Since a.pass can only support PhD trajectories, but not grant or evaluate the PhD certificate, the researcher has to find, or be already associated with a university and a university supervisor. This can happen in the pre-PhD phase, or at any time during the PhD trajectory.
Concretely this means that a PhD researcher applies to develop (part of) her trajectory within the a.pass environment. The program is organized within the a.pass research center, that facilitates the research of the research curator, the associate researchers, and the independent researchers (see below), but also communicates closely with the post-master program. The Research Centre which is hosting (pre)PhD level researchers is organized on a tailor-made basis with each individual researcher. When starting a PhD project in a.pass, the researcher and the research coordinator together make up a work contract that stipulates the temporal structure (how long will the researcher be working in a.pass? how many times does she plan to come back?), the foreseen research steps that will be developed within the a.pass environment and the public outcome of the research within that period of time. The program is organized within the a.pass research center, that facilitates the research of the research coordinator, the associate researchers, and the independent researchers (see below), but also communicates closely with the post-master program. The PhD program is organized on a tailor-made basis with each individual researcher.
What is this relation, how does it function? Is it the individual that creates the collective? Or is the collective the base structure on which individuals can work and organize themselves? Specifically within an artistic research environment where the institution is constantly reformulating itself out of a multitude of individual inputs and where the individuals, in a state of crisis, are constantly self-constructing, confronted and challenged by a collective project.Ĭan there be a mutual constitutive relation? A relational machine we can call ‘General Intellect’ or ‘Transindividual Space’ operating between and through the individuals, creating an ‘ensemble’ through their practice?įrom reading sessions to diverse practice formats, we will come up possibly with refreshed perspectives on what collective working and thinking can do. ‘General Intellect? – it’s not about you, stupid !’ will explore and question a basic parameter of the apass environment : the relation between the individual and the collective.
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