ELIA Welcomes New Member: ENDA - Ecole nationale d'art.

We are happy to welcome our newest member: ENDA - Ecole nationale d'art!

ENDA is an institution for research and experimentation in art. An art school of a new generation that offers a curriculum that gives its participants the opportunity to liberate themselves from the legacy inherited from 20th century art. The events that led the Biennale de Paris to create, capture and monopolise the respective forms of college, institute and school, mark the steps in the realization of its pedagogical research.

ENDA is aimed at:

• those who are interested in singular processes that are currently emerging sporadically,
• those who wish to reformulate their artistic practice or professional activity,
• those who expect a school to be more than just a context for artistic production, and finally,
• those who, under ideal conditions, seek to put essential questions to work.

ENDA is a liquid school that moves continuously from one place to another: from car parks, to museums, contemporary art centres, gardens, metro, galleries, trains, embassies, associations, foundations, schools, wineries, universities… The curriculum enables participants to develop an unforeseen view of art and free themselves from unique practice.Practitioners may organize work modules themselves, initiate out-of-session projects in France or abroad, or formulate thematic LDREs (Lines of Research and Experimentation).

Since 2018 ENDA has been engaged in cooperative programs and partnerships with foreign educational institutions. It formulates a plan of development on a national scale with a program in La Réunion and Lyon, and internationally in India and Latin America.

This year they initiated a two-year Europe-wide project, ETI (Experimenting Institutional Transformation). ETI invites artists and non-artists alike to reformulate a set of art institutions: to take up the challenge of imagining a new institution that is sensitive to the diversity of social and artistic practices and opens places of culture to wider audiences.

ETI will conclude with a forum in Paris. This forum will also be an opportunity to prototype a European consultation body to support art and cultural institutions wishing to work on the transforming their model. Find out more.

We are delighted to welcome a new member; whose work extends beyond that of art and formulates what an art school can be in the 21st century.