Advanced Research-Imagination

Semester: A Credits: 1.5 Elective course for Fourth year
Semester: A
Credits: 1.5
Elective course for Fourth year

Hila Cohen Schneiderman

Hila Cohen Schneiderman is an Israeli curator. She was awarded the Curators Prize by the Ministry of Culture in 2021. Since 2018, she has served as the chief curator of the Museums of Bat Yam. From 2012 to 2016, she worked as a curator at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art and at the "City Artist" project for artist residencies in municipal departments. Cohen Schneiderman specializes in projects based on artistic and site-specific research.

In the Advanced Research-Imagination course, we will choose a topic, concept, or site that you wish to explore throughout the year and that will nourish the Finale performance of each participant. The course’s point of departure is that a meaningful creative process requires us to draw from various bodies of knowledge that enrich the work, connect it to the world, to the spirit of the times, to space and time, and allow it to resonate in our hearts. Such a research process assumes that the outward gaze is eventually what enables us to drive deep internal work processes, and that the research action is not only theoretical but also physical, material, and practical. The course will work in a seminar model where each student will choose the research topic they want to focus on, delve into the research process, and present the theoretical and practical research materials to the other participants in the course, who will act as witnesses and research partners.