https://www.afamasterclass.org/events daily 0.75 2020-07-03 https://www.afamasterclass.org/events/stefanos-tsivopoulos-masterclass monthly 0.5 2020-06-11 https://www.afamasterclass.org/events/ahmet-ogut-masterclass monthly 0.5 2020-06-11 https://www.afamasterclass.org/events/terike-hapooja-masterclass monthly 0.5 2020-07-03 https://www.afamasterclass.org/statesinstates daily 0.75 2024-05-18 https://www.afamasterclass.org/home daily 1.0 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/57ab2fff-0f05-4c2a-95b0-f1cff9729268/AfA-IMAGE---E-FLUX-Fin.gif Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.afamasterclass.org/artists daily 0.75 2024-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/11b1b760-ea83-42f9-81bb-6e959fffd0de/IMG_1633.JPG Artists - PINAR OGRENCI Artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (1973, Van, Turkey) lives in Berlin. Öğrenci’s works are decolonial and feminist readings situated at the intersection of social, political, and anthropological research and everyday human stories that follow agents of migration such as war, state violence, collective movements, as well as industrial and urban development projects. While transforming the visual and audio documents she archives by detaching them from their contexts, Öğrenci makes relational connections between different cultures, spaces, and time periods as well as architecture, literature, and history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/42e97538-869f-4f8f-a3d8-ebb4a64b6bdd/RB+Portrait.jpg Artists - RICHARD BELL Richard Bell lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. He works across a variety of media including painting, installation, performance and video. One of Australia’s most significant artists, Bell’s work explores the complex artistic and political problems of Western, colonial and Indigenous art production. Richard grew out of a generation of Aboriginal activists and has remained committed to the politics of Aboriginal emancipation and self-determination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/fc557f43-8667-4071-86e2-8b28991aa36b/8204e8a7-10c2-46f0-9493-8c7c6036ec02.jpg Artists - TANIA BRUGUERA An installation and performance artist, Tania Bruguera focuses on the ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life. Focusing on the transformation of affect into political effectiveness, Bruguera’s long-term projects have involved profound interventions on the institutional structure of collective memory, education, and politics. As a result of her artistic actions and activism, Bruguera has been arrested and jailed several times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/a11e9d14-41c8-447e-b856-4555f3a8d44e/Radio+Alhara+logo.png Artists - RADIO ALHARA Radio Alhara will lead a lecture and workshop entitled Practicing Common Spaces. They will explore collective listening at the time of hyper individuality, and how communities create solidarities at times of crises. Launched from Palestine at the beginning of the global lockdown in 2020, Radio Alhara, a communal media platform, encompasses the idea of a public space and aims to blend the limits between producers and listeners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/874fd0eb-c16b-4be1-b94e-8cc26252d86d/Lydia+Ourahmane+Photo.PNG Artists - LYDIA OURAHMANE For the AfA edition, Lydia will lead a workshop entitled Crush Theory and will present a lecture with Myriam Ben Salah, the Director and Chief Curator of the Renaissance Society in Chicago. Based between Algiers and Barcelona Lydia Ourahmane’s work comprises installation, sculpture and sound. Engaging with the emotional, psychological and political charge of material and place, Ourahmane’s practice raises complex questions concerning the effects of geographic borders on bodies and how systems of governance influence everyday experience. Ourahman’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues Kunsthalle Basel, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; BCa’Pesaro Museum of Contemporary Art, Venice; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Jameel Art Center, Dubai; Manifesta 12, Palermo; Kunstverein München, Munich; and the New Museum, New York; https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/c58319e5-7faa-470f-9370-2901c10e5ede/KATARINA+ZDJELAR+Photo.jpg Artists - KATARINA ZDJELAR For the edition, Katarina will present a lecture and lead a workshop entitled ‘Entangled Voices. Proximities, a rehearsal, an archive’. Katarina Zdjelar grew up in Belgrade and is