13/09/2021
ateliér hostujícího umělce – šaloun
the studio of the visiting artist – šaloun
Anton Vidokle
post-vaccine winter term AY 2021/2022
We are very proud to announce that next visiting artist in winter term AY 2021/2022 is Anton Vidokle, artist,filmaker and editor of e-flux journal.
Course title: The Institute of the Cosmos
The Institute of the Cosmos is an ongoing collective research project founded in 2019. Informed by the historical ideas of Russian Cosmism, the Institute is a space for a creative investigation of the materiality of the cosmos and its strange universalism, from the perspectives of philosophy, anthropology, history of science, and art. Through a combination of art projects, films, texts, and discursive events, the Institute reflects on the current understanding of our biological and social conditions, and maps vectors of our future development inspired by the history of cosmist thinking and the speculative practices that sustain it. The Institute seeks to unlock the hidden potential of radical imaginaries across multiple fields and histories of knowledge.
As a dynamic umbrella term, “cosmism” signifies an ensemble of projects—philosophical, scientific, and artistic alike—aiming to achieve ultimate universalism via cooperative creativity. It seeks to invent a synthetic approach to collective action in which reason and belief, art and science, nature and technology transduce their discursive discordances. This course is a continuation of these multivalent projects. During each week of the program, students will be expected to attend a lecture or seminar online, watch a film, and read one essay that we will discuss. Throughout the course of the eight weeks, students will be expected to develop a research project related to the topics discussed. This can be in the form of an artwork, a video, a text, or a small exhibition.
The talks will be in English and held primarily online. Guest lecturers include Boris Groys, Keti Chukhrov, Oxana Timofeeva, Arseny Zhilyaev, Eugene Kuchinov, Pelin Tan, SooHwan Kim, and Hallie Ayres.
Anton Vidokle
is an artist and editor of e-flux journal. He was born in Moscow and lives in New York and Berlin. Vidokle’s work has been exhibited internationally at Documenta 13 and the 56th Venice Biennale. Vidokle’s films have been presented at Bergen Assembly, Shanghai Biennale, Berlinale International Film Festival, Forum Expanded, Gwangju Biennale, Center Pompidou, Tate Modern, Garage Museum, Istanbul Biennial, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Tensta Konsthall, Blaffer Art Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Lincoln Center, MMCA Seoul, the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, and others.
The initial lecture takes place online on October 12th 2021 on Youtube channel AVU Stream.
Applications have to be submitted before 14th of October 2021 at the AVU International Department.
The programme starts on 14th of October at studio of Ladislav Šaloun, Slovenská 4, Prague 2.
Teaching will be held in English.
For more information about the program, please contact the associate assistant
MgA.Tomáš Džadoň, [email protected], cell.: +420 731 577 153
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