Sommerakademie 2012 «Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming»

This year’s Academy curated by Marta Kuzma departs from Marcel Duchamp’s journey through the Jura Mountains in 1912 as a way for the artist to construct a parallel world so to imaginatively work through his contested relationship to military conscription. The ‘Jura-Paris Road’ served as a forum of preparation for a mission that illustrated the artist’s interest in the process of human potential as well as in mechanical systems, the dimensions of risk and chance, unpredictability among a set of givens and illustrated Duchamp’s political subjectivity through a process of thinking, doing, projecting, viewing, consuming, and even pretending in order to form abstract constellations as to possible alternatives.

Guest Curator 2012: Marta Kuzma

Fellows 2012: Burak Arikan (Türkei) | Eduardo Tomas Basualdo (Argentinien) | Emily Verla Bovino (USA) | Luis Da Silva (Portugal) | Övül Durmusoglu (Türkei) | Florian Graf (Schweiz) | Tamara Henderson (Kanada) | Arturo Hernàndez Alcàzar (Mexiko) | Angie Keefer (USA) | Alex Klein (USA) | Mohau Modisakeng (Südafrika) | Oriol Vilanova (Spanien) Speakers 2012: Peter Eleey | Linus Elmes | Pablo Lafuente | James Leary | Dirk Snauwaert

Die Stiftung Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee ist ein Ausbildungsengagement
der BEKB|BCBE (Berner Kantonalbank AG).