When your Lips are my Ears, our Bodies become Radios

August 10-19, 2010

The Sommerakademie 2010 focuses practically as well as philosophically on the following question: how does a group develop a form of art production that is based neither on opposites like individual or collective production, nor on the conventional separation between spaces of production, presentation and collection. The main partner of the Sommerakademie will be the Zentrum Paul Klee, and in addition the Grand Palais, next to the Kunsthalle Bern in the centre of town.

The Greeks went to the Stoa to share thoughts, uninhibited by protocol. The Stoa can be a park in front of the house or just outside the city. In this space neither the laws of the household, the Oikos, nor those of the market, the Agora, fully apply.

The Sommerakademie 2010 will try, by introducing the open concept of the Stoa, to avoid any ideological determination. In three media formats - newspapers, radio, posters - a daily statement will be formulated. In the evenings the public will be invited to a number of lectures, film screenings or music events in the Grand Palais. Stuart Bailey, graphic designer and artist, will design the daily results on a wall in the Zentrum Paul Klee. >>

Jan Verwoert
Jan Verwoert writes for magazines such a Parkett, Frieze, springerin and Kunstforum. He is a guest professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå, at the Städelschule Frankfurt, the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and the Armenian Open University.

He was Co-Curator of the Biennale Art Sheffield 2008.

Fellows
Patrizio di Massimo
Andrea Faciu
Azin Feizabadi
Heide Hinrichs
Steven K. Kado
Kemang Wa Lehulere
Martin Lötscher
Mariana Silva and Pedro Neves Marques
Filipa Ramos
Rita Sobral Campos
Yulia Zherdeva

Speakers
Stuart Bailey
Frances Stark
Silke Otto-Knapp
Nikos Papastergiadis
Karl Holmqvist