia Davis, Lucy Ives, László Krasznahorkai, Jamaica Kincaid and Olga Ravn, among others, as well as visual and performance artists who have innovative approaches towards language. The core of the course is the engagement in daily writing which follows from different formal and conceptual prompts. Through practice and discussion, we’ll do things with words both on the page and in the mouth in order to build a toolbox of techniques which can be drawn upon when incorporating text into one's work. The course will culminate in a PDF produced by the class including a selection of the writing created as well as prompts devised by the students designed to inspire future prose stylists.

Application deadline: 29th of September, 2024

How to apply:  Please apply by sending a motivation letter to Maj Hasager:
maj.hasager@khm.lu.se Please state the course name “Doing Things With Words” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact charlotta.osterberg@khm.lu.se

Teaching period: September 17-27, 2024

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s): dr. Vitalij Červiakov

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6-8

Level: BA /MA

Course description
Information about the physical and psychological health benefits of daily walking, step-counting competitions and the accumulation of virtual points for daily walking is seen regularly in the public sphere. In artistic practice, walking together or alone takes on a much broader meaning. Walking and being together - embodies an artwork in each participant.
Artists use various walking practices in their work or research in the context of the growing concern about ecological and migration crises, urban planning decisions that are not compatible with natural human movement, new forms of being together in the virtual, post-pandemic situation and alienation. In light of these issues (and many more), the workshop will focus on embodied, participatory and collaborative art practices, using walking as a key tool.
The tutor of the workshop, Dr. Vitalij Červiakov, has been studying walking as an artistic practice for over 15 years. He is not only actively involved in the Lithuanian contemporary art field by developing structured and site specific participatory walks, but also conducts scientific/artistic research on the topic at the VAA Art Institute, describing walking as one of the most immediate ways of experiencing and thinking about space.
Only working your leg muscles will not be enough. The practice will also include guest lectures, collaboration with local institutions and enjoying the warmth of Nida's dunes!
An important day for the practice is 22 September, which is not only the autumn Equinox but also the day of Baltic unity and the International Car Free Day. For the sixth time in a row, this day will be the day of the all-day walk across the Curonian Spit, organized by Dr Vitalij Červiakov for the students of the Photography, Animation and Media Art department in Vilnius Academy of Art. This is a challenge that everyone who takes part overcomes in one way or another!

Application deadline: August 30th, 2024 

How to apply: Please fill out the application form https://forms.gle/GA7KoNhxZykZMyqJ7

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact the coordinator of the Workshop: gaile.cijunaityte@vda.lt

Teaching period: September 16-20, 2024

Opening of the city festival “All Roads Lead to Roam”: 13 September  (in Trondheim)

Location: Trondheim, Norway

Teacher(s): Annett Busch, Margarita Torrijos, Kristian Byskov Rasmussen

ECTS: 2 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 10

Level: BA /MA

Course description:

A week of festive artistic urban research that invites site specific thinking and experimenting: Starting point of the course is a student-initiated city and exhibition festival in Trondheim, all roads lead to roam, that opens right the weekend before the course. The exhibition consists of nine spots, located within walking distance to the art academy, situated in Møllenberg and facing Solsiden, neighbouring Lademoen & Svartlamon, Rosenborg and Bakklandet. The selected locations, where the artworks are then installed, and walks connecting those spots, lead to places that may not have been noticed before. 

Places can open up new sights and perspectives, question everyday routines and blind spots, offer entry into historic narratives and struggles, point to economic and social divides and hidden infrastructures. 

We will engage with these places, artworks and their context and surroundings, add scientific-fiction and theoretical readings on site (outdoor), create audio-visual recordings and imaginary maps. As we roam (physically and theoretically) we will try to understand how things appear, how they are and how we would like the urban-social fabric to become. Playing with experimental utopias, exploring the potential of play in the city beyond designated playgrounds. In that sense, roaming locally can propel ideas translocally, can become a model and a new starting point to develop second festival editions, here and elsewhere. Students will discuss and work collaboratively in smaller groups, drawing on their knowledge of the different places they come from, to develop their own proposal for a site specific city festival, or propose a continuation in Trondheim. Folded into the specifics of sight and sites. "We often see computers not cables, light not electricity, taps and water but not pipes and sewers.” (Brian Larkin, “The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure,” 2013)

