eric ellingsen |
#residency
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radical imagination community
4-15 July 2016 / Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki / Old Municipal Slaughterhouse / public spaces around the city
15 July 2016, Festival: Perceiving School Opening
15 July 2016, Festival: Perceiving School Opening
about the artist
Ellingsen's work is informed by collaborative learning through experienced experiments, relational thinking, walking, ecology and ecological economies, translation, performance and perception. The heart of Ellingsen's work involves learning how to learn. This takes place through the design of site and institution specific works, in which learning learns across different creative spatial practices. These projects involve growing languages and the ability to translate meanings across disciplines.
From 2009-14, Ellingsen co-directed and taught at the Institute for Spatial Experiments (University of the Arts, Berlin), an art education experiment for learning how to learn, started by Olafur Eliasson. Currently he is Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previously he taught at Cornell University, AAP; the Illinois Institute of Technology; and the University of Toronto, Daniels.
From 2009-14, Ellingsen co-directed and taught at the Institute for Spatial Experiments (University of the Arts, Berlin), an art education experiment for learning how to learn, started by Olafur Eliasson. Currently he is Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previously he taught at Cornell University, AAP; the Illinois Institute of Technology; and the University of Toronto, Daniels.
about the RESIDENCY
In the context of his residency for Artecitya, Eric plans to work with a community of interested participants to open an experimental Perceiving School or Institute. The school will be a platform for learning how to learn, as well as a sustainable community practice run by participants that will inherit the institute platform after Eric's residency ends. "We will create a constitution for our community by walking and cooking together while we occupy public spaces of the city. The city will be our classroom, our studio, our office, our laboratory. While we walk we will forage for architectural materials, as well as conduct 'classes' in different public spaces throughout the city. The school will be a choreographed archipelago of actions and designs as 'platforms' situated in public spaces. The platforms will host a moving festival of speakers, actions, performances, and politics."
Participation Info
Dates: 4-15 July 2016, Monday-Friday, 16:30-20:30
If you are interested in participating in Eric Ellingsen's Perception School, please fill in the following application form.
Three degrees of involvement are possible: 10 days, 3 days or 1 day participations (scroll down for description of each).
Please indicate which one you prefer. The maximum number for full, 10-days participations is 15.
If applications exceed this number, participants will be selected by the artist. Deadline for submission: Friday, 3 June.
If you are interested in participating in Eric Ellingsen's Perception School, please fill in the following application form.
Three degrees of involvement are possible: 10 days, 3 days or 1 day participations (scroll down for description of each).
Please indicate which one you prefer. The maximum number for full, 10-days participations is 15.
If applications exceed this number, participants will be selected by the artist. Deadline for submission: Friday, 3 June.
degrees of involvement
The dates and activities described below are subject to change.
group a: 10 days (4-16 July 2016)
12-15 perception students join for entire two week program.
These participants are expected to join Monday-Friday from 4:30 pm-8:30 pm for the entire 2 weeks.
This group will help grow and co-evolve the Perceiving School’s curriculum. Responsibilities and activities will include:
(a) Helping to co-design and conduct workshops open to different publics (groups arranged ahead of time by Eric Ellingsen and Artecitya
(b) Working in groups of 3-5 people to co-design and build “PLATFORMS” in public space. Platforms are to serve as the armature of social architectures. This is work you will co-design and co-author. Tools, materials and fabrication advocates will be provided.
(c) Work to write and design a Perceiving Campaign and Perceiving Campaign Manual for perceiving change in Thessaloniki through social design and interdisciplinary driven citizen action.
(d) Join prearranged professionals and professors for interdisciplinary conversations, lectures and discussions.
(e) Join on field trips (field trips still being designed).
(e) This entire group will work with Eric Ellingsen and Lynn Peemoeller and other civic participants to co-design a Perceiving Festival held on Friday, July 15. This festival will take place in public space and throughout the city. The festival will be open to the public for anyone that wants to go to Perceiving School for one day.
This core group will help run Perceiving School.
We will go through some Perceiving Training over the first few days.
Those that desire will continue as faculty at Perceiving School until the summer of 2017.
These participants are expected to join Monday-Friday from 4:30 pm-8:30 pm for the entire 2 weeks.
This group will help grow and co-evolve the Perceiving School’s curriculum. Responsibilities and activities will include:
(a) Helping to co-design and conduct workshops open to different publics (groups arranged ahead of time by Eric Ellingsen and Artecitya
(b) Working in groups of 3-5 people to co-design and build “PLATFORMS” in public space. Platforms are to serve as the armature of social architectures. This is work you will co-design and co-author. Tools, materials and fabrication advocates will be provided.
(c) Work to write and design a Perceiving Campaign and Perceiving Campaign Manual for perceiving change in Thessaloniki through social design and interdisciplinary driven citizen action.
(d) Join prearranged professionals and professors for interdisciplinary conversations, lectures and discussions.
(e) Join on field trips (field trips still being designed).
(e) This entire group will work with Eric Ellingsen and Lynn Peemoeller and other civic participants to co-design a Perceiving Festival held on Friday, July 15. This festival will take place in public space and throughout the city. The festival will be open to the public for anyone that wants to go to Perceiving School for one day.
This core group will help run Perceiving School.
We will go through some Perceiving Training over the first few days.
Those that desire will continue as faculty at Perceiving School until the summer of 2017.
group b: 2 days (July 7-8 and/or july 11-12)
Perceiving School will run two 2 day programs.
These programs will be co-designed and organised by Eric Ellingsen with direct collaborative input of participants of GROUP A.
These programs will be open to around 10 guests, as well as include pre-arranged groups.
They will include discussions and actions with different groups of professionals and professors.
They will mostly occur in public spaces throughout the city. These days might overlap with a field trip.
These programs will be co-designed and organised by Eric Ellingsen with direct collaborative input of participants of GROUP A.
These programs will be open to around 10 guests, as well as include pre-arranged groups.
They will include discussions and actions with different groups of professionals and professors.
They will mostly occur in public spaces throughout the city. These days might overlap with a field trip.
GROUP C: 1 day: Perceiving festival (15 july)
Anyone and everyone can join the festival for the Opening of Perceiving School.
Photos: George Kogias
