This course employs an alternative educational methodology in which the participants (also called co-experimenters) will connect the dots of various places/people/situations with the concept of eco-ontology, prompting an ontological inquiry into what is natural/physical, what is ethereal/intangible, or else prompting reconceptions of what it is for humanity to exist and survive.
Taking as inspirations the stories, sites, rituals, and visuals in and around Salzburg, the course will expand ideas of new spiritualities between physical and hybrid corporealities. Every kind of medium and process will be accepted for the proposed seminars conducted by the participants/co-experimenters. The workshops and meetings among the participants will be performed both indoors and outdoors.
The course will be divided into three stages. In the first stage, participants/co-experimenters will survey the local context, bridging places/situations/people with the general statement they are working with in preparing their workshop/presentation. In this stage, there will be individual and communal consultations. The goal of the second stage is to conduct the workshops in a conversational mode. One participant can also conduct more than one workshop, and one workshop can be conducted by more than one person. The aim of the third stage is to design a PDF/book that integrates all material generated from all the participants in the form of interviews and research material.
This course follows a non-didactic method and attempts to trigger the individual into a creative process that transforms her/him/they into both creator and receptor of experiential education. In addition, the class will give the confidence to be able to speak in public, to work communally, and to create their own content through the use of self-publishing.
Information
- Venue
- Festung Hohensalzburg
- Date
- 1. – 13. 8. 22
- Requirements
- Willingness to work in groups
- What to bring
- Laptop, camera, material from the students’ archives, etc.
- Teaching language
- English
Angelo Plessas
Angelo Plessas lives and works between Athens and Kymi, Greece. His work highlights the ambiguous approach of spirituality with technology delving into a broad set of cosmologies, activating modes of communal inteconnectivity, social relations and identity. Plessas' activities range from rituals to artist residencies; from self-publishing to interactive websites; from quilted sculptures to live-stream events and educational projects. Over the past years, he has organized the annual week-long gatherings of the Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood and Experimental Education Protocol in different remote places in the world. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the 13th Gwangju Biennale, S. Korea, documenta 14, both in Kassel and Athens, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Jeu de Paume, Paris, Onassis-Stegi, DESTE Foundation and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. Plessas is the founder of P.E.T. Projects in Athens, a Fulbright alumnus, and he recipient of the 2015 DESTE Prize. He has also edited and published four books about the residencies programmes he organized and directed.
Website
Exhibitions
2022 Persones Persons, 8th Biennale Gherdëina, Val di Gardena (IT). 2021 Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR). 2019 Extended Mind, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (UK). 2018 I was raised on the internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (US). 2017 Learning from Athens, documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (DE)
Publications
Ben Eastham, Angelo Plessas (interview), Acne Papers, London, 2021
Angelo Plessas, Experimental Education Protocol, Nero Publishing, Rome, 2021
Rahel Aima, Prizing Eccentric Talents, Artforum, 2021
Michelangelo Corsaro, Angelo Plessas: The Noospheric Society, in: 13th Gwangju Biennale (exh. cat.), Gwangju, 2021
Angelo Plessas, Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood, Nero Publishing, Rome, 2018