More information

Application deadline: 30 July 2024, 13:00   

How to apply: Please fill out the following online application form with a short motivation statement and further information.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €

Eligibility:

- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions:

In case of any questions please contact annett.busch@ntnu.no

Teaching period: September 3-8, 2024

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s): prof. Žilvinas Lilas

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA

Course description
Small Realities - Reconstructing Reality (later SR-RR) is a facilitator of artistic action focused on surroundings, perception, the factual, the remembered, and the desired, the interferences and obstacles, the real and the believed.
SR-RR is a 3rd International Media Refuge - a joint event of Caspar-David-Friedrich Institute of the University of Greifswald; Academy of Media Arts, Cologne; Turku University of Applied Sciences; Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Vilnius Art Academy. The previous events commenced at Naples and Cologne.
The practical idea of this residency is to observe, perceive and record Nida's surroundings using a variety of media, from traditional ones such as text, drawing, gesture/movement, photography, video and sound recording to new forms such as 3D scanning / photogrammetry. Students can work alone or in groups and engage in a mixture of outdoor and indoor activities, interspersed with periodic critical brainstorming sessions around the bonfire.
We plan a small work-in-progress exhibition on the premises of Nida Art Colony. The goal is to create what is possible with the tools that are at hand while using the visible and the seen in order to create new trains of visual thought inside the field of uncharted new media. It is expected to have a wide variety of different approaches such as but not limited to light/projection, sound, performative, and situated strategies.

Application deadline: August 16 (Friday), 2024 at 18:00 (CEST)

How to apply: Please send a short motivation letter (one A4 page maximum) with a link to your portfolio to Žilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt, with a subject heading “KUNO SR-RR Nida 2024”

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact Zilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt

Teaching period: July 22-26, 2024

Location: Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

Teacher(s): prof. Žilvinas Lilas

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6-8

Level: BA /MA

Course description
This is a seventh iteration of the Ghostology cycle which focuses on artistic desire, and tries to understand “but what does an artist really want?” (to paraphrase Freud a bit). In a course of a week we will meet at predefined locations to act out possible scenarios on what (or how) it is to be an artist in the 21st century. 

We will re-learn to desire as an artist. Trying to find if there is such a thing as desire which drives one as an artist. Or is it need and want? Also, how do we weed out trivialities of carnal or other circumstantial kind, together with all shades of vanity and grasp the depths of being an artist. Because, at the end, to paraphrase Lacan,— “the only truth in art is the truth of unsatisfiable desire”.

Application deadline:  June 2nd, 2024 at 18:00 (CET)

How to apply: Please send a short motivation letter (one A4 page maximum) to Zilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)

Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

Eligibility:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact Zilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt

Teaching period: 17 – 23 June 2024

Location: Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius), Lithuania

Leading teacher(s): dr. Vygintas Orlovas

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA and MA

Application deadline: 13 May 2024

How to apply: Please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/63ahifBsvo5WAKKV7

Course description:

The core concept centres around the idea of emergence in non-human communication between interactive artworks. We will explore this possibility in the context of interactive art.
The workshop aims to bring people together to brainstorm ideas for interactive works, create them, and place them in a singular space so the artworks can interact with each other and form unexpected and unplanned connections. Through the use of microphones, cameras, motion sensors, motors, programming, networks perhaps the works/objects/installations can form feedback loops and also break them to create unforeseen relationships.
A person who can help with the technical questions (programming, soldering) will join in so everyone who has ideas can participate regardless of how much experience they have with soldering and coding.
The space that we will use is called the “Šachmatinė salė” (checkered hall). It is not a white cube, but quite a liminal space that has a striking pattern and no clear purpose.  

Financial support available from KUNO: Travel support between countries: 330 € (660 € to/from Iceland) Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days).

You can also vail of the Erasmus+ grant to cover your travel and subsistence expenses in Lithuania. Please contact your International Office and enquire whether they could allocate the Erasmus grant to you. 

