Academy Exercising Modernity - Open Call

Ćwiczenie nowoczesności • Exercising modernity • Modernität üben • לתרגלמודרניזם

Warsaw–Berlin–Tel Aviv # THE COMMONS & COMMUNITIES

Forms of communitiness form the keynote of the second edition of the Polish–German–Israeli project, which is being organized by the Pilecki Institute in cooperation with the Liebling House – The White City Center (Tel Aviv), the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv, and the Gdynia City Museum. We offer an international art & research residency program - Meetings and workshops under the Exercising Modernity Academy will be held in the autumn of 2019 in Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Gdynia, Berlin and Weimar. Participants will attend classes taught by eminent artists, curators, architects and researchers. The Program is open to researchers specializing in the humanities and artists who at the time of completion of the enrolment stage shall be under 35 years of age, and shall come from or reside in Israel, Germany or Poland.

The community, communitiness, the Commons – there exist many terms which describe the common good and that which is collective or shared. Issues concerning social relations in the 20th century, founded on a common identity (historical, religious, national or class–based), on common interests and needs, but also on conflicts as to that which is common, inspire discussions and questions about the meaning and the vital role of communities in the development of modern states, cities and societies. What does “communitiness” mean in distinct geographical and political contexts? How do we conceive the structure and the process of creating a community, and how were these conceived at the beginning of the 20th century? What conceptions of community-based living and the common space functioned in the interwar period? How was the role of social institutions and the potential future development of interhuman relations perceived at the time? We intend to examine these issues in the course of the Exercising Modernity Academy project. In particular, we will analyze past and present forms of cohabitation, and also new forms of societal management. In our project we plan to focus on three perspectives, i.e. the Polish, German, and Israeli, the dissimilarity of which is the result of disparate historical and cultural experiences.

Successful candidates undertake to attend all sessions held in the course of the Academy.
I session: Tel Aviv (24–29.10.2019)
II session: Warsaw and Gdynia (14–19.11.2019)
III session: Berlin, Weimar (05–08.12.2019)

We offer

• gratuitous participation in the Academy, provision of board, lodging and transportation
• lectures and workshops held by experienced and acclaimed scholars and artists
• an interesting program of accompanying events
• those who complete the course will be entitled to submit their own research or artistic project, elaborated or expanded during classes, for a special scholarship - program organized by the Pilecki Institute and devoted to the issue of modernity in the 20th century

Candidates are invited to submit their applications by e–mail to the address: apply@exercisingmodernity.com by 28.09.2019 (8:00 p.m.).
You are requested to write “Academy 2019” as the subject of the e–mail.

A complete application should include

• Scans of signed forms:
• declaration concerning the controller of personal data – attachment no. 1,
• declaration concerning the provision of consent to the processing of personal data and personal image data – attachment no. 2,
• Artistic/academic biographical note and/or portfolio,
• 3 mini–essays (each up to 1,800 characters with spaces) answering the following questions:

How does the subject of this year’s edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy connect with your current interests/work/research/artistic practice? What are your expectations of the Exercising Modernity Academy program and the course instructors? If you could carry out a six–month research/artistic project related to the subject matter of the 2019 edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, what would this project consist in?

Further information and application details on http://exercisingmodernity.com