Phila Bergmann/Thea Reifler Bringing Institutions to LIVE: curating live arts and creating infrastructures

This refined curatorial approach to process-based exhibition-making challenges the visual arts culture often attached to ‘classical’ art institutions. In the ProtoZone, live performances and transdisciplinary gatherings come together in a socio-political art space. This setup changes the very institutional structure of the space itself.

Course leader

Phila Bergmann/Thea Reifler

Target group

Practitioners of any background are welcome; experience with curating or performance art is optional.

Course aim

Phila Bergmann/Thea Reifler
Bringing Institutions to LIVE: curating live arts and creating infrastructures
5–17 August 2024

Hohensalzburg Fortress
SCHULE DER LIEBENDEN (SCHOOL OF LOVERS)SCHULE DER LIEBENDEN (SCHOOL OF LOVERS) credits: Irem Gungez @iremgungez


Application
Medium
Group Course and individual consultations/ Curating


Location
Hohensalzburg Fortress


Teaching language
English (German possible)


What to bring
Working tools you need for your own artistic and/or curatorial practice(s)


Requirements
Practitioners of any background are welcome; experience with curating or performance art is optional.


Maximum number of participants
20


Participation fee
670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)

At Shedhalle in Zurich, Thea Reifler and Phila Bergmann work with the concept of the ProtoZone. This refined curatorial approach to process-based exhibition-making challenges the visual arts culture often attached to ‘classical’ art institutions. In the ProtoZone, live performances and transdisciplinary gatherings come together in a socio-political art space. This setup changes the very institutional structure of the space itself.

With a background in theatre, opera, choreography and performance, Thea and Phila will share their experience of curating, producing and feedbacking live artistic formats. What are the chances and challenges of working with ephemeral arts in the visual art context?


Students will take a set of methodologies and hands-on practices from this course to engage with ephemeral art forms as curators, mediators, communicators or other facilitators. Furthermore, they will learn about working within an institutional context or instituting one while developing a shared practice with various artists, different teams, and manifold guests. This includes building institutional infrastructures, hosting, writing applications, budgets and production plans, creating public relations, and developing outreach and education programmes.


A vision of the institution as a shared process and place of social justice and diversity drives the approach the course engages with. The course will be adapted to the practices and interests of the participants, which will be worked on and presented at the open studios.

Fee info

EUR 100: Participation Fee
The fees consist of the enrolment charge of € 100.– (non-refundable) and a course fee which varies according to the length of the course. Students are entitled to the reduced fee on production of a valid confirmation of enrolment at an educational institution for the 2024 summer term as well as SN-Card-holders and members of the Society of Friends of the Summer Academy.

Costs for material used in the courses are not included in the participation fee, and will be charged separately at the beginning of the course.

On acceptance, the enrolment charge of € 100.– should be paid immediately. The course fee must be entered in the Summer Academy account by 30 June 2024.


Payments will be accepted using the following credit cards: Mastercard and Visa
EUR 670: 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)

Scholarships

https://www.summeracademy.at/en/studies/scholarships/