The Ventriloquist Summerschool

27/10/2017

Did you miss our livestream from the panel on Publishing in times of alternative art and design education? Listen back in our radio showreel! 📻📣
Geir Haraldseth / Rogaland Kunstsenter, Joe Potts / Southland Institute, Connie C Butler, Benjamin Hickethier / Fazed Grunion

04/10/2017

In times of crisis, can alternative education models contribute to recharging the movement of change?

Kristina Ketola Bore writes about the summer school model over at CAS - Contemporary Art Stavanger. Also featuring photos from some of our friends, including Rogaland Kunstsenter's ISP where we had the pleasure of teaching this summer. 🌞🔮😎

Contemporary Art Stavanger is an online platform for the dissemination of information and critical discourse on the visual arts in relation to the city of Stavanger, Norway. We aim to reveal the rich resources and growing visual arts culture in Stavanger by providing critical content through researc...

23/06/2017

No summer plans yet? We're so happy to be part of the Signals From the Periphery exhibition, which opens in Tallinn next Saturday. The show will run through the summer with occasional workshops and work by amazing people and TVSS friends. Much love to our peeps in Estonia! 🌞🍧💎🔮💖

Signals From the Periphery is an international graphic design event taking place from July 1 to August 13, 2017 at the Tallinn Art Hall and its surrounding venues. The project brings together urgent developments in graphic design with a focus on practices that extend the field.

11/05/2017

We're taking a break but we're not snoozing! Apply now to the RKS Independent Study Programme. We will be in the greatest company of Geir Haraldseth, Marthe Ramm Fortun, Philipp Kleinmichel and Ksoll Alen. Deadline is May 14th!

Rogaland Kunstsenter is pleased to announce the first open call for its inaugural edition of the Independent Study Program (ISP) for July 2017. Over the past three years, Rogaland Kunstsenter has held an annual Summer School, exploring the formats of the school and learning through three different p...

21/04/2017

We are on a break, but not resting! Kristina Ketola Bore just wrote a piece on new understandings of critique for CAS - Contemporary Art Stavanger, where she highlights how teaching and organising TVSS is part of her practice as a design critic. Only in NO, but for the non-Norwegian speakers there are some photos of the 2016 edition.

Contemporary Art Stavanger is an online platform for the dissemination of information and critical discourse on the visual arts in relation to the city of Stavanger, Norway. We aim to reveal the rich resources and growing visual arts culture in Stavanger by providing critical content through researc...

19/04/2017

A friendly PSA from The Ventriloquist Summerschool:

*insert long beep*

We're taking a break in 2017! After a batch of unsuccessful funding applications we couldn't help but cancel this summer's edition. It's against our core values to charge a participation fee so we'll accept our fate and get ready for 2018.

We'll use this year to organize our archive of works, talks and writing and make them available to the public. The same goes for the material from the fairs we have been part of in different countries and the multiple collaborations that emerged between the participants of all our editions.

In addition we’ll continue working internally and through collaborating with other schools, locally and internationally (Write us if you'd like us to visit!).

You'll keep on hearing from us because our radio, press and residency will keep on working. So we have not lost our voice, we're just taking some cough drops and experimenting with speaking in other ways ;)

We'd like to send a special thanks to Knock Knock Books (Else Lagerspetz + Loore Sundja), Victoria Bugge Øye, Pärtel Eelmere, Anther Kiley, Sally Thurer, Shira Inbar and Andrea Wong, which would have constituted our killer tutor lineup.

12/12/2016

Thanks Kos Daisuke Kosugi for mentioning our 2016 edition on KUNSTKRITIKK's Julekalender! Susanne's talk was indeed an evening to remember!

Kunstkritikks egne skribenter og inviterte gjester velger det mest interessante fra kunståret 2016. Hver dag fra 1. til 24. desember kommer et nytt bidrag. I dag: Daisuke Kosugi.

19/11/2016

And SURPRISE! Sally Thurer is joining the Ventriloquist Radio for a chat about her recent work. Starts in 15 mins! (4:30pm New York Time)

Surprise! We'll have a chat with Sally Thurer and learn about her recent work and also about her activities as former head of Experiential Methodology and Critical Theory at MTV.

19/11/2016

And... we're late! But in 20 mins we'll be up. The Keynote panel is too good to let go of. Bear with us :)

19/11/2016

Tune in 2.30pm for a chat with Aya Kawabata and Hua Shu!

The Ventriloquist Summerschool participants Hua Shu and Aya Kawabata steps up to the table to fill us in on what they have been up to since graduating from the respective 2015 and 2016 editions.

19/11/2016

Tune in 2:00pm for a chat with Knock Knock Books! :)

Loore Sundja and Else Lagerspetz joins us to talk about their newly established publishing house Knock Knock Books and a spoiler alert for next years Ventriloquist Summerschool will follow.

19/11/2016

Tune in 1:30pm at The Ventriloquist Radio for an introduction to The Ventriloquist Summerschool´s participation at the Alternative Art School 2016 at Pioneer Works!

João Doria and Kristina Ketola Bore are live from The Alternative Art School Fair discussing what role a summerschool plays as a structure, a point of coming together and as conversational method.