Summer School 2024 Ökologien des Hörens.
Mit Ludwig Berger⁄ 3.-7. Juni 2024
In unserem Workshop tauchen wir in die Kunst und Wissenschaft des Hörens ein. Mit Wahrnehmungsübungen und Feldaufnahmen in der Umgebung erkunden wir die vielfältigen Arten, wie wir Klänge wahrnehmen und interpretieren können. Dabei untersuchen wir Hören als eine relationale Praxis, in der unsere eigene Haltung, die Verhältnisse und der Kontext der Klänge eine entscheidende Rolle spielt. Der Workshop umfasst eine breite Palette von Praktiken – von Klangkunst und Deep Listening über Bioakustik bis hin zu Klanganthropologie – und bietet eine Einführung in die technischen Grundlagen der Audioaufnahme und -bearbeitung. Als Resultate erarbeiten wir Klangkompositionen, welche die komplexen klanglichen Dimensionen ausgewählter Orte entfalten und reflektieren.
Dozent: Ludwig Berger
Bildrechte: © Ludwig Berger 2024
Summer School 2023: Geological Filmmaking
Every film image is geological. As a technical medium derived from the metals and minerals extracted from the earth, every moving image is materially embedded in the world it records. It is also temporally linked to the almost inconceivably vast deep time of the planet’s formation. What would it mean to make films in response to this situation? In this workshop, the participants will learn about and probe film practice as a way of tackling the perceptual and aesthetic difficulties presented by ongoing ecological crises. This is a hands-on workshop that combines theoretical considerations with practical exercises.
Dozierende: Sasha Litvintseva
Bildrechte: © Sasha Litvintseva 2017
Summer School 2022: Desktop Documentaries
How Does Your Internet Feel?
Desktop filmmaking is a practice that develops at the crossroads between documentary filmmaking, video art production and academic research. It relies on the simple idea that screen recording technologies can turn digital interfaces into video footage, that can then be analyzed, edited, disrupted, recreated. The promise of the desktop film is thus to create new insights into the workings of the digital platforms that filter our access to the world, and to explore the affective relations we develop with the media that we consume on a daily basis.
The objective of the class is to familiarize the participants with the practice of desktop filmmaking. The workshop will alternate viewing and reading sessions with practical exercises, so that each participant will have the opportunity to experiment with the form and develop their own small desktop film project.
Dozentin: Chloé Galibert-Laîné
Bildrechte: © Chloé Galibert-Laîné 2020
Winter School 2021: Queering Podcasts
Podcasts sind Teil einer neuen Erzählkultur, die Menschen bewegt. Es geht ums gute Erzählen, um eingängige, spannende Stories, um Einblicke
in neue Welten. Das Medium Podcast bietet sich gerade in seiner Intimität dazu an, Geschichten hörbar zu machen, die sich ausserhalb der Norm befinden und es nicht in die grossen Medien schaffen. Doch was braucht es, damit „andere“ Erzählungen artikulierbar werden? Und wie können Menschen, deren Stimmen bisher wenig Gehör fanden, porträtiert werden, ohne dass sie dabei erneut zu den „Anderen“ gemacht werden? Wie lassen sich die Grenzen zwischen dem „Eigenen“ und dem scheinbar „Anderen“ mittels Podcast «queeren» und verschieben?
Dozierende: Dr. Serena Dankwa und Christoph Keller (podcastlab.ch)
Bildrechte: © Saskia Kircali 2021
Winter School 2020: Curatorial Studies
The following seminar is an introduction to curatorial practice in contemporary art, using the professional itinerary of Tirdad Zolghadr as a case study, focusing particularly on his ongoing program REALTY. The latter is invested in artistic and curatorial strategies which proactively tackle art’s complicity with gentrification. 2017-2019, the program constituted the thematic playing field of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee in Bern. Most recently, REALTY played a key role in the STATISTA initiative on Alexanderplatz Berlin, where the emphasis has been on artists building durable infrastructures that redistribute financial and cultural capital – this among constituencies beyond artists alone. Though the seminar will foreground the development of the REALTY program, in light of its tussles with organizers, policymakers and the real estate sector, it will also attempt to map the field of Contemporary Art at large. Which terminologies, methodologies, and limits of the field are reflected here, which ones can be hoped to critiqued and superseded?
