Information Session
Friday, November 3, 1:00–2:00 p.m., Zoom
Apply by December 5
This course is led by Althea Thauberger
- Course dates: May 15 to July 18, 2024
- Travel dates: June 6-20, 2024
- Format: In-person
- Location(s) visited: UBC and Berlin, Germany
- Approximate program fee: $2785-3300 (Go Global fee, tuition, food and flight are not included)
- Funding available (click through to learn more about each award)
- ARA (qualifying Arts students only)
- Go Global Award (non-ARA qualifying students)
- Global Pathfinder Award
- Recipients of this award will not qualify for the $1000 Go Global Award or ARA
Art and the City: Berlin field course in contemporary art and theory will be a studio seminar on historical and contemporary relationships between politics, activism and art production in the city of Berlin. The course will provide students with knowledge of historical cultural movements that have grown out of political resistance and solidarities of importance in that city, as a basis for imagining and building parallel practices in varying present contexts.
In preparation for the research portion of this course, students will receive an overview of late 19th and 20th Century Berlin cultural and political history at UBC Vancouver, and develop individual research questions. They will then spend 14 intensive days in Berlin, during which time the learning will be focused on post-reunification culture, theory, and activist practices as they are intertwined with current contemporary art production in the city. Students will be engaged with Berlin-based artists as co-instructors and workshop leaders and will be asked to reflect on their respective positions as visitors in relation to the topics discussed.