Migrating art academies

The Migrating Art Academies (MigAA) project is an ongoing aggregate network of participating art academies, people, and situations. This book charts the progress of this dynamic experiment in arts education. As a radical departure from the traditional bricks-and-mortar learning process, MigAA released a cadre of graduate art students for a series of mobile and located explorations that literally spanned Europe
- from the beaches of Baltic Lithuania, to the Gironde Estuary in France, to the Tatras mountains of Slovakia, and elsewhere. With public manifestations in Linz, Austria at the prestigious Ars Electronica Festival, in Berlin at the Collegium Hungaricum, in Royan, France, and numerous other places on the way, the students piloted their Media RVs (recreational vehicles) along the highways and byways of Europe. Along with their teachers and a wide-ranging selection of artists, activists, and workshop facilitators, they undertook a focused experience of creative engagement with each other and the public milieus around them.
The articles, essays, and documents contained here provide a rich source for exploring the breadth and depth of this project, and serve as a solid base for wider dialogues on the critical topics of higher-education in the arts, migration and the crucial social issues surrounding it, and, indeed, the question of creativity in a world which, if not overtly hostile to the idea, at least challenges the support of conditions necessary for it to flourish. MigAA is a distributed example of that process of creative flourishing - a Temporary Autonomous Zone - where movement and engagement stimulates a deep change in point-of-view.