December 7, 2020 – February 21, 2021
The (NotSo) Short Fest is a 5-hour collection of video shorts created by Transart Institute’s MFA students, faculty and advisors from around the globe. Conceived, compiled, and curated by Jean Marie Casbarian (faculty + advisor), the festival celebrates the creative minds of these international artists over the span of 16 years since the inception of this unique, international low-residency MFA and PHD program.
Read MoreTransart Advisor Angeliki Avgitidou has recently published a comprehensive guide to teaching performance art aimed at students, teachers, researchers and artists who wish to delve into the art of performance.
Read MorePlease join us for the next talk in this public talk series:
Session 2: Epistemologies
SUNDAY, 29 NOV 2020
17:30 - 18:30 UTC
REGISTER FOR THE PUBLIC TALK HERE
Read MorePlease join us for the next talk in this public talk series:
Session 2: Epistemologies
FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2020
20:00 - 20:50 UTC
REGISTER FOR STEVE DUTTON’S TALK HERE
Read MoreTransart Alumnus Eto Otitigbe was recently featured in an article in the New York Times for his work on the new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers - a tribute to the 4,000 enslaved men, women, and children who built and maintained the grounds of the University of Virginia originally designed by Thomas Jefferson.
Read MoreWe are proud to announce that Sympoiesis was recently published in the e-flux Art & Education Classroom. We would like to congratulate and thank the Class of 2020 and Susie Quillinan, MFA Program Manager for our University of Plymouth partnership, for putting together such an exceptional symposium!
Read MorePlease join us for our first talk in Transart’s Public Talk Series
FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2020
20:00 - 20:50 UTC
REGISTER FOR SARAH BENNETT'S TALK HERE
Following the success of Series 1 in July 2020, the second Identity, Race and "Whiteness" lab series will focus inquiry internally (within oneself), relationally (between us) and culturally (in relation to social systems). Participants will be guided inward to self-reflect, and outward to dialogue and listen.
Read MoreNews and updates from Sanford Biggers
Read MoreLM PROJECTS BOOK LAUNCH
The Sighted See the Surface by Dorit Cypis
Saturday, September 26, 11am on Zoom
The two adult women use what they find on site. Barefoot and open to what happens, they explore the possiblities and limits of children's play. They contrast our crisis-ridden present with their light-hearted and joyful play.
September 9/10/16/17, 2020 at 6 pm
Temporary Gallery, Mauritiuswall 35, 50676 Cologne
PEN Austria event on the International Day of the Disappeared
Galerie Reiffestein, Spittelberggasse 28, Vienna
Through Oct. 1.
Harvestworks broadcast
CT::SWaM Podcast
Microcosmopolitan – video/audio stream
Organized by Paul Niedermayer and Hanna Stiegler,
Adalbertstr. 9, 10999 Berlin, courtyard 3, 1F.
Together with Gilles Aubry and Nathalie Anguenzomo Mba Bikoro, Radio In Between Spaces explores "Black A(n)thena (Kosmos)"; practices of listening and radio as means to decolonize and untrain the ear from hegemonic listening knowledge.
Read MoreAugust 5 - 15
In Staying with the Trouble, Donna Harraway describes sympoiesis as "a simple word; it means “making-with.” Nothing makes itself; nothing is really autopoietic or self-organizing...
Read MoreRegistration closes this Tuesday, July 14 at 10pm PDT!
People who have lived with the privilege of whiteness must catch up and consciously understand its adversarial construction. This work requires a rigorous and reflexive somatic process in order to build genuine solidarity with the Black community, and to align in co-liberation with human values of social equity. This month, we invite you to join PeoplesLab for a series of 3 online Zoom sessions to participate in this vital anti-racist work.
See Lynn Book performance from VOX EFFUSIS, Volume 1: "Tracking Chimaera: a peripatetic guide" on TWITCH
Read MoreHello World!
An Art Affair Around the Globe
On June 20, 2020 – the summer/winter solstice – TransCultural Exchange invites you to join me on a (virtual) voyage around the world. Join us as we zoom from Argentina to Zambia with countless stops along the way. The choices are myriad; hundreds of artists in over 70 countries make up the tour.
Alumna Aurora Del Rio and SpiegelimSpiegel Kollektiv are performing (and streaming) for 48 hours, as part of the festival 48 Stunden Neukölln 2020, from the Umspannwerk Berlin. June 19th at 7 pm (GMT +2) .
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