Doug Ashford’s principle visual practice from 1982 to 1996 was the multi-form practice of Group Material. His work has been recently compiled in the book "Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material" (Four Corners Books, 2010). Since 1996 he has continued to produce paintings, essays and collaborative projects that engage sociality with artistic form. His most recent public effort ended in the project "Who Cares" (Creative Time, 2006), a book built from a series of conversations between Ashford and other cultural practitioners on public expression, ethics and beauty.

Doug Ashford will direct a two-week course from 17 to 29 August 2015.

Besides her artistic practice in photography and video, Maha Maamoun collaborates on independent publishing and curatorial projects. Her videos and photographs address the form and function of images that are found in mainstream culture. Maamoun’s approach keeps a balance between what is studied and what is intuitive, leaving room for the incidental to play itself out. Maamoun is a founding board member of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) – an independent non-profit space for art and culture, founded in Cairo in 2004.

Maha Maamoun will direct a two-week course from 3 to 15 August 2015.

Talk by Maha Maamoun from Parasite on Vimeo.

Curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas avoids conventions, role-models and classification, thus bringing about new thinking in curatorial practice. As Jennifer Teets describes in Metropolis M magazine, "Raimundas is not keen on prescribed meanings. He’s more interested in how an audience’s reaction to the show makes up the show and becomes part of it."
Raimundas Malašauskas will direct a one-week curatorial course from 27 July to 1 August 2015.
See here the conversation "Talking Art with Raimundas Malašauskas and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson" on Grass Root TV and below a clip on the Fusiform Gyrus exhibition Malašauskas curated at Lisson Gallery in 2013.

feld72 works at the interface between architecture, applied urbanism and art. Since establishing their own studio in Vienna in 2002, besides planning building projects for their own series "Urban Strategies", the collective has expanded the field of architecture, considering questions of the use and perception of public space.

feld72 will direct a three-week course from 20 July to 8 August 2015.

10th Feature: FELD72 - departure x FvF from departure on Vimeo.

Irina Nakhova is the pioneer of the genre of "total installation" in Soviet underground art. She concurrently works in painting – creating structured environments from several superimposed planes – and installation, her most vivid employing painting, digital printing, sculpture, and interactive video and audio. Nakhova’s installations often create and define space using formal means and material, together with biting wit and a historical and social perspective. Nakhova has been selected to represent Russia with a solo exhibition in the Russian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015.

Irina Nakhova will direct a two-week course from 27 July to 8 August 2015.

Read here about Irina's latest exhibition at Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York.

video interview only in Russian