Teaching period: 8th – 12th April, 2024

Location: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus

Teacher(s): Mathias Saederup

ECTS: 2 study points (equal to 2 ECTS)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA (all years)

Requirements: no previous knowledge needed

Course description:
The workshop is about nostalgia and the mythologies we live through/make use of / build our society on - without necessarily being aware of it.

The workshop makes use of didactics, undermined didactics, joint education, theatre, film.
The workshop takes place at DJK and in Den Gamle By (The Old Town – a life size museum where Danish history is reenacted).
The workshop is a kind of scripted reality show, where everyone takes part in teaching and developing.
Together we develop this reality TV-theatre where the plot is, that ... 
- time has stopped

- we find ourselves in an art school in the future, where the past keeps repeating itself

- we need to find out why the time is stuck / looping and how to fix it
- we have different roles, e.g.: TV crew 1, teachers, students, resistance group (/ rebels), detectives / journalists, TV crew 2 from another time, etc.

The plan is that we live at least 3 nights in Den Gamle By. We have an everyday life here, eat food, hang out, film with cameras, rehearse scenes, develop scripts, discuss etc. We use the old classroom in Den Gamle By as a film set, make costumes and sets.
Along the way, I will make presentations and facilitate conversations about, among other things, nostalgia, myth-making, the disappearance of the future, hauntology, power and didacticism.
We will read texts by e.g. Mark Fischer, Solvej Balle and Philip K. Dick. And watch movies, e.g. Olympic Games Opening Ceremony London 2012, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One by William Greaves and Night Passage by  Trinh T. Minh-ha.

BIO: Mathias Sæderup, born 1984, visual artist from Det Jyske 
Kunstakademi and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Among 
many other things he works with video and is concerned with ghosts, 
criticism of power, improvisation and institutionalisation.

Application deadline: 3rd March, 2024

How to apply: Please send an application form and short motivation to frontdesk@djk.nu. Please state the course name “Old School in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact Susanne Brokmann at: frontdesk@djk.nu

Teaching period: 24 – 28 March 2024

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s): Eva-Maria Lisa Körber, Anton Shramkov

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA and MA

Application deadline: 3 March 2024

How to apply: Participants should submit 250 words explaining their motivation to take part in the course in relation to the main course concepts and either a 2–3 min video or other kind of documentation evidencing successful completion of the following task to: anton.shramkov@nidacolony.lt

Course description:

The focus of this study course is human-engineered landscapes and the flow of timber materials, which are measured, categorised, valued, and devalued. Organic materials considered irrelevant, ‘unusable’, or even harmful will be at the core of this course. By studying, questioning, critically assessing, and approaching the historical, political, and economic reasoning behind these categories, the course will take a hands-on approach by inviting participants to reimagine and test the possibilities of working with what is supposedly ‘useless’.

The course takes place within a distinct landscape; the Curonian Spit, a UNESCO Heritage site, affected by its continually changing and seasonal social and urban nature. The scale, together with the unique geographical, climatic, natural and historical contexts, provides an opportunity for investigating, discussing and getting a deeper understanding of relations between global and local, centre and periphery, ‘invasive’ and ‘initial’ and the meaning of these terms as constructs and documents of specific time periods. This course takes place within the framework of Neringa Forest Architecture (NFA), a research and residency programme that was established at Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2019 and ‘seeks to assemble an intersectional view of these diverse viewpoints focusing on the agency of culture in enhancing the ways to sense and understand forest’. Participants will have access to a library of locally-grown timber materials assembled throughout the NFA project, which from its inception, has looked for possibilities of deviating the timber logged in the Curonian Spit for the biofuel and paper industry towards experiments, architecture, design, art, research processes.

Over the course of five days, participants will: experience local natural and urban landscapes through a series of guided tours; gather, study, and process locally grown timber species; learn basic woodworking skills, working with hand tools and wood workshop machines; attend lectures given by the tutors on the statics of objects and wood joints, and participate in discussions; undertake individual and group tests of the structural properties and capabilities of different locally-grown materials with the objective of creating experimental structures from those materials. This workshop is conceived as a collaborative open-ended process where ideas will emerge from an open discussion between participants from multidisciplinary backgrounds and tutors. Proposals will be tested through the process of handicrafting and prototyping. Participants are invited to learn by unlearning, to deconstruct and reconstruct, to acquire skills and to focus on background and context. The course is open to participants from all backgrounds and fields of study and does not require specific knowledge or skills in architecture, design, or the material sciences

More information on the teaching staff

Additional information: The workshop will take place at the Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, E. A. Jonušo str. 3, Neringa LT-93127, Lithuania. The teaching period begins on Sunday morning (24 March) and ends on Thursday evening (28 March). Participants are expected to arrive on Saturday, 23 March and depart on Friday, 29 March. The cost of travel, accommodation, and meals are to be covered by the participants.

Accommodation prices: a room with a shared bathroom costs 16€ per person per night.A room with a private bathroom costs 24€ per person per night. Rooms are shared by 2 to 4 students. Shared and self-funded cooking in the group will be planned for specific days as part of the study process.

Financial support available from KUNO: Travel support between countries: 330 € (660 € to/from Iceland) Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days).

For further enquiries please contact: anton.shramkov@nidacolony.lt

Eligibility requirements:
- only BA and MA full-degree students from the KUNO network schools can participate;
-exchange students from other institutions, which do not belong to the KUNO network, studying at one of the KUNO network schools, CANNOT participate;
- full-degree students from the KUNO network schools, currently on exchange at another institution, CANNOT participate (neither with nor without the KUNO grant).