In case of any questions please contact vygintas.orlovas@vda.lt

Teaching period: 7 – 14 June 2024

Location: Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius), Lithuania

Teacher(s): assoc. prof. Jolanta Mikulskytė

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA and MA

Application deadline: 28 April 2024

How to apply: Please send your motivation letter / artistic portfolio (the main artistic field / artistic research, maximum 12 slides, *pdf) to: jolanta.mikulskyte@vda.lt Please include an email subject Uncovering.

Course description:

Uncovering is a practical printmaking lithography course. The course focuses on exploring the possibilities of the print culture phenomenon, i.e. the possibilities of stone lithography. Lithography is one of the greatest artistic printmaking adventures of our times. The theme of the course is Uncovering. Lithography is a particularly auspicious form of creative expression, encompassing a wide variety of expressive forms: an expressive drawing method, a watercolor like treatment of color, the drawing of miniatures, the raster offset printing, the art of ink etc. During the course the participants will be introduced to the specifics of the planography print: stone and offset lithography, zinc plate lithography, also polyester lithography and mixed media; and its main technological image creation principles that separate it from other graphic printing methods. The students will be encouraged to use the plentiful and unique plastic expression opportunities offered by stone lithography. During the printmaking process the students will be encouraged to experiment and use common as well as non-traditional means of lithographic image creation and search for their own individual artistic style.  

Financial support available from KUNO: Travel support between countries: 330 € (660 € to/from Iceland) Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days).

You can also vail of the Erasmus+ grant to cover your travel and subsistence expenses in Lithuania. Please contact your International Office and enquire whether they could allocate the Erasmus grant to you. 

In case of any questions please contact jolanta.mikulskyte@vda.lt

Teaching period: 20th – 24th May, 2024

Location: Umeå Academy of Fine Arts

Teacher(s): EvaMarie Lindahl

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2

Level: BA /MA

Course description:
This workshop will investigate how to imagine and tell stories through drawing. Together, we will explore different methods to challenge existing narratives and histories, and imagine new stories and perspectives. Through various drawing techniques and tools, we will reimagine and question old stories, sparking the creation of new narratives inspired by the histories and narratives that surround us. This week-long course will include drawing workshops, brief writing exercises, and introductory lectures on drawing.

Application deadline: 1st of May, 2024

How to apply: A short motivation of text and two works to Simon.gran-danielsson@umu.se Please state the course name Imagine Stories Through Drawing in an email subject title. 

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact  Simon.gran-danielsson@umu.se

Teaching period: 8th – 12th April, 2024

Location: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus

Teacher(s): Mathias Saederup

ECTS: 2 study points (equal to 2 ECTS)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA (all years)

Requirements: no previous knowledge needed

Course description:
The workshop is about nostalgia and the mythologies we live through/make use of / build our society on - without necessarily being aware of it.

The workshop makes use of didactics, undermined didactics, joint education, theatre, film.
The workshop takes place at DJK and in Den Gamle By (The Old Town – a life size museum where Danish history is reenacted).
The workshop is a kind of scripted reality show, where everyone takes part in teaching and developing.
Together we develop this reality TV-theatre where the plot is, that ... 
- time has stopped

- we find ourselves in an art school in the future, where the past keeps repeating itself

- we need to find out why the time is stuck / looping and how to fix it
- we have different roles, e.g.: TV crew 1, teachers, students, resistance group (/ rebels), detectives / journalists, TV crew 2 from another time, etc.

The plan is that we live at least 3 nights in Den Gamle By. We have an everyday life here, eat food, hang out, film with cameras, rehearse scenes, develop scripts, discuss etc. We use the old classroom in Den Gamle By as a film set, make costumes and sets.
Along the way, I will make presentations and facilitate conversations about, among other things, nostalgia, myth-making, the disappearance of the future, hauntology, power and didacticism.
We will read texts by e.g. Mark Fischer, Solvej Balle and Philip K. Dick. And watch movies, e.g. Olympic Games Opening Ceremony London 2012, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One by William Greaves and Night Passage by  Trinh T. Minh-ha.

BIO: Mathias Sæderup, born 1984, visual artist from Det Jyske 
Kunstakademi and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Among 
many other things he works with video and is concerned with ghosts, 
criticism of power, improvisation and institutionalisation.

