Professional, amateur or genius?

The 2013 International Summer Academy Programme of events is online.
When Oskar Kokoschka founded the Summer Academy in Hohensalzburg Fortress in 1953, directing it until 1963, he staunchly rejected any kind of acceptance requirement, insisting that anyone, without exception, should be able to study with him. The question of the relation between professional artists and amateurs has remained anchored in the history of the Summer Academy.
This question is considered in a four-part series of lectures and discussions with Stephan Dillemuth, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Sebastian Cichocki and Ralph Rugoff, and in the Lunch Talks by the teaching artists. The speakers attempt to define amateurism, presenting and discussing amateurish methods, processes and aesthetic principles in art since the advent of Modernism.
Click here for the full programme.