Gestaltung und Kunst

Sad to see our fellows 2017-19 leave Bern... safe travels Alexandros, @baharnoorizadeh @evoluiza @jonathankazuhisa @heathermobrien_ @crystalzcampbell @jo_ann_bruc @intentional_foul . #Repost @heathermobrien_ with @get_repost ・・・ leaving swiss bittersweet. __ #sommerakademiepaulklee #fellows2017_19 #blocc #lacleman #bern #switzerland

#Repost @jo_ann_bruc with @get_repost ・・・ Thanks everyone for coming to BLOCC'presentation yesterday! #blocc #sommerakademiepaulklee #weblaunch #grandpalaisbern #fellows2017_19 #bern

Thank you for writing about our web launch, Berner Kulturagenda! We hope to see you tonight at 6 p.m. at the Grand Palais in Bern! . #sommerakademiepaulklee #blocc #weblaunch #fellows2017_19 #alexandroskyriakatos @baharnoorizadeh @crystalzcampbell @jonathankazuhisa @jo_ann_bruc @heathermobrien_ @intentional_foul @evoluiza @blocc.space @grandpalaisbern #contemporaryart #gentrification #grandpalaisbern #bernerkulturagenda #bern

Our fellows have arrived in Bern and will be preparing the BLOCC web launch during the next two days at the Grand Palais . See you this Thursday, 25 April at 6 p.m.! . #repost @grandpalaisbern . #sommerakademiepaulklee #fellows2017_19 #grandpalaisbern #weblaunch #blocc #contemporaryart #gentrification #bern @blocc.space

Bern people! Come to our BLOCC web launch next week! On Thursday, 25 April at 6 p.m. at the Grand Palais (@grandpalaisbern) in Bern, our eight fellows will introduce their joint educational platform BLOCC and discuss their educational strategies, experiences, and future plans with Sommerakademie’s artistic director Tirdad Zolghadr. It’s the last opportunity for you to meet our current fellows 2017-19, as our new two-year cycle will start in August 2019 with new participants! . BLOCC (Building Leverage Over Creative Capitalism) derives from ‘block’: a component of building material, a neighborhood or partition within a city, or a deliberate obstruction of an opponent's intentions. It is a strategy to tackle the relationship between contemporary art and the current global phenomenon of gentrification. . BLOCC (@blocc.space) consists of Johanna Bruckner (@jo_ann_bruc), Crystal Z Campbell (@crystalzcampbell), Luiza Crosman (@evoluiza), Alexandros Kyriakatos, Alexis Mitchell (@intentional_foul), Bahar Noorizadeh (@baharnoorizadeh), Heather M. O’Brien (@heathermobrien_) and Jonathan Takahashi (@jonathankazuhisa). They all met in summer 2017 and summer 2018 as fellows of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee with artistic director Tirdad Zolghadr. . Image: Work made by students of the Bern University of the Arts HKB during a BLOCC workshop in November 2018. . #sommerakademiepaulklee #fellows2017_19 #blocc #contemporaryart #gentrification #weblaunch #tirdadzolghadr #realty #grandpalaisbern #bern

Our fellow Jonathan Takahashi (@jonathankazuhisa) was invited to participate in an exhibition called “FRESH2019” curated by Steve Wong. FRESH encourages artists, from LA and beyond, to consider how their work can make an impact by representing current ideas and trends through contemporary art. Photos: Two „untitled” images from 2018 in Beppu, Japan (C-Print 20x30in size). . #sommerakademiepaulklee #fellows2017_19 #jonathantakahashi #fresh #fresh2019 #la #losangeles #beppu #contemporaryart #astrobuddha #stevewong @astrobuddha @lamagbarnsdall @jonathankazuhisa

Our fellow Luiza Crosman (@evoluiza) is working with her partner Pedro Moraes (@energygradient) on a new commission for the Danish platform @f.eks.platform The project will investigate the changing landscape of the city of Aalborg, from a industry city to a services and leisure one, and will be presented in May this year. . #sommerakademiepaulklee #fellows2017_19 #luizacrosman #pedromoraes #feksplatform #aalborg #design #education #space #city #speculation #strategy #contemporaryart @f.eks.platform @energygradient @evoluiza

