Berlin Summer School - DIY Art Film and Performance 2018

This intensive programme will provide you with an opportunity to engage with both the theoretical and practical aspects of DIY filmmaking and performance within the expanded field of the visual arts. The course focuses on investigating methods, processes and techniques through practical work and exercises , as well as extensive conversations with and presentations by a range of leading contemporary artists and filmmakers. Our main questions throughout conversations and experiments will be: What do people actually do when they create their work? How are ideas developed and transformed? How does one engage with the specificity of materials? How do they understand and articulate what they do? The course aims at kick-starting your creative processes with new views and input on methodological and practical questions. Together, we will investigate and copy, re-enact and reflect, experiment and exploit materials, ideas and methods. We will work individually and collectively. Course leaders and guest lecturers will provide immediate feedback and input on your artistic processes. This is an ideal course for you if you’re a university graduate or have studied at art, film, writing, theatre or other related schools. It is also perfect for emerging and/or establishing film and art world professionals wishing to update their insight into work-processes and methodologies in the fields between art, film and performance. The course runs from 13 – 26 August 2018