Teaching period: 8 & 15 February 2024 (online), 18-22 March 2024 (in Trondheim)

Location: Trondheim, Norway

Teacher(s):

Annett Busch, Prerna Bishnoi, Ayodele Arigbabu

ECTS: 4 ECTS (for those who join online and in Trondheim) / 2 ECTS (for those who join in Trondheim only)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 12

Level: BA /MA

Course description:
Is Artistic Entrepreneurship the new Punk rock? Artistic Entrepreneurship argues for an agency that involves and engages new combinations across disciplines and sectors and new forms of cooperation among researchers and artists, ideas and technologies. We aspire to a different kind of entrepreneurship in the truest sense of the word: More than just a business model, it is an undertaking of acting together to inspire people to tackle the challenges society faces.
How does Artistic Entrepreneurship extend the studio practice? The course combines artistic practice and critical artistic research through project based thinking and reframing exercises. We are creating a playful glossary, rewriting the rules of Monopoly, reimagining innovation by analysing rural frameworks, stimulating collaborative ideas and looking at dissemination and publishing formats.
As a KUNO express mobility course, “Exploring Artistic Entrepreneurship” is embedded in an elective course at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. Participants are encouraged to attend at least one introductory session online in preparation for the intensive course days in Trondheim. In conjunction with the introductory elements, the course builds on the participants' artistic practice and aims to develop entrepreneurial ideas and themes collectively to foster strategic artistic agency against monoculture.
Learning Outcomes
Students can use relevant methods for research and artistic entrepreneurial development. The students can reflect on and articulate the significance and potential of art and artists in relation to society. Students will have the skills and training required to work collaboratively.

Readings: 
Antonio Negri / Michael Hardt, ‘Entrepreneurship of the Multitude’, in: Assembly, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Francis de Vericourt, Framers, Penguin Random House, 2021.
Gijs de Vries, To make the silos dance, Brussels: European Culture Foundation, 2020.
Doris Sommer, The Work of Art in the World, Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
Explore and learn from Fluxus artists: https://monoskop.org/Fluxus

Application deadline: 22 January 2024, 13:00

How to apply: Please fill out this form with a short motivation statement and other information.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €

Financial support is not provided for online participation. 

In case of any questions:

In case of any questions please contact annett.busch@ntnu.no

Teaching period: 11 – 15 March 2024

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s): Vidisha-Fadescha

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA and MA

Application deadline: 9 February, 2024

How to apply: Participants should submit their CV (1–3 pages) and either a 2–3 min video or 250-word motivation letter (may include images), outlining how their lived-experience and interest align with the focus of the course to: office.partyofficehq@gmail.com

Course description:

This course aims to address BiPOC students, and those affected by war, displaced persons and refugees, and encourage them to reach out to us and participate in the course in Nida.

This seminar will provide participants with the opportunity to absorb and discuss artworks and texts (both fiction and non-fiction), and to explore different methods of collective care including embodied practices. Looking at first-person accounts of the dissident, divergent, outcast, racialised or punished, we will witness to sites and forms of Queer Labour, the labour of surviving the everyday.

During the week we will assay ‘Qworkaholics Anonymous’, a project by Vidisha-Fadescha, that reimagines the format of de-addiction programs like Alcoholics Anonymous and creates a time and space for individuals from marginalised communities to acknowledge and celebrate the labour of their very act of survival. Such labour is often dismissed as unproductive by the neoliberal order, whose measures fail to consider the exhaustion that comes from navigating the obstacles faced by individuals who are not a part of, or those who do not align with, the hegemony, and are tired of constantly having to prove their worth and defend their identities.

In a society that values isolation and self-abandonment, over self and collective care, it is a radical act to prioritise one's own needs and well-being. For those who have historically been oppressed and marginalised, setting boundaries, saying no, and prioritising self-love is a form of resistance. Together, we will read through the twelve steps of ‘Qworkaholics Anonymous’ designed to de-addict from the ‘burnout’ faced while doing this labour, through a metaphysical connection with ourselves and our peers.

The seminar will be guided by emotion and intuition, rather than tire to succeed theoretically.

Vidisha-Fadescha is an artist, curator and cultural critic. Holding their lived experience of a radical gender, caste, race and disability, Fadescha suggests centering one’s own body and desire towards liberation. Their artistic work includes video, sound installations, text, and performance. They direct collective practices as a norm-critical pedagogy to queer hegemony.

Fadescha’s curatorial project, Party Office, is an anti-caste, anti-racist, trans-feminist, art and social, space and time that was founded in New Delhi in 2020. Through publications, grants, archives, conversations of life-lived, social gatherings, and more, they are building transnational dialogues on empathetic futures, care communities, and radical agency.

In 2023, Vidisha participated in projects with Prince Claus Fund Biennial Symposium (Colombo), Survival Kit 14 (Riga), Rehearsing Moves on Hazy Paths (at ZK/U Berlin), Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius / Nida), Kunst im Untergrund (organised by nGbK Berlin), 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Sydney), and was a lumbung artist at documenta fifteen, Kassel in 2022. They are an artist at the Lagos Biennial in 2024. Fadescha’s work has been published in arts and cultural magazines including Frieze, Flash Art, Texte zur Kunst, Metropolis M, Hyperallergic, Mezosfera, Aperture Magazine, Art in America, Galerie, Dazed, and Vogue. 

Additional information: The workshop will take place at the Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, E. A. Jonušo str. 3, Neringa LT-93127, Lithuania.

The teaching period starts on Monday morning (11 March) and ends on Friday evening (15 March). Participants are expected to arrive on Sunday, 10 March and depart on Saturday, 16 March. The cost of travel, accommodation, and meals are to be covered by the participants.

Accommodation prices: a room with a shared bathroom costs 16€ per person per night or a room with a private bathroom costs 24€ per person per night. Rooms are shared by 2 to 4 students. Shared and self-funded cooking in the group will be planned for specific days as part of the study process.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days)

In case of any questions please contact egija.inzule@nidacolony.lt

Teaching period: March 4-9, 2024

Location: Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

Teacher(s): prof. Žilvinas Lilas

ECTS: 2 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA

Course description
This is a seventh iteration of the Ghostology cycle which focuses on artistic desire, and tries to understand “but what does an artist really want?” (to paraphrase Freud a bit). In a course of a week we will meet at predefined locations to act out possible scenarios on what (or how) it is to be an artist in the 21st century. 

We will re-learn to desire as an artist. Trying to find if there is such a thing as desire which drives one as an artist. Or is it need and want? Also, how do we weed out trivialities of carnal or other circumstantial kind, together with all shades of vanity and grasp the depths of being an artist. Because, at the end, to paraphrase Lacan,— “the only truth in art is the truth of unsatisfiable desire”.

Application deadline:  February 1st, Thursday, 2024 at 18:00 (CET)

How to apply: Please send a short motivation letter (one A4 page maximum) to Zilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)

Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

More information

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact Zilvinas Lilas at: zilvinas.lilas@vda.lt

Teaching period: 2+1 weeks, January 29th to February 16th (or February 9th if 2 weeks) 2024. The length of the course is 3 weeks; KUNO students are invited to join the full teaching period, or only the 2 first weeks if 3 are not compatible with your local pedagogic schedules.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Teacher(s):

Johan Wahlgren, Johan Forslind, Kalle Sandzén

ECTS: 4,5 or 3 ECTS (depending on the duration)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2

Level: BA and MA

Requirements: No previous knowledge needed.

