Friday 03 April 2009 6:51:38 pm

Summer Course: FROM BAUHAUS TO SOCIAL SCULPTURE in Weimar, Germany

A Course in English within the 10th International Weimar Summer Programme ( http://www.weimar-summer-courses.de/ ) from 28 June - 11 July 2009 under the direction of Shelley Sacks ( http://www.greenmuseum.org/c/enterchange/artists/sacks ) and Hildegard Kurt ( http://www.hildegard-kurt.de/ ).
Enrolment by 30th April

There are still a few places left on this third English version of the "Bauhaus to Social Sculpture" programme that we (Shelley Sacks and Hildegard Kurt) run each year in Weimar.

COURSE OUTLINE
Comparing a historical cornerstone - the Bauhaus - to the contemporary concept of Social Sculpture, the course explores the following question: Can the shaping of humane societies be approached as an aesthetic challenge?

The course includes a workshop process, where interdisciplinary artist and Beuys student Shelley Sacks, director of the Social Sculpture Research Unit ( http://www.social-sculpture.org/ ) - the first centre for the exploration of Social Sculpture - will assist participants to access their individual and creative responses to this question.

This is a special opportunity to explore Social Sculpture in relation to earlier experiments in Weimar that were investigating and renegotiating the relationship between life and art.

The Summer School has been very successful in drawing people from all over Europe, including Eastern Europe. Contact between the participants and the potential it offers to develop dialogues and work across countries is also a very important aspect of this international programme.

This is the direct link to information concerning this summer course:

http://www.weimar-summer-courses.de/2009/kurs-b.html