23 Feb 2016

Apply now for the 2016 Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts offers a special focus on photography, video and film with internationally outstanding artists. Ahlam Shibli and Valérie Jouve direct the photography classes, Distruktur – Melissa Dullius/Gustavo Jahn work with analogue film, and film-maker and artist Maha Maamoun concentrates on video and installation.
The Summer Academy welcomes your application to participate in one of these or 18 further courses. Priority application deadline is 2 May 2016.

Ahlam Shibli
THE NOTION OF SUBJECT MATTER
18.07.2016–30.07.2016
Palestinian photographer Ahlam Shibli focuses, in a documentary aesthetic, on the contradictory implications of the notion of home. Her course concentrates on the conception and realisation of a complex work on each participant's chosen subject, with particular attention to the relationship between work and subject matter.
Fee: € 700.- (reduced: € 540.-)
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Valérie Jouve
PHOTOGRAPHY AS TOOL OF ENCOUNTERS
01.08.2016–13.08.2016
French photographer and film-maker Valérie Jouve tirelessly browses the city in search of its inhabitants. Working mainly with a large-format camera, she tries to achieve a portrait of human society. The course concentrates on how to use photography for invention: how can we take a picture using intuition and heart, rather than the eye?
Fee: € 700.- (reduced: € 540.-)
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Distruktur – Melissa Dullius/Gustavo Jahn
FILM AS A SENSITIVE BODY
15.08.2016–27.08.2016
Distruktur is part of the collective LaborBerlin, which preserves analogue film as an artistic and activist medium and maintains knowledge of analogue film-making. Film is a sensitive body, used for experiment in this course. Various processes for artistic work with analogue film will be taught – from shooting with the 16mm camera, through developing in the dark-room, to montage – and the different aesthetic qualities examined.
Fee: € 700.- (reduced: € 540.-)
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Maha Maamoun
AND WHAT DID THE ANIMAL SAY?
15.08.2016–27.08.2016
In her photographs, videos and films, Maha Maamoun, who lives in Cairo, addresses the form and function of images found in mainstream culture. Her approach tries to keep a balance between what is studied and what is intuitive, leaving scope for the incidental to play itself out. Her course focuses on the following questions. Why look at animals? How do we see them? Do we use them as symbols or proxies for other subjects? Is our interest in them driven by a desire to reach beyond the confines of our bodies, subjectivities, knowledge and practice?
Fee: € 700.- (reduced: € 540.-)
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Further information on the entire programme

Regular application
All prospective participants must apply for acceptance. On the basis of the submitted dossier, the teachers select participants. The fees are between € 450.- and € 1,200.-, depending on the duration of the course. Students are entitled to a reduced fee. All applications received by 2 May 2016 will be treated equally. Later applications are welcome, and will be processed in the order received, according to vacancies in the courses.
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Grants
The Summer Academy offers numerous grants, usually covering participation fee only. Application deadline is 8 April 2016.
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