Application deadline: 3rd March, 2024

How to apply: Please send an application form and short motivation to frontdesk@djk.nu. Please state the course name “Old School in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact Susanne Brokmann at: frontdesk@djk.nu

Teaching period: 24 – 28 March 2024

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s): Eva-Maria Lisa Körber, Anton Shramkov

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA and MA

Application deadline: 3 March 2024

How to apply: Participants should submit 250 words explaining their motivation to take part in the course in relation to the main course concepts and either a 2–3 min video or other kind of documentation evidencing successful completion of the following task to: anton.shramkov@nidacolony.lt

Course description:

The focus of this study course is human-engineered landscapes and the flow of timber materials, which are measured, categorised, valued, and devalued. Organic materials considered irrelevant, ‘unusable’, or even harmful will be at the core of this course. By studying, questioning, critically assessing, and approaching the historical, political, and economic reasoning behind these categories, the course will take a hands-on approach by inviting participants to reimagine and test the possibilities of working with what is supposedly ‘useless’.

The course takes place within a distinct landscape; the Curonian Spit, a UNESCO Heritage site, affected by its continually changing and seasonal social and urban nature. The scale, together with the unique geographical, climatic, natural and historical contexts, provides an opportunity for investigating, discussing and getting a deeper understanding of relations between global and local, centre and periphery, ‘invasive’ and ‘initial’ and the meaning of these terms as constructs and documents of specific time periods. This course takes place within the framework of Neringa Forest Architecture (NFA), a research and residency programme that was established at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2019 and ‘seeks to assemble an intersectional view of these diverse viewpoints focusing on the agency of culture in enhancing the ways to sense and understand forest’. Participants will have access to a library of locally-grown timber materials assembled throughout the NFA project, which from its inception, has looked for possibilities of deviating the timber logged in the Curonian Spit for the biofuel and paper industry towards experiments, architecture, design, art, research processes.

Over the course of five days, participants will: experience local natural and urban landscapes through a series of guided tours; gather, study, and process locally grown timber species; learn basic woodworking skills, working with hand tools and wood workshop machines; attend lectures given by the tutors on the statics of objects and wood joints, and participate in discussions; undertake individual and group tests of the structural properties and capabilities of different locally-grown materials with the objective of creating experimental structures from those materials. This workshop is conceived as a collaborative open-ended process where ideas will emerge from an open discussion between participants from multidisciplinary backgrounds and tutors. Proposals will be tested through the process of handicrafting and prototyping. Participants are invited to learn by unlearning, to deconstruct and reconstruct, to acquire skills and to focus on background and context. The course is open to participants from all backgrounds and fields of study and does not require specific knowledge or skills in architecture, design, or the material sciences

More information on the teaching staff

Additional information: The workshop will take place at the Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, E. A. Jonušo str. 3, Neringa LT-93127, Lithuania. The teaching period begins on Sunday morning (24 March) and ends on Thursday evening (28 March). Participants are expected to arrive on Saturday, 23 March and depart on Friday, 29 March. The cost of travel, accommodation, and meals are to be covered by the participants.

Accommodation prices: a room with a shared bathroom costs 16€ per person per night.A room with a private bathroom costs 24€ per person per night. Rooms are shared by 2 to 4 students. Shared and self-funded cooking in the group will be planned for specific days as part of the study process.

Financial support available from KUNO: Travel support between countries: 330 € (660 € to/from Iceland) Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days).

For further enquiries please contact: anton.shramkov@nidacolony.lt

Eligibility requirements:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

Teaching period: 8 & 15 February 2024 (online), 18-22 March 2024 (in Trondheim)

Location: Trondheim, Norway

Teacher(s):

Annett Busch, Prerna Bishnoi, Ayodele Arigbabu

ECTS: 4 ECTS (for those who join online and in Trondheim) / 2 ECTS (for those who join in Trondheim only)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 12

