Abandoned Practices Institute:
Prague 2012 Summer Study Trip
July 8th - 28th, 2012

Teachers: Lin Hixson, Mark Jeffery, Matthew Goulish

2012 Visiting Scholar: Laura Cull

This 3-week summer intensive looks forward by looking backward, researching, enacting, and embodying practices that for one reason or another have been disregarded in the wake of progress, and relegated to the archives of history. This year, the course relocates to Prague, in the Czech Republic, to explore and study this compact city, with 600 years of visible history, as an urban classroom and an inexhaustible catalogue of abandoned practices and endangered uses. Students will participate in individual and collaborative projects involving writing, installation, documentation, and live performance. Teachers and visiting scholars will lecture on related subjects. Available for credit and non-credit enrollment.

Abandoned practices constitutes an emerging field of inquiry pioneered by Alan Read of King’s College, London, author of Theatre, Intimacy, and Engagement: The Last Human Venue (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). The course focus will allow a thematic meeting place that confronts the common accelerated temporalities of the 21st century, whether in the form of economic and artistic globalization, technologies ceaseless upgrade, or the general shifts in understanding the word local.

The course does not propose that we share a mutual past, but rather that we might mutually discover a shared strategy of thinking about our pasts, a strategy of reimagining and reenacting the different abandoned practices that once defined the ordinary.

Registration for Summer 2012 Study Trips at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago begins March 8th, 2012.

ABANDONED PRACTICES COSTS 2012:
Credit Tuition (3.0 credits): $3693
Non-Credit Tuition: $1575
Non-Credit Tuition: Art Insitute of Chicago Members $1416
Non-Credit Tuition: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni $1182
Program Fee with Housing $1700
Program Fee without Housing $1050

If you are a current SAIC student please follow this link to register: SAIC Summer Course Registration

If you are not a current SAIC student, to register you must download and complete this form: NON-SAIC Summer Course Registration.

Non-SAIC applicants can email their completed form to the registrar:
saic.registrar@saic.edu