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Call for Applications
Guest Curator: Sue Williamson
Theme: You are HERE. Hereis wherever I lay my head.
Duration of the Sommerakademie im Zentrum PaulKlee: August 21 31, 2013
Deadline for Applications: January31, 2013
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Berne, November, 2012
Table of Contents
General Information 3
Theme of the Academy 4
Guest Curator and Speakers 6
Concept and Programme 6
Organisation and Management 7
Conditions 7
Application Procedure 8
Application Form 10
Questionnaire 12
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General Information
The Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee is an annual event, providing an
international platform for contemporary art, and selecting twelve international artists, art
critics and curators to attend a ten-day workshop. Every year, a Board of Experts
nominates a new Guest Curator, who develops the theme. The Sommerakademie im
Zentrum Paul Klee promotes artistic production and reflection, as well as intensive high
level networking between Fellows, Speakers and Nominators from the international artworld. Members of the public are invited to participate in a selection of events and
artistic processes. The Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee is held at the Zentrum
Paul Klee, in cooperation with art institutions in Berne.
The Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee is a foundation funded by the Cantonal
Bank of Bernes BEKBBCBE commitment to training.
All the Fellows who have participated in a former Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul
Klee become Alumni, and have the right to nominate one suitable candidate per year.
Nominators Alumni, Former Guest Curators and a selection of former Speakers who
actively participate in the nomination procedure will be invited to Berne to continue the
networking on the Nominators Day. Travel and hotel expenses will be covered by an
all in fee offered by the Cantonal Bank of Berne BEKBBCBE.
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Theme of the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee 2013
by Sue Williamson
You are HERE. Here is wherever I lay my head.
Some years ago, I received a request from Italian curator Iolanda Pensa for a drawing onthe subject of Here and on what that word might mean to me as one of the artists
around the world to whom she was sending this invitation. At the time, I was working in
a residency in Montalvo, California, and Pensas request led me to reflect on the ever
increasingly nomadic existence of the contemporary artist today, constantly moving
between residencies, workshops, art projects and exhibitions around the globe.
How does the artist hold on to here, the place, the family, the community, the
education, the experiences, the political and social climate that have been formative in
ones early cultural production while working on the other side of the world? Is it
necessary to do so, or should one constantly be starting afresh, opening up to the new
environment? Artist Mark Dion has said that when his students insist that context is vital
to an understanding of their work, he tells them to forget about the context and examine
the methodology which led them to that solution, and apply that methodology to the new
situation.
The Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee 2013, then, will look at the meeting point
between local and global. Between the here and the there. We will consider how each
artist and curator develops the tools, the methodology, the unique and authentic voice
which stem from an individual life experience. We will investigate how that voice can be
used to formulate approaches to new artistic problems both by studying the work of
artists who have successfully managed this synthesis and by looking at the previous
production of this years Fellows.
There will also be a practical component to the workshop, allowing the Fellows to view
their immediate surroundings as a source for artistic opportunity.
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The discussions at the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee 2013 will also reflect
upon whether the artist has a social responsibility to the community, as evidenced in so
much of the work exhibited on the profound and poetic dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012.
Does the artist have any responsibility to engage at some level, however subtle, with
social issues? Or not? In Southern Africa, there is a term which is often brought into
discussions of the role of the individual in society, and that word is ubuntu. It means
that a person is only a person through other people. Each of us is formed by our
community, and in turn, can never deny our role as a member of that community, and the
humanity that that entails.
Whatever the subject of our work may be, whatever outcome we desire from the making
of it, we need to proceed with respect towards our Fellows, our society and to the world
at large. With todays technology, new work can flash across the globe in seconds,
granting to the producers of culture an extraordinary power. This power must be
exercised with consideration and restraint.
A popular Zulu expression is "Ingane Yondlwa Umphakathi"! It takes a village to raisea child. It is a truism to say that we are all a part of the global village. Welcome to the
Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee 2013.
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Guest Curator and Speakers
The Guest Curator Sue Williamson is based in Cape Town and is an internationally
recognised artist. Her work is included in collections such as MoMA, New York, the
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Daimler Collection, Berlin. In 2011 she
exhibited on Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial) and was named a Rockefeller Foundation
Creative Arts Fellow for that year. Trained as a printmaker, Williamson also works in
video, photography and installation. Her work addresses social issues and aspects of
contemporary history.
Williamson also writes and lectures about art, and most recently published South African
Art Now (HarperCollins, New York) 2009. She is the founding editor of the leading
website on contemporary art in South Africa, www.artthrob.co.za.
Sue Williamson has been a nominator of the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee
since 2008. She will be present throughout the Academy, and is responsible for its
running, as well as the content of the programme.
The Speakers are international experienced artists and/or academics in the field of this
years theme and they will be present during most of the Academy to focus on the theme
from different perspectives.
Concept and Programme
The academy programme will be developed by the Guest Curator and will take place in
the Zentrum Paul Klee and in other locations. It consists of workshops, lectures, a
sightseeing tour of Berne, a guided tour through the Zentrum Paul Klee (exhibitions and
archive) and an excursion. A detailed programme will be provided upon arrival. Certain
parts of the programme will be specifically for Fellows. Additional events will be held in
collaboration with local partner organisations and will be open to the public. The public
programme will be announced with flyers and on the website.
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During the Academy Fellows are given the opportunity to present and discuss their work
in depth in relation to the theme. Speakers will join in and present their approach to the
theme.