Level: BA /MA

Course description:
Is Artistic Entrepreneurship the new Punk rock? Artistic Entrepreneurship argues for an agency that involves and engages new combinations across disciplines and sectors and new forms of cooperation among researchers and artists, ideas and technologies. We aspire to a different kind of entrepreneurship in the truest sense of the word: More than just a business model, it is an undertaking of acting together to inspire people to tackle the challenges society faces.
How does Artistic Entrepreneurship extend the studio practice? The course combines artistic practice and critical artistic research through project based thinking and reframing exercises. We are creating a playful glossary, rewriting the rules of Monopoly, reimagining innovation by analysing rural frameworks, stimulating collaborative ideas and looking at dissemination and publishing formats.
As a KUNO express mobility course, “Exploring Artistic Entrepreneurship” is embedded in an elective course at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. Participants are encouraged to attend at least one introductory session online in preparation for the intensive course days in Trondheim. In conjunction with the introductory elements, the course builds on the participants' artistic practice and aims to develop entrepreneurial ideas and themes collectively to foster strategic artistic agency against monoculture.
Learning Outcomes
Students can use relevant methods for research and artistic entrepreneurial development. The students can reflect on and articulate the significance and potential of art and artists in relation to society. Students will have the skills and training required to work collaboratively.

Readings: 
Antonio Negri / Michael Hardt, ‘Entrepreneurship of the Multitude’, in: Assembly, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Francis de Vericourt, Framers, Penguin Random House, 2021.
Gijs de Vries, To make the silos dance, Brussels: European Culture Foundation, 2020.
Doris Sommer, The Work of Art in the World, Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
Explore and learn from Fluxus artists: https://monoskop.org/Fluxus

Application deadline: 22 January 2024, 13:00

How to apply: Please fill out this form with a short motivation statement and other information.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €

Financial support is not provided for online participation. 

In case of any questions:

In case of any questions please contact annett.busch@ntnu.no

Teaching period: 11 – 15 March 2024

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s): Vidisha-Fadescha

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA and MA

Application deadline: 9 February, 2024

How to apply: Participants should submit their CV (1–3 pages) and either a 2–3 min video or 250-word motivation letter (may include images), outlining how their lived-experience and interest align with the focus of the course to: office.partyofficehq@gmail.com

Course description:

This course aims to address BiPOC students, and those affected by war, displaced persons and refugees, and encourage them to reach out to us and participate in the course in Nida.

This seminar will provide participants with the opportunity to absorb and discuss artworks and texts (both fiction and non-fiction), and to explore different methods of collective care including embodied practices. Looking at first-person accounts of the dissident, divergent, outcast, racialised or punished, we will witness to sites and forms of Queer Labour, the labour of surviving the everyday.

During the week we will assay ‘Qworkaholics Anonymous’, a project by Vidisha-Fadescha, that reimagines the format of de-addiction programs like Alcoholics Anonymous and creates a time and space for individuals from marginalised communities to acknowledge and celebrate the labour of their very act of survival. Such labour is often dismissed as unproductive by the neoliberal order, whose measures fail to consider the exhaustion that comes from navigating the obstacles faced by individuals who are not a part of, or those who do not align with, the hegemony, and are tired of constantly having to prove their worth and defend their identities.

In a society that values isolation and self-abandonment, over self and collective care, it is a radical act to prioritise one's own needs and well-being. For those who have historically been oppressed and marginalised, setting boundaries, saying no, and prioritising self-love is a form of resistance. Together, we will read through the twelve steps of ‘Qworkaholics Anonymous’ designed to de-addict from the ‘burnout’ faced while doing this labour, through a metaphysical connection with ourselves and our peers.

The seminar will be guided by emotion and intuition, rather than tire to succeed theoretically.

Vidisha-Fadescha is an artist, curator and cultural critic. Holding their lived experience of a radical gender, caste, race and disability, Fadescha suggests centering one’s own body and desire towards liberation. Their artistic work includes video, sound installations, text, and performance. They direct collective practices as a norm-critical pedagogy to queer hegemony.

Fadescha’s curatorial project, Party Office, is an anti-caste, anti-racist, trans-feminist, art and social, space and time that was founded in New Delhi in 2020. Through publications, grants, archives, conversations of life-lived, social gatherings, and more, they are building transnational dialogues on empathetic futures, care communities, and radical agency.

