Master Classes

BOTANICAL INTIMACIES Master Class with Benny Nemer November 13-17, 2023

Whether staring into a flower, smelling its perfume, touching the textures of mosses and barks, tasting berries, seaweed, mushrooms and saffron, watching the bowing dance of reeds and rushes in the wind or listening to the song of rustling leaves, botanical life offers us infinite sensations and affects upon which the human experience is dependent. For many of us, our attraction to, and engagement with flowers, plants, and trees is more elemental than intellectual, our intimacies with botanical life are central to the ways we live, think, and create. We turn to flowers to mediate human relations, to observe and understand the cycle of life, for inspiration on how to adorn ourselves, how to flirt, how to dance and how to wither and die. We see the true natures of our genders and sexualities in the polyform stamens and petals of flowers, a reflection of our kinship formations in the cruisy, meandering growth patterns of ivy and bougainvillea, of elm branches and gypsophila.

This Master Class will consider the ways as artists we can work with the botanical world as material and collaborators. We will create individual and collective artworks with and alongside botanical material, tuning into the vegetal world and seeking ways to invite them in collaboration. We will go on observational and foraging walks to Ghent’s Botanical Gardens, Citadel Park, and other green spaces in the city.

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LISTENING AND HOSPITALITY Master Class and Exchange with ERG Brussels January 29 - February 2, 2024 This Master Class is designed as a creative exchange with Master students from ERG, Brussels. ERG is a space for artistic, plastic and graphic practices that enter theoretical and formal risk zones; a space for research and pedagogies that are defined and redefined collectively. This spirit of collective defining and redefining will shape this Master Class: students from ERG will travel to Ghent to workshop and co-imagine artistic practices of hospitality, collaboration, and the politics of sharing space with students from KASK's Master Vrije Kunsten.

SLOW READING CLUB

Master Class with Slow Reading Club

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HIC . EST . TUUM . HORA HIER . IS . UW . UUR

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