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
