Fwd: INDEPENDENT STUDIES PROGRAMME - Spain

> Call for applications > The Independent Studies Programme at the MACBA > > > Deadline for the reception of applications: > 2 October 2009 > > > Applications are only accepted via regular mail: > Independent Studies Programme - MACBA > Plaça dels Àngels, 1 > 08001 Barcelona, Spain > > > > > > > For further information: > pei@macba.cat > www.macba.cat > Telephone: (+34) 93 481 79 00 > > > > > > Call for applications > The Independent Studies Programme at the MACBA > > Classes begin 14 January 2010 and end in December 2011. > > The Independent Studies Programme (PEI in its Spanish initials) > explores the field of artistic practices that link art to the human > sciences and to critical-social intervention. The Programme seeks to > enhance students' capacity to participate in professional activities > and their ability to articulate a critical position in regards to > art and culture. > > > Subjects: > > Critical Theory. Constitutes the backbone of the Programme and > addresses the different methodologies, meta-languages and tools that > have been constructed in order to approach the institution of art. > > Political Imagination. Explores the link between aesthetic activity > and forms of political action, going beyond insufficient notions of > art as well as of politics. > > Economy and Culture. Seeks to investigate what has come to be called > cognitive capitalism, a radical change of paradigm which is > characterised by the centrality of immaterial and cognitive > dimensions (among them, culture) in the processes of accumulation > and value production. > > Post-urban Architecture. Explores the ways in which cities reveal > themselves with increasing clarity as diffuse and complex wholes > which acquire their true dimensions as meeting places and frontiers > for the general trends of globalization and the particular pre- > existing aspects of the local. > > Gender Technologies. Studies the complex theoretical legacy of > feminist studies, which today constitute one of the central themes > of any analysis of visibility. > > Strategies of Desire. Explores convergences and divergences between > spaces of artistic creativity and those of psychotherapy. > > Art, Visibility and Representation. Now covers a more extensive area > for the study of art and visibility which, rather than being limited > to historiographical discourse, begins with the understanding that > art generates a specific form of knowledge and culture which needs > to be addressed in a broader, cross-cutting and multidisciplinary way. > > Core Faculty and Guest Lecturers: > > Rosi Braidotti, Judith Butler, Douglas Crimp, Marcelo Expósito, > David Harvey, Ana Longoni, Rita McBride, Chantal Mouffe, Francesc > Muñoz, Beatriz Preciado, John Rajchman, Jacques Rancière, Emmanuel > Rodríguez, Suely Rolnik and Allan Sekula. > > Director: Xavier Antich > > Assistant director: Manuel Asensi > > > Admission requirements: Applicants must have a university degree or > equivalent and must have a good level of both Spanish and English. > The classes are given in Spanish and English depending on the > professor and the subject matter. > > Applicants to the Programme must provide the following information: > > Application form (available at www.macba.cat) > Personal statement (two pages) > Curriculum vitae > Two letters of recommendation > A certified photocopy of the university degree > A photocopy of the national ID card or passport > Two passport-sized photographs > > Applications are only accepted via regular mail: > Independent Studies Programme - MACBA > Plaça dels Àngels, 1 > 08001 Barcelona, Spain > > Tuition for the full two years is €3,000. > > Deadline for the reception of applications: 2 October 2009 > > > > For further information: pei@macba.cat / www.macba.cat > Telephone: (+34) 93 481 79 00 > > > > > > > Image: Rita McBride. Sand (detail), 1997. MACBA Collection. > Consorcio Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. © Rita McBride, > 2009. Photo: Tony Coll. > > > > > This e-mail IS NOT SPAM. > If you wish to unsucribe, please use the link provided in the bottom > of the page. > > > email to a friend | contact | suscribe www.exitmail.net > to unsuscribe click / here