Mobile Academy in Warsaw: “Ghosts, Spectres, Phantoms, and the Places Where They Live”

Mobile Academy is an international Arts Academy with an interdisciplinary course programme that has been on tour for seven years. It continually changes its location, time, theme, and form. The courses at Mobile Academy are structured as artistic projects, accompanied by field research, debates, excursions, and presentations. Techniques are taught to a lesser extent, no possessors of know-how are selected, instead, new conceptual approaches and discourses, contemporary working strategies and artistic practices by international artists and theoreticians are presented.

Mobile Academy Warsaw will offer COURSES for artists and curators in photography, acting, directing, dance, choreography, conceptual art, and art theory. Each course is given by internationally renowned artists and consists of smaller project tasks and research units, which are complemented by lectures, expert talks, and field trips through Warsaw.

CHOREOGRAPHY / DANCE
Xavier le Roy, Montpellier: The Phantom of Freedom!
Meg Stuart, Berlin/Brussels: Anorexic Spaces. The Ghostlines in Private and Public Spaces

PERFORMING / ACTING / DIRECTING
Lina Saneh & Rabih Mroué, Beirut: Reality and Fiction
Catherine Sullivan, Los Angeles: The Ouija Board

IMAGES / PHOTOGRAPHY ON ARCHIVES, WARSAW AND THE UNDEAD
Akram Zaatari, Beirut: After Presence
Hans Weigand, Vienna: Warsaw Condensed
Olaf Breuning, Zurich/New York: Zombies

INVENTING / EXPERIMENT / DOUBTING CONCEPTS AND IDEAS
Georg Schöllhammer, Vienna: U.F.O.s
Tino Sehgal & Dorothea von Hantelmann, Berlin: Peep Show. Technologies of the Self
Bojana Cvejic, Brussels/Belgrade & Jan Ritsema, Amsterdam/Brussels: Police or Disagreement. The Politics of Aesthetics

CITY AS STAGE
Stefan Kaegi, on the road: Cargo Ready-Made Machine - Intervention Lab

Participation: Mobile Academy Warsaw 2006 is geared towards advanced students, artists, and curators with project experience. The language of instruction is English. Application deadline is 15th of June.
The complete programme can be found here

PUBLIC PROGRAMME

WARSAW BLACKMARKET II takes place each Saturday and gives the participants the chance to meet artists, scientist and theoreticians from Warsaw. 100 Polish experts talk in intimate groups on invisible, unknown and ghostly knowledge. (See also Blackmarket I for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, October 2005)

The public programme consists of lectures, guided tours, discussions, and parties. Here you can download (pdf) the complete public programme.


For further information: www.mobileacademy-warsaw.com


Cooperating partners: Akademia Fotografii, Teatr Narodowy, Kino Luna and Polskie Wydawnictwo Audiowizualne
Supported by: Pro Helvetia, French Embassy, Austrian Culture Forum
Scholarships: Goethe Institut Warsaw, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Czech Center Warsaw