Practice-based PhD
A
path to a studio-based PhD is in progress and practice-based
doctoral programs are currently available through University
of Plymouth. For more information or to subscribe to upcoming
news about the Transart Institute PhD program please contact:
cella@transartinstitute.org
Summer
Certificate
Transart Institute also offers a
summer program for artists who are not seeking a degree.
Participants join MFA students in workshops, lectures and
critiques and leave the residency with input on project plans
for the year ahead. Artists attend the residency to get a
creative surge, get a fresh perspective on their work,
revitalize their practice, take their work in a new direction,
make plans for a focussed praxis in the year ahead and to
become part of an international community of artists,
theorists and curators. Artists who successfully complete the
residency will receive a non-credit certificate of
attendance.
Transart faculty and
students come from a wide range of academic and
artistic backgrounds as well as geographic locations. A
majority of Transart students are emerging and mid-career
artists and teachers at tertiary institutions.
Students' experiences at Transart
Institute are unique and intense, in the words of
photographer Angelika Rinnhofer: "The residency was one of the
most intense times I have ever experienced. I found the
workshops artistically liberating and informative, the
critiques were enlightening, and I frequently refer back to
several of the seminar readings and discussions. I found the
time spent on project planning for the art and research
projects by discussing ideas and artistic approaches to be
extremely valuable and helpful." NY based artist Virgil Wong
found "The community I've become a part of through Transart is
already much more immersive than what I've developed in ten
years of living and working as an artist in New York City."
For composer and artist David Dunn "perhaps the most important
aspect of the program, to me personally, has been the
realization of just how constrained my professional life can
be. I have no lack of colleagues or opportunities to present
my work but my network of association tends to reinforce a
particular set of intellectual and aesthetic assumptions that
become “the” set of assumptions. Transart succeeds at prying
apart some of those entrenched viewpoints to provide space for
new ideas and concerns. The truly international makeup of the
students and faculty reinforces this." More details online at:
http://www.transartinstitute.org/Profiles.html
Summer Faculty
includes:
Iraqi born artist Wafaa Bilal who has
exhibited his art worldwide and traveled and lectured
extensively to inform audiences of the situation of the Iraqi
people, and the importance of peaceful conflict resolution.
Bilal’s dynamic installation Domestic Tension placed him on
the receiving end of a paintball gun that was accessible
online to a worldwide audience, 24 hours a day. Newsweek
called the project “breathtaking” and the Chicago Tribune
called the month-long piece “one of the sharpest works of
political art to be seen in a long time,” and named Bilal
Artist of the Year.
Myron Beasley is an International Curator
and Ethnographer who lectures in the areas of Critical
Cultural Studies and Performance Studies. His recent work
explores how traditional ritual practices are mitigated,
configured, and interpreted in particular sites/cities of the
African Diaspora. His fieldwork has led him to the United
States, Morocco, Brazil, and most recently Haiti where he is
the co-curator of the Ghetto Biennale. He is also a
performance artist who uses food as his primary medium.
Nicolás Estévez, an interdisciplinary
artist working mostly in performance art and public
interventions. His projects have been exhibited extensively
internationally at venues such as Madrid Abierto/ARCO, Havana
Biennial, El Museo del Barrio, Bronx Museum of the Arts,
P.S.1/MoMA. Estévez has been awarded a commission to present a
town-wide project as part of The MacDowell Colony Centennial.
His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, NYArts
Magazine, The Boston Globe, Art Nexus, Flash Art, Cuban Arts,
and in major publications in Mexico, Spain and the Dominican
Republic.
The Transart International
Collective, started by faculty and alumni, will hold
exhibitions in Vienna, Manila and Berlin this year. The
institute offers its former students a virtual and material
basis for artistic practice, the exchange of ideas,
opportunities and critiques, supporting individual and
collective growth beyond the duration of the program through
the collective. Despite its small size, Transart Institute has
become a place where the diverse and often incongruous
experiences, philosophies and epistemologies of the
post-colonial world can be in contact with each other.
Application Deadline is June 2010 with rolling
admissions.
For specific information please contact Selina
Heaton, Administrative Manager:
info@transartinstitute.orgUSA: +1
(347) 410 9905 | Fax: (508) 682 2853
Summer residency | July 25 -
August 13, 2010 | Tanzfabrik, Berlin
Winter residency | January 6 - 9,
2011 | Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
