summer
school “The shape of water”
3 – 14 July 2023
Venice, Italy
artistic director: Giorgio Andreotta Calò
scientific director: Stefano Riccioni
scientific coordination: Cecilia Franchini (Benedetto Marcello Music Conservatory) Stefano Riccioni (Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice) Giuliano Sergio (Academy of
Fine Arts of Venice) Angela
Vettese (Università Iuav di Venezia)
applications online by 20 March 2023: www.studyinvenice.it/en.
Students are required to be
currently enrolled at a higher education institution, and have a certified B2
level of the English language.
credits: 4 ECTS
fees:
€ 700 for the full 2 weeks
Programme fees cover all instruction and
field activities, student administration (including the issue of a final
transcript) and orientation.
Applications are now
open for the first summer school
organised by Study in Venice (Università Iuav di Venezia with Ca'
Foscari University, Venice Academy of Fine Arts, Benedetto Marcello Music
Conservatory).
The project: multidisciplinarity,
workshops and international atmosphere
The shape of the water is an
experimental, multidisciplinary training project that aims at welcoming diverse
students from all over the world who wish to experience Venice together to draw
inspiration from it and build an original narrative vision of the lagoon city.
The students
will be guided by professors from the four partner institutions on a journey
combining the hands-on exploration of the city with guided tours and university
lectures on Archaeology, Architecture, Art and Music History, Performing Arts
and Environmental Science.
The Summer School will be curated
by Giorgio Andreotta
Calò (Venice, 1979), an artist who combines a great
international experience with a profound knowledge of the city. The 'Souvenise' programme designed
by Andreotta Calò for the
Summer School sees the city of Venice as a privileged observatory from which to
try to understand the changes that are taking place on a macroscopic scale. The
focus of the investigation will be water, which, with its cadenced variations
in level dictated by tides, is the element that most characterises
the territory, thereby governing its flows and most manifest phenomena.
The practice of walking - a
fundamental element in the artist's research - will become an instrument for
exploring the city and its immediate surroundings. During the planned collective
walks, the students will be invited to collaborate actively through visual,
tactile and sound practices and exercises. Said practices will be useful in
informing the students’ unprecedented vision of the city, regardless of
the trajectories defined by mass tourism, which often does not consider the
complexity and fragility that characterise this
place.
The final part of the workshop will enable the participants to synthesise their experiences in the field and the
theoretical courses into an intensive workshop that will see them create a
'souvenir' based on a project or a music text, which will represent their
personal experience of the city and its ecosystem, including artistic
performances. The materials collected during the workshop will thus be studied to
transform and overturn the rationale underlying souvenirs, objects symbolic of
the city and the tourist monoculture that defines it in the eyes of the world.
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