Merz DIY 13 summer school

 cropped-img_8350321st July – 4th August 2013, at Cylinders Estate, Elterwater, Cumbria (UK)

Merz DIY is a residential summer school for artists and an experimental space for interdisciplinary practices as part of a temporary creative community. This year the working title is Thinkers Builders Dwellers. Inspired by a presentation from DIY 12 guest speaker Tordis Berstrand, Merz Working Group have been discussing ideas and problems of dwelling. This has led on to considering the connections between thinking,  drawing, building and making  within art practice, land use and communal living.

The programme is art-orientated and interdisciplinary. The workshop could be a walk, performance, lecture, skill-share, discussion, reading group or any proposals from writers, ecologists, growers, architects, musicians, makers, curators, researchers, scything enthusiasts…

This year, the summer school is based at Cylinders Estate, home of Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn in Elterwater, Cumbria, deep in the English lake district.

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By Marion Wolfer

Marion Wolfer is a French Master student in cultural policy and management at the European Institute of Paris 8 University. She is working on cultural networks. She did an internship at Cutura21 for three months. Marion Wolfer est une étudiante de master I en politiques et gestion de la culture à l´Institut d´études européennes de l´Université de Paris 8. Elle travaille sur les réseaux culturels et a effectué un stage de trois mois au sein de Cultura21.