Course description: This is an introduction to the skills involved in making stop motion animation. Students will learn how to set up a animation studio, with lighting and working methods. Work with both lo-tech and hi-end technique. The course also gives basic knowledge in the digital camera with manual exposure. We will discuss media theory connecting to film and animation and look at some examples of works.  

The course includes workshops, lectures, individual work, group works and individual tutoring. We encourage students to explore stop motion animation through their artistic practice regardless of what medium they usually work in.

Students from Konstfack will come from three different departments - Fine Art, Graphic Design & Illustration and Ceramics & Glass.

Course module description can be found in full here.

Application deadline: 31st of December 2023

How to apply: Please send the application form together with a short motivation letter (1 A4 maximum) to johan.wahlgren@konstfack.se

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days) - 1st week, 100 € per week - 2nd and 3rd weeks. 

In case of any questions please contact katarina.stanisz@konstfack.se

Teaching period: January 15-19, 2024

Location: Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

Teacher(s):

Full-time twitch streamer and educator Stephanie (AKA Apollolol);
Artist-researcher from Vilnius Academy of Arts Vygintas Orlovas (also, sometimes a streamer AKA V_of_Londor);
Artist and researcher Daina Pupkevičiūtė (AKA Daina Dieva);
Performance artist, dancer, drag queen and event organiser Povilas Bastys (AKA Miss Plastica).

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA /MA

Course description

The focal point of this course is exploring tools and techniques for streaming and discussing it in the context of performance art.

Performance art often involves these basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, the relation between the creator and the public. This time the relationship between the creator and the public takes place online - via streaming platforms.

The goal of this workshop is not only to discuss key concepts of performance art but also to recontextualize it for a digital environment and provide the tools to do so.

We will discuss the platforms, hardware and software (OBS, streamlabs, voicemeeter, capture cards, green screens etc.) needed for streaming and try to apply them for ideas created during the workshop. And use methods of brainstorming and mind-mapping to work together to figure out the possible intersections of these fields and discuss the idea that:

“Performance art is a notoriously sensory practice, and often requires the audience to be able to smell, feel, and taste the experience. It does beg the question, if we are separated from the performer by potentially thousands of miles and a lagging internet connection, will they really be able to communicate their expression as effectively as they might if we were in the same room as them?” [1] 

We will have a PC setup to be a streaming station, which we can use for the ideas we come up with, however, if you can bring a smartphone or a laptop - that could be really useful equipment~

[1] Marianna Manson, Is live streaming the future for performance art?, 2016, https://www.huckmag.com/article/live-streaming-future-performance-art

Application deadline: 10th of December, 2023

How to apply: Please fill in the Google Form https://forms.gle/RrfE6mYB4avkJXBQ6
We hope to reach back to you by the 18th of December.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)

Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

More information

In case of any questions please contact Vygintas Orlovas at: vygintas.orlovas@vda.lt  

Teaching period: 20-24 November, 2023

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Dora García 

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 1-2

Level: BA/MA

Course description:
The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. Commons can also be understood as natural resources that groups of people (communities, user groups) manage for individual and collective benefit. Commons are worlds in movement, they are communities that create forms of life in common and that together produce and share and are continuously transformed.
Under capitalism, art is a social technology that traps, immobilizes, divides, ossifies, occupies and compartmentalizes life into flat moving images, museums, choreographed actions and conceptual speculations that reproduce the dead commodity form and its fictious movements.
Under conditions of art/commons, the making and circulation of objects, atmospheres and situations are aimed at concretizing, making visible and surrendering agency to the expanded, multimodal and abstract relational network in which human value resides.
Countering the movement of capital are the acts of commoning, the pooling and sharing of resources for the reproduction of life in common. The commons are not outside capitalism, rather, they have carved zones of self-organization and autonomy within them. The commons are a socialist and postcolonial space where knowledge, gestures and social relations go towards the reproduction of the commons - they are aiming at changing the world without governing it. 

What do we mean when we say artistic practice can be directed towards the commons, art as common?

The course is structured like a workshop with different exercises to be realised as a group, around the following questions:

o   How can we imagine art as a common? What do we mean when we say art is for everyone? What means "public"? Can art transform the public sphere? What is the role of art in leisure and in work? - guest: Apolonija Sustersic https://apolonijasustersic.com/

o   Should art become invisible to be truly public?  What is the political importance of art? The Invisible theater of Augusto Boal - performance in public space.

In order to pass this course students must actively participate in the lectures and workshop activities, being present (and responsive) min 80% of the time of the course.

Additional information
Basic bibliography:
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, Allan Kaprow
Art Commons, Anthropology beyond Capitalism, Massimiliano Mollona
Capitalism 3.0: a guide to reclaiming the commons, Peter Barnes
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, Lewis Hyde
and other .pdfs to come.

Application deadline: 20th of October, 2023, 12:00 am

How to apply:  Please apply via this online form: https://nettskjema.no/a/353761

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact kjerjens@khio.no

Teaching period: 16th – 20th October, 2023

Location: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus

Teacher(s): Joen Vedel

ECTS: 2 study points (equal to 2 ECTS)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA (all years)

Requirements: no previous knowledge needed

Course description:
Over the course of this week-long workshop, I propose to engage with video-live editing (a sort of VJ’ing) as a practical tool for the experimentation with the representation of time and together reflect on how one can make an image of a historical process still unfolding messily in the present. To help orient our collective production, I suggest starting the week by looking at some examples of radical media experiments from the past, in addition to a presentation of my own work and use of the live-editing equipment. Further on, I would like to share a reading of the theoretical and discursive framework related to this, namely the notions of now-time and contemporaneity. Halfway through, I suggest changing into a more practical mode while slowly starting to record and gather moving image material for the live TV broadcast. The week culminates with a live-edited broadcast, in which all forms of participation and technical tasks are equally important. And finally, I propose to spend some time watching our live-edited moving-image experiment and talk about the experiences we have made along the way. As such, the course aspires to a collaborative model of working together, with artistic expressions, methods, and techniques to be discussed and developed through improvisation, archival research, studio-recordings, collages, readings, and video-documentation from the field. With the ambitious aim of being contemporary with contemporaneity, NOW-TIME TV offers an aesthetics of potentiality open to different temporalities, political geographies, and momentary constellations of chance-encounters, glitches, and traces of everyday life.

