LUCA School of Arts is proud to announce CRYING AT THE WORKSHOP, the first LUCA SUMMERSCHOOL in collaboration with RISO Benelux.

In two exclusive programs, selected artists and LUCA students explore the possibilities of risography together, under the guidance of internationally established artist collective Leo Gabin. For CRYING AT THE WORKSHOP 6 artists and 6 students will be selected, to enter into an intense collaboration to achieve an experimental end result using a Risograph printer. A publication? An installation? ... You fill it in as you go! Leo Gabin is your sparring partner for a week and LUCA provide technical and logistical support.

How can you apply?
You can register for the LUCA summerschool until June 18, 2021 until 11:59 pm.

• Send your artistic CV, 3 photos representative of your work and your motivation in 1 PDF file to riso@luca-arts.be with the file name; your firstname_name_and the mention for which program (Ghent or Brussels) you want to register. Only complete files are submitted to the selection committee. No later than 9 July 2021, you will be informed by email whether you are one of the 12 lucky participants!!

English pdf of the Open Call / Nederlandse pdf van de Open Call

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