Master Classes
HOW TO SIGN UP FOR A MASTER CLASS:
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Please sign up for one Master Class only. If you wish to take a second class, please add yourself to the Waiting List for now. Those students not inscribed for the 'Masterproef' can also add their names to the Waiting List, however inscribed students have first priority.
MASTER CLASS "THE FLOOR ON THURSDAY" with STEFAAN DHEEDENE
Attention: This Master Class will be spread out over the academic year! The first 2 days to meet will be: November 18-19, 2024
'The Floor on Thursday' is an initiative where the floor of the Installation Studio is reserved for public exhibitions and events organised by master’s students participating in this Master Class. While the Master Class is led by the Master of Fine Arts programme, students from the Master's programmes in Graphic Design, Photography, and Autonomous Design are also encouraged to register.
This Master Class is open to anyone with the ambition to organise events, experiment with different formats, create a dynamic or engage with audiences, or explore curatorial practices. Where necessary, we provide production and budgetary support, with workshops and lending services readily available nearby.
The aim of 'The Floor on Thursday' is to create public events or exhibitions on Thursday evenings, fostering collaboration, shared interests, and curatorial approaches. This initiative also seeks to bring together students from various courses, encouraging them to collaborate around these student-led public events. The participating students take the initiative, filling the space with events they find important and relevant.
Students begin by exploring their own artistic practices, engaging in discussions, and experimenting with various exhibition methods. They seek opportunities for collaboration or intersections with other students, artists, activists, musicians, and others—both within and beyond KASK. Given the diversity of media used, there are no restrictions on the format of the event or exhibition. There is no pressure to move beyond one’s preferred medium, but the focus is on developing and exploring public programming that reflects individual insights. The aim is to foster dialogue and develop concrete projects that share artistic experiences beyond the confines of one’s studio or production space.
During the two-day introduction, we will collectively discuss the options for putting together a programme. Students will also present their own work to one another, forging connections with fellow students, who serve as their primary sounding board.
We will establish a rough framework for the coming academic year, after which you can prepare for your public presentation in pairs or small groups. As a tutor, I will visit the studio during this period, and we will meet on the floor for further feedback and for the final public event.
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MASTER CLASS "BOTANICAL ENTANGLEMENTS" with BENNY NEMER
November 4-7, 2024
Whether staring into a flower, smelling its perfume, touching the textures of mosses and barks, tasting berries, seaweed, mushrooms and saffron, watching the 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. Ghent’s Botanical Gardens will donate plant matter for our experiments and collective creation.
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Master Class with Frank Wasser
FEBRUARY 10-14, 2025
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Master Class with Lili Huston-Herterich
MARCH 24-27, 2025
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