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Group Affinity

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Group Affinity was a two-week long summer school that took place in Munich during August 2011, organised by Kunstverein München and Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory.

As a one-off experimental educational project with self-organisation as its theme, Group Affinity looked back on previous examples that were initiated at Kunstverein München, such as the 1970 exhibition Poesie muß von allen gemacht wedern! Verändert die Welt! (Poetry should be made by everyone! Transform the world!) and Sommer Akademie in 1994, in developing its own model. The notion of affinity" therefore became a core concept with which to examine independently governed cultural production at a time of increased neoliberal influence upon European cultural politics and education. In this regard, Group Affinity critically distanced itself from educational reforms introduced in the lead up to the summer school, which were pushing higher art education to become more professionalised, commercially orientated and its teaching bureaucratically burdened.

As such, a syllabus was devised by five independent collectives: Andreas Müller & Susanne Pietsch, Chicago Boys, Cinenova, Grand Openings, and Slavs and Tatars, who were invited to lead the summer school as faculties and turn their own self-organised practice, current research and working processes into curricula for participants selected from an open call.

For many of these groups, this was the first occasion in which they were asked to operate within an educational framework and open up their own collectivity to their peers. With practices that ranged from a revival to a collec tion of feminist film, they decided how to run their faculty together with their participants; whether as a temporarily expanded group or simply as colleagues. In addition every faculty had the opportunity to invite a guest speaker to join them and publically present an area of their current research in Munich.

This 'shared' time between faculties and participants was a rarefied condition within a contemporary climate of acceleration and its demands for ongoing visibility and productivity. During its two weeks, Group Affinity was able to foster, extend (and continued to extend) cultures yet to be defined. In this con text, process-oriented, collaborative and socially committed artistic practice and art education interlocked.

Designed by Studio Manuel Raeder, this publication is both a document of Group Affinity and conclusion to the project. It contains a photo album of Group Affinity's daily activities, contributions by each of the faculties, texts by Binna Choi and Alexander Farenholtz, and an afterword by Bart van der Heide and Saim Demircan.

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Ketersediaan

19-8465

702 BIN G

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Judul Seri

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702 BIN G

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Germany : BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE., 2014

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English

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978-3-943514-27-8

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702

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