Summer School and Intensives

Research Intensives and Summer Schools

CAPIm aims to facilitate connections between research and education via engagement with experimental approaches to both education and research. The versatile and flexible format of the intensive, including seasonal variations such as the Spring or Summer School, provides an opportunity to experiment with different daily rhythms and with many different dynamics of collective learning and inquiry. It also allows for thinking of the intensive as not exclusively a matter of pedagogy. It can also be a device for peer learning and exchange of practices among established researchers and practitioners. It can also be a research instrument in its own right supporting and enabling collaborative artistic research processes.

The immersive nature of intensives, based on the bodily social encounter of being together in a temporary community of several days or even weeks duration, can generate a very dynamic space of inquiry. When it includes activities such as: preparing food together; peer-led movement; voice and performance workshops; exercises in sensory attunement; or collaborating directly in artistic production on site; the intensive format can have transformative effects for all involved and foster inter- and trans- disciplinary inititiatives. Different intensives may be addressed to different groups, however, typically these are open to established and trainee researchers, practicing artists and other professionals, and a wide range of students.

In addition to intensives held in Stockholm and Gothenburg, our intensives take place in many different locations and contexts around the world including: Capetown, South Africa; Chișinău, Republic of Moldova; Kiruna, Sápmi; Iași, Romania; Marseille, France; and Zurich, Switzerland. Most often, we work with other institutions to design and deliver our intensives. We are very grateful for the energy, artistic originality and collaborative spirit that our partners have brought to these intensives. Partners have included, among many others: Asociației 1+1; Artagon Marseille; Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies UCT; Hungarian University of Fine Arts; Institute for Creative Arts, UCT; Collegium Helveticum: Swiss Institute for Advanced Study; SHED Publishing; Siwela Sonke Dance; tranzit.ro/ Iași; and Zurich University of the Arts Zhdk.