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14/9/2012

Oh seminar!

Villa Romana, Firenze

curated by Mirene Arsanios and Valerio Del Baglivo

The three-day summer school is an attempt to reconsider different pedagogical forms traditionally used in the very production and transmission of knowledge. Through a series of talks and performances, the school will question fundamentally what it means to read, write, discuss and listen in a pedagogical setting. Can these forms be appropriated and intervened upon in a performative fashion? To intervene upon these forms is also to question the very way in which we learn, the politics of transmission and if such forms could be considered as aesthetic practices. These questions will be posed and actively engaged with through the collective and participatory set-up of the summer school.

PROGRAM

Saturday, September 15

6 pm
Public presentation of the project

7 pm
Grant Watson – How We Behave
Grant Watson’s talk is structured around Foucault's idea that bios itself could become the material from which art is made, expressed in Michel Foucault's 1983 Vanity Fair interview How We Behave. By using classical texts, Foucault is not suggesting that people repeat the practices of the past, but rather that they try to invent new forms of subjectivity which might start from aesthetics.
Grant Watson is Senior Curator and Research Associate at the Institute of International Visual Arts in London (Iniva).

Sunday, September 16

5 - 8 pm
Open Dialogues - NOTA (NOT, NOTES, NOTER (NOTA)
Rachel Lois and Mary (Open Dialogues) will present NOTA (NOT, NOTES, NOTER (NOTA), towards a sometimes set of performance writing tools. NOTA is a framework for research and dialogue that presses on the time, place and quality of notes in relation to the live. Over the course of OH SEMINAR!, Open Dialogues will give a talk from NOTA and run a small live experiment with seminar participants that explores writing on and as performance.
Open Dialogues is a UK writing collaboration formed by Rachel Lois Clapham and Mary Paterson in 2008.

10 pm – 1 am
Read-in Collective - The Garden Villa Sessions
Upon the invitation to travel to Florence for OH SEMINAR! the Read-in collective started brewing questions around what it means for their practice to go “on tour”. What modes of address could be tried out in the spaces of leisure, labour and knowledge around the Villa Romana and touristic centres? With English as Read-in’s default language of tuition, would this be suitable when entering private (Italian) homes or queues outside the Uffizi and choosing a text, and what would this mean in terms of hospitality, hosting and accommodation?
Read-in is a collective practice that considers the physicality and situatedness of any reading activity, expanding the material, affective and political dimensions of “reading together”. Initiated in 2010 in Utrecht, NL, by artist Annette Krauss and theatre-maker Hilde Tuinstra.

Monday, September 17

3 - 6 pm
Read-in Collective - Queue-in, Piazzas, and Read-in classic
A Florence-specific Read-in will be configured through discussion with the OH SEMINAR! participants, How does location influence reading practices; especially given Florence’s historical connection to the visual arts? What are site-specific practices of reading? Reading in line-ups at the Uffizi, reading in the piazza, reading with the gardeners of Pitti Palace, private homes.

7 - 9 pm
Iacopo Seri – Una Lezione
A drunken lesson is an experiment in learning through slips and shifts.
The participants drink to each new concept shared and discussed together, progressively becoming more drunk as the search goes on. But rather than looking for a universal model, they engage in parallel thoughts and multiplied visions: in vino veritates.
Iacopo Seri (Arezzo, Italy, 1983.)
www.iacoposeri.tumblr.com

Tuesday, Sept. 18

12 - 3 pm
Iacopo Seri – Una Lezione (Hangover Brunch)
The final day Iacopo Seri proposes a brunch with the intention of retransmitting and expanding the notions discussed during his “Una Lezione” the day before.

Villa Romana
via Senese, 68 - Firenze
OH SEMINAR! at Villa Romana is open to all participants upon registration (until 10.09.).
Please send your email to: office@villaromana.org

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