Aircondition a foreign guest teacher program at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

The Aircondition program is organised by a group off seven students. Our aim is to bring forward different teaching methods. We are interested in the process off working in a group situation. We organise workshops which creates different types of work situations from what one is normally able to at the Academy.
Our main interests are installation, video, mixed media and performance.

Airconditions "History"
In 1995 the Academy launhced an one year period with a foreign professor school. Four foreign professors where chosen by the administration each given 3 months.
This form was changed in 1996 by the Student commission and the administration.
Now a group of students sovereign chooses the foreign teachers and working conditions.
The group that organises Aircondition was formed in 1996 by students from the basic school and have since then opend up towards new students once a year.

Our working conditions
The aircondition program has a room of its own and the workshops are open for all students at the school; professor students and basic year students.

The Aircondition program is in periods of 1 to 3 weeks spread through the year.

The semester 97/98 will be a program with mostly women guest teachers.
One reason is that women are almost invisible as teachers on the school even though over 50% of the students are female.
In 1997 has there again been employeed a woman as professorer - the second in 250 years at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
The institutional critic in the sixties never seem to have left any traces concerning who is surpose to update the students perspective on art, understod in a way that the framework arround theory and practice is done by men.We are now trying to make a change for the better. This year we started the new spirit with the artcritic Laura Cottinghams seminar about "Feminist art theory".

Aircondition's program 1997/98 is organised by: Sophia Callmer, Andrea Creutz, Thomas Bech Frandsen, Lise Harlev, Elsebeth Jørgensen, Kirstine Roepstorff and Marika Seidler.