Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is pleased to announce the second open call for the eighth edition of the Summer School as School.

The program is held August 7-20, 2023.

The program will revolve around accredited courses, in addition to the public program with exhibitions, artist presentations, lectures, performances, the film school program, DJ sessions by Yann Annicchiarico, Sanja Anđelković, Bekim Baliqi, Rozafa Basha, Visar Berisha, Wu Chi Yu, Hsu Chia Wei, Chang En Man, Florina Jerliu, Posak Jodian, Yao Jui Chung, Vjosa Beqaj-Krasniqi, Sami Khatib, Li Kuei-Pi, Bernhard Rüdiger, Boris Buden, Esther Leslie, Driton Selmani, Lin Shu-Kai, Au Sow Yee, Ciwas Tahos, Nobuo Takamori, Hou I Ting, Agrina Vllasaliu, Anton Vukpalaj, Liu Yu, Zhang Xu Zhan.

Summer School as School 2023 offers one- and two-week accredited courses and public programs that promote engagement with and dissemination of critical content in context, exchange between and with students and faculty, and outreach in the arts and academic programs.

With the Summer School as School, Stacion - Centre for Contemporary Art Prishtina, together with partner institutions and faculty, has created a unique international platform based in Prishtina that takes into account the socio-political context, develops an interdisciplinary curriculum and involves practitioners to share knowledge and experience with local and international students and the public.

Originally inspired by the case of Kosovo, where the education system was structured in the mid-1970s, Summer School as School is designed to bring together and disseminate critical knowledge and address relevant contemporary challenges, implementing new models and possibilities in art education and artistic collaboration.
Presently, Summer School as School is the leading regional collaborative platform in art and discourse production, and a model that unites the capacity of the region of Southeastern Europe engaged international faculty and partner institutions to produce and disseminate an interdisciplinary model of education and art collaboration.

Having run the Summer School as School with great success in previous years, this year's edition builds on the diverse perspectives and experiences that theoretically and practically reflect and challenge ongoing regional history and its connections to broader artistic, political, and social developments. By inviting situations that transcend the normal creative and intellectual boundaries, Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, with the Summer School as a school, seeks to interweave knowledge and (re)position Kosovo and the region of Southeast Europe in relation to its international and global coordinates.

The faculty of Summer School as School 2023 have put together a challenging and inspiring course program that will take place from August 7-20, 2023, combining theory- and production-oriented courses.

Course 1: Aesthetic, Anti-aesthetics, Anaesthetics: Art Through the Senses
Course by Esther Leslie
7 - 12 August, 2023
2.5 ECTS

Course 2: Solidarity in Time: Non Aligned Movement and Contemporary Art
Course by Jelena Vesić
7 - 12 August, 2023
2.5 ECTS

Course 3: Translation: Using the concept in society, culture, knowledge and art production?
Course by Boris Buden
7 - 12 August 2023
2.5 ECTS

Course 4: Art Practice and the Human Beyond our Species
Course by Bernhard Rüdiger and Yann Annicchiarico
7 - 19 August 2023
5 ECTS

Course 5: War Memory, Public Space and Collective Identity
Course by Bekim Baliqi and Anton Vukpalaj
7 - 19 August 2023
5 ECTS

Course 6: Populism At The Periphery And Cultural Constituencies/Counterstances
Course by Nebojša Milikić
7 - 19 August, 2023
5 ECTS

Course 7: Climate Policy - Public Participation and the Arts
Course by Vjosa Beqaj-Krasniqi and Visar Berisha
7 - 19 August 2023
4 ECTS

Course 8: The Art and Philosophy of Sport
Course by Scott Anthony
7 - 12 August 2023
2.5 ECTS

Course 9: Negotiations in the contact zone
Course by Julieta Aranda
14 - 19 August 2023
2.5 ECTS

Course 10: The City and Art Museums
Course by Florina Jerliu and Rozafa Basha
7 - 19 August 2023
5 ECTS

Course 11: Art and Memory in Practices of Commemorations after Mass Atrocities
Course by Ana Dević
14 - 19 August 2023
3 ECTS

Course 12: Desire and its Discontents
Course by Sami Khatib
14 - 19 August 2023
2.5 ECTS

At the conclusion of each course, participants will be issued a certificate stating their equivalency of The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) credits from Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, France.