UNIDEE - University of Ideas is an educational programme investigating the relationship between art and the public sphere and combining theory with practice. Through a new programme based on a weekly research and project laboratory under the guidance of a mentor and the active participation of a guest, the residency modules developed for 2016 focus on three new macro topics wich are: research, gift and alteration. Full programme UNIDEE – University of Ideas 2016 available here: http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activities.html

25 Apr / 29 Apr, 2016
(Over)worked Bodies, Care and Maintenance
Mentor: Jason Waite
Guest: Adelita Husni-Bey 

How do capitalist imperatives condition us to perform unsustainably as individual subjects? As cultural workers grappling with the neoliberal imperatives shaping the field's relations, how do these manifest in the mental and physical stresses of the contemporary labor form?
The module departs from its context, Cittadellarte - Pistoletto Foundation, a former textile factory transformed into a site of cultural industry, to examine the formation of our desires around our work, its impact on our bodies and modes of maintenance.
Over the week-long session the aim is to identify and acknowledge these critical constructs shaping artistic practices, undertaking a collective research to work towards unlearning these moralities through alternative pedagogy, theatre of the oppressed exercises, disabilities studies, workerist theory and horizontal learning.

TOPICS/TAGS
Radical pedagogy, movement practices, critical theory, horizontality, disabilities studies, collective care, research, alteration, gift

Fees and support
570,00 € Including accomodation and half-board

Application information
For complete module outline, schedule and to submit applications: http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=69