Edited by Chiara Vecchiarelli with Angela Vettese,
Mousse Publishing
The book Visual Arts at IUAV, Venezia: 2001-2011 examines the Venetian decade-long attempt of considering and treating the Visual Arts as a field of knowledge in its own right, by retracing the artistic and academic activities and experiments occurred during the first ten years of life of the Visual Arts sector at the IUAV University of Venice.
Inaugurated in 2000, the Visual Arts sector of the Department of Arts and Design at IUAV University of Venice is composed of a Graduate Program in Visual and Performing Arts (directed by Angela Vettese since 2001) and an Undergraduate Program in Fashion Design and Visual and Performing Arts (headed by Marco De Michelis until 2008 and now directed by Laura Corti).
Articulated in classes and laboratory activities, both the graduate and undergraduate program in art at IUAV University in Venice have been conceived beyond any hierarchical distribution between theory and practice. Students and leading artists, curators and scholars in various disciplines have over the years joined a department where art and curating workshops are equally open to all students, where art practices maintain a relationship to art history as much as to other fields—and means—of knowledge such as aesthetics, theoretical philosophy, semiotics, philosophy of language, psychology of perception, anthropology, sociology and literature, and where the teaching and learning of art take place in close proximity to those of theater, design and fashion design.
The book Visual Arts at IUAV, Venezia: 2001–2011 constitutes both an account of what has been done at IUAV University of Venice in the first decade of activity of the Visual Arts sector and a reflection on what an art school—the place where art and its teaching meet and eventually merge—should be. Intended, therefore, to be the place where bearing witness to the numerous lectures, conferences, exhibitions and events that have accompanied until now the academic and artistic life of the students and teachers that have met, and individually and collectively imagined and worked in Venice, the book also gathers a series of reflections by teachers of laboratory courses which answer the question that has informed, since the very beginning, every evolution of the Visual Arts sector itself: What should an art school be?
The publication includes introductory texts by: Marco De Michelis (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design at IUAV University of Venice from 2000 to 2008), Medardo Chiapponi (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design at IUAV University of Venice since 2008), Angela Vettese (Director of the Graduate Program in Visual and Performing Arts at IUAV University of Venice) and Chiara Vecchiarelli (editor of the book)
and contributions by many of those who have been visiting professors: Mario Airò, Bruce Altshuler, Stefano Arienti, Maja Bajevic, Lewis Baltz, Marco Bertozzi, Frank Boehm, Francesco Bonami, Tania Bruguera, Lawrence Carroll, Gillian Crampton Smith, Luigi Dall’Aglio, Jimmie Durham, Olafur Eliasson, Rene Gabri, Alberto Garutti, Guido Guidi, Runa Islam, Agnes Kohlmeyer, Joseph Kosuth, Cornelia Lauf, Armin Linke, Massimo Magrì, Antoni Muntadas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Adrian Paci, Giulio Paolini, Cesare Pietroiusti, Marietica Potrč, Tobias Rehberger, Davide Riboli, Remo Salvadori, Philip Tabor, Grazia Toderi, Francesco Vezzoli, Benjamin Weil.
Book Launch
Sunday, June 5, 2011 | 10.00 am
IUAV University of Venice
Tolentini, Aula Magna
Santa Croce 191
30135 Venice
The book Visual Arts at IUAV, Venezia: 2001-2011 will be presented on the occasion of the symposium “Art as a Thinking Process. Visual Forms of Knowledge Production” organized by the Faculty of Arts and Design, IUAV University of Venice in collaboration with EARN – European Artistic Research Network, to be held in Venice on Sunday 5th and Monday 6th June 2011 in the Aula Magna in Tolentini, the main IUAV University venue . The two-day symposium, curated by Mara Ambrozic, will be open to the public. The symposium proceedings will be published shortly afterwards, in autumn 2011.
Contributions and papers by:John Aiken (Professor, The Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London); Mara Ambrožič (Curator of Art as a Thinking Process: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production); Ute Meta Bauer (Associate Professor and Head of Program, M.I.T. Program in Art, Culture and Technology School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge); Carol Becker (Dean and Professor, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York); Franco Berardi (Philosopher, Conceptor of SCEPSI – European School of Social Imagination, San Marino); Medardo Chiapponi (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design, IUAV University of Venice); Jan Cools (Research group Arts, Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels); Jeremiah Day (PhD Researcher, maHKU – Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Arts and Design); Marco De Michelis (Professor, former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design, IUAV University of Venice); Paolo Garbolino (Deputy Director,Graduate Program in Visual and Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design, IUAV University of Venice); Mary Jane Jacob (Executive Director of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago); Sunjung Kim (Independent Curator and Professor at the School of Visual Arts, Korean National University of Arts); Jan Kaila (Head of Doctoral Studies Program, KuvA – Kuvataideakatemia, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki); Lev Kreft (Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Ljubljana and Director of the Peace Institute – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana); Cornelia Lauf (Professor, Graduate Program in Visual and Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design, IUAV University of Venice); Paolo Legrenzi (Professor Emeritus, Cognitive Sciences, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice); Hongjohn Lin (Curator and Professor, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan); Sarat Maharaj (Visual Art and Knowledge Systems, Lund University and the Malmö Art Academies, Malmö); Suzana Milevska (Researcher, Art History and Theory, Faculty of Fine Arts, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje); Simon Njami (Founder of Revue Noir, Independent lecturer and curator of Check List, the first African Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Director of International Projects and Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes, Serpentine Gallery, London); Amerigo Restucci (Rector of the IUAV University of Venice); Gertrud Sandqvist (Director of the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden); Henk Slager (Dean and Professor of Artistic Research, maHKU – Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Arts and Design); Hito Steyerl (Artist, filmmaker and writer, Berlin); Mick Wilson (Dean of GradCAM – The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin); Chiara Vecchiarelli (Editor of Visual Arts at IUAV, Venezia: 2001-2011); Angela Vettese (Director, Graduate Program in Visual and Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design, IUAV University of Venice).
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