Live Art Forms is organised along three axes, which in our research and practice manifest as conceptual threads. They do not form identifiable disciplines, genres, techniques or methods, but rather run through multiple ways of “making”. In our study plan they also form the open modules that structure our classes to render them “undisciplined”, cross-genre and de-gendered.

TECHNE focuses on the use of contemporary technologies and media that support and host performative practices. It situates the artists’ live work in mixed and virtual realities, on a multiplicity of devices, as well as digital platforms. Courses contextualize students’ work by means of theoretical and artistic study, writing and making practices, software trainings, scoring and coding in human and machine languages. More info on the TECHNE thread.

SOMA places the body as a system at the center of artistic work and teaches expanded dramaturgies, movement- and body-based practices, choreography, embodied concepts and incorporated communal, infrastructural and planetary metabolisms. More info on the SOMA thread. 

GEOS supports the individual situating of students’ practices — understood as navigating a path from one position to the next, from one instance of making-public to the other. These pathways are taught as a sequence of positions across disciplines, media and genres by negotiating the complex and multiplying vector space of contemporary aesthetic practice. More info on GEOS thread. 

The program features a uniquely structured course load with phases of intense, concentrated learning to accommodate students’ work both within and beyond the studios and stages of the academy. The course structure consists of a total of four one-month-long teaching phases in the fall, winter, spring and summer over the academic year. These phases require students’ presence on campus at the Fine Arts Academy in Nuremberg. They alternate with longer phases of more independent off-campus study, in which teaching is organized via digital platforms, facilitating regular exchange between mentors and students on their projects’ development. The campus-centered yet essentially low-residency character of the program allows participants to maintain their already established networks and pursue their individual projects independently in a global context. 

A group of Visiting Artist Lecturers and mentors from within and outside the academy ensure a multiplicity of worldviews, contexts, identities, and practices across disciplines and media to relate to students’ artistic work. As students themselves are involved in the process of proposing and choosing new mentors and visiting professors, their specific practice-oriented interests are addressed uniquely.

The program is structured by four-week phases taking place in fall, winter, spring and summer on campus at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. These intense phases of collective learning and production alternate with phases in which students are able to research, work and study elsewhere. These on- and off-campus phases shape the “low-residency” character of the program and enable students to develop an independent and international practice beyond the studios and stages of the academy.

General descriptions of classes and a sequence of studying over the course of two years are available for download in a catalog of modules (Modulhandbuch)

Here you can find a plan of study phases as a pdf. 

Here you can find a visual study plan as a pdf.