Application deadline: March 1, 2017
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New scholarships to be awarded:
Imperceptible Self scholarship for artists and curators working in Social Practices
In connection with the three year Transart Triennale research projects, two scholarships for candidates with a demonstrated history of working with Socially Engaged Practices and whose project proposal for the MFA program would follow this trajectory. Proposed projects will resonate with Transart research areas: Identity; Exile; Role of Art in Peace and Mediation; Space In Between; International Diaspora, Post-Nationalism and Post-Colonialism; Home; Temporary Architecture; Cultural Engagement through Food; Foreignness, Otherness and the Uncanny; or Publicness, Collaboration and the Social and the current triennale research theme, The Imperceptible Self.
Award is 2000 USD (1,000 USD per year).
Klaus Knoll Writing Scholarship 2017
In honor of Transart co-founder and exceptional writer Klaus Knoll, Transart is offering one scholarship each for an incoming MFA students who work predominantly with creative writing or for whom writing forms an integral part of their creative practice.
Award is 2000 USD (1,000 USD per year).
Merit Awards 2017
“Transart Merit Awards” are given for MFA and PhD work to two applicants whose practice and proposed projects are of the highest level of artistic achievement. Award is not limited to any media, theme or specific field. Transart Merit Awards are available to incoming MFA and PhD students.
MFA Award is 2000 USD (1,000 USD per year). PhD Award is 3000 (1,000 USD per year).
Peace and Social Justice Award 2017
Scholarships for a candidate with a demonstrated history of working with in the areas of peace, mediation and social justice, whose project proposal for the MFA program will continue in one of these areas.
Award is 2000 USD (1,000 USD per year).
ELSE Journal launch issue 2: “The Imperceptible Self”
Our third issue will be available via on demand publication for the first time as well as the free online issue “Calameo” March 1, 2017 here.
Fully aware that in these times, our “interaction” with “other” cultures and with nature is both inevitable and profoundly altering; we will consider other modes of framing action and existence than identity politics, shepherding nature and “I.” How else can we consider the implosion of exiled states; the entropic influx into the largest cities; the sinking of smaller ones; the collapsing distance between us? How to live now in the “eruption of desire for the future which reshapes the present”—to become imperceptible?
Contributors include: Adrian Piper, Carol Becker, Akil Kirlew, Jean-Ulrick Desert, Alexandra Ross, Gayle Meikle, Analia Sirabonian, Caroline Koebel, Jennie Klein, Sonia Barrett, Ian Burkhart, Luisa Greenfield, Mark Roth, Morgan O’Hara, Rachel Dedman, Ayman Hassan, Rachel Stevens and Susie Quillinan.
ELSE is a peer-reviewed works, projects, and research journal thematically gravitating towards memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive; language/image; international diaspora and post-colonialism; role of art in peace meditation; liminality; space/place; temporary architecture; foreignness, otherness and the uncanny.
About Transart
We believe that education is not just a paper-chase and is most relevant, effective and powerful when vitally connected to projects and initiatives in the world—beyond the walls of the academy. By its very nature, Transart creates international research communities that encourage and promote conversation and collaboration between artists, writers, curators, and thinkers across cultures. Driven by our students desires rather than the demands of bureaucracy and real estate we remain agile, responsive and nomadic; currently meeting in Berlin and New York.
Transart Institute
The Un-School for International Creative Praxes
Low-residency MFA/PhD + Advanced Artist Summer Academy
Artist-run, post-national and utopian since 2004.
Accredited by Plymouth University, UK