Background:
For the past 10 years, I have been developing a performative method of video live-editing – normally deployed in live TV – as a materialist investigation into the temporal aspects of various forms of political events. Drawing on media theories and philosophical debates on historicity, contemporaneity, the event and its aftermath, I have used video live-editing as a way to collapse the temporalities of production and presentation, in order to connect the representation of events with the event of their presentation. Most recently, I’ve created a series of live TV programs for a local TV station in Kassel, as part of my contribution to Documenta 15, documenting and reflecting on the event of this mega-exhibition while it took place.

Bio:
Joen Vedel is a visual artist, writer, and organizer, educated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, and currently a PhD candidate at the Art Academy in Trondheim, working on an artistic research project titled In Search of Now-Time: Live-editing as a mode of research.

Application deadline: 10th September, 2023

How to apply: Please send a short motivation (mention also your full name, home university, study level, contacts) as an attachment to frontdesk@djk.nu. Please state the course name “NOW-TIME TV: a collective moving image experiment” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact Susanne Brokmann at: frontdesk@djk.nu

Teaching period: October 2-6, 2023, Monday 13:00-17:00, Tuesday-Friday 10:00-17:00

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway

Teacher(s):  Jan Verwoert

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 1-2

Level: BA/MA

Course description:
Art can channel energy. It does so when it taps into  constellations that generate energy in very particular ways, under specific signs: constellations of stars, combinations of elements, compositions of pigments, constructions of motifs. The zodiac sign, the animal on your flag or shield, the make-up that makes your face radiate, the motif you play in the intro, and repeat in the chorus…: all these form potential signatures for focussing and relaying energy. Art historian Aby Warburg called them “Dynamogramme”.

Energy signs transport you into the presence of forces at work. But they may also come to you from the forgotten past, from the depth of the archive. The spirit of an equally irreproducible and irrepressible event may have left its energy traces on tape or celluloid, in a photo or note, traumatic, or ecstatic, or both it might be. Revive it? How? Or lay it to rest and let it go? Parapsychology says: Ghosts are space-time energy traces. Live with them? Nourish them? Exorcise them? Or seek justice for them, so they can find peace?

The course will be a practice workshop dedicated to experiments in convoking energy signs (in many forms and fashions) and having conversations over how and why do so today, how tap energies from collective personal memory, and how to project into the present future.

Students are expected to actively participate in workshop activities min 80% of the time of the course.

Application deadline: 11th of September, 2023

How to apply:  Please apply via this online form: https://nettskjema.no/a/353768

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact kjerjens@khio.no

Teaching period: 25th September – 6th October, 2023

Location: MALMÖ ART ACADEMY, Sweden

Teacher(s):  Michael Portnoy

ECTS: 6

Number of available places for KUNO students: 4

Level: BA

Course description:
Radical Cringe is a 2-week production course where we’ll wallow in the aesthetics of glorious embarrassment, shame and bad taste. Oversharing, overacting and over-being, we’ll watch each other through our fingers as we search for a radical agency in being free from self-awareness. In an era where the pressures of self presentation are almost paralyzing, and conversely, where cringe culture has become a veritable force in the entertain-ment industry, we’ll engage cringe as a joyous escape valve. If the feeling of cringe is a warning that one has violated some social normand strayed from the cultural path, is it not also precisely a territory we should seek out as artists, a place where authenticity, vulnerability, otherness and innovation overlap. The working process will involve daily active sessions borrowing techniques from devised theatre, improvisation, performance art and contemporary dance, combined with discussion. Mixing solo and group production, we'll create a performance, which will be presented at the end of the course.

Application deadline: 10th of September, 2023

How to apply:  Please apply by sending a motivation letter to Maj Hasager:
maj.hasager@khm.lu.se Please state the course name “Radical Cringe” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact maj.hasager@khm.lu.se

Teaching period: May 23 - 30, 2023

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s):

Monika Grašiene, Egija Inzule, Lina Jonike

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA and MA

Course description: This course is dedicated to the study and exploration of the role and various typologies of textiles and their use and function as part of public space infrastructure: spaces that are shared and used by many, spaces of formation, of oppression, as well as spaces that promote the open and public discourse of shared resources and employ a sense of mindfulness towards the built environment. Over seven days, the course will cover production possibilities and infrastructure of textiles in the Baltic States; the economy of how resources and labour circulate; and how historical textiles have been used in spaces such as monasteries, cruise ships, prisons, hospitals and youth hostels.        

The starting point for Sturdy Textiles is the specific environment of Nida Art Colony, a subdivision of Vilnius Academy of Arts, and a hybrid institution designed to accommodate and host student seminars, artists-in-residence and many other activities in a comfortable and inspiring setting. Attention to the site, the surrounding resources, and functionality are currently the main criteria behind the design of NAC’s interior spaces that inform the development of NAC’s programme of activities.
The course is composed of three parts:
- sharing references and experiences that relate to the history of design of public spaces and the use of textiles
- studying NAC as a site, and learning about the textile production possibilities in Lithuania and the Baltic states
- working on a design proposal for new textiles: towels, beddings, washcloths
To complement the study and theory, the course will initiate the production of a range of new textiles for NAC to be produced in 2023 and 2024.

Application deadline: 10th of May, 2023

How to apply: Fill the application form

Additional information:

More information on the course

The workshop will take place at the Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, E. A. Jonušo St. 3, Neringa LT-93127, Lithuania. 

Accommodation prices: a room with shared bathroom costs 16€ / person / night or a room with private bathroom 24€ / person / night. Rooms are shared by 2-4 students. Shared and self-funded cooking in the group will be planned for specific days as part of the study process. 

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days)

In case of any questions please contact monika.grasiene@vda.lt

Teaching period: May 21 - 25, 2023

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s):

Andrius Zakarauskas, Jovita Aukštikalnytė-Varkulevičienė, Petras Lincevičius

ECTS: 2 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 8

Level: BA and MA

Course description: This is an open call for 8 students interested in painting as a way of thinking about a specific place and its multi-layeredness. During the workshop, a team of teachers and students will research the theme “Landscape as interior” in Nida - a resort town in Lithuania, located on the Curonian Spit between the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea.

“Landscape as interior" is a visual project that invites you to think through the images you create and is open to interpretations both in the classical form of painting and by rejecting the usual "rectangle" form of an artwork. During this project, students will use a different visual language to explore Nida as a multi-layered narrative that changes through the interaction of urban and natural spaces. During this project, not only painting will take place in specific places, but also painting at different times of the day. Night painting will be carried out under non-natural light sources.

The purpose of these activities is to explore the landscape of Nida as an interaction of natural, social, cultural, and technological tensions in search of the relationship between closed and open spaces. Discussions and presentations of creative works will be organized during these practical sessions. During them, the participants will present their artistic research analyzing the sensitive nature-human relations.

Discussions on the topic of ecology will help students understand the multi-meaning of the area, interpret the project theme in various forms and experience a variety of creative solutions. All project participants (students together with participating teachers) will create paintings, drawings, and mixed media works using the authentic landscape as a source of creative expression and will present them at a public exhibition in the spaces of the Nida Art Colony.

Application deadline: 5th of May, 2023

How to apply: Fill the application form: In case of any questions please contact petras.lincevicius@vda.lt 

Additional information:

More information on the course

The workshop will take place at the Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, E. A. Jonušo St. 3, Neringa LT-93127, Lithuania. 

Accommodation prices: a room with shared bathroom costs 16€ / person / night or a room with private bathroom 24€ / person / night. Rooms are shared by 2-4 students. Shared and self-funded cooking in the group will be planned for specific days as part of the study process. 

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days)

In case of any questions please contact petras.lincevicius@vda.lt 

Teaching period: 27th – 31st March, 2023

Location: Arts Academy - Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Teacher(s): Tuomas Laitinen

ECTS: 1

Number of available places for KUNO students: 5

Level: BA

Course description:
The workshop will address the artistic genre of live performance through practical experiments and exercises, examples of art works and some historical trajectories. What is performance or live art, how did it come about and how to do it? In the workshop we can take some peaks into these questions.  

Timetable:

Mon 27.3 arrival and campus tour (late afternoon)

Tue 28.3. at 14-18

Wed 29.3. at 10-16

Thu 30.3. at 10-16

Fri 31.3. at 10-16

BIO: Tuomas Laitinen is a Helsinki-based director, performance artist, curator, and pedagogue whose work is questioning the role of the audience and experimenting with it. Currently, he works with a doctoral research project at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. 

Application deadline: 10th of March, 2023

How to apply: Please state shortly why you are interested in attending this course by email: henna.halonen@turkuamk.fi

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact Henna-Riikka Halonen at henna.halonen@turkuamk.fi

Teaching period: 27th – 31st March, 2023

Location: MALMÖ ART ACADEMY, Sweden

Teacher(s): Marie Muracciole

ECTS: 3

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2

Level: BA /MA

Course description:
In Woman Sleeping (1981) Liz Magor interprets one famous sculpture of Constantin Brancusi, Sleeping Muse (1910). Stating that women have been, for so long, artists “put at sleep” and struggling to wake up, Magor’s photomontage associates the passivity of Brancusi's beautiful head to a space for elaborating a practice, a studio – as when she says that being slow is a method, a different pace for thinking, moving and producing, and incidentally, a way to deal with the brutality of the art market.  

This seminar will take “sleep” as a ground to explore art practice through the way it is linked to different kinds of awakening and to the possibility of developing multiple nuances of attention, as well as the part played by the body, the soma, in the artist's experiments and projects. Alternation and porosities between sleep and awakening are discretely shaping our lives. Stating that art embodies and renews awareness, we will explore the working process and ask ourselves what is at work in the studio that we are.  

Biological rhythms of activity and rest have a social and political history. Indeed, both the duration and structure of sleep have been governed by a succession of norms. Jonathan Crary's book, 24/7 Capitalism and Sleep, details the political stakes attached to this supposedly unexploitable moment. Roger Ekirch, by researching segmented sleep in preindustrial societies, has excavated long term politics of sleep and the invention of insomnia - initiating what is now called Sleep Studies. Modernity wants the body to be “recycled” overnight. The contemporary world cultivates and exploits the ideology of sleep disorders. Meanwhile, the most dispossessed among us, in metropolises the world over, sleep outside.  

Falling asleep stays a resistance –to the principles of blind exploitation that ruled the planet, to permanent solicitations of commercialized exchanges -, an escape - to socialization and its orders, to the brutality of the real, and sometimes a luxury.  

Art settles sometimes some reactivation of sleep, some hallucinatory experience, by imbedding the viewer’s body into montages of sound, visual mirages and their woven narratives, like in the cinema projection theater and the black cube today. We’ll question experimental practices addressing more directly to a somatic regime that stresses our proximity with the other living organisms on the planet. Moreover, they bring what anthropology today is stressing by contesting the opposition between nature and humans, and denying the human specie the ownership of the planet, as in the approaches opened by Viveiros de Castro or Philippe Descola. The daily cycle of rest is our intimate winter, when we are most in phase with our planet rhythms and of other species, as well as with the unknown that we contain. In this contradiction stay perhaps some forces.

Application deadline: 3rd of March, 2023

How to apply: Please send an e-mail with a short motivation to Maj Hasager at maj.hasager@khm.lu.se

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact Charlotta Österberg at charlotta.osterberg@khm.lu.se

Teaching period: 20th – 24th March, 2023

Location: Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus

Teacher(s): Ralo Mayer

ECTS: 2 study points (equal to 2 ECTS)

Number of available places for KUNO students: 3

Level: BA /MA (all years)

Requirements: no previous knowledge needed

Course description:
Within the workshop we will approach a plethora of objects, and we will try to weave stories around them as much as between ourselves. How can we, as artists, tell stories that present multi-subjective perspectives on a complex world, and how can we tell stories about things and their relations without playing into the hands of conspiracy theories? No definite answers are to be expected, but perhaps we will begin with each of us bringing along an object of interest.   
The workshop integrates several aspects and modes of working with stories in art: a reflection on modes of investigation, the translation of research into storytelling, for instance as spatial settings or in time-based media, and a certain inclination towards speculative fiction and outer space. These aspects – and their questioning – are also key elements of my own practice. 
The term “plot”, for instance, is quite a wondrous word. It radiates ambivalence and contradiction. Against the rather location-based and territorial concept of site (and artistic approaches towards it), plot can refer not only to a piece of land and its intended economic use, but also invokes geometry, various shades of scheming, or story lines in fiction. 
When an object is used as a prop in a performance, on stage, or on screen, a peculiar transformation takes place, interplay of script, story and other actors allows for new and playful ways of interacting. Through performative research, we can make use of this playfulness for artistic storytelling. 

BIO:
Oscillating between art, filmmaking and research, Ralo Mayer’s work delineates “ecologies of contemporary history”. By exploring concepts such as space settlements, artificial ecosystems, or asteroid mining, he creates artistic storytelling about pasts, futures and the science fiction of everyday life, on and off Earth. Mayer has studied art at republican and royal art academies in Vienna and Copenhagen and has co-founded the self-organized Manoa Free University. His work has been presented at exhibitions, film festivals, theaters and conferences. In his artistic PhD about “Space Un·Settlements” Mayer has investigated the relation between scenarios of human life in outer space and rather earthly realities here, on our planet, through the concept of un·Earthing. His current interests include licking meteorites, kids in space and clouds on exoplanets. 

More detailed description

Application deadline: 20th February, 2023

How to apply: Please send a short motivation (mention also your full name, home university, study level, contacts) as an attachment to frontdesk@djk.nu. Please state the course name “Plots and Props and stories of Un-Earthing” in an email subject title.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 250 € per week.

In case of any questions please contact Susanne Brokmann at: frontdesk@djk.nu

Teaching period: 2 weeks, 13th - 24th of March 2023

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Teacher(s):

Olivia Plender, Emanuel Almborg, Joanna Zawieja

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 2

Level: BA and MA

Requirements: No previous knowledge needed.

Course description: A two-week course which addresses how artists can work with communities, with reference to socially engaged projects, public art, but also film and other practices that may involve collaborating with groups of people or individual subjects outside of the art world.

Course module description can be found in full here.

Application deadline: 12th of February, 2023

How to apply: Send the application form together with a short motivation letter (1 A4 maximum) to olivia.plender@konstfack.se.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days), 100 €-2nd week, 100 €.

In case of any questions please contact olivia.plender@konstfack.se

Teaching period: February 27 - March 4, 2023

Location: Nida Art Colony (VDA), Lithuania

Teacher(s):

Anastasia Sosunova

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA and MA

Course description: A seminar and multiple activities like reading group sessions, workshops, excursions and site visits led by artist Anastasia Sosunova, curator and NAC director Egija Inzule and invited guest lecturers are aimed at exploring the meshings of sacred and secular in contemporary politics and culture. From occult economies in late Soviet period to corporate spiritualism in the neoliberal capitalism, from national cults to everyday magical thinking, students will be introduced to these topics through the lens of anthropology, sociology, feminism and critical as well as postcolonial theory. 

The participants will be encouraged not only to explore sacralization patterns in their immediate environments (e.g. social taboos, public spaces; authority structures) and critically address them but also employ this knowledge in creating counter-relics of their own and reclaiming the ritualistic and myth-making practices while resisting dominant narratives. 

 The seminar is based on Anastasia Sosunova’s research methods and topics that emerge in her artist book Express Method and various art projects since 2018. By inviting guest researchers and writers, the seminar is aimed at acquainting participants with the tools that help to work across disciplines and fields, paying homage to academic research and modern critical thought while applying first hand experience and autoethnography exploring rites of a secular age.

 The Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts and the Curonian Spit will partly act as a case study of the seminar’s investigations through various activities. However, the themes will extend far outside of Nida and Lithuania, touching upon the riddles of the Baltic region and contemporary society. 

Anastasia Sosunova is a visual artist based in Vilnius. Sosunova’s multidisciplinary practice, combining video, installation, graphics and sculpture, grows from personal histories and their entanglements within broader cultural, economical and spiritual structures. Through a process of distortion and the interweaving of elements belonging to old mythologies, hybrid entities and the surveillance society, Sosunova creates alternative forms of ‘contemporary folklore’. Spanning lifestyle concepts to pillars of belief, these new folklores are at once a play with notions of home and belonging, a questioning of existence and coexistence, and a critical view on structures of power and the psychology of collectivity. Her work serves as a proposition for new ways of living by rules, ethics, codes and agreements between beings.

Application deadline: 13th of February, 2023

How to apply: Candidates should apply by sending one single pdf (1-2 pages) with CV and a 200-word motivation letter outlining how your interest pairs with the course’s focus to the course tutor.  

Additional information:

The workshop will take place at the Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, E. A. Jonušo St. 3, Neringa LT-93127, Lithuania. 

 The teaching period starts on Monday morning (February 27) and ends on Friday evening (March 3). Arrival on Sunday, February 26 and Departure on Saturday, March 4. Travel, accommodation, and meals are to be paid by the participants. 

 Accommodation prices: a room with shared bathroom costs 16€ / person / night or a room with private bathroom 24€ / person / night. Rooms are shared by 2-4 students. Shared and self-funded cooking in the group will be planned for specific days as part of the study process. 

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days)

In case of any questions please contact egija.inzule@nidacolony.lt

Teaching period: Feb 6-11, 2023

Location: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

Teacher(s):

Agata Marzecova and Sean Tyler (Estonian Academy of Arts)

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: MA

Course description

This research workshop explores how struggles over the boundaries between economy and society, production and reproduction, and work from family are brought into light through the concept of commons. Through the lens of materialist feminism,  we will critically interrogate the notion of commons and commoning, but also explore its creative possibilities as a method to coproduction of diverse knowledge and different models of sharing.

The workshop will take the Curonian Spit national park as a vantage point from which to investigate these curiosities, beyond the Baltic area, along with ways in which these histories have been challenged in the context of specific urban and natural environments.

The Nida Art Colony (NAC) and the Curonian Spit will act as cases of our investigation through a series of excursions, workshops, seminars and student-led enquiries into critical theory, interdisciplinary knowledge-production and artistic research.

MA students with backgrounds in arts, writing, architecture, design, ecology and related fields interested to exchange knowledge and learn from each other are welcome to apply.

Application deadline: Jan 15, 2023

How to apply: Candidates should apply by sending both a CV (1-2 pages) and a maximum 500-word statement outlining how your interest pairs with the course’s focus to Agata Marzecova agat.marzec@gmail.com or Sean Tyler sean.tyler@artun.ee.

Additional information: The workshop will take place at the Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, E. A. Jonušo str. 3, Neringa LT-93127, Lithuania. The teaching period starts on Monday evening (February 6th, 19.00) and ends on Saturday morning (February 11th). Travel, accommodation, and meals are to be paid by the participants. Accommodation prices are as follows: a room with shared bathroom costs 16€ / person / night or a room with private bathroom 24€ / person. Rooms are shared by 2-4 students.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)

Subsistence: 250 € per week (5-7 days).

In case of any questions please contact Egija Inzule at: egija.inzule@nidacolony.lt

Teaching period: 6-10 February, 2023

Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo

Teacher(s): Saskia Holmkvist

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 1-2

Level: BA /MA

Course description
Rejecting the notion that working with archives is an extractive enterprise we will in this course focus on archival production and archival fabulation as a consequential act of governance, as a field with effects, and as a vivid space to do ethnography and auto fiction, futurisms and more.

Critical Fabulation is term and a way of working, dealing and addressing history and faulty archives deriving from Saidiya Hartman’s writing on counter narration, stories which, should or ought to have been in the archives coming from a postcolonial discourse and de colonial work.

During the course we will together read Sadiya Hartmans short text “Venus in Two Acts” as a starting point for a discussion about which sources are needed to tell a story. What is fabulation? How artistic methods can speak in-between. We will be watching work relating to personal stories, memory, haunting and gaps, affect as a way of telling. The course also has a workshop part relating to your own work and interests to develop with these thoughts in mind. The choice of medium you wish to work in is free but language, film and performance will be central in the works presented. I will be speaking from my own ongoing work Back Translation as well.

Texts:

· Hartman, Saidiya V. "Venus in two acts." Small Axe: A Journal of Criticism26(2008):1–14.

· Tuck, Eve and C. Ree. "A Glossary of Haunting." Handbook of Autoethnography. Eds. Holman Jones, Stacey, Tony E. Adams, and Carolyn Ellis. London: Routledge, 2013. 639-658.

These texts will be available online in the Canvas room of the course – all students of the course will be given access to this.

Application deadline: 18th January, 2023

How to apply: Please fill in the relevant detail and short motivation text here: https://nettskjema.no/a/308758

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)

Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

In case of any questions please contact Kjerstin Eek Jensen by email kjerjens@khio.no

Teaching period: January 30 - February 3, 2023

Location: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania

Teacher(s):

Apollolol (Full-time Twitch streamer, based in Sweden);

Vygintas Orlovas (Artist and researcher at Vilnius Academy of Arts, also occasionally a streamer V_of_Londor, based in Lithuania).

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA /MA

Course description

The focal point of this course is exploring tools and techniques for streaming and discussing it in the context of performance art.

Performance art often involves these basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, the relation between the creator and the public. This time the relationship between the creator and the public takes place online - via streaming platforms.

The goal of this workshop is not only to discuss key concepts of performance art but also to recontextualize it for a digital environment and provide the tools to do so.

We will discuss the platforms, hardware and software (OBS, streamlabs, voicemeeter, capture cards, green screens etc.) needed for streaming and try to apply them for ideas created during the workshop.

We will have a PC setup to be a streaming station, which we can use for the ideas we come up with, however, if you can bring a smartphone or a laptop - that could be really useful equipment~

Application deadline: 27th December, 2022

How to apply: Please fill in the Google Form https://forms.gle/gZZzaMUSwkZoF3jeA
We hope to reach back to you by the end of December.

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)

Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days).

More information (preliminary schedule and teachers’ info)

In case of any questions please contact Vygintas Orlovas at: vygintas.orlovas@vda.lt  

Teaching period: 2+1 weeks, January 30th to February 17th (or February 10th if 2 weeks) 2023. The length of the course is 3 weeks; KUNO students are invited to join the full teaching period, or only the 2 first weeks, if 3 are not compatible with your local pedagogic schedules.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Teacher(s):

Ricardo Atienza, Robin McGinley

ECTS: 4,5 / 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 3

Level: BA and MA

Course description: The aim of this course is to provide a broad perspective on the different sonic cultures present in the Arts: Sound Art, Soundscapes, Electroacoustics, among other forms. We will explore together the main sonic concepts, working methods and tools having fed this field. This will take place through a combination of listening sessions, discussions, lectures and workshops.

Course module description can be found in full here.

Application deadline: 31st of December, 2022

How to apply: Please send the application form together with a short motivation letter (1 A4 maximum) to ricardo.atienza@konstfack.se

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days), 100 €-2nd week, 100 €-3rd week, additional day - 20 €.

In case of any questions please contact ricardo.atienza@konstfack.se

Teaching period: 2+1 weeks, January 30th to February 17th (or February 10th if 2 weeks) 2023. The length of the course is 3 weeks; KUNO students are invited to join the full teaching period, or only the 2 first weeks, if 3 are not compatible with your local pedagogic schedules.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Teacher(s):

Palle Torsson

ECTS: 4,5 / 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 3

Level: BA and MA

Course description: The purpose of the course is to develop the students' ability to learn to build 3D models, write simple programs that generate 3D models, and develop an understanding of how 3D software can apply to their work. Furthermore, reflect on ideas and metaphors concerning a morphing contemporary agency.

The student is required to follow up the class 3D experiments with lab work, investigations, and dialogue in the group through their mini-projects. The workshop explores how 3D software can broaden our understanding of contemporary creative conditions concerning how technical systems enable a new type of assemblages. In the workshop, we learn about specific 3D software (Blender) and game engines (Unity 3D) and techniques like 3D scanning and 3D printing. Here we also try to push the limits of the program and intended use.

Course module description can be found in full here.

Application deadline: 31st of December, 2022

How to apply: Please send the application form together with a short motivation letter (1 A4 maximum) to palle.torsson@konstfack.se

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days), 100 €-2nd week, 100 €-3rd week, additional day - 20 €.

