Practice 5: The Ventriloquist 

Nummer und TypMFA-MFA-Pr00.23H.005 / Moduldurchführung
ModulPractice: 
VeranstalterDepartement Fine Arts
LeitungNils Röller, Angharad Elen Puleston Williams, Sveta Mordovskaya
ECTS21 Credits
VoraussetzungenCourse language: English
ZielgruppenMA Fine Arts students only
Open for exchange students
Lernziele / Kompetenzen
  • Students will be introduced to performative strategies, new writing and research methodologies
  • Will be presenting and discussing their works with their peers and lear to act spontaneously
  • Learn to share and articulate their interests in particular pieces of writing
InhalteThere are ways of doing things, and sometimes you need to hear how something sounds before you work out what you really mean. In this work seminar we are going to hear each other out. We are going to treat the classroom like a virtual fire, a place where we assemble and each participant takes their turn as we communally explore what writing and speaking mean to you.

We learn through performance, letters, words, sentences, grammar, paragraphs, texts, essays, books, tweets, sexts, poetry, slogans, ZHdK, Nina Simone, Annie Goodner, Bhanu Kapil.



About the lecturers:

Nils Röller is a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts. His research focuses on the relation between text, image and philosophy. In the Journal for Art, Sex and Mathematics he has published experimental posts in collaboration with artists and poets since 2006. Recent publications in English and German include “Interfacing Philosophy” and "Text-Image Parergon“ published in Koko magazine. Former publications as “Roth der Grosse”, “Bittermeer”, “Alpentram” evolve as discussions of procedures established in contemporary poetry.

Angharad Williams (Ynys Cybi) is an artist and writer living in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include: “Life and times”, Kantine, Brussels; “NEW TECHNOLOGY”, Fanta-MLN, Milan (both 2023); “Eraser”, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; “Picture the Others”, MOSTYN, Llandudno (both 2022); “High Horse”, Kevin Space, Vienna (2021; Without the Scales, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin (2020); Witness, Haus Zur Liebe, Schaffhausen; Island Mentality, Peak, London (both 2019); and Scarecrows, LISZT, Berlin (2018). Performances have taken place at Kunsthalle Zurich (2022); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020); ICA, London; No Bounds Festival, Sheffield (both 2019). Williams has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York; Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel (both 2023); Francis Irv, New York; The Wig, Berlin (both 2022); FriArt, Fribourg; Yaby, Madrid (both 2021); Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern; Kunstverein Munich, Munich (all 2020). Williams will publish their first book Eraser with After8 books in summer 2023.

Sveta Mordovskaya (b. 1989, Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, Russia) is an artist living and working in Zurich. Her sculptural work deals with how architecture and everyday objects manipulate our perception. Sveta studied at ZHdK in Bachelor Fine Arts and at the academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has been presenting her work in Switzerland and internationally, most recently at Eva Presenhuber, New York (2023); Weiss Falk Zurich (2022); Kevin Space, Vienna (2022); C L E A R I N G, Brüssel (2021); Cherish, Genf (2020). Sveta Mordovskaya is a teaching assistant at the MFA ZHdK.
Bibliographie / LiteraturWill be handed out during the course.
Leistungsnachweis / TestatanforderungMandatory attendance (minimum 80%); active participation; semester report
TermineTime: 09:00 - 17:00 o'clock

CW 41: 09 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 October
CW 45: 06 / 07 / 08 November

Critiques:
CW 45: 09 / 10 November
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