23 June – 7 July 2022
Kassel and online
This summer school is open to applications from all Shared Campus institutions.
Daily talks & lectures are open to the public. Links to access the talks and lectures open to public will be communicated in June.
The two-week Summer School “Commoning Curatorial and Artistic Education” will be held in Kassel (Germany) as part of documenta fifteen’s educational format “CAMP notes on education.” It is dedicated to PhD programmes and students from the Shared Campus universities. Participants will share and discuss their experiences of practice and theory in open, experiential workshop formats, performances, exercises with and in the city, “diversity dinners” and a variety of events.
Additionally the Summer School will organise a public talk each day, at 1pm CET in hybrid form. Talks in order of appearance by Hammad Nasar; COMMON VIEWS, David Behar Perahia and Dan Farberoff; Jennifer Deger (FERAL ATLAS); Philip Horst & Matthias Einhoff (ZKU); Gilly Karjevski, Floating University; Hajnalka Somogyi (OFF Biennale); Bassam El Baroni; Avi Feldman; Ariane Sutthavong & Lara van Meeteren; Jeanne van Heeswijk; Dagmar Pelger & Jörg Stollmann; Dana Yahalomi (Public Movement); Oliver Marchart.
Joseph Beuys’ open discussions with the public were influential at documenta; later, Jacques Derrida wrote “The University without Condition,” and Paulo Freire emphasised the empowering role of teaching, as did bell hooks with her emphatic message about the empowering force of an anti-racist, feminist education fuelled by love. Lesser known emancipatory teaching environments also exist, as do self-empowering initiatives.
Concerning the commoning aspect of this Summer School, we consider theoretical approaches as by the feminist thinker Silvia Federici. She identified commons as the shared goods and knowledges of deviant groups. A renewed thinking about the commons is linked to movements of self-organisation and resistance and is now inspiring, as we see with ruangrupa, different cultural, artistic, and curatorial events. Can the art field introduce together with activist movements, the projection of living together in a communal way, sharing resources and knowledges? Or as ruangrupa would pose the question: how to compost knowledge together and make it fruitful for a multiplicity of partial practices and for a multitude?
Applicants should send in a proposal for a shared moment: workshop, walk, performance, discussion, reading, etc. Based on these proposals, the organization team will co-design the programme. True to the motto of this Summer School, commoning starts here.
Students will be able to take part in this Summer School in two ways and should apply for their preferred mode.
Fully enrolled students:
Both ways of attending (Face-to-face and online) aim to create a shared space for a group over a period of at least one week. Participants should choose to attend either: