Surely We Will Be Confused - Advanced Course in Visual Arts
01 - 22 July 2004
Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Advanced Course in Visual Arts
Ex-Ticosa, Viale Roosevelt, I- Como
Visiting Professor Jimmie Durham
To receive the application form,
write to fondazioneratti@libero.it
or send a fax: +39 031-233249.
The Advanced Course in Visual Arts is an intensive specialisation course for young artists from around the world. Directed by Annie Ratti since 1995, it is conceived as a workshop for artistic and theoretical experimentation led by internationally prominent artists.
Past visiting professors have been: Joseph Kosuth (1995), John Armleder (1996), Allan Kaprow (1997), Hamish Fulton (1998), Haim Steinbach (1999), Ilya Kabakov (2000), Marina Abramovic (2001), Giulio Paolini (2002), and Richard Nonas (2003).
The visiting professor for the tenth annual course will be Jimmie Durham, a Cherokee born in Arkansas (U.S.A.) in 1940.
A poet, author, and visual artist, Durham was an activist in the American Indian Movement in the 1970′s. His sculptures, performances, and installations, which are mainly made from found and recycled materials, are intended to function first and foremost as an ironical attack on the persistent colonial structure of Western culture. In fact, all of Durham’s artistic and political work could be summed up in the intention “to be so surgically specific as to become universal.”
Among the principal international venues where he has exhibited are: Documenta in Kassel, the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennial, and the Withney Biennial.
The course, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Roberto Pinto (co-ordinated by Anna Daneri), will be held July 1-22, 2004 at Ticosa sheds in Como under the patronage of the City of Como.
The programme for 25 young artists, who will be selected by a scientific committee on the basis of received applications, envisages daily activity organised in a workshop format led by Jimmie Durham; theoretical study led by in-house curators; seminars with invited lecturers.
The course will conclude with a final exhibition, and it will be documented in a bilingual catalogue published by Charta
The course is free. Stay expenses and production costs are not covered.
Applications, inclusive of documentation of the applicants’ own work, must be sent by May 15 (postmark date) to the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Lungo Lario Trento 9, 22100 Como – Italy.
To receive the application form, write to fondazioneratti@libero.it or send a fax: +39 031-233249.
CONFERENCES
Jimmie Durham
July 3, 10.30 am
STONES REJECTED BY THE BUILDER
Cesare Pietroiusti
July 10, 10.30 am
THE GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS WORK: SPLITTING UP MECHANISMS AND PARADOXES OF RELATIONAL ART
Stefano Boeri
July 16, 9 p.m.
MULTIPLICIY
EXHIBITIONS
End-of-course Exhibition
JULY 22 – SEPTEMBER 5
The exhibition presents the students’ artworks made during the course, reflecting the specific working project developed with Jimmie Duham. A further student’s exhibition will take place in 2005 in Milan, in collaboration with Careof and Viafarini.
Jimmie Durham
JULY 22 – SEPTEMBER 5
Jimmie Durham will conceive a specific exhibition project. Collaboration of the students to its preparation is an integral part of the course.
Address: Fondazione Ratti, Lungo Lario Trento 9, Como – Italy
Information: Anna Daneri, FAR tel +39 031 233111, fax +39 031 233249, e-mail fondazioneratti@libero.it
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Image: Jimmie Durham, Stone Heart, 2000,
CCA Kitakyushu (photo Maria Thereza Alves)