currently based in Rotterdam. Working mainly in the medium of video, her work explores the way one body encounters another as a site of resistance and possibility, pointing to the fragile agency of collective action in the present. Voice, music, sound and language have been the core interests throughout her practice. Her most recent works look at potentials and legacies of pacifist (proto) feminist practices, including that of Käthe Kollwitz and Dore Hoyer. Zdjelar represented Serbia at the 53rd Venice Biennale and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally at such venues as 11th Berlin Biennale, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Frieze Foundation, London; Casino Luxembourg; De Appel, Amsterdam, MACBA Barcelona. Zdjelar is also an educator in her post as a core tutor at Piet Zwart Institute (MA Fine Art), WdKA Rotterdam and at Nederlandse Film Academy, Master Artistic Research in Amsterdam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/47868549-bc15-4a00-a6ab-a5d4621a51fa/HIWA+K+Photo.jpg Artists - HIWA K Guest Lecturer Hiwa K’s works, escape normative aesthetics but give a possibility of another vibration to vernacular forms, oral histories (Chicago boys, 2011), modes of encounter (Cooking with Mama, 2006) and political situations (This lemon tastes of apple, 2011). The repository of his references consists of stories told by family members and friends, found situations as well as everyday forms that are the products of pragmatics and necessity. Hiwa K was involved in various collective exhibitions such as La Triennale in Paris and the “Edgware Road Project” at the Serpentine Gallery in London. His Chicago Boys While We Were Singing They Were Dreaming project is continuously hosted by important international institutions, such as Alternativa Festival in Gdansk,the CASCO in Utrecht, the Serpentine Gallery in London, New Museum/ NYC, MACRO/Rome, MuHKA and MUSAC in León. , he participated in the VII edition of Manifesta curated by Raqs Media Collective, New Museum in NY and Venice Biennale 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1616508236835-N2A87M1470TVWWW01ZMO/MCOPE-1093%2B%25281%2529.jpg Artists - MEGAN COPE Megan Cope is a Quandamooka artist. Her site-specific sculptural installations, video work, paintings and public art investigate issues relating to identity, the environment and mapping practices. She has featured in the NGV Triennial 2020, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (2020), The National (2017), and Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial (2017) and many more. In 2017-19 Cope was the Official Australian War Artist. Her work is held in Australian and international collections. She is a member of Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW, and is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1616508617189-MFYE1RMJWIJYPTR6PP9W/%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BB%2B%25D0%25BE%25D1%2582%25D0%25BA%25D1%2580%25D1%258B%25D1%2582%25D1%258B%25D0%25B8%25CC%2586%2B%25D1%2583%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B5%25D1%2580.jpg Artists - DMITRY VILENSKY Dmitry Vilensky (born in Leningrad in 1964) is an artist, educator and cultural environmentalist with no art degrees. He elicits situations and relationships. No one knows what he is up to right now: perhaps he is editing a new issue of Chto Delat’s newspaper, or maybe administering the Chto Delat Mutual Aid Fund, or editing a film, or talking with the participants of the School of Engaged Art, or making a set for a new play, or sitting in the assembly at Rosa’s House of Culture editing presentation for another conference. Most likely, he is doing all this and dozens of other activities at the same time, surrounded by various comradely compositions of bodies and minds in his hometown of Saint Petersburg, at Zoom and in many other places around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1616508367016-UM4GAEEELPYJ77WYICXX/new%2Bmaria.jpg Artists - MARIA PAPADIMITRIOU Maria Papadimitriou is a Greek contemporary visual artist known for her ability to investigate collaborative projects and collective activities that highlight the interconnection between art and social reality. She is professor at the Dept. of Architecture, University of Thessaly, she is the founder ofT.A.M.A. (Temporary Autonomous Museum for All) 1998, SOUZY TROS Art Canteen 2012 and in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic she created the Institute of PostEpicureanGarden (iPeg) a Temporary Gathering of Awkward Gardeners (TEGAG) Since 2017 with the American artist Rick Lowe runs the Victoria Square Projects. In 2003 she won the DESTE prize for contemporary Greek art and ιn 2016 she was awarded with the rank of “Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques” by the French government. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1616508488689-LGLPJR17MEIG0L228X7D/mepix%2Bme%2Bpix%2Bsmall.jpg Artists - GREG SHOLETTE Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, activist who, along with Professor Chloë Bass, co-directs Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY): a new, Mellon-funded art and social justice initiative. His art and research seek to theorize and document issues of cultural labor, collectivism, decolonial historical representation and several decades of activist art. A graduate of the Whitney Program, The Cooper Union, UC San Diego, and the University of Amsterdam, Sholette is a co-founder of the collectives Political Art Documentation/ Distribution (1980-1988); REPOhistory (1989-2000); and Gulf Labor Coalition (2010 ongoing), as well as the author of Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism (2017); Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (2011); Art As Social Action (with Bass: 2018), and forthcoming, The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art from Lund Humphries (2021). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605549568214-E069ET7IIES4BRPZRLF6/Vivien%2B1%2Bof%2B3%2B2.jpg Artists - VIVIEN SANSOUR Vivien Sansour is an artist, storyteller, researcher and conservationist. She uses image, sketch, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for seed conservation and the protection of agrobiodiversity as a cultural/political act. Vivien founded the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library as part of this work with local farmers, and has been showcased internationally, including at the Chicago Architecture Biennale, V&A Museum in London, Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, and the Venice Art Biennale. A culinary historian and enthusiastic cook, Vivien works to bring threatened varieties “back to the dinner table to become part of our living culture rather than a relic of the past”. This work has led her to collaborate with award winning chefs, including Anthony Bourdain and Sammi Tamimi. Born in Jerusalem, Vivien lives in both Bethlehem, Palestine and Los Angeles, USA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605548899405-5TWW28TAUG2MOA6CT9U5/Decolonize%2B1%2Bof%2B3%2B2.jpg Artists - DECOLONIZE THIS PLACE Nitasha Dhillon has a B.A. in Mathematics from St Stephen's College, University of Delhi, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Media Study - University of Buffalo. Nitasha also attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and School of International Center of Photography. Amin Husain has a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law, and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School. Amin practiced law for five years before transitioning to art, studying at the School of the International Center of Photography and Whitney Independent Study Program. Together, Amin and Nitasha are MTL Collective, a collaboration that joins research, aesthetics, organizing, and action in its art practice. MTL is a founder of Tidal: Occupy Theory, Direct Action Front for Palestine, Global Ultra Luxury Faction, and most recently MTL+, the collective facilitating Decolonize This Place. Currently, MTL is in post-production of an experimental feature film, Unsettling (forthcoming end of 2020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605547172212-0AQG8H4YK4L00T7YWC28/Noah%2B1%2Bof%2B3%2B2.jpg Artists - NOAH FISCHER Brooklyn-based artist Noah Fischer connects interdisciplinary art practice with financial politics. His work has been seen with and without invitation at Guggenheim, MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, ZKM and in the 56th Venice Biennale, 7th Berlin Biennale and the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Fischer is a member of the art collective Occupy Museums. He is currently working on a speculative fiction novel called Demos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605548452823-JJ8UFUILEW3NR99B22KW/Jeanne%2B1%2Bof%2B3%2B2.jpg Artists - JEANNE VAN HEESWIJK Jeanne van Heeswijk is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalize the local”. 