In 2023, Vidisha participated in projects with Prince Claus Fund Biennial Symposium (Colombo), Survival Kit 14 (Riga), Rehearsing Moves on Hazy Paths (at ZK/U Berlin), Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius / Nida), Kunst im Untergrund (organised by nGbK Berlin), 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Sydney), and was a lumbung artist at documenta fifteen, Kassel in 2022. They are an artist at the Lagos Biennial in 2024. Fadescha’s work has been published in arts and cultural magazines including Frieze, Flash Art, Texte zur Kunst, Metropolis M, Hyperallergic, Mezosfera, Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Galerie, Dazed, and Vogue. 

Additional information: The workshop will take place at the Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, E. A. Jonušo str. 3, Neringa LT-93127, Lithuania.

The teaching period starts on Monday morning (11 March) and ends on Friday evening (15 March). Participants are expected to arrive on Sunday, 10 March and depart on Saturday, 16 March. The cost of travel, accommodation, and meals are to be covered by the participants.

Accommodation prices: a room with a shared bathroom costs 16€ per person per night or a room with a private bathroom costs 24€ per person per night. Rooms are shared by 2 to 4 students. Shared and self-funded cooking in the group will be planned for specific days as part of the study process.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days)

In case of any questions please contact egija.inzule@nidacolony.lt

Teaching period: March 4-9, 2024

Location: Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

Teacher(s): prof. Žilvinas Lilas

ECTS: 2 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA

Course description
This is a seventh iteration of the Ghostology cycle which focuses on artistic desire, and tries to understand “but what does an artist really want?” (to paraphrase Freud a bit). In a course of a week we will meet at predefined locations to act out possible scenarios on what (or how) it is to be an artist in the 21st century. 

We will re-learn to desire as an artist. Trying to find if there is such a thing as desire which drives one as an artist. Or is it need and want? Also, how do we weed out trivialities of carnal or other circumstantial kind, together with all shades of vanity and grasp the depths of being an artist. Because, at the end, to paraphrase Lacan,— “the only truth in art is the truth of unsatisfiable desire”.

Application deadline:  February 1st, Thursday, 2024 at 18:00 (CET)

How to apply: Please send a short motivation letter (one A4 page maximum) to Zilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)

Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

More information

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact Zilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt

Teaching period: 2+1 weeks, January 29th to February 16th (or February 9th if 2 weeks) 2024. The length of the course is 3 weeks; KUNO students are invited to join the full teaching period, or only the 2 first weeks if 3 are not compatible with your local pedagogic schedules.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Teacher(s):

Johan Wahlgren, Johan Forslind, Kalle Sandzén

ECTS: 4,5 or 3 ECTS (depending on the duration)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2

Level: BA and MA

Requirements: No previous knowledge needed.

Course description: This is an introduction to the skills involved in making stop motion animation. Students will learn how to set up a animation studio, with lighting and working methods. Work with both lo-tech and hi-end technique. The course also gives basic knowledge in the digital camera with manual exposure. We will discuss media theory connecting to film and animation and look at some examples of works.  

The course includes workshops, lectures, individual work, group works and individual tutoring. We encourage students to explore stop motion animation through their artistic practice regardless of what medium they usually work in.

Students from Konstfack will come from three different departments - Fine Art, Graphic Design & Illustration and Ceramics & Glass.

Course module description can be found in full here.

Application deadline: 31st of December 2023

How to apply: Please send the application form together with a short motivation letter (1 A4 maximum) to johan.wahlgren@konstfack.se

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days) - 1st week, 100 € per week - 2nd and 3rd weeks. 

In case of any questions please contact katarina.stanisz@konstfack.se

Teaching period: January 15-19, 2024

Location: Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

Teacher(s):

Full-time twitch streamer and educator Stephanie (AKA Apollolol);
Artist-researcher from Vilnius Academy of Arts Vygintas Orlovas (also, sometimes a streamer AKA V_of_Londor);
Artist and researcher Daina Pupkevičiūtė (AKA Daina Dieva);
Performance artist, dancer, drag queen and event organiser Povilas Bastys (AKA Miss Plastica).

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA /MA

Course description

The focal point of this course is exploring tools and techniques for streaming and discussing it in the context of performance art.

Performance art often involves these basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, the relation between the creator and the public. This time the relationship between the creator and the public takes place online - via streaming platforms.

The goal of this workshop is not only to discuss key concepts of performance art but also to recontextualize it for a digital environment and provide the tools to do so.

