Summer School of Art 

Palermo, Italy

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Project organized by Caffè Internazionale

partners: Galería Alternativa & Palermo Soul

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Caffè Internazionale presents the third edition of the Palermo Summer School of contemporary art. Two artists every year are invited to work on the idea of ​​counter/production as indipendent processes linked to production. The visiting professors of the 2018 edition were: Cesare Viel (artist, Genova, Italy) and Dora Garcia (artist, Madrid, Spain).

 

The summerschool is structured in workshops, individual and collective. Each artist will have time for himself and for the group.

Counter / Production focuses on the idea of cultural production as a necessity and urgency of counterproduction. Counterproduction in art is a disruption device and a poetical reactivation of reality in artistic language. The possible strategies of thought and art actions are a constant work of rethinking the object, the process, the artist's role and its function. Counter/Production will try to work through active participation of the lecturers, guests and participants to the school to identify, analyze and propose the idea of cultural production as necessary counterproduction.

 

The school will be attended by two very curious personality of the global contemporary art system, whose presence will help with collective discussions to facilitate and stimulate the production or counterproduction of a final project. The workshop will be structured in more phases: presentation and discussion of the work of the participating artists, excursions to special hidden places of the city, work-shopping with curators and invited artists, event/party at Caffè Internazionale if needed/wanted.

 

The exhibition space of Caffè Internazionale will be the place wehre we'll visulize the processes of reflection, as if the space was a big white board where to act the thought and its visual forms.