Event recommendation for our Swiss followers: Check out the UNLEARNING LEARNING - LEARNING UNLEARNING open conference this Sunday, 24 March at the blueFACTORY in Fribourg. At 5 pm two of our Fellows and BLOCC members will speak about their collaborative work! . The newly built and started Unlearning Center invites to an open conference: a meeting for people engaged in rethinking the practice and content of learning. This meeting asks: what space, what practices do we need to unlearn the knowledge that let our supposed knowledge society drive full steam ahead into the climate- and other catastrophes? . The conference takes place this Sunday (24 March) from 2-8 pm. Please RSVP: ‪culture@bluefactory.ch‬ ・・・ #sommerakademiepaulklee #fellows2017_19 #blocc #contemporaryart #conference #unlearningcenter #constructlab #unlearning #learning #switzerlandinnovation #bluefactory #fribourg #switzerland @jo_ann_bruc @evoluiza @blocc.space @_fctry

Our Fellow Alexandros Kyriakatos is currently working on the International Encounters/Conference ‚Walking Practices/Walking Art/Walking Bodies‘, where he is a member of the artistic and scientific committee. It will be held in the Prespes area in Greece from 1-7 July 2019. . Image: Alexandros Kyriakatos, View of the Small Prespa lake . The Prespes area, a unique environment with two lakes (Megali Prespa and Mikri Prespa), is the locus where the field research of the walking art project ‚Visual March to Prespes’ is taking place. This walking art project is organised by the first Painting Workshop of the School of Visual Arts of the University of Western Macedonia. It was initiated in 2007 and the current International Encounters/Conference is a culmination of its activities. ・・・ #sommerakademiepaulklee #fellows2017_19 #contemporaryart #alexandroskyriakatos #conference #walkingpractice #walkingart #walkingbodies #prespes #greece #universityofwesternmacedonia

If you are in Hamburg, check out our fellow Johanna Bruckner’s group exhibit SEXED POWER. POST ME TOO? POST-GENDER? POST-FEMINISMUS? at Mom Art Space. It‘s on view until 16 March 2019 and includes works by Johanna Bruckner, Julia Frankenberg, Katja Lell, Anna Lena Grau, Cordula Ditz, Emma Howes, Ida Lennartsson, Dagmar Rauwald, Marta Rosler and Louise Vind Nielsen. . Image: Johanna Bruckner, video stills, HD video, ‪9:16‬ . SEXED POWER 2019 is a project that takes it upon itself to show solidarity with political concerns of feminist activists and was initiated in the winter of 2017/18 in Mom Art Space, where it was able to constitute itself as an art space as well as a space of possibility in solidarity. At present, artists worldwide are allying themselves with regard to the demand to enable social, economic and social survival eo ipso. With the participation of the Guerrilla Girls in the first edition of the project, the demands from the second wave of feminism were historically underpinned. In 2019, the contribution of Marta Rosler's film Semiotics of the Kitchen from 1975 is also intended to connect with the history of feminist enlightenment and demands. The question of a crossover between art and politics in such a way that one can speak of an artistic as well as a socio-political act at the same time is also constantly raised in the broad field of political-critical approaches. ・・・ #sommerakademiepaulklee #fellows2017_19 #contemporaryart #johannabruckner #momartspace #postgender #postfeminismus #gender #feminism #feminismus #metoo #martharosler #hamburg #sexedpower @mom_art_space @jo_ann_bruc

Our fellow Alexis Mitchell is working on a film with her collaborator Sharlene Bamboat for an exhibition at the Mercer Union gallery in Toronto in September 2019. They are currently working on a film called 'Bugs and Beasts before the Law'. It tells the story of the Medieval practice of putting animals on trial to examine the political and profane relationships between humans and animals in the history of Westernized legal systems. ・・・ #sommerakademiepaulklee #fellows2017_19 #alexismitchell #sharlenebamboat #bambitchell #mercerunion #toronto