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He graduated from Kunstakademiet i Tromsø with an MA in Contemporary Art; currently, he is a faculty member of the Ateneo de Manila University’s Fine Arts Department. In AfAs masterclass working with Ahmet Ogut and AfA peers, Marasigan further developed the work ‘Omehen: The Garden as Chronicle and Strategy of Resistance’. The work is an ongoing experimental collaboration that focuses on the creation, maintenance, and survival of a precarious vegetable garden inside a university campus by Ateneo de Manila’s and Lumad Bakwit Schools’ artists, students, faculty, administrators, and staff under an oppressive national regime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1596820847996-3QNL2BKIM2K14ATFIASO/AfA+Masterclass+Closing+Session+SUM+2020 AfA Masteclass Radical Care - AfA Masterclass Closing Session AfA Masterclass Closing Session https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1596830346813-DN6P2EKHO7O5PBRZ4KSR/Screen+Shot+2020-08-07+at+3.48.59+PM.png AfA Masteclass Radical Care - Terike Haapoja: Mediating Political Ecologies Terike drew carefully considered connections between intersectional theoretical approaches, international art practice, and the work of each participating artist in her workshop. In doing this, Terike established a space of critical engagement and meaningful connection. The collective generosity shared by all in the Mediating Political Ecologies Masterclass leaves a resounding and lasting impression on all involved. Work by Pernilla Philip https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1596822483014-684SI0YU8BTYEO4I59O6/VqVUbhPA.png AfA Masteclass Radical Care - Ahmet Ogut: Artworks Made at Home With an energy of openness and with characteristic humor, Ahmet drew carefully considered connections between diverse international art practice and the work of individual AfA Artists. Offering individual guidance often drawn from personal experience, Ahmet’s Artworks Made at Home workshop generated a spirit of solidarity and support that leaves a long-lasting impact on AfA Participating Artists. Work by Raúl Hott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1596830644787-4K85MYUPNTJHIXBHBHVA/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-07%2Bat%2B3.18.50%2BPM.jpg AfA Masteclass Radical Care - Stefanos Tsivopoulos: Private Goes Public With characteristic energy of enthusiasm and encouragement, Stefanos’ Private Goes Public workshop drew a connection between personal/collective experience, diverse contemporary film/art practices, and the theoretical and practice-based concerns of AfA Artists. Work by Ebun Sodipo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1596824605299-D1S4KF2ENPLN1TNA1305/BCEDB228-D5F2-40CB-AB9D-6973F229A41B.PNG AfA Masteclass Radical Care - Alisa Chunchue is a visual artist known for her sculpture, mixed-media installation, performance collaboration. Currently living and working in Bangkok, Thailand - her exhibitions include ‘Solo-Sans-Solo’ A.farm, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, ‘Absurdity in Paradise’, Kasseler Kunstverein, Museum Fridericianum , Kassel (2018), ‘Forecast Platform’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2018). Mentored by Terike Haapoja and the peers in her AfA group, Chunchue further developed the project The Resonance - a work inspired by the journal of her hospital experience and by reading ‘When Breath Becomes Air’, (a book written by an American neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi). The project was developed as an analogy for written evidence and then interpretatively expressed through artistic practice. The project consists of two main parts: drawing and sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1596825119858-NNI7460E4FODQ7UXLCXO/6690DE4E-3C97-4C9E-A177-57B575D3A69D+2.PNG AfA Masteclass Radical Care - Ebun Sodipo is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in London. Engaging with black study and multiple personal and social archives, they craft an oblique, affective language to narrate their self-construction as a black, trans-femme, African migrant living in the wake of trans-Atlantic slavery. Working within the workshop group of Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Ebun worked with peers to further developed a current work that meditates on feminine and queer images, the marks they have left on, and the desires they produce in my body-mind. The work is an attempt to devise new language to make sense of trans-feminine desire by recalling and connecting with the