We will discuss the platforms, hardware and software (OBS, streamlabs, voicemeeter, capture cards, green screens etc.) needed for streaming and try to apply them for ideas created during the workshop. And use methods of brainstorming and mind-mapping to work together to figure out the possible intersections of these fields and discuss the idea that:

“Performance art is a notoriously sensory practice, and often requires the audience to be able to smell, feel, and taste the experience. It does beg the question, if we are separated from the performer by potentially thousands of miles and a lagging internet connection, will they really be able to communicate their expression as effectively as they might if we were in the same room as them?” [1] 

We will have a PC setup to be a streaming station, which we can use for the ideas we come up with, however, if you can bring a smartphone or a laptop - that could be really useful equipment~

[1] Marianna Manson, Is live streaming the future for performance art?, 2016, https://www.huckmag.com/article/live-streaming-future-performance-art

Application deadline: 10th of December, 2023

How to apply: Please fill in the Google Form https://forms.gle/RrfE6mYB4avkJXBQ6
We hope to reach back to you by the 18th of December.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)

Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

More information

In case of any questions please contact Vygintas Orlovas at: vygintas.orlovas@vda.lt  

Teaching period: 20-24 November, 2023

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Dora García 

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 1-2

Level: BA/MA

Course description:
The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. Commons can also be understood as natural resources that groups of people (communities, user groups) manage for individual and collective benefit. Commons are worlds in movement, they are communities that create forms of life in common and that together produce and share and are continuously transformed.
Under capitalism, art is a social technology that traps, immobilizes, divides, ossifies, occupies and compartmentalizes life into flat moving images, museums, choreographed actions and conceptual speculations that reproduce the dead commodity form and its fictious movements.
Under conditions of art/commons, the making and circulation of objects, atmospheres and situations are aimed at concretizing, making visible and surrendering agency to the expanded, multimodal and abstract relational network in which human value resides.
Countering the movement of capital are the acts of commoning, the pooling and sharing of resources for the reproduction of life in common. The commons are not outside capitalism, rather, they have carved zones of self-organization and autonomy within them. The commons are a socialist and postcolonial space where knowledge, gestures and social relations go towards the reproduction of the commons - they are aiming at changing the world without governing it. 

What do we mean when we say artistic practice can be directed towards the commons, art as common?

The course is structured like a workshop with different exercises to be realised as a group, around the following questions:

o   How can we imagine art as a common? What do we mean when we say art is for everyone? What means "public"? Can art transform the public sphere? What is the role of art in leisure and in work? - guest: Apolonija Sustersic https://apolonijasustersic.com/

o   Should art become invisible to be truly public?  What is the political importance of art? The Invisible theater of Augusto Boal - performance in public space.

In order to pass this course students must actively participate in the lectures and workshop activities, being present (and responsive) min 80% of the time of the course.

Additional information
Basic bibliography:
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, Allan Kaprow
Art Commons, Anthropology beyond Capitalism, Massimiliano Mollona
Capitalism 3.0: a guide to reclaiming the commons, Peter Barnes
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, Lewis Hyde
and other .pdfs to come.

Application deadline: 20th of October, 2023, 12:00 am

How to apply:  Please apply via this online form: https://nettskjema.no/a/353761

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact kjerjens@khio.no

Teaching period: 16th – 20th October, 2023

Location: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus

Teacher(s): Joen Vedel

ECTS: 2 study points (equal to 2 ECTS)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA (all years)

Requirements: no previous knowledge needed

Course description:
Over the course of this week-long workshop, I propose to engage with video-live editing (a sort of VJ’ing) as a practical tool for the experimentation with the representation of time and together reflect on how one can make an image of a historical process still unfolding messily in the present. To help orient our collective production, I suggest starting the week by looking at some examples of radical media experiments from the past, in addition to a presentation of my own work and use of the live-editing equipment. Further on, I would like to share a reading of the theoretical and discursive framework related to this, namely the notions of now-time and contemporaneity. Halfway through, I suggest changing into a more practical mode while slowly starting to record and gather moving image material for the live TV broadcast. The week culminates with a live-edited broadcast, in which all forms of participation and technical tasks are equally important. And finally, I propose to spend some time watching our live-edited moving-image experiment and talk about the experiences we have made along the way. As such, the course aspires to a collaborative model of working together, with artistic expressions, methods, and techniques to be discussed and developed through improvisation, archival research, studio-recordings, collages, readings, and video-documentation from the field. With the ambitious aim of being contemporary with contemporaneity, NOW-TIME TV offers an aesthetics of potentiality open to different temporalities, political geographies, and momentary constellations of chance-encounters, glitches, and traces of everyday life.

