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Jurgen Bey Opening presentation at Open Sandberg 2023
Q: Is it possible to apply to more than one program?
A: Yes, you must indicate this on the digital application form.
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Critical Studies presentation at Open Sandberg 2023
An Outline of Things, Sounds Cartography
Short Worlds for Halftime - A reading
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Absence, twice removed
Propositions for post-disciplinarity
Kitchen Conversations
Q: Is it possible to apply without a bachelor in arts?
A: Yes, anyone with a bachelor's level degree or equivalent can be accepted. A convincing portfolio and practice related to art and a clear idea of what you would like to achieve in two years are as important.
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An Outline of Things, Sounds Cartography
femmecore
Design Department presentation at Open Sandberg 2023
Nuet är där mina kroppar möts (Presence is where my bodies align)
Q: Are the studies collective or individual?
A: Everyone follows their own trajectory and graduates individually. Frequently there are collective projects and collaborative workshops and seminars.
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Tennis
Una película sin película A film without a film
Future Crystals of the Anthropocene

Notes to Future Students — Tutor Anna Reutinger in conversation with Public Sandberg

DIRTY ART DEPARTMENT

Course

The Dirty Art Department offers itself as an open space for all possible thought, creation, and action. It sees itself as a dynamic paradox, flowing between the pure and the applied, the existential and the deterministic, and the holy and the profane. It is concerned with individuality, collectivity, and our navigation of the complex relationship between the built world and the natural world, and other people and ourselves. It’s a place to build objects or totems; spiritual streams or websites; revolutions or business models; paintings or galaxies.

The Dirty Art Department comes from a common background of design and applied art, it seeks, however, to reject the Kantian division between the pure and the applied. Since “god is dead” and “the spectacle” is omnipresent, it sees the creation of alternative and new realities as the way to reconsider our life situation on this planet.

The Dirty Art Department is open to students from all backgrounds, including designers, artists, bankers, sceptics, optimists, economists, philosophers, sociologists, independent thinkers, poets, urban planners, farmers, anarchists, and the curious. Please enjoy the trip.

The aim of the Dirty Art Department is to develop singular practices, both individual and collective, and, regardless of medium or subject, to give an insight into how to place these practices into the existing contexts of art, design, performance, writing, pizza making, etc. The final challenge is to create new contexts, that is: the transformation of reality, or the “revolution” in contemporary terms. The Dirty Art Department promotes a strong theoretical and philosophical agenda and is open to dangerous attempts and spectacular failures. It sees itself as a journey, and wherever it stops off, it remembers that “Any Space is the Place.”

Milestones: Following the tenet of a non-pedagogic pedagogy, the department see its role as being to create situations for things to happen in: from buying one way tickets “on the road to nowhere,” initiating the occupation of Papaverweg and the creation of the autonomous living and project space Post-Norma, to the long term collaboration with the Macao Collective—including the Wandering School in 2016, a collective living and social sculpture which was nominated for the inaugural Milan Design Prize in 2017; followed by the Wandering School Part 2: Revolution or Bust! in 2018, a dérive that included meeting Franco “Bifo” Berardi as the oracle of Delphi, walking through the wilderness to Athens, clashes with Titans, a peace offering to the gods, helping to rebuild a refugee centre, regular encounters with tear gas, and just simply being there. The collective film Revolution or Bust! was presented at the third Youth Biennale of Bolzano in 2018, curated by Christian Jankowski.

Students

The Dirty Art Department is open to students from all backgrounds with an active desire to act as an agent for the creation of the new world.

Website: www.dirtyartdepartment.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtyartdepartment
Instagram: @dirtyartdepartment

Fine Art performance at Open Sandberg 2023
Pet(s)
Sow reaper
Fluffed Occupations
Untitled
51.050057 N, 2.197191 W
Screaming in a similar key
Creamsicle Dress with Drippy Collars
Collecting memories
FOGIIV
The Onset Of Fever
Q: Do different departments collaborate?
A: There are some occasional collaborative workshops and seminars across departments, but generally each department follows their own trajectory. There are also a number of student initiatives which collaborate across departments.
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Studio for Immediate Spaces presentation at Open Sandberg 2023
Every Object tells many stories
Fabulous Future
Dream of desert land x1
Untitled
It Had Something To Do with The Telling Of Time
Bucolic Gang
If you knew time as well as I do
MATTER WITHIN MATTER WITHIN MATTER A Triptych to Saint Bride
Q: Is it allowed to take my dog to school?
A: Unfortunately, dogs or other pets are not allowed, except for guide dogs or similar.
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Artificial Times presentation at Open Sandberg 2023
Q: How many students are selected for the master of fine arts?
A: We accept around 12 students, per department, per year.
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Graduation project
Your Future
Explained
Q: Is there an age limit for candidates?
A: There is no age limit.
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Monarchy Energy
Peach Tree, Ambiguous
Input Party
The Window
The Apple Pie
p.i.a. services
A smokers theatre
gut
 wait, I thought I was supposed to be a generous cook in a greasy kitchen - true stories told
Q: Are study years one and two intertwined?
A: Both study years of the main departments share the same space and follow the same seminars. There isn’t a strict divide between the years across each department.
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Konzert fur Spielzug und schwimmbad
Q: What’s the duration of the study?
A: All programs are full-time two-year courses. You earn 60 ECTS points per year (European Credit Transfer System).
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The Pendant
The Pendant
Bracing Bodies
How to Read a Spread with The Pendant Tarot Deck
Hier praten we liever niet over
Places of Belonging
Q: Can I apply to all temporary departments?
A: Temporary departments are two-year programs developed according to urgent world issues. The two new temporary departments starting in 2023 are Artificial Times and Planetary Poetics which are open for applications.
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This Window is A World
Places of Belonging
Unsettling presents Sydney Lowell at Open Sandberg 2023
Open Sandberg 21
workshop
Choir of Tongue
Asian Union
Asian Union