call: ART & RESEARCH PROGRAM – EXERCISING MODERNITY
Deadline: 19 September 2019 (8:00 p.m.)
Call for entries
ART & RESEARCH PROGRAM – EXERCISING MODERNITY – OPEN CALL
Successful candidates undertake to attend all sessions held in the course of the Academy.
I session: Tel Aviv (24–29.10.2019)
II session: Warsaw and Gdynia (14–19.11.2019)
III session: Berlin, Weimar (05–08.12.2019)
â— Classes and workshops will be held in English.
Forms of communitiness form the keynote of the second edition of the Polish–German–Israeli project, which is being organized by the Pilecki Institute in cooperation with the Liebling House – The White City Center (Tel Aviv), the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv, and the Gdynia City Museum.
What does “communitiness†mean in distinct geographical and political contexts? How do we conceive the structure and the process of creating a community, and how were these conceived at the beginning of the 20 th century? What conceptions of community-based living and the common space functioned in the interwar period? How was the role of social institutions and the potential future development of interhuman relations perceived at the time?
We intend to examine these issues in the course of the second edition of the Polish–German–Israeli Exercising Modernity Academy project. In particular, we will analyze past and present forms of cohabitation, and also new forms of societal management.
Our focus will be on the following:
– communitiness as one of the fundamental ideas of modernity, also in the context of collective memory and identity,
– community–based forms of habitation in Germany, Poland and Israel, such as social housing states or the Israeli kibbutz,
– forms of social self–organization, for example cooperatives and (housing) associations,
– the public space and the quest for a modern agora for modern democracies.
In our project we plan to focus on three perspectives, i.e. the Polish, German, and Israeli, the dissimilarity of which is the result of disparate historical and cultural experiences.
Meetings and workshops under the Exercising Modernity Academy will be held in autumn of 2019 in Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Gdynia, Berlin and Weimar.
Participants will attend classes taught by eminent artists, curators, architects and researchers, among others Mirosław Bałka, Jacek Friedrich, Aleksandra Kędziorek, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Grzegorz Piątek, and the Liebling House – The White City Center team (Shira Benyemini, Sharon Golan, Sabrina Cegla)
Our offer includes:
â— gratuitous participation in the Academy, provision of board, lodging and transportation,
â— lectures and workshops held by experienced and acclaimed scholars and artists,
â— an interesting program of accompanying events,
â— those who complete the course will be entitled to submit their own research or artistic project, elaborated or expanded during classes, for a special scholarship program organized by the Pilecki Institute and devoted to the issue of modernity in the 20th century (details will be announced at the beginning of 2020).
Applications:
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No entry fee
More Information on the
Exercising Modernity Academy: http://www.exercisingmodernity.com
Pilecki Institute: http://www.instytutpileckiego.pl
Contact: contact@exercisingmodernity.com
Application: apply@exercisingmodernity.com
