​Residency Scholarship

for the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg

 

Scholarship: Coverage of the course fee and a subsidy for living expenses and accommodation of €250 per week (maximum €1,500).

Course: Mental Mapping: or how to draw clouds of thoughts

Travel period: August 19, 2024 – August 31, 2024 (two weeks)

Course leader(teaching&artist): Adriana Bustos (http://www.adrianabustos.com.ar)
Co-teaching: Johanna Binder (http://www.johannabinder.at/)

Location:
Fortress Hohensalzburg

Michael-Pacher-Straße 27, 5020 Salzburg, Austria (summeracademy.at)

Open Studio Exhibition: August 30, 2024

Scholarship provider: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany

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Contemporary art is a complex system of knowledge that persistently raises new and distinct questions about (dis)identification. There are many ways to explore and acknowledge our subjectivity in time and space. Cartography, as an instrument of topography, can help us locate ourselves through a visual language.

The attempt to construct a mental map provides an opportunity to engage with a “mental image” and to represent such images within a network of relationships. The mental image is a relatively autonomous subset within the subject. When the affective-emotional level is included, the experience enriches these images until they become symbols.

Symbols are also images of memory that emerge from an intense exchange between the subject and a situation. From this universe of symbols, inventions can arise and new images can be created. In this way, a system can be built that is capable of integrating further images within itself.

At its core, the workshop focuses on root graphs or tree structures and on the unfolding of ideas expressed through words, drawings, images, music, gestures, objects, and more.

During the workshop, we will work individually and collectively to develop a cartographic language. A mental and critical map can help situate ourselves within a vital and healthy lived experience.

(Source: summeracademy.at)