SUMMERACADEMY.AT | Courses 2018

Stop, Collaborate, 2017, screenprint on paper, 112 x 76 cm, courtesy of the artist, photo: Alan Dimmick

Portrait photo: sipgate, Düsseldorf

Medium/Media: Screen-print, mono-print, installation
Location: Festung Hohensalzburg

Language: English
What to bring: Sketchbook. Camera and laptop if you can. Other materials can be found, or purchased in the Academy shop.
Requirements: No knowledge of printmaking is necessary. You must be willing to work in a group situation.
Maximum number of participants: 15
Co-teacher: Ines Hochgerner
Participation fee: € 950,– (€ 710,–)

APPLICATION

The aim of this course is to provide a forum for sharing thoughts, influences and approaches through an intensive period of working alongside one another. We will explore the collaborative potential of printmaking and will work together to create an experimental print studio for the production of new art and ideas.

Over the course of three weeks, our studio will be used to pursue both individual and collective approaches. An introduction to mono-printing and screen-printing techniques will form a basis for an explorative approach to print, and we will devise alternative printing processes of our own making. Hands-on production will be complemented by regular group discussion to give us an opportunity to share material that matters to each of us. What matters to you? How is it reflected in how you live, what you make, who you associate with? What do you promote? What do you refuse? What do you question? Are you heard? Do you want to be heard?

We will discuss these and other questions, and reflect upon topics ranging from the history of print to the dissemination of knowledge, social and political activism and art.
Portrait photo: sipgate, Düsseldorf

Ciara Phillips works with the processes, structures and histories of printmaking to create expansive installations. Her artwork draws upon the medium’s relationship to the dissemination of information, and she works both alone and in collaboration with others to address questions around what we share, what we don’t, with whom, how, why and with what effect. The work of artists’ collectives such as See Red Women’s Workshop, Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective and Group Material are important influences, and she often makes reference to the screenprints and teaching methodologies of Corita Kent, an American artist, educator and advocate for social justice.

In an ongoing project titled Workshop, Phillips turns gallery spaces into screen-printing studios in which she invites others to collaborate with her on making new prints in situ. Workshop transforms exhibition spaces into places of simultaneous production and display. It challenges the audience, institution, artist and collaborators to enter into a set of negotiations around personal positions within the framework of participation, and explores the pleasures and challenges of working together.

Exhibitions
2017 Systems for Saying It, part of We The People Are The Work, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (UK). Yours and Mine is Ours, Benaki Museum, Athens. 2016 Comrade Objects, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (CA). Cold Friends, Warm Cash, Western Front, Vancouver (CA). What we recognise in others, CCA Derry-Londonderry (IE). 2015 British Art Show 8 (until 2017), Leeds, Edinburgh, Norwich, Southampton (UK). Cold Friends, Warm Cash, Konsthall C, Stockholm. 2014 Turner Prize 2014, Tate Britain, London. Just You, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO). 2013 The Showroom, London. 2010 Workshop (ongoing).

Publications
British Art Show 8, Hayward Touring catalogue, 2015.
Martin Clark (ed.): Ciara Phillips. Just You, exh. cat., Bergen Kunsthall, 2014.
Moira Jeffrey (ed.): Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland: Reader and Guide, National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow, 2014.
- Web:
  www.ciaraphillips.com

Ciara Phillips

A brand-new edition16.07.2018 – 04.08.2018

A brand-new edition
16.07.2018 – 04.08.2018