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Open call for the 2024 Transcultural Academy “Unfinished Publics: Art 
and Democracy” at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden The promise of 
democracy is strongly debated in our troubled times as a necessity for 
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Open call: Transcultural Academy “Unfinished Publics: Art and Democracy”

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*Deadline:* May 19, 2024

*Japanisches Palais*
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01097 Dresden
Germany

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The promise of democracy is strongly debated in our troubled times as a 
necessity for the freedom of art and research. The defence of democracy, 
central to many debates, protests and movements globally, also invokes 
the responsibility of the museum, exhibition-making, curatorial 
knowledge and the means of art. Art and culture have always been at the 
core for the making of society from below, as much as it also has been 
instrumental, if not instrumentalized, for crafting statehood.

The Transcultural Academy “Unfinished Publics: Art and Democracy” 2024 
aims at raising consciousness for the fluidity, heterogeneity and 
fragility of democracy. Mobilizing the objects of Staatliche 
Kunstsammlungen Dresden (State Art Collection) as interlocutors, 
witnesses and repositories of invisible knowledge, the Academy asks: 
Whose democracy? What can the means of art do for living the processes 
of democratization? Against what? Which different models of democracy 
become visible—or remain invisible—in the art collections of a 500-years 
old European museum complex, for example, emerging in the spirit of the 
Haitian Revolution defeating the coloniality of law? What are forms and 
fashions of the French Revolution? Which alternatives to western models 
of democracy in recent history do the collections hold? For example, the 
post-1989 world has seen a “democracy unrealized” (Okwui Enwezor) and a 
“democracy promotion” (Radha D’Souza) on the grounds of a market-driven, 
neoliberal economy. Yet, where did all the ideas, images, and proposals 
of the discussions of the Round Tables go, a basic-democratic forum 
during the last months’ of the existence of the German Democratic 
Republic (1989/1990) for negotiating a post-socialist democracy? Could, 
possibly, the experiences made in a one-party state instigate an 
imaginary of democracy more real than lived? Can we see some of these 
alternatives to the Western model in the collections objects of Dresden? 
More pressing in the current climate, fascist politics, post-truth and 
ethno-nationalism threaten painfully the basic principles of democracy. 
What role does the museum play as a site of art, research, and knowledge 
processes—with its materialities, histories, futures, technologies, 
value categories, traditions, communities—in these debates? How can art, 
and an academy contribute to live and rehearse democracy as a network of 
practise fostering the making of publics?

Various elements of the Transcultural Academy focus on exploring the 
visibility and invisibility of images, spaces, codifications, or 
allegories related to democratic processes found within the collections. 
Participants engage in conversations with scholars and mentors to 
explore selected works. Together, we interrogate chosen objects for 
their contemporary societal relevance in democracy debates, emphasizing 
the importance of historical contexts.

An equally crucial aspect of the Academy involves developing curatorial 
methods to make research processes, even unfinished, publicly visible. 
Participants experiment with various ways of making research results 
public, drawing inspiration from different museum practices. This 
includes publishing institutional decisions, narratives about artworks 
articulated by the outreach department, or engaging in political, media, 
and art-related debates. The goal is to raise awareness of different 
ways research can be made public, regardless of a defined target audience.

As part of the Transcultural Academy 2024, the research department of 
the SKD announces an Open Call to nominate 12 participants to 
participate in a multipart curriculum consisting of workshops, walks, 
conversations and an Assembly School. The artist-researcher *Lizza May 
David* and the independent curator and editor *Joanna Warsza* mentor the 
process, with SKD researchers available for project-specific dialogues. 
The program runs online and in Dresden from May to October 2024.

The academy addresses artists, curators, mediators, humanities scholars, 
filmmakers, and researchers in the expanded and research-based field of 
art following recent completion of their studies.

*Registration*
Participation is based on the submission of a dossier consisting of a 
curriculum vitae, optionally a portfolio, and a brief outline (150 
words) of initial thoughts on the relationship between art and democracy 
within the context of art collections as a global network. The dossier 
should be submitted in PDF format. A selection of works from all 
collections may be consulted as research resource, accessible here 
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The number of participants is limited to 12. A budget of 2,000 EUR per 
participant is available for accommodation, travel, expense allowance 
and production costs.

*Dates*
*June 7, 2024, 9–12am: *Online introductory session with all participants
*July 1–4, 2024:* Project-specific tours of the Dresden Art Collections 
on-site
*September 6 2024, 9–12am:* Online seminar
*October 20–25, 2024:* Assembly School featuring workshops, discussions, 
and panels at the Japanisches Palais in Dresden and in conversation with 
the Academy of Visual Arts Dresden

*Formats: *Assembly School workshops, consultations, tours, discussions, 
sketches, concepts, collaborations, presentations.

*Deadline: *May 19, 2024 per mail to forschung at skd.museum 
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The Academy takes place in exchange with the Dresden Art Collections, 
particularly with the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts), 
which is working on an exhibition on “Shaping Democracy” in cooperation 
with the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn. The Transcultural Academy 2024 
“Unfinished Publics: Art and Democracy” takes place in the context of 
the MODemo project “Museums as Active Sites of Democracy”.

Concept: Doreen Mende and Anna-Lisa Reith from SKD Research in dialogue 
with the mentors of TCA 2024 and SKD researchers. Consultation: Gürsoy 
Doğtaş.

*Image above: Transcultural Academy “Futurities” 2023, workshop with 
Simona Malvezzi at Studio Forschung SKD.

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