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Jan van Eyck Academie
Post-academic Institute for Research and Production
Fine Art, Design, Theory

Call for applications
Deadline: 15 April 2007

Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Candidates can either apply with a topic of their own or for a project formulated by the institute itself. In order to realise these projects, the Jan van Eyck offers the necessary made-to-measure artistic, technical and auxiliary preconditions.

Profile
The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production in the fields of fine art, design and theory. Every year, 48 international researchers realise their individual or collective projects in the artistic and challenging environment that is the Jan van Eyck. The institute is not led by predetermined leitmotivs. Artists, designers and theoreticians can submit independently formulated proposals for research and/or production in the Fine Art, Design and Theory department or candidates can apply for collective research projects formulated by the Jan van Eyck (see below). The miscellaneous nature of these research projects and productions makes the Jan van Eyck into a multi-disciplinary institute. This also shows in the programme of the institute. Researchers, departments and the institute organise various weekly activities, to which special speakers are invited: lectures, seminars, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, discussions,... External interested parties are welcome to attend these activities. The result is a dynamic and critical exchange between the different agents from within and outside of the Jan van Eyck.

Facilities
Researchers are advised by a team of artists, designers and theoreticians who have won their spurs globally. They receive their own studio and a stipend. Furthermore, researchers can make use of all kinds of facilities which support their projects from first concept to public presentation: the library, the documentation centre, various workshops (wood and other materials; graphic productions and photography; digital text and image processing and editing; time-based media). Furthermore they are assisted with print work, editing and distribution of publications and publicity of events.

Application
Candidates can apply for a department or a collective research project as listed below. The duration and start of a research project are variable. The minimum is one month, the maximum 24 months. One, two year or variable research projects at a department can start as of January 2008. The start and duration of research periods of collective projects differ. More information about the application procedure can be found at
http://www.janvaneyck.nl/_devices/frames_applications.html

Contact
For practical questions concerning the application procedure or to request an information brochure, please contact Leon Westenberg (leon.westenberg@janvaneyck.nl).
For content-related questions on the Jan van Eyck Academie in general, its departments or on the collective research projects, please contact Kim Thehu (kim.thehu@janvaneyck.nl).

Departments

Fine Art department

The Fine Art department encourages both personal and discursive exchange amongst its researchers in order to establish a context of practice-oriented discussion; a context that considers issue-orientation alongside other artistic approaches, as well as being driven by processing, producing, organizing and going public. Advising researchers: Orla Barry, Aglaia Konrad, Hinrich Sachs, Imogen Stidworthy
More information: http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/fineart_statement.html

Design department

The Design department focuses on design as research, design as discourse, design as publishing. It initiates and supports research projects in the areas of cultural and corporate identity, mapping, print and new media publishing, urban and regional identity, and book design. Coming from a focus on graphic and communication design, the department is widening its scope to include spatial, product and service design. Advising researchers: Wim Cuyvers, Will Holder, Daniel van der Velden
More information: http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/design_statement.html

Theory department

The Theory department offers a stimulating environment for critical inquiry and intense debate to explore alternative ways of shaping intellectual horizons. The department welcomes researchers who pursue their artistic and/or intellectual vision anywhere on the interface of critical theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis with the visual arts. Advising researchers: Norman Bryson, Katja Diefenbach, Hanneke Grootenboer, Dominiek Hoens
More information: http://janvaneyck.nl/4_0_departments/theory_statement.html

Collective research projects

Traces of autism. Wander-research in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine This research project concerns the making of an inventory of public space in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine, based on journeys made through the area and following a number of strict parameters. During the research the inner borders of the Euregion function as a reference line and a kind of reading axis. Gypsies, refugees, migrants, drug addicts can possibly function as indicators, although other indicators may come to the fore in the Euregion. The emphasis is on maps: on the one hand, existing maps are collected, on the other, new maps will be developed. During the entire research period, the French pedagogue Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) is considered a supporter, someone who walks in the footsteps of the researchers, as he did for thirty years: following autistic patients, without intervention, only registering, not even wanting to 'learn' anything.
Advising researcher: Wim Cuyvers
More information: http://janvaneyck.nl/tracesofautism

LogoParc. Challenging the aesthetics of ecomony Logo Parc is a design research project for public space. Its main focus of interest is the Zuidas (South Axis) in Amsterdam; a prestigious area of high-rise office blocks, residential and cultural facilities on both sides of the A10 motorway. The Zuidas is considered a new typology of city, dedicated to the symbolic representation of economy, information, knowledge and mobility. Logo Parc is driven by a critical interest in the representation of power and economy; both to deconstruct it, and to create it. As a machine for comments, ideas and visions for the Zuidas, the project aims to fuel discussion as well as trigger actual design issues, operating freely in an area in between architectural, spatial and communication design. Logo Parc is a joint project of Jan van Eyck Academie, Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte, Gerrit Rietveld Academy / Amsterdam University, and Premsela Dutch Design Foundation.
Advising researcher: Daniel van der Velden
More information: http://logoparc.janvaneyck.nl/