In case of any questions please contact palle.torsson@konstfack.se

Teaching period: 16-20 January, 2023

Location: Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn

Teacher(s): David Ross

ECTS: 2 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6

Level: BA /MA

Course description
Among Clouds
What do clouds portend?
- Greg Bordowitz

Floating between weather and wonder, this course looks at the idea of the cloud as it has gathered in the minds of visual and spatial practitioners, visionaries, critical thinkers, engineers, scientists, and poets over the ages.
From the Greek playwright Aristophanes, to 18th-century balloon explorations, to the iCloud, humans have put themselves and proxy selves into and amongst the clouds. And while we have been joining clouds, they have also been joining us: forming from ancient myths, drifting down from cathedral ceilings, hovering on walls within landscape paintings, gradually appearing in the photographic image, and dissipating into social networks. Presently, the three intermingling clouds of war, computing, and weather are bearing down upon us, and we would do well to understand their properties by both looking up to the sky and down at our devices to understand their impact.
The course first provides a meteorological overview of actual clouds--how they have been observed, named, and classified. In learning the basics of cloud identification, students will transpose this practical knowledge into a more expansive understanding of symbology and metaphor. What cultural, technological and social meanings have been assigned to clouds, and by whom? The class is comprised of lectures, workshops, readings, visiting artists, and field trips. Assignments will integrate with students’ own interests and pursuits. The course will cross multiple fields of inquiry, from various forms of artistic production to historical and technological investigations.

Application deadline: 15th December, 2022

How to apply: Please fill in the Google Form - https://forms.gle/ZXEEecQDZKwA1Cm2A

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)

Subsistence: 250 € -1st week (5-7 days); 100 € (2nd week).

More information (course outline and learning outcomes)

In case of any questions please contact David Ross by email david.ross@artun.ee

Teaching period: 1st-6th of December, 2022

Location: Panemunė Castle, Lithuania

Teacher(s):

dr. arch. Marius Daraškevičius

ECTS: 2 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 12

Level: BA and MA

About the course: The aim of the course is to discover the common and different features of the Northern Renaissance architecture in different KUNO/NBAA network countries. This course is held for the second time. The course consists of theoretical lectures (3), field research (Renaissance castle and Renaissance church), homework presentations, practical architectural research and discussions.

To apply for the course, we ask you to prepare a presentation about the Renaissance architecture in your country.

Additional information: Lectures and discussions will take place in the Renaissance Panemunė Castle, which today is the museum and art gallery of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. There is also a hotel and a restaurant in this castle, where you will be offered accommodation with full board (a special rate is valid for the KUNO students).

Application deadline: 5th of November, 2022

How to apply: please fill out the online application form: https://forms.gle/2sJupYuravekZZXW8

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €

More information (detailed programme of the course)

In case of any questions please contact Marius Daraškevičius at: marius.daraskevicius@vda.lt

Teaching period: 17th-21st of November, 2022

Location: Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilnius)

Teacher(s):

Vygintas Orlovas

ECTS: 2 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 10

Level: BA /MA

About the course

The course is aimed at exploring Vaporwave and publishing the results of the workshop as an album. On the surface Vaporwave, is a microgenre of electronic music and a meme, however, the ideas behind it are a statement and a position towards music production and art in general. The course will provide extended knowledge on the background, core ideas, strategies and methods for functioning applied in Vaporwave.

Organization of the course

The course will start with an introductory meeting on the evening of the 17th of November to discuss the field where Vaporwave formed, the ideas behind it and the methods and strategies applied in it. Afterwards, we will divide into groups depending on the interests: source scouting, audio editing, image editing, video editing. On the 18th, we will start by having short introductions to using the basic features of related free and cross-platform software: Audacity, Gimp and AVID Media Composer|First. Afterwards, we will have a hackathon type workshop to create a collaborative album and the relevant materials for it. Depending on how productive we will be, the workshop can last till the evening of the 20th - we will have to finalize the release by then to do the final mastering and share the results on the evening of the 21st.

Notes

* All participants should bring a laptop. Those who wish to work with sound editing, need to bring a set of headphones as well. Those, who wish to work with video editing, should have 8 GB of RAM in the laptop or an alternative video editing software. We will be using google drive for sharing files and working together as a group.

* The result of a similar course hosted in 2018 was a project called “One Person And” (https://open.spotify.com/artist/4SMh8NTSaJjzc1jiQutIsR?si=WD2a8u9cQQmcJbGj8qOUpQ). The result could be the fourth album of this project, but if it ends up being different, it could be a new project instead.

Application deadline: 16th October, 2022

How to apply: apply by filling in this form: https://forms.gle/wjBdKvBTkbGuLowu8

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €

In case of any questions please contact Vygintas Orlovas at: vygintas.orlovas@vda.lt  

Teaching period: 9th-16th of November, 2022

Location: Trondheim, Norway

Teacher(s):

Architect and a Lecturer Mattia Pretolani (EPFL)
Artist and a Lecturer Mari Bastashevski (NTNU)

ECTS: 3 ECTS

Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 12

Level: BA /MA

Course description: Artists, architects, philosophers, and scientists all rely on models as an interface between what is desired and what is actualized. Each discipline, and each project, has a different relationship to the model and its materiality. Models may be recruited to work as highly realistic replicas of reality, as virtual worlds for adjusting or comprehending material conditions, idiosyncratic, world making, and, occasionally, they set up using deliberately faulty parameters. In this short course we will be focusing on critical thinking with models, and examining models as fully concluded work - rather than as a model that is part of a process. We will focus on the critical, yet tacit, method of knowledge production from conception to construction. Crucially, we will be focused on models in architecture; models as objects that occupy three-dimensional space; models that will serve as vantage points onto different materials and the material conditions of our environment, as foundations for thinking and skills in relation to construction, and as direct influence on the development of a given project.

These models may allow the artists to observe a desired constructed scenario, or understand “real world” conditions, but, first and foremost, we hope they will allow participants to understand the efficacy of the model as medium, and as a concept, and learn to discern the implications of different model-making principles in our world.

This course consists of multiple lectures, which are immediately followed by  group discussions, and model-making sessions during which the participants will be using plaster wood, cardboard, and earth. The following principles and practices will be given particular attention: molding, various construction and assembly techniques, understandings of scale, and transitions between scale and space.

Application deadline: 1 October; results announced 4 October.

How to apply: Please send a PDF, including a short motivation letter (include your full name, home university, study level, and contact information) and 3-5 photos of previous works (e.g. as portfolio, electronic versions, or web links) to: maria.aamand@ntnu.no

Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €

In case of any questions:

For practical questions questions please contact Maria Aamand: Maria.aamand@ntnu.no
For questions pertaining to the course itself, contact: marianna.h.bastashevski@ntnu.no

More information on the course on the course assignments, results and schedule.