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Summer Schools callout - Apply by 30 April

A computer generated image of a row of white square cubes with a black dot at their centre, and on top of them, tee-shaped designs holding round white eyeball shapes with black dots - against a lilac background
  • Written byCat Cooper
  • Published date 22 March 2021
A computer generated image of a row of white square cubes with a black dot at their centre, and on top of them, tee-shaped designs holding round white eyeball shapes with black dots - against a lilac background
Design by Shared Campus

Shared Campus is a platform for collaboration with other international arts institutions. We’re excited to share the call for applications (PDF, 79.1KB) for 5 themed summer schools available to students during summer 2021.

Past yet Passed, Still to Come: ART OF THE GAP

5 – 19 July 2021 Online, Free
Theme: Cultures – Histories and Futures – Hosted by Zurich University of the Arts

The programme will emphasise the idea of relics in digital space. We will look at how media-generated digital clips - e.g. police videos of the deaths of Rodney King and George Floyd; internet memes - have become artifacts or relics forming the basis of new narratives in today’s global society. Has the ideal of the local vernacular, or of indigenous culture, become more diminished in light of these digital events? Participants will be able to discuss these questions and others with various artists, curators and cultural agents from diverse backgrounds.

Hacking Global Pop Icons

5 - 23 July 2021 Online, Free
Theme: Pop Cultures – Hosted by UAL

Global icons have local meanings: What do they say about our identities, society and culture? What makes an icon? Can technology be considered iconic? How has coronavirus changed what we think of as iconic? How can we deconstruct, remix and hack what we see as iconic? In this Summer School, a global pop icon will serve as a common starting point for cultural analysis and for the transdisciplinary production of new artistic and journalistic works seeking to deconstruct, remix and expand the influence of the chosen icon.

Take a look back at the 2020 Pop Cultures Summer School: Hacking Global Icons: Greta Thunberg

Arts & Crafts Matters in a Digital Society!

21 June – 9 July Online, Free
Theme: Social Transformation – Zurich University of Arts, City University of Hong Kong, and UAL

Arts & Crafts is part of local aesthetics, and of culture around materials and production methods. It represents a canon of values and identity, and is connected with notions of “origin,” “skills” and “uniqueness.” Arts & Crafts involves an economic system of design, production and trade. Around this, social and political systems are being transformed by digitalisation and globalisation. How can material-based techniques and styles be renewed and digitally translated? How to establish the notion of a global digital crafts movement? Answering these questions involves creatively and individually mixing analogue materials with digital methods, shared knowledge and creativity, from which new crafts communities will emerge.

Streets

9 - 27 August 2021 Online, Free
Theme: Social Transformation – Hosted by Kyoto Seika University, Zurich University of Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University

Since the pandemic, our private spaces have taken on radically different meanings, merging office spaces into our homes. Simultaneously, our notion of the public sphere has changed dramatically: we are conscious of (social) distance, of places that have become inaccessible, and of locations that we now frequent under different conditions. Streets will explore how decolonisation affects public spheres and how social movements are played out locally. In collaboration with artists, activists and researchers from indigenous populations, students from Europe and Asia will challenge assumptions about ownership, identity and belonging.

Teleprovisation. Let’s do it!

11–21 August 2021 Hybrid locations - Kyoto, Singapore, Zurich.
Note: students are required to cover expenses (including travel, accommodation and insurance)
Theme: Tools – Hosted by Kyoto Seika University, LASALLE Singapore and Zurich University of the Arts

Improvisation can be used as a methodology for gaining a deeper understanding of the manifold layers shaping communication and creativity. Not only a practice for performative contexts, but a method through which underlying assumptions, artistic attitudes and cultural strata can surface uninhibitedly. Cultural artefacts – sounds, words, images, bodies – migrate through the network and show how they might transform at its different nodes. Effects and affects. These improvised encounters will also involve various mediating technologies: cameras, screens, microphones, loudspeakers, as well as the jitter and glitches of capricious connective streams travelling through the internet. Being here and there at the same time, reacting to each other within the network. Let’s play.

Apply by 30 April

Shared Campus was launched by UAL and 6 international partners in 2019 and is based around 5 universal themes, in which to explore transcultural issues and take part in cross-subject education, research and co-production.

The 5 themes are: Cultures, Histories and Futures | Pop Cultures | Social Transformation | Tools | Critical Ecologies.

The 7 Shared Campus partner institutions are: UAL, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kyoto Seika University, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, Taipei National University of the Arts and Zurich University of the Arts.