Tomorrow book studio. The project Tomorrow book studio aims at carrying out research into the future of the book, taking a multi-disciplinary approach. At the same time, the project concerns itself with commission-based book design where research can be directly tested and applied in practice. Convinced that the book will never cease to exist, the Tomorrow book studio focuses on the specific qualities of the book as a medium. The book, after all, has a physical reality that is part of a complex and process-like entity that involves acts such as conceptualizing, making, distributing, reading, using, reusing and keeping. The Tomorrow book studio is a joint research project of the Jan van Eyck Academie and the Charles Nypels Foundation.
Advising researcher: Will Holder
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The pensive image. The pensive image is a research project on thinking images. This project studies the extent to which images (painting, photography, cinema etc.) are able to philosophize on the status of their own representation, and on the nature of vision. The project is based on the hypothesis that monocular models of vision such as perspective and the camera have shaped our binocular perception of the world. Following Hubert Damisch, W.J.T. Mitchell, among others, The pensive image aims at formulating a theory as to how images 'think' about vision through a study of images that 'look back' at us, viewers.
Advising researcher: Hanneke Grootenboer
More information: www.janvaneyck.nl/thepensiveimage

Circle for Lacanian ideology Critique. The Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique (CLiC) gathers researchers who are interested in Lacanian theory and consider it an open set of tools that enable researchers to critically consider contemporary (post-)modern culture. CLiC intends to activate the psychoanalytical - and especially Lacanian - background of many current philosophers and critics, such as Agamben, Badiou, Jameson, Laclau, Mouffe, Negri, Derrida, Nancy, Ranciere, Źiźek and Zupancic. Insight into the Lacanian background of these theories is indispensable to discover the very core of their critical potentialities, which is why a confrontation with and a reading of the Lacanian text is one of CLiC's objectives.
Advising researcher: Dominiek Hoens
More information: http://clic.janvaneyck.nl

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CURATORIAL PROGRAMME 2007/2008

de Appel is a contemporary Arts Centre, located in the heart of Amsterdam. Over the 25 years of its existence it has been operating on an international level and for 10 years de Appel has been running a renowned Curatorial Training Programme.

In September 2007, the new version of the eight - month long Curatorial Programme of de Appel, with a renewed curriculum and an extended tutorial team will start. Initiated in 1994, the course wishes to offer young curators a condensed package of experiences and skills which can be used as tools and instruments during the further development of their professional career.

This year an international selection committee, chaired by Ann Demeester, director of de Appel and Head of the programme, selects about 6 participants of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds.

The following parts of the programme are considered to be of vital importance:

  • - The opportunity to research theoretical issues and developments in regular sessions with a tutorial team consisting e.g. of free-lance curator Annie Fletcher (IR/NL), visual artist Steve Mc Queen (GB/NL), writer and curator Elena Filipovic (US/BE), MUHKA- curator Dieter Roelstraete (BE) and independent researcher/curator Lisette Smits (NL).
  • - The opportunity to meet a large number of artists, curators, critics and other professionals from the Netherlands and abroad in a very condensed period of time, and having the chance to exchange ideas with them, either during thematic seminars or during informal encounters.
  • - The opportunity to get acquainted with de Appel from ‘the inside’, and get a better insight into the mechanisms and governing principles of a contemporary institution for visual arts.
  • - The possibility to make a long trip outside of Western Europe and several short excursions within Europe. During each programme the destinations of these trips differ: this depends on the international exhibitions that are worth visiting, the interests of the participants of the course and the relevance of the journey with regards to the final project of that course.
  • -The opportunity to realise a presentation as a group or as individual curators, for instance in the form of an exhibition or a series of events. The parameters given are: a specified budget and the requirement that the presentation reflects the group's / participants' view on developments in contemporary art. Considering the quality of the proposals presented, one or a combination are chosen to be realised.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

  • 1. A letter of motivation in which your personal drive and what you expect from the programme is stated.
  • 2. A proposal for a show (5-15 pages), including: concept and location of the show (main focus), the participating artists (including some image material), a budget of the show, a publicity plan (not obliged).
  • 3. A CV, including an extensive description of one's relevant working experience.
  • 4. Two written references of (former) tutors, professors or employers, in English.

On the basis of the submitted documents a pre-selection is made in February. Approximately ten candidates will be shortlisted; they are invited to come to Amsterdam in the end of February or beginning of March for an interview.
Application deadline: 31 January 2007
Send completed applications (in two-fold) to:

de Appel
Att: Roos Gortzak, CTP 07/08
Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10
1017 DE Amsterdam
The Netherlands

For further information please visit our website: www.deappel.nl

contact: Roos Gortzak
t. 31 (0) 20 6255215
roosgortzak@deappel.nl