Read a recapitulation of the winter school by participant Zainabu Jallo here.
Dozent: Tirdad Zolghadr
Bildrechte: © les presses du reél 2016
Summer School 2019
Weaving the World: Writing Evocative Ethnographies
The aim of this four-day workshop is to introduce doctoral students to the fundamental features and essential practices of ethnography and ethnographic blogging in the contemporary world. During the workshop participants will learn what distinguishes ethnography from other forms of academic and nonfiction representation. The technique of “Weaving the World,” the seamless linkage of ethnographic description to social analysis will be presented. Participants will be asked to read examples from the work of ethnographers who have, in various ways have attempted to use this technique to evoke social worlds through the evocation of space/place, character, and dialogue. These are strategies that ethnographic writers can use to ensure that the ethnographic writers can use to ensure that readers come to know a people who live in a particular place.
Dozent: Paul Stoller
Bildrechte: © Paul Stoller (The Ethnographer’s Study)
Summer School 2018
Ethnographic Drawing in Practice and Theory
In this summer school we will practice ethnographic drawing and read and discuss theoretical and methodological concepts on drawing in social anthropology. Gaining an overview over the long history of ethnographic drawing in anthropology we will also approach the medium of drawing as ethnographic source. Through our own drawing practice we will try out in this course what Tim Ingold means, when he suggest to follow the materials, to learn the movements and to draw the lines. On the basis of our own and other anthropologist’s drawings we will debate whether it is wise or not to restrict the aim of ethnographic drawing to a method-ology of ‘seeing’ and dismiss artistic ambitions as Andrew Causey instructs us to do. Employing drawing as field research method, we will compare our own visual field notes with those of the early pioneers and the contemporary community of ethnographic drawers, such as Manuel João Ramos.
Dozentin: Marion Wettstein
Bildrechte: © Marion Wettstein
Summer School 2017
Die Praxis des Field Recording
In diesem praxisbezogenen Workshop lernen die Teilnehmenden grundlegende Techniken des Field Recording kennen. Neben der praktischen Arbeit mit Mikrofonen und Tonaufnahmegeräten nimmt das kritische Hören und Beurteilen des selbst aufgenommenen Materials sowie von Beispielen aus den Bereichen der sonic ethnography, akusmatischen Komposition und Filmtongestaltung breiten Raum ein. Vorkenntnisse in Tonaufnahmetechnik sind ein Vorteil, aber nicht erforderlich. Der Kurs richtet sich vor allem an Studierende, die Field Recording in ihrer eigenen Feldarbeit oder Kunstpraxis einsetzen möchten.
Dozent: Reto Stamm
Summer School 2016
Poetic Framing
Der fünf tägige Kurs widmet sich sowohl ästhetisch-philosophischen als auch praktischen Fragen des Bilder Machens. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in die Semiotik des Films werden unterschiedliche Genres und formale Herangehensweisen des Dokumentarfilms untersucht und Fragen zur Bildkomposition und der Spannung zwischen dem Bildinhalt und dem was außerhalb des Bildes liegt analysiert. Zu jedem Thema gibt es kurze film-praktische Aufgaben, die gemeinsam gesichtet und analysiert werden.
Dozent: Kristian Petersen
Bildrechte: © Buoyancy, Rodd Rathjen
Summer School 2015
Single Shot Cinema
In this hands-on course, we will explore the vocabulary of camera movement and the dramatic impact of the long, single take. Single Shot Cinema is a filming method that re-interprets film language based on the technical developments and possibilities of filmmaking in the digital age. What once only was possible with cranes and the Steadicam is now accessible to everybody. Students will learn the film language based on new technologies and discover how to block actions and characters in a scene and how to choreograph one single shot, using smooth and flexible camera movements that express the drama, emotion, and vision of the director. An important tool will be the ORBIT camera rig, an invention of the professor especially made for the Single Shot Cinema methodology.
Dozent: Leonard Retel Helmrich
Bildrechte: © Jan Keck 2011