Opening and Nominators` Day of theSommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee
Nominators, Alumni, former Guest Curators and Speakers who actively nominate a
possible Fellow will be invited by the Cantonal Bank of Bernes BEKBBCBE to the
Nominators Day which coincides with the start of the Academy. The public opening
event will take place on August 23, 2013 at the Zentrum Paul Klee and the Fellows will
introduce the audience into their work.
Organisation, Jury and Management
The Director of the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee is Dr. Jacqueline
Burckhardt. She is advised by the Board of Experts:
Giovanni Carmine, Director Kunst Halle Sankt GallenAndreas Fiedler, Freelance Curator
Sabina Lang, Artist
Prof. Dr. Beate Sntgen, Professor of Art History at the Leuphana-University Lneburg
Dr. Juri Steiner, Art Historian, Director Zentrum Paul Klee 2007 2010
The Jury (Director Dr. J. Burckhardt, Guest Curator Sue Williamson and members of the
Board of Experts) will take their decision in February 2013.
Members of the Management Team are: Barbara Mosca and Caroline Komor Mller.
Conditions
All Fellows who have been selected by the Jury are requested to provide a CV and a
portrait* (or for artists: 1 representative image* of a work) to the Management to be
uploaded on the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee website by the end of March.
The material will also be used for media and advertising purposes.
*copyright free
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The selected Fellows agree to participate regularly and actively in the Sommerakademie
im Zentrum Paul Klee events for its entire duration. The main language of the Academy
will be English. Fellows are encouraged to send a description of their artistic position
(maximum 500 words) by the end of May 2013. These texts will serve as basic
information for the preparation of the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee.
During the Academy photographs will be taken in order to document the Academy and
the artistic processes and excursions. Following the ten days images will illustrate the
various parts of the Academy on the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee website.
Fellows Presentations
It is part of the Opening Ceremony in the Auditorium of the Zentrum Paul Klee that
the selected Fellows will present their work in 5-minutes-presentations to key people of
the international art world and the general public. The Auditorium offers high standard
technology and details will be communicated at a later stage.
Within the group of Fellows each individual will present and discuss his/her work in
depth. All preparatory work will be discussed with the Management and/or Guest
Curator previous to the Academy.
Financial and technical details need to be approved by the Management.
Application Procedure
Eligibility
Artists, curators or art critics, who are graduates of an art academy or university, or
who have an equivalent qualification are eligible to participate. Furthermore, they must
be under the age of 35 and have initial work experience. Nominators, Alumni, Guest
Curators and a selection of former Speakers of the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul
Kleeare encouraged to invite one suitable candidate to apply. It is also possible to hand
in free applications which are just as welcome. For further information please see:
www.sommerakademie.zpk.org.
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Selection Procedure
1. The deadline for applications is January 31, 2013.
2. The Jury selects twelve candidates whose applications relate to the theme.
3. The decision will be communicated to applicants and Nominators in February or
March 2013. Reasons for rejection will not be communicated. Legal action is not
possible.
Conditions of Participation, Application Materials and RightsThe application needs to be concise and in printed form. For details, see the application
form. Please do not send in originals. Incomplete, unsigned or late applications (date of
postmark applies) cannot be considered. Application materials will not be returned.
The Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee is entitled to use all materials made
available by applicants for press work and advertising.
Travel and Accommodation Expenses
Fellows will make their own travel arrangements and guarantee to be present from the
first to the last day of the Academy. All travel arrangements must be communicated to
the Management.
The Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee will cover direct travel expenses to and
from Berne with an all in amount (consisting of a 2nd class rail ticket or a reasonably
priced flight and return ticket form the airport to Berne). The Sommerakademie im
Zentrum Paul Klee will not cover expenses for assistants, partners and children.
During the Academy accommodation, joint meals, local transport and excursions are
organised and fully paid for by the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee.
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(A) Application to participate as a Fellow (artist, art critic or
curator) in the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee 2013,
August 21 31, 2013
First Name _________________________________________________________________
Surname / Family Name _________________________________________________________________
(As in passport)
Street / No. _________________________________________________________________
Postcode / City _________________________________________________________________
Country _________________________________________________________________
Date of Birth ________________________ Place of Birth ____________________________
Gender m f Nationality ______________________________
Languages English Other___________________________________
Telephone Number ________________________ Mobile__________________________________
Email Address(es) _________________________________________________________________
Website _________________________________________________________________
Areas of Work / Media _________________________________________________________________
Nominated by: First Name / Surname_________________
Institution __________________
This application must contain:
- Application form
- 2-page questionnaire with letter of motivation
- CV with professional career and achievements to date
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Supporting Material:
- 2-4 A4 pages with photographs documenting your work in printed version
or for critics/curators an equivalent in text examples or 1-2 catalogues
- One DVD if the candidate works with video or performance
- One publication (optional)
- A list of publications (optional)
In case I would become a Fellow I agree:
- that I would book my travel arrangements on my own (including VISA procedures) and
will be reimbursed.
- that I am responsible for my insurance, for medical treatment and personal belongings
and arrange both a personal effects and health insurance policy to cover the period of my
stay in Switzerland.
I am in agreement with the conditions of participation. I declare that the submitteddocumentation is of my own work and that the information in my CV is correct.
Place / Date _____________________________________ Signature________________________________
Please submit your applicationby January 31, 2013 (postmark):
Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee, Monument im Fruchtland 3, PO Box, CH-3000
Bern 31, Switzerland
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(B) Questionnaire
First Name / Surname _______________________________________________________________
1. How does your work relate to the theme You are HERE. Here is wherever I lay my
head.
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2. Explain your reasons for applying, your professional objectives during your
stay at the Academy, as well as your expectations with regard to the
Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee 2013.