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The Faculty
The Faculty of Invisibility composes itself of a group of artists, practitioners, designers, theorists and teachers who mutually carry out an emerging institute. Tutors, by invitation, open departments relevant to their practices. The authority over these departments is at the disposal of the tutors. Each department determines its own sites and decides on its format. Hence the Faculty's scope cannot be detached from the tutors’ practices. The Faculty does not stage events and does not take public appearances, besides issuing its communications. As such the Faculty of Invisibility appears to be in disengagement, a context in withdrawal.
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Partners
The faculty invites institutional partners as academic institutions, art-spaces and galleries dedicated to or interested in artistic research to share the agreement of developing the faculty. These partners are invited to commit to the faculties' development. They are encouraged to host one of the faculty's manifestations in which they will play an active role in developing starting points and formats.
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Manifestations
The Faculty creates several platforms which question different sites and formats of publicness, such as the conversation, presence or language which it invites members of the Faculty to examine by experience. Each manifestation develops its own form generated from the dialogue between involved participants.
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Conversation
The Faculty uses conversations to invite new practitioners and to research practices of invisibility.
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Newspaper
The faculty develops a series of newspapers, for example at the occasion of a manifestation, which it reflects, documents, extends or summarizes. The newspapers contain conversations held with faculty members and are used to inform participants and public on the different departments and their developments. The faculty archives materials of interest to the different departments as publications, video's and recordings without claiming to cover scientifically the history of the invisible and conceptual in art-history. The Faculty's archive can be integrated into the faculty's manifestations.
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Archive
The faculty archives materials of interest to the different departments as publications, video's and recordings without claiming to cover scientifically the history of the invisible and conceptual in art-history. The Faculty's archive can be integrated into the faculty's manifestations.
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Practitioners
The Faculty invites practices which come from the arts and enter the real, leave the art-world for a good reason, mediate artistic practices, reside in the shade of the visual arts, explore the virtual, explore the invisible, address the border between vision and imagination, explore the usage of language both as a tool of poetry and as tool of definition, dealing with psychic phenomena, address other invisible dynamics and phenomena.
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Thanks
The Faculty would like to thank Madeleine Bisscheroux and Anne Vangronsveld, Gon Zifroni, Achim Lengerer, Maria Iorio, Marres Centrum voor Contemporaine Cultuur, Ron Stoffels, Het Blauwe Huis, Patricia Reed, Ian Brown, Hilde Meeus.
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The Faculty of Invisibility has been supported by Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.
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The Faculty of Invisibility is initiated by Inga Zimprich.
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Manifestations
# 5
The Invitation
in the Department of Haunting
Amsterdam December 10th to May 2008
The Department of Haunting, the Department of Reading, the Department of Practice
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Symposium for Readers
The Department of Reading
The Department of Reading would like to invite you to the Symposium for Readers to take place on 1/2 December 2007 online as well as physically in the space of the GfKFB, Berlin.
The Symposium for Readers understands itself as an intervention into the discourse on reading as well as the set of conditions, through which this discourse becomes actual and effective. The Symposium for Readers invites theorists, artists, performers, designers and programmers to address such questions as:
How to theorise on the very gesture that reading is? What about the discrete, but insistent gestures of reading itself? What spatial concept does a reading practice require that at the very moment it takes place already has entered the realm of writing?
The Department of Reading is an initiative by Sönke Hallmann and was founded in 2006 together with other researchers from the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands
Concept and moderation of the Symposium for Readers: Sönke Hallmann and Inga Zimprich
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Communiqué (pdf)
Here we have six sheets of paper. Courant print 45 gram, printed on one side by Dijkman Offset. First disassembled, these sheets are folded once, then put on top of each other and then again folded into each other. Important is how the object is organised. Hence the use of the given format constructs an object that functions differently. Each page reveals a blank inside, a gap, an opening.
The layout follows the construction of the object. Broad margins on the top and sides face almost no margins on the bottom. Each element is given its place within the usual structure. The typeface, Time New Roman, is used in one single size throughout the communiqué. Time New Roman was commissioned by the Faculty of Invisibility in 2007 and designed by Paul Vincent Gangloff to be of good readability at high speed printing processes on cheap paper. It will change unnoticeably within a space that reveals itself expressionless. The Faculty of Invisibility is working towards inoperative spaces.
Issuing this communiqué acknowledges that a responding community has taken place.
