How? Launch of the AFAD Intermedia Studio Handbook
We cordially invite you to the presentation of the VŠVU Intermedia Studio manual How?, which will take place on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 6 pm in the AFAD courtyard at Hviezdoslavovo námestie 18. The publication will be launched by the students and professors from the Intermedia Studio. The graphic design was taken care of by Aurélia Garová. We look forward to seeing you!
Where?
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VŠVU Courtyard
- Hviezdoslavovo Nám. 18, Bratislava, Slovakia
When?
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
- Handbook compiled by: Jana Kapelová and Roman Bicek
- Text authors: Roman Bicek, Viktor Jakubčo, Jana Kapelová, Michaela Prablesková, Miroslav Šujan
- Translations: Roman Bicek, Denis Amoako
- Language editing: Lucia Brezovská, Paul McCullough
- Graphic design: Aurélia Garová
- Reviewers: Eliška Mazalanová, Daniel Grúň
Annotation
How not to teach art, but rather support the development of those who study it? How to be non-hierarchical yet natural authorities? How to create a safe space for everyone to express their opinions? To support courage? How to observe patiently and allow mistakes to be tested? To develop one’s own aesthetic? To un-school? Not advise? To accompany, to lead toward non-competitiveness, collaboration, discipline, persistence, self-reflection, giving and receiving feedback?
These are the questions we've been asking ourselves for five years during the operation of the Intermedia Studio (unofficially Studio aKapela) at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. We decided to capture them in this handbook—to archive the time we've spent together between 2019 and 2024, and the methods and ways we communicate about art and its making.
