CAPIm - The Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary - is the first Swedish Centre of Excellence in the field of Artistic Research, hosted by HDK-Valand and the Royal Institute of Art. CAPIm’s aim is to facilitate connections between research and education through an engagement with experimental approaches.
What do you mean it is just ‘imaginary’? is the first joint workshop offered by CAPIm faculty and will be co-hosted by HDK-Valand and Royal Institute of Art, with students from Gothenburg invited to Stockholm for the intensive.
In this two-day workshop, we will explore the ’imaginary’, imagination, and the imaginal in the context of artistic practice. These terms are key because they are crucial to both conservative definitions of artistic practice and to a neo-liberal appropriation of creativity. These positions over-use the terms and also empties of them of artistic substance. The course asks to what extent can acts of imagination constitute a resistance or alternatives to the appropriation of our inherent capacity for the imaginary? Which forms, embodiments and attitudes can articulations of the imaginary take? The workshop will look at examples of art practices that make some kind of claim for imagination and the imaginary as key aspects of the art making process. Participants in the workshop are invited to share their own work in progress and consider what ways the imaginary/imagination might be useful ways of thinking about their work and its development. They will engage with practical, experimental, imaginative exercises, informed by political and psychoanalytic theory, in which they will identify, map, and politicise concepts of the imagination, the imaginary, and the imaginal in their artistic practice.
Read more about the workshop in the attached document.
Key Details:
- Date: February 25-26, 09.30-15:30 both days
- Location: Mindepartementet , Project Room
Royal Institute of Art
Flaggmansvägen 1, 103 26 Stockholm - Travel/Accomodation: travel and accommodation will be covered by CAPIm.
- Credits?: No ECTS credits will be awarded for this intensive
- Number of places: 12 in total, 6 from HDK-Valand and 6 from the Royal Institute of Art
- Teachers: Michele Masucci (michele.masucci@kkh.se) and Kerry Guinan (kerry.guinan@gmail.com)
- Note: Make sure the dates do not interfere with your studies before applying
How to apply
Please submit a 100-200 word paragraph by email to michele.masucci@kkh.se and kerry.guinan@gmail.com by January 29th expressing your interest in the workshop. Please include your home institution, your year of study and medium if applicable, as well as your comfort level reading and discussing complex text material in English.
Questions
For questions about the workshop, please contact michele.masucci@kkh.se or kerry.guinan@gmail.com
Learn more about CAPIm by visiting the website: www.capim.se
CAPIm – The First Swedish Centre of Excellence in Artistic Research
A successful partnership between two institutions:
The Royal Institute of Art
HDK-Valand at The University of Gothenburg
