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Umeå School

École Temporaire, run by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno from 1998 to 1999, was a series of workshops conducted at several universities and schools in Europe. In one, the artists rented a cinema for a day and screened a feature film, while narrating potential alternative scenarios before the start of each scene. Another workshop was a seminar held at the top of a mountain, a location only accessible by dogsled. In yet another, the artists interviewed the participants in the middle of a frozen lake. Each workshop was a situation filmed and edited by participants and addressed directly to the students at the beginning of the next class session, creating a chain of connections and continuity, and in this way constituting a school that stretched over a range of times, spaces and institutions.

From Exhibition as School in a Divided City by Anton Vidokle
http://www.manifesta6.org.cy/MEDIA/NOTESFORANARTSCHOOL/02.pdf

Posted by delpesco at March 11, 2006 10:50 AM