The Faculty of Invisibility assembled for its first manifestation The Speech on December 6/7/8 2006 at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands.Roé Cherpac, Wim Cuyvers (Department of Common Spaces), Paul Gangloff (Department of Haunting), David Goldenberg (Department of Post-autonomy), Sönke Hallmann (Department of Reading), Ingela Johansson (Department of Uncertainty), Nikita Kadan (Department of Parasitism and Symbioses), Lesya Khomenko (Department of Play), Volodymyr Kuznetsov (Department of Survival), Nebojsa Milikic (Department of Learning), Onedaynation, Hinrich Sachs (Department of Speech Genres), Monika Vykoukal (Department of Doubt), Inga Zimprich (Department of Practice).
The communiqué is published in an edition of 1000 copies and is distributed by the tutors. This is a manifestation of the Faculty of Invisibility.
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The second manifestation of the Faculty of Invisibility - the letters - will be without end.
The Department of Reading, the Department of Haunting, the Department of Practice
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The Speech
6/7/8 December
Jan van Eyck Academie. Maastricht NL
The format of the speech comprises multiple questions, which are essential in artistic productions: the constitution of an addressee, the act of addressing and assigning identity, the act of assuming identity through the act of speaking.
I set The Speech as the central concept, which will determine all formats of the first manifestation, and which offers a frame to deal with the implications of constituting the Faculty’s identity through its first public announcement.
During a three day workshop / symposium the different invited tutors of the Faculty will open their departments through giving opening speeches. This takes place in a setting designed of a stage and numerous lecterns (Rednerpulte) evoking the idea of audience and public representation. The speeches are registered through audio and video, wherever possible transcribed and reviewed. All tutors are invited to analyze and react to the speeches given. After discussion and debate amongst the tutors speeches can be altered, rehearsed and given again.
A focal point is laid on the difference of artistic practices determined by context. On each of the three days a presentation is given that explores and explains the specific cultural background in which a specific artistic practice – form of addressing the audience and taking one’s position as a speaker/artist has developed.
Subsequent discussions help to question: From where do we speak now that we speak to each other? What is the context that we share? Do we construct this context by formulating and sending a message? What is the current common context we are speaking from as cultural producers? Which audience do we presume by speaking together? And how could a message arrive where we intend it? What do we constitute by the act of addressing a public?
The tutors are invited through discussion and dialogue to develop the first opening speech of the faculty. They are also invited to determine occasions to deliver the speech publicly thereafter.
As it was planned to issue four newspapers emerging form the Faculty’s communication the first newspaper will consist of The Speech developed during the first meeting/workshop. It is up to the tutors to decide: Who should receive the speech? Where should the newspaper be send? In which languages should it appear?
This process is assisted by the online workplace of the Department of Reading and its method of opening texture to joint consideration. The design group OneDayNation engage on location with the transfer from spoken word, produced text and statements towards printed matter. They are invited to share the editing process and processing towards printed matter with the tutors. The first newspaper of the Faculty – The Speech will be issued with 1000 copies, which will be distributed in different contexts determined by the tutors.
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Departments
The faculty opens departments by inviting practitioners to become tutors of their personal practice. By holding authority of one's own department of practice, each participant is both a tutor as much as a student within the faculty
Department of Common Spaces
Tutor: Wim Cuyvers
Department of Doubt
Tutor: Monika Vykoual
Department of Haunting
Tutor: Paul Gangloff
Department of Learning
Tutor: Nebojsa Milikic
Matthias Kreutzer
Department of Play
Tutor: Lesya Khomenko
Department of Post-autonomy
Tutor: David Goldenberg
http://www.postautonomy.co.uk/blog/
Department of Practice
Tutor: Inga Zimprich
Department of Reading
Tutor: Sönke Hallmann
www.reading.department.cc
Department of Real Cool
Tutor: Natascha Haagenbeek
Roe Cherpac
Department of Second Generation
Cultural Gastarbeiter
Tutor: Branimir Stojanovic
Department of Shame
Tutor: Alevtina Kakhidze
Selina Bütler
Department of Speech Genres
Tutor: Hinrich Sachs
Department of Amateur Sportsmanship
Tutor: Megan Sullivan
www.hunterseat.blogspot.com
Department of Survival
Tutor: Volodymyr Kuznetsov
Department of Symbiosis and Parasitism
Tutor: Nikita Kadan
Department of Transcendence and Paradox
Tutor: Mari Brellochs
Department of Uncertainty
Tutor: Ingela Johansson
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