organization
Length: 8 weeks
Venues:
Number of participants:
Venues:
- October 2-30: ISBN Gallery, Budapest, HU / White Cube
- November 1-28: Abbaye de Maubuisson, FR / Black Box
Number of participants:
- For the 8-weeks-long program: 6 students (3 Hungarian + 3 French)
- In November, additional students from the "Dance Studio" of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy can join some classes and activities.
pedagogical content
"UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA" is the name of an 8-weeks-long international artistic research program for art students, on the psychosocial consequences of climate change. In October, participants will live in Budapest (HU) and develop their projects in a white cube, through the exploration of visual arts (drawing, paining, collage, video, photo, installation art, multimedia art...). In November, participants will live in Paris (FR), and develop their projects in a black box, through the exploration of performing arts (dance, performance, puppet theater, acting, singing...).
OCTOBER 2021
Visual arts: images, objects, texts
Venue: White cube (ISBN Gallery, Budapest, HU)
- Week 1 : CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, TALKS: Utopian and dystopian bodies, humans and non-humans, animals and plants.
- Week 2 : RESEARCH, CREATION, PUBLIC PRESENTATION, STUDENTS' EXHIBITION, FEEDBACK
- Week 3 : CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, TALKS: Utopian and dystopian landscapes and cities
- Week 4 : RESEARCH, CREATION, PUBLIC PRESENTATION, STUDENTS' EXHIBITION, FEEDBACK
NOVEMBER 2021
Performing arts: movement, dance, choreography, performance, voice, spoken words
Venue: Black box (Abbaye de Maubuisson, FR)
- Week 1 : CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, TALKS: Utopian and dystopian emotions, feelings, psychologies
- Week 2 : RESEARCH, CREATION, PUBLIC PRESENTATION, STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE, FEEDBACK
- Week 3 : CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, TALKS: Utopian and dystopian societies and political structures
- Week 4 : RESEARCH, CREATION, PUBLIC PRESENTATION, STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE, FEEDBACK
OCTOBER 2021
Visual arts: images, objects, texts
Venue: White cube (ISBN Gallery, Budapest, HU)
- Week 1 : CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, TALKS: Utopian and dystopian bodies, humans and non-humans, animals and plants.
- Week 2 : RESEARCH, CREATION, PUBLIC PRESENTATION, STUDENTS' EXHIBITION, FEEDBACK
- Week 3 : CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, TALKS: Utopian and dystopian landscapes and cities
- Week 4 : RESEARCH, CREATION, PUBLIC PRESENTATION, STUDENTS' EXHIBITION, FEEDBACK
NOVEMBER 2021
Performing arts: movement, dance, choreography, performance, voice, spoken words
Venue: Black box (Abbaye de Maubuisson, FR)
- Week 1 : CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, TALKS: Utopian and dystopian emotions, feelings, psychologies
- Week 2 : RESEARCH, CREATION, PUBLIC PRESENTATION, STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE, FEEDBACK
- Week 3 : CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, TALKS: Utopian and dystopian societies and political structures
- Week 4 : RESEARCH, CREATION, PUBLIC PRESENTATION, STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE, FEEDBACK
research
We will draw on psychological and sociological studies, surveys, reports and testimonies to shed critical light on the psychosocial consequences of climate change by pointing out how humans are acutely dependent on the natural environment, deeply entwined with it on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. With embracing multiple media, artistic forms, techniques and tools (performance, dance, drawing, creative writing, photo, video, multimedia...), students will be invited to relate major socio-political and ecological contexts to psychological and mental symptoms (eco-anxiety, eco-depression, eco-denial, aggressiveness...) discuss their parallels, open new questions and perspectives.
class activities
- Discussions, screenings and readings from texts by writers, theorists, artists;
- Performance, dance, acting, puppet theater, narrating and composing through structured-improvisation and movement;
- Developing scores for solo and group choreographies;
- Creative writing in different form (poetry, manifest, comics, diary...);
- Making exercises and creative tasks in different medium (drawing, paining, collage, video, photo, installation art, multimedia art...);
- Researching through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources.
students' learning outcomes
- Gain a better understanding of the psychosocial consequences of climate change;
- Learn about artists, authors, theoreticians and their work in the context of ecology;
- Through discussions, screenings and readings, have a better vision and a deeper understanding of contemporary artists and artivists challenging with and through their works the anthropocentric conundrum;
- Develop interdisciplinary artistic skills, techniques and tools, new works, performances and series in relation to the topic;
- Experiment with different materials, objects, images and tools in two spaces: white cube and black box;
- Discover different methodologies and techniques of creation (narrating and composing through structured-improvisation, movement research through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources....);
- Participate in exhibitions and public performances, present your work to the public, get feedbacks;
- Foster your creativity, critical thinking and innovation capabilities;
- Develop interpersonal communication skills, collaboration and co-creation practices;
- Join an international project, improve your English language skills, discover new cultures, connect with people from different backgrounds, initiate further cultural exchanges and collaborations.
teacher-researcher-artist
The "UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA" program is imagined and led by Anna Ádám.
Anna is a performance maker and visual artist whose work blurs the boundaries between choreography, image, and object, with emphasis on the body and on the movement as the central forms of expression. She studied performance and fashion before obtaining her Master of Arts from the ENSAPC Art School in Cergy, France.
Her former teaching experiences are:
University of Artois, Béthune, FR, 2019/2020
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT, Winter semester – 2019
Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE) / 0. UBIK, Budapest, HU, Feb – 2018
Novi Sad University, SRB, Oct – 2017
Moholy-Nagy University of Design (MOME), Budapest, HU, Dec – 2016
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, HU, Dec – 2015
University of Kaposvár - Photography Department / TYPO JAM, Bodrogkisfalud, HU, Sept – 2015
Conservatory of Dance, Yerevan, AM, July – 2014
Anna is a performance maker and visual artist whose work blurs the boundaries between choreography, image, and object, with emphasis on the body and on the movement as the central forms of expression. She studied performance and fashion before obtaining her Master of Arts from the ENSAPC Art School in Cergy, France.
Her former teaching experiences are:
University of Artois, Béthune, FR, 2019/2020
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT, Winter semester – 2019
Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE) / 0. UBIK, Budapest, HU, Feb – 2018
Novi Sad University, SRB, Oct – 2017
Moholy-Nagy University of Design (MOME), Budapest, HU, Dec – 2016
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, HU, Dec – 2015
University of Kaposvár - Photography Department / TYPO JAM, Bodrogkisfalud, HU, Sept – 2015
Conservatory of Dance, Yerevan, AM, July – 2014
"UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA" partnerships & collabs
SometimeStudio (FR), Abbaye de Maubuisson (FR), Dance City Theatre Newcastle (UK), Mediterranean Dance Center (HR), V.A.R.P. (EU) with A4 – Space for Contemporary Culture (SK), ZFinMalta (MT), Hungarian National Theater (HU), Jászai Mari Theater (HU), Szeged National Theater (HU), Miskolc National Theater (HU), Artus Studio Theater (HU), Bethlen Theater (HU), ISBN Gallery (HU), Gray Box (FR)
