The Institute for Street Art Research launches an educational project - the City After School and announces an open call to the first laboratory
In support of regional artistic forces, the Institute for Study of Street Art, within the framework of the public art program "Tales of Golden Apples", is launching from October to December an educational project, the City After School, and announces an open call to the first laboratory. The project is being implemented with the support of the Tatneft company.
Participation is free!
The “City After” School is a series of design labs for those who want to professionally pursue art in public spaces and for city residents who want to learn new skills. The main objectives of the project are to convey knowledge of working in an urban space, examining it from the point of view of an artist, architect, anthropologist and a passer-by, mastering interaction skills in an interdisciplinary team, as well as the experience of submitting and defending a draft design. The goal is to comprehend the vision of the genius of a place, understanding space as a synthesis of nature, human influence, history, imaginary layers of images, new media, and of course, the people who lived in this place and are living now.
The first design laboratory within the project - "Nature in the City / City in Nature" will start in October. Participants will learn how to work with landscape in a dense urban environment and with artistic objects in a natural landscape. Under the guidance of professional curators - architect Olena Grankina and landscape gardening engineer Igor Safiullin, they will analyze two practical cases: the nature of the city courtyard and the landscape of the spring. Then, in multidisciplinary teams, they will create 2 art projects with possible subsequent implementation.
Who can participate?
If your interests are in the field of urban design, street art, architecture, construction, landscape design, gardening art, floristry, you have practical experience or specialized education.
How do I get involved?
Must be sent by 4.10.20 to goldenapples@streetartinstitute.com
motivation letter (no more than 1200 characters)
CV
portfolio containing at least 5 artworks (max 20 MB)
Participation is free, the number of places is limited.
The names of the participants selected by the decision of the organizing committee of the curators of the project will be announced on 12 October.
Olena Grankina is an architect of the Moscow bureau Nowadaysoffice. In the past - content editor of the "Hypercube" publication B. Bernasconi. Member of the summer urban studio "Unknown fields" from London AA school of architecture, graduate of the educational program of the Institute of Architecture, Media and Design Strelka "Urban Routines".
Igor Safiullin is a laureate of national prizes as part of a team of authors for greening roof projects, head of the department for nature conservation and gardening work in Zaryadye Park.
"Tales of Golden Apples" is a five-year public art program implemented by the Institute for Street Art Research at the initiative of Tatneft in the city of Almetyevsk, the Republic of Tatarstan. The project is an epic about the history of the oil region and its inhabitants, transferred to the city walls and connected by a common bicycle route, with the participation of a group of invited experts and artists from different countries. All the stories that the artists illustrate were collected in the Almetyevsk region or represent fragments of the common cultural and historical heritage of Tatarstan. goldenapples@streetartinstitute.com
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