NIS (New International School)

New International School (NIS) seeks to shift the grounds of artistic production from the generally recognized cultural and economic centers of the world, to coordinates where the question of the agency of art is not yet over-determined or tamed by the marketplace. It is an expanding alliance of artists, theorists, anthropologists, filmmakers, and sociologists from throughout the world. Working as a traveling school; a moving and variable organizational body of specialists, distinguished by the trait that each member acts at times as a teacher and alternately as a student. NIS is not bound by geography but works according to the demands of each site and project, this means that the locality of the site forms the basis for the research, production and collaboration, The new international school is an entity that operates through multiple agents. With a volatile membership and an evolving mandate, it negotiates theory for local and global arenas. The activities of both AESD and the Treignac project are used to precipitate a siting of NIS. By retaining its intangible theoretical quality, NIS will be able to retain artistic integrity, and critical openness. This will allow it to genuinely operate within different localities without constituting an attempt to imprint cultural values. It operates as an international interface.

The link address is: http://www.newinternationalschool.org