Bursaries available to
students of the MFA Creative Practice programme include
Developing Country Scholarships, Achievement and Merit
Scholarships. The scholarships provide a reduction in tuition
of up to 50%.
More information on
scholarships.
Summer Residencies Each
residency begins with closure to the previous year’s studies
through intensive critiques, exhibitions, presentation and
performances. Residencies open with the graduate exhibition,
performances and a public vernissage. Weeks one and three
consist of studio workshops, week two focuses on cultural
studies seminars, Fridays center on student presentations. In
addition, guest lectures, artist and curator talks and
critiques as well as individual meetings with faculty take
place each week in order for students to plan, inform and
finalize the coming year’s project plans.
Semester work Between
residencies, students work one-on-one off-site with research
advisors by correspondence and self-chosen studio advisors in
an exchange which includes a minimum of two intensive critique
meetings or studio visits each semester.
Practice-based PhD
Transart faculty and students
come from a wide range of academic and artistic backgrounds as
well as geographic locations. A majority of Transart students
are emerging and mid-career artists and teachers at tertiary
institutions. Summer Faculty includes:
Radhika Subramaniam, a curator, editor and
writer based in New York. She is presently the Director/Chief
Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The
New School for Design where she is also assistant professor of
Art and Design History and Theory.
Nicolás Estévez, an interdisciplinary artist
working mostly in performance art and public interventions.
His projects have been exhibited extensively internationally
at venues such as , P.S.1/MoMA, Madrid Abierto/ARCO, Havana
Biennial, El Museo del Barrio, Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Estévez has been awarded a commission to present a town-wide
project as part of The MacDowell Colony Centennial. His work
has been reviewed in The New York Times, NYArts Magazine, The
Boston Globe, Art Nexus, Flash Art, Cuban Arts, and in major
publications in Mexico, Spain and the Dominican
Republic.
David Dunn, a composer and artist who is
internationally known for his articulation of frameworks that
combine the arts and sciences towards practical environmental
activism and problem solving. He has been the recipient of
over 35 grants and fellowships for both artistic and
scientific research, including the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, Langlois Foundation, Ford
Foundation, and various US embassies. In 2005, he received the
prestigious Alpert Award for music, and the Henry Cowell Award
from the American Music Center in 2007.
Geoff Cox, a Researcher in Digital Aesthetics
in the Department of Information and Media Studies at Aarhus
University (DK). He is also an occasional artist, writer, and
Associate Curator of Online Projects, Arnolfini, Bristol (UK),
and Reader in Art and Technology, University of Plymouth (UK)
where he is part of KURATOR/Art and Social Technologies
Research group. He is an editor for the DATA Browser book
series (published by Autonomedia), and co-edited 'Economising
Culture' (2004), 'Engineering Culture' (2005) and 'Creating
Insecurity' (2009). His research interests lie in the areas of
software studies, network culture and a reappraisal of the
concept of the 'public'.
Student Experience
The majority of Transart students are emerging
and mid-career artists and educators at tertiary institutions.
Transart Institute’s residencies are a meeting place for
cultural exchange. Transart students and alumni will converge
for the summer residency from areas as diverse as Italy,
Egypt, Pakistan, Iceland, Croatia, Ethiopia, Canada, Costa
Rica, the UK and the US.
For many students the time at Transart is a
transformational experience. New York based artist Virgil Wong
found “The community I’ve become a part of through Transart is
already much more immersive than what I’ve developed in ten
years of living and working as an artist in New York City”.
Photographer and performer Angelika Rinnhofer found that “to
work independently can pose a challenge but it also offers
freedom and flexibility. Since a large number of students are
accomplished artists and earn a living, Transart’s concept is
ideal to work toward a degree and to expand one’s artistic
career in addition to having a job.”
Summer residency | July 23 -
August 11, 2011 | Tanzfabrik, Berlin
Winter
residency | January 5 - 8, 2012 |
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Transartfest: Berlin,
August 4-5, 2012
MFA Creative Practice and PhD studies
validated by University of Plymouth UK |
www.plymouth.ac.uk