body-mind of trans-ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1596825217331-5BTKLS2UHVKTQ79DTVH7/IMG_4088.PNG AfA Masteclass Radical Care - Vishal Kumaraswamy is a Bangalore based New Media Artist & Filmmaker. He graduated with an MA in Photography from Central Saint Martins, London. Vishal was recently awarded a commission by the Royal College of Art and Furtherfield and will shortly be exhibiting at The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Working with Advising Artist Ahmet Ogut and AfA peers, Vishal further developed the over-site work during the AfA Masterclass. over-site is a collaborative writing performance examining sites of algorithmic production and the encoding of bias into neural networks. Conducted over video call apps, it brings forward the human biases encoded within the language models used by text-based neural networks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1591584894135-EQL3AY0W1282NACJ0B5R/NoPoemLovesItsPoet_view.jpg AfA Masteclass Radical Care - Ahmet Ogut, No Poem Love Its Poet, 2020. Installation view. Ahmet Ogut, No Poem Love Its Poet. Video Installation, Modular LED Screen, Found Objects | 2020 | Commissioned by YARAT Contemporary Art Space; Azerbaijan, Baku https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1591708143962-M2CMJTY2P7PYLO6RLRAK/Terike%2BHaapoja_Closed%2BCircuit%2B%25E2%2580%2593%2BOpen%2BDuration%2Bat%2BVenice%2BBiennale%2B2013_NordicPavilion2_photo%2BUgo%2BCarmeni.jpg AfA Masteclass Radical Care Terike Haapoja, Closed Circuit – Open Duration. Nordic Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2013. Photo Ugo Carmeni. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1591707991537-3G6DCTAAZQI6ZUIE1MPD/8thFloor_RelationalEconomies_lrg-56.jpg AfA Masteclass Radical Care Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Alternative Economies An Archive And A Manifesto, 2019. Video, photography, text, performance, architectural installation. Rubin Foundation New York. https://www.afamasterclass.org/afamicrogrant daily 0.75 2024-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605470864159-CD5EEWNYGD4BAZV4XTD0/Marasigan.jpeg Microgrant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1607016769845-6IS387PS940OY6QSY4FJ/Artists%252Bfor%252BArtists-logo%252BBlue%252B4.jpg Microgrant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/2048eb29-c6a8-4564-a8b7-ffaef757ed23/2ICL-1zw.jpg Microgrant Morisha Moodley London (b. Durban) Morisha Moodley is a London based moving image artist. They collaborate with artist Sara David to form the curatorial collective, Otherly. Through Otherly, Morisha and Sara actively and playfully decentre hierarchical ideas of curation, which feel rooted in formality, and instead focus on creating equal exchanges between producers and participants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1607014967152-1AWG4IY6DA5CM4I6AV01/Catherine%2BLie.jpg Microgrant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/f3b875e4-35f6-4ed3-9ef5-c08b1d412d44/AfA-logo+2.jpg Microgrant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605471130074-IB9MD6PFBP3ISS3UAVC5/sodipo.jpeg Microgrant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1607014948301-HTJRBPN3CC74OLDHGXYH/Kaftaar.png Microgrant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605470644496-P06WEKX548CPOBF2HSWR/Kumaraswamy.jpeg Microgrant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/dfee22a7-82fa-46fe-8816-8efc7cf97eca/R0VAwXnw.jpg Microgrant Myriam Amri Tunis (b. Tunis) Myriam is a Tunisian researcher and emerging visual artist. She is an anthropologist-in-training at Harvard University and her research examines money and its materiality. Her creative work explores space, historical memory, capitalist imaginaries and dystopian aftermaths of waste and decay in North Africa through analog photography, sound installations and documentary film-making. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1607015068494-5L59SB1LK7IDKXKI3LJU/Divya%252BSafa.jpg Microgrant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605469627222-LRJKF06MC0L9B9KUZFKZ/Chuchue.jpeg Microgrant https://www.afamasterclass.org/masterclass-institutional-collapse daily 0.75 2021-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605552156098-Q1Q6ZGD8BRMGEYT4O4BM/Decolonize2.jpg Masterclass (Institutional Collapse) - MTL+ COLLECTIVE - Decolonize This Place Keywords: Decolonization, institutional liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, facilitation, Black liberation, de-gentrification, free Palestine, movement-generated art. Together, Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon are MTL Collective, a collaboration that joins research, aesthetics, organizing, and action in its art practice. MTL is a founder of Tidal: Occupy Theory, Direct Action Front for Palestine, Global Ultra Luxury Faction, and most recently MTL+, the collective facilitating Decolonize This Place. Image: (https://decolonizethisplace.org/bk-musuem) Brooklyn Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605552382380-M2CUKQH6YIFYP26HKRTD/Screenshot%2B2020-11-02%2Bat%2B18.23.37.jpg Masterclass (Institutional Collapse) - VIVIEN SANSOUR - We’re All Seeds The Power Of Story. Keywords: conservation, advocacy, heritage, biodiversity, farming, politics of food. Vivien Sansour is an artist, storyteller, researcher, conservationist and founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library. Image: Palestine Heirloom Seed Library Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605562859752-BL6YCMJ65LXRJLDBP1UD/Horizon+Media.png Masterclass (Institutional Collapse) - The second AfA Masterclass edition The Institutional Collapse has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No.799087. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605551684310-9B52CQBSI8VMDQ1KM5VC/Images%3A+Occupy+Museums%2C+Debtfair+%28detail%29+2012+-+%2C+Whitney+Biennial+2017%2C+installation+view Masterclass (Institutional Collapse) - NOAH FISCHER - Museums Within Art-questing beyond the scope of gatekeepers and their financial weapons. Keywords: economic and social inequality, information sharing, Occupy, collectives Brooklyn-based artist Noah Fischer connects interdisciplinary art practice with financial politics. Image: Occupy Museums, Debtfair (detail) 2012 - , Whitney Biennial 2017, installation view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605551958890-IFGK9RTYECDRYQEA6V9N/Image+credit%3A+PF+no.13+Becoming+Collective%2C++day+1+Moving+%28photo+Sam+Conlon%29-.jpg Masterclass (Institutional Collapse) - JEANNE VAN HEESWIJK - Field Of Interactions Building intersectional alliances towards becoming collective. Keywords: Collective forms, public space, performative actions, new organizations forms, field of interaction. Jeanne van Heeswijk is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalize the local”. Image: PF no.13 Becoming Collective, day 1 Moving (photo Sam Conlon) https://www.afamasterclass.org/home-1 daily 0.75 2021-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1613234533048-RRS9TV0FOA5BQEVNPDDS/IMG_1190.PNG Home (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1617299500014-BMLMHV7BAE9ERBRR01YS/PNG%25252Bimage-7AE8CE33AB62-1.jpg Home (Copy) - Artists for Artists (AfA) International Masterclass Program launches its third edition, Politics Of Sharing. Over the last decade, economic recession and online services proliferation has led to the exponential growth of sharing practices. This has contributed to the sense of sharing as a new currency. Not inherently equitable, sharing culture today is marked by contradictions; solidarity becomes exploitation, and collaboration turns into “business as usual.”In the cultural sphere and in art production, this often means unequal shares of knowledge, resources, power, and benefits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1607013976324-YBIQ0ON3OIKG9QRKMSSN/Artists%2Bfor%2BArtists-logo%2BBlue%2B4.jpg Home (Copy) - Artists for Artists MICRO GRANT Central to AfA’s ethos and praxis is the principle of Peer2Peer (P2P) support that is both educational and economic. Moving away from transactive models of artmaking and exchange, the P2P model generates economic solidarity and care, both central to the Artists for Artists mission. These Micro Grants are created through a pooled fund (collected from enrolment donations) that are autonomously redistributed through voting by each workshop’s participants. https://www.afamasterclass.org/politics-of-sharing-1 daily 0.75 2021-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1605562859752-BL6YCMJ65LXRJLDBP1UD/Horizon+Media.png Politics Of Sharing (Copy) - The third AfA Masterclass edition The Institutional Collapse has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No.799087. https://www.afamasterclass.org/application-1 daily 0.75 2024-05-18 https://www.afamasterclass.org/home-2 daily 0.75 2025-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1617299500014-BMLMHV7BAE9ERBRR01YS/PNG%25252Bimage-7AE8CE33AB62-1.jpg Editions - Artists for Artists (AfA) International Masterclass Program launches its third edition, Politics Of Sharing. Over the last decade, economic recession and online services proliferation has led to the exponential growth of sharing practices. This has contributed to the sense of sharing as a new currency. Not inherently equitable, sharing culture today is marked by contradictions; solidarity becomes exploitation, and collaboration turns into “business as usual.”In the cultural sphere and in art production, this often means unequal shares of knowledge, resources, power, and benefits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/cd9b70a5-0094-4b2d-b223-7150b0c8af4f/PNG+image-3F381A956003-1.png Editions - PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Zhiwan Cheung / Zhuhai Kani Kamil / Manchester Aron Rossman-Kiss / Budapest Kwan Q Li / Boston Claire Matthews / Amsterdam Prerna / Minneapolis Erika Roux / Rotterdam Sarah Ujmaia / Melbourne Sarnt Utamachote / Berlin Yamu Wang / Taipei https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1607013976324-YBIQ0ON3OIKG9QRKMSSN/Artists%2Bfor%2BArtists-logo%2BBlue%2B4.jpg Editions - Artists for Artists MICRO GRANT Central to AfA’s ethos and praxis is the principle of Peer2Peer (P2P) support that is both educational and economic. Moving away from transactive models of artmaking and exchange, the P2P model generates economic solidarity and care, both central to the Artists for Artists mission. These Micro Grants are created through a pooled fund (collected from enrolment donations) that are autonomously redistributed through voting by each workshop’s participants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/b249f9c3-df53-4872-a26e-f4c743465180/Screen+Shot+2022-02-10+at+11.42.48+AM.png Editions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.afamasterclass.org/home-3 daily 0.75 2024-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/aa56359c-1fee-4495-b563-0cbd615ff6ba/AfA+Ed+4+LOGO.PNG Home (2022-2023) - PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Zhiwan Cheung / Zhuhai Kani Kamil / Manchester Aron Rossman-Kiss / Budapest Kwan Q Li / Boston Claire Matthews / Amsterdam Prerna / Minneapolis Erika Roux / Rotterdam Sarah Ujmaia / Melbourne Sarnt Utamachote / Berlin Yamu Wang / Taipei https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/24041b25-d54b-4c3d-8106-bcfc98758789/PNG+image-DBD4F8EBE333-1.png Home (2022-2023) - LANGUAGE IS NEVER ON THE GROUND Entitled Language Is Never On The Ground, the 4th AfA edition focuses on the notion of displacement. It engages artistic practices that examine themes including language as an impediment, sound as a measure of displacement, voice as survival, and acoustics as somatic memory. Language is Never on the Ground will include online workshops led by Advising Artists Radio Alhara, Lydia Ourahmane, and Katarina Zdjelar and guest lectures by a suite of international artists including Hiwa K. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/b249f9c3-df53-4872-a26e-f4c743465180/Screen+Shot+2022-02-10+at+11.42.48+AM.png Home (2022-2023) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1617299500014-BMLMHV7BAE9ERBRR01YS/PNG%25252Bimage-7AE8CE33AB62-1.jpg Home (2022-2023) - Artists for Artists (AfA) International Masterclass Program launches its third edition, Politics Of Sharing. Over the last decade, economic recession and online services proliferation has led to the exponential growth of sharing practices. This has contributed to the sense of sharing as a new currency. Not inherently equitable, sharing culture today is marked by contradictions; solidarity becomes exploitation, and collaboration turns into “business as usual.”In the cultural sphere and in art production, this often means unequal shares of knowledge, resources, power, and benefits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec42943f31ad47fda675905/1607013976324-YBIQ0ON3OIKG9QRKMSSN/Artists%2Bfor%2BArtists-logo%2BBlue%2B4.jpg Home (2022-2023) - Artists for Artists MICRO GRANT Central to AfA’s ethos and praxis is the principle of Peer2Peer (P2P) support that is both educational and economic. Moving away from transactive models of artmaking and exchange, the P2P model generates economic solidarity and care, both central to the Artists for Artists mission. These Micro Grants are created through a pooled fund (collected from enrolment donations) that are autonomously redistributed through voting by each workshop’s participants. https://www.afamasterclass.org/statement daily 0.75 2025-04-18