Background:
For the past 10 years, I have been developing a performative method of video live-editing – normally deployed in live TV – as a materialist investigation into the temporal aspects of various forms of political events. Drawing on media theories and philosophical debates on historicity, contemporaneity, the event and its aftermath, I have used video live-editing as a way to collapse the temporalities of production and presentation, in order to connect the representation of events with the event of their presentation. Most recently, I’ve created a series of live TV programs for a local TV station in Kassel, as part of my contribution to Documenta 15, documenting and reflecting on the event of this mega-exhibition while it took place.

Bio:
Joen Vedel is a visual artist, writer, and organizer, educated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, and currently a PhD candidate at the Art Academy in Trondheim, working on an artistic research project titled In Search of Now-Time: Live-editing as a mode of research.

Application deadline: 10th September, 2023

How to apply: Please send a short motivation (mention also your full name, home university, study level, contacts) as an attachment to frontdesk@djk.nu. Please state the course name “NOW-TIME TV: a collective moving image experiment” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact Susanne Brokmann at: frontdesk@djk.nu

Teaching period: October 2-6, 2023, Monday 13:00-17:00, Tuesday-Friday 10:00-17:00

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Jan Verwoert

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 1-2

Level: BA/MA

Course description:
Art can channel energy. It does so when it taps into  constellations that generate energy in very particular ways, under specific signs: constellations of stars, combinations of elements, compositions of pigments, constructions of motifs. The zodiac sign, the animal on your flag or shield, the make-up that makes your face radiate, the motif you play in the intro, and repeat in the chorus…: all these form potential signatures for focussing and relaying energy. Art historian Aby Warburg called them “Dynamogramme”.

Energy signs transport you into the presence of forces at work. But they may also come to you from the forgotten past, from the depth of the archive. The spirit of an equally irreproducible and irrepressible event may have left its energy traces on tape or celluloid, in a photo or note, traumatic, or ecstatic, or both it might be. Revive it? How? Or lay it to rest and let it go? Parapsychology says: Ghosts are space-time energy traces. Live with them? Nourish them? Exorcise them? Or seek justice for them, so they can find peace?

The course will be a practice workshop dedicated to experiments in convoking energy signs (in many forms and fashions) and having conversations over how and why do so today, how tap energies from collective personal memory, and how to project into the present future.

Students are expected to actively participate in workshop activities min 80% of the time of the course.

Application deadline: 11th of September, 2023

How to apply:  Please apply via this online form: https://nettskjema.no/a/353768

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact kjerjens@khio.no

Teaching period: 25th September – 6th October, 2023

Location: MALMÖ ART ACADEMY, Sweden

Teacher(s):  Michael Portnoy

ECTS: 6

Number of available places for KUNO students: 4

Level: BA

Course description:
Radical Cringe is a 2-week production course where we’ll wallow in the aesthetics of glorious embarrassment, shame and bad taste. Oversharing, overacting and over-being, we’ll watch each other through our fingers as we search for a radical agency in being free from self-awareness. In an era where the pressures of self presentation are almost paralyzing, and conversely, where cringe culture has become a veritable force in the entertain-ment industry, we’ll engage cringe as a joyous escape valve. If the feeling of cringe is a warning that one has violated some social normand strayed from the cultural path, is it not also precisely a territory we should seek out as artists, a place where authenticity, vulnerability, otherness and innovation overlap. The working process will involve daily active sessions borrowing techniques from devised theatre, improvisation, performance art and contemporary dance, combined with discussion. Mixing solo and group production, we'll create a performance, which will be presented at the end of the course.

Application deadline: 10th of September, 2023

How to apply:  Please apply by sending a motivation letter to Maj Hasager:
maj.hasager@khm.lu.se Please state the course name “Radical Cringe” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact maj.hasager@khm.lu.se