We are fellows to Sommerakademie Paul Klee, a 16-month program hosted by the Bern University of the Arts HKB. We will be in Switzerland for parts of August and December 2019 and 2020.

The new Sommerakademie Paul Klee, under artistic director Tirdad Zolghadr, is a fully funded program over two summer sessions eight residents are granted access to the university’s infrastructure and technical support. Although based on the idea of an academy, the aim is to transcend the blueprint of seminars and tutorials, and to focus on group research and cross-professional coalition building. This in close partnership with international art institutions such as KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin.

 Both in terms of a concrete curatorial theme and a fundamental working premise, the SPK seeks to account for the consequences of Contemporary Art. It traces the impact artists effectively have on the world around them, and works towards possibilities of reclaiming and steering that leverage. As such, it asks how the traction of Contemporary Art, as is, can be used to maximum effect, here and now.