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The Faculty of Invisibility
The Faculty of Invisibility composes itself of a group of artists, practitioners, designers, theorists and teachers who mutually carry out an emerging institute. On invitation tutors open departments with regard to their very practice. The authority over these departments is at the disposal of the tutors. The departments hold their own sites and formats, hence the Faculty's scope cannot be detached from the tutors' practices. The Faculty of Invisibility gathers in Manifestations. Still, the Faculty of Invisibility does not consist of a continuity of its members, departments or events in which one chapter follows another but, quiet the opposite, it establishes itself again and again.
The Faculty of Invisibility appears to be in disengagement, a potential context in withdrawing.
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Publicness
The Faculty does not appear publicly but attempts to constitute its own public. In manifestations such as the Speech, the Letters, the Communiqué or upcoming the Invitation, the Faculty traverses different formats of publicness and attempts to comprehend the degree of bureaucracy, of continuity and the possibility of not knowing at the foundation of social organization. Its manifestations are exclusive but the Faculty does issue its communication and develops its distribution in for example the Communiqué (Friday, June 15, 2007), 1000 copies comprising The Speech (6/7/8 Dec 2006. Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands) distributed by its tutors.
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Tutors
In the Faculty tutors open departments upon invitation. In the Departments tutors teach what is essential about their practice. It is at the disposal of the tutors to decide how their practice can be taught or mediated. Only a tutor can become a student in the Faculty.
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Departments
Mari Brellochs (Department of Transcendence and Paradox), Stanley Brinks (Department of Swimming), Roé Cherpac, Wim Cuyvers (Department of Common Spaces), Clemence Freschard (Department of Masters and Disciples),
Paul Gangloff (Department of Haunting), David Goldenberg (Department of Post Autonomy), Natascha Hagenbeek (Department of Real Cool), Sönke Hallmann (Department of Reading), Ingela Johansson (Department of Uncertainty), Nikita Kadan (Department of Parasitism and Symbioses), Alevtina Kakhidze (Department of Shame), Lesya Khomenko (Department of Play), Volodymyr Kuznetsov (Department of Survival), Nebojsa Milikic (Department of Learning), One Day Nation, Hinrich Sachs (Department of Speech Genres), Monika Vykoukal (Department of Doubt), Inga Zimprich (Department of Practice).
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Research
The Faculty of Invisibility aims to respond to the question: How to read an invisible book and how to know its next chapter?
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Links
Department of Reading
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Manifestations
The Faculty confers at irregular intervals in manifestations. Since the Faculty of Invisibility insists on constituting its own public, its "appearances" are invisible while its manifestations are exclusive. The Faculty's subject though are culturally derived formats of publicness, of public gathering, organization and instituting, dedicating its manifestations to perform these public formats and invest them with experience as in: The Speech (6/7/8 Dec 2006. Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands), The Letters (without end), The Communiqué (15th of June 2007, 1000 copies distributed by the tutors), and, upcoming The Invitation (from December 10th 07 until May 2008).
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Documents
Communiqué
The Invitation
Archive
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Partners
The Faculty of Invisibility invites institutional partners as academic institutions, art-spaces and galleries dedicated to or interested in artistic research to share the agreement of developing the faculty. These partners are invited to commit to the faculties' development. They are encouraged to host one of the faculty's manifestations in which they will play an active role in developing starting points and formats.
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The Faculty of Invisibility has been initiated by Inga Zimprich in 2006.
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