RAW Académie Session 10 LANDMARKS goes beyond the dichotomy of public and private to explore how art in urban space allows conciliation between private desires, public needs, and collective imaginaries. Under the artistic direction of doual’art, Landmarks is rooted in the association’s three decades of experience curating and caring for artworks that are - to use the words of its founder, Princesse Marilyn Douala Manga Bell - “in resonance with” urban space.
The program will not only look back to what has been created, but to how this is shaping Douala’s present and future. These pieces become sites of material and affective mutation, in symbiosis with the inevitable changes which are constantly underway in the lives of the city’s people. Not simply part of the landscape, they are landmarks. We are concerned with the legal, ethical and conceptual issues raised by this question. Ultimately, we will ask what the implications are for our role in shaping the spaces we share with other life, both human and non-human.
Application process
RAW Académie is a tuition-free experimental study program. A maximum of 10 fellows are selected for each session. The application process is online only, and runs from May 15 until June 25, 2023. Only the first 75 applications will be considered for review.
The selection committee for Session 10 is made up of the curatorial teams of doual’art and RAW Material Company. Only short-listed applicants will be notified and invited for an online interview, the final selection will be made by July 15.
