PhD students and professors from our PhD are taking part on a Blended Intensive ERASMUS Program (BIP) in Wroclaw, Poland, between May 11th and May 15th 2006.

The other(ness) in art and aesthetics – transcultural perspective Doctoral School
The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland

As Prodger wrote: “Art histories are built according to personal taste, intuition, and standards of connoisseurship. The historian arranges their choices according to a framework or agenda in order to make certain points. Consciously or not, all published histories contain an element of bias.” The problem we want to deal with is the fact that art academies and universities focus their education and research on the canon of Western art. The non-Western chapters in the art history are often systematically neglected. Today the distinction between Western and non-Western art becomes problematic because contemporary art is transcultural, referring to ever changing local and global contexts. We would like to create a platform to exchange and to expand such points of view, also by recognizing the potential of self-reflection and postmodern identity, following the last Venice biennial motto: “foreigners everywhere”. “something cannot be different or other in itself” 

This BIP includes conferences, a PhD Seminar, an exhibition and several workshops.