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Camp de jour Day Camp With Monica Nouwens 30 July to 3 August 2012
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to publications such as Volume, Icon and Archis, her shots can be found in Domus magazine, Re-Magazine, Blueprint, Architect, Surface and many others. Nouwens’ work can be found in various collections, including the Stedelijk Museum, in the collections of Salvatore Ferragamo, Levi’s, Prada, U.S.A Corp, Michael Maltzan Architecture; Jon Jerde Partnership; and Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
Monica Nouwens completed a postgraduate fellowship in Art Media Studies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and attended the California Institute of the Arts exchange program for film and photography. Nouwens’ one-person show “Look at me and tell me..” will be shown at Photography Museum Amsterdam (FOAM; 2013), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and was recently on view at Ron Mandos Amsterdam and Annie Wharton Los Angeles.
Nouwens has lectured at Southern California Institute of Architecture , California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Otis College of Art and Design, University of California Irvine, and gave artist talks at University of Southern California and LA Forum for Architecture and the Big City Forum. She gave workshops at Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, University of Leiden and University of Monterrey Mexico.
Her one-person show “Rubbernecking” was exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and other exhibitions include the Netherlands Photography Museum Rotterdam, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Stedelijk Museum Helmond, Gallery Paul Andriesse in Amsterdam and Trafalgar Square, London for World Aids Day. Nouwens currently collaborates with Los Angeles author Claire Phillips. Their project, presented at the Photography Museum Amsterdam and Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam is a ficto-historical photo essay of post-boom America, a parallax of Hollywood driven cyborg fantasy with the poetic Do It Yourself underground movement of Los Angeles bohemia. Besides working as a regular contributor
She is the recipient of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Award, 2009. June 2012
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The cheat sheet
Monica credit: Nicole
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Wake up! 1 Polaroid per day
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Conversation in the CCA Study Center around selected items from the collection.
I want you to talk about what you see. Start with the obvious and build on it. - Monica
Did he really cut the house in two? - ? (on Gordon Matta-Clark’s Splitting)
The emptiness forces me to imagine people in the space. - Cito
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Site 1: Polyvalente Saint-Henri - DAY 1
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Now close your eyes and meditate on shutter speeds... - Monica
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Sites 2 and 3: Dawson College + FACE - DAY 2
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Monica asked the group to create a story based on each artist’s series of 5 pictures.
The time stamp is fake, he wanted to trick the police. A man lost his keys and walked home instead.
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DANGER: zombie zone. Maybe it’s a silent movie.
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Adam and Eve discover modern architecture and realize they are naked. They call God collect and ask for clothes. Aram
DANGER: zombie zone part II.
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The mental patient is trying to escape. The elevator is the Paradise door. Centre Canadien d’Architecture Canadian Centre for Architecture
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Skype with Piero in L.A. - DAY 3
You need good students and good teachers. Everything else is just decoration. - Piero Golia Founder of The Mountain School
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Stéphan’s presentation - DAY 3
A school is a reduced city, with corridors as streets, classrooms as houses, yards as parks. Stéphan Langevin Architecte chargé de conception, STGM Architectes
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Structures that don’t allow lateral input or participation often break or fail. Alexander Pilis Professor, Artist, Architect
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Ask the students.
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What could a school be?
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The school is on the bridge. Sometimes, our classes will take place in the field. Psychics channel Einstein to teach physics.
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TEAM Sina Jonathan Rachel
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Teachers Albert Einstein Michael Jordan Adam
Founder Scribble the Pigeon
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“I have a crush on the founder, can I come visit?”
The founder is a dog called Tommy Lapierre. We teach people guitar, art and hip hop dancing.
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TEAM Camille Cito Asma Frances
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Founders Tommy Lapierre
Name Love Zone
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If you come to our school, we garantee you will become an athlete. The library is at the bottom of the pool beneath glass. While you study, you can see swimmers above you.
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TEAM Jessica Nicolae Myguel
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Founders Hakuna Matata
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We have a bunch of domes in our school. We do action related things. The first people that came were weirdos.
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TEAM Sylvia Ari Carla
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Name Fly
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From the imaginary to the concrete.
Night School
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Kickboxing in the theatre
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Duration 15 mins
TEACHER Myguel
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Poi in the park (fire-spinning)
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Swahili in sleeping bags
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Duration 30 mins
TEACHER Cito
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Lebanese Longboard Activism Sauna-building from scratch in the desert Movie montage Swahili Music theatre Car design Hip-hop dancing Circus/fire-spinning Cooking Mind-reading History of The White Stripes Magazine-binding Beats production Spanish Drawing Videogames Beginner origami Fancy popsicles
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Each participant was asked to share a skill they could teach to others.
Stop-motion animation Plant resuscitation Piano Cat potty-training Quick suitcase packing How to be sassy Makeup and braids Guitar Henna
Advanced origami Kickboxing Desert survival skills Leadership Lifeguarding Private singing lessons Portuguese Trumpet Environmental awareness
Programs scheduled for 2013. Sign up sheet at your nearest Unschool.
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Nicolae Arman Alexis Bélanger Cito Buhendwa Myguel Cormier Quezada Jonathan Da Silva Jessica Da Silva Nova Hagel-Georgeson Phoenix Hagel Asma Ul-Husna Sylvia Khau Rachel Kimmelman Sina Moazami Carla Nader Camille Peyrat Ari Pooladian Aram Pooladian Frances Small
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Thanks to Classe Affaires for their collaboration.
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Cerys Wilson Dark Room Specialist
Jessica Charbonneau Educational Programs
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Monique Macleod Coordinator, Educational Programs
Nicole Lattuca Assistant Curator, Educational Programs
Fabrizio Gallanti Associate Director, Programs
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Alexander Pilis Professor, Artist, Architect
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Piero Golia Founder of The Mountain School Stéphan Langevin Architecte chargé de conception, STGM Architectes
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CCA Day Camp 5-day intensive workshop
CCA Day Camp introduces an innovative approach to working with teens---its format is based on the belief that young people learn best through hands-on immersion into a particular subject that is directly connected to their interests. Inspired by a CCA exhibition or based on relevant contemporary debates in architecture and its related fields, a group of teens (age 12 to 17) participate in a workshop over five consecutive days with an overnight “charrette” at the CCA. Each year a Guest Curator is invited to collaborate with the CCA Educational Programs team to conceptualize and implement the workshop. This program aims to heighten teens’ awareness of the spaces and territories that they inhabit and to emphasize how youth can be active participants in society.
Please see our website for past Day Camp projects: www.cca.qc.ca/en/education-events/776-day-camp