Here are some images from the final show of this years Summer-Academy Class "Drawing as Desiring-Machine". Actually, I am quite proud about the fantastic, sometimes explosive, results. A Desiring Machine indeed. Keep up the spirits and the good work, everybody. Many more pictures from th Academy are on Sigrid's flickr page. Check it out!
Course: Christoph Schäfer, Assistance: Tanja Boukal
Hannahlisa Kunyik 
Hannahlisa Kunyik Fotografiert von / Photographed by Susanne Mariacher
Hannahlisa Kunyik Fotografiert von / Photographed by Susanne Mariacher
Hannahlisa Kunyik
Fotografiert von / Photographed by Susanne Mariacher
Sommerakademie - Tag der offenen Tür, 2011* * *
Khai Ken Tai De-Constructing Salzburg
Khai Ken Tai De-Constructing Salzburg
Khai Ken Tai De-Constructing Salzburg
Khai Ken Tai De-Constructing Salzburg
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Susanne Mariacher ohne Titel/ Untitled
Susanne Mariacher ohne Titel/ Untitled (detail)
Susanne Mariacher ohne Titel/ Untitled (detail)
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Brigitte Dannhäuser Die Städter und die Ratten
Brigitte Dannhäuser Die Städter und die Ratten
Brigitte DannhäuserDie Städter und die Ratten
Brigitte Dannhäuser Die Städter und die Ratten
Brigitte Dannhäuser Die Städter und die Ratten
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Jenn Murray Upmerge Series 2011
Jenn Murray Upmerge Series 2011 (detail, slightly out of focus, sorry)
Jenn Murray Upmerge Series 2011 (detail, slightly out of focus, sorry)
Jenn Murray Upmerge Series 2011 (detail, slightly out of focus, sorry)
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Tina Hainschwango.T./untitled
Tina Hainschwang o.T./untitled
Tina Hainschwang
o.T./untitled
Foto: Sigrid Ehemann
Sigrid's flickr page
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Giovanni Alberti Gravity
Giovanni Alberti Gravity
Giovanni Alberti
Gravity
Giovanni Alberti
Gravity
Giovanni Alberti Gravity
Giovanni Alberti Gravity
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Vladimir Miladinovic
Golden age
Vladimir Miladinovic
Golden age
Vladimir Miladinovic
Golden age
Vladimir Miladinovic
Golden age
Vladimir Miladinovic
Golden age
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Ida Duswald Stadt als Wunschmaschine
Ida Duswald Stadt als Wunschmaschine
Ida Duswald Stadt als Wunschmaschine
Ida Duswald Stadt als Wunschmaschine
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Sigrid Ehemann
salzburg I the invisible cities (detail)
Sigrid's "Invisble Cities" Series looks much better as a slideshow
Sigrid Ehemann
salzburg I the invisible cities (detail)
Sigrid Ehemann
salzburg I the invisible cities (detail)
Sigrid's "Invisble Cities" Series looks much better as a slideshow
Sigrid Ehemann salzburg I the invisible cities
Sigrid's "Invisble Cities" Series looks much better as a slideshow
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Nina Gusenbauer
Titel? Ich überleg noch
Titel? Ich überleg noch
Nina Gusenbauer
Titel? Ich überleg noch
Nina Gusenbauer
Titel? Ich überleg noch
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Works not shown in the class but installed in Public Space:
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Nicole Weniger
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Nicole Weniger
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Nicole Weniger
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Nicole Weniger
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Nicole Weniger
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I got fantastic responses from different people who saw the variety,depth, decision,
honesty and artistic precision of this fine group of young and old artists participating.
There were no fakes, no attempts to make something hollow "look-like-art" -
but a lot of originality, style, talent, unconventional turns, big individual steps and moves
on thin ice. Many people realized and appreciated the extreme individuality of our exhibition.
Thanks for the nice work!
And, by the way, we had so much fun, with your spirited art and temperaments, what a pity,
it's over.
Christoph Schäfer in front of Salzburg Panorama (Foto: Jenn Murray)
From the course program: "Individual conversations to investigate students' ideas
and to develop their personal artistic language are at the centre of the course. The drawing may be
seen as an end product or as a step towards an installation, painting,
screenplay or utopian urban design. The main thing is that drawing
should be used as a "desiring-machine" for constructing worlds of one's own.
The course is intended as a platform for the
exchange of subjective approaches to work, with drawing taken as the
means of urban exploration. We will develop drawing tools for the
analysis and representation of urban structures. You will go on expeditions into unfamiliar or forgotten
areas of the town. Small-scale adventures in the town and escape routes
from everyday urban life will be sought out, and their textures decoded.
Excursions, shared reading of poetic and theoretical texts,
exercises in getting lost, and an intensive exchange organised in
experimental set-ups are designed for the mutual reinforcement of the
two aspects of the course, enabling the students to achieve new ways of
looking at things, as well as imaginatively to cross their own
boundaries and try out new techniques and practices.
Drawing will be the primary
medium, but during the course the medium will repeatedly be changed to
narrated or written text. Photography and other visual techniques may
also be used."
