April 2012
3 posts
Tetsuo Kogawa →
Starting to think about dissemination…
Website... →
March 2012
26 posts
Redmond Entwistle - Walk Through @ Cubitt
Hi All,
Here is the Kickstarter website for Redmond Entwistle’s new film about Cal Arts which will be screened at Cubitt. Take a look!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1078130915/walk-through?ref=recently_launched
- Natasha
Interview with Martine Neddam
Artist Martine Neddam on studying at the Institut:
“You don’t learn how to be an artist, but they looked at our work in an incredibly serious way. We were worth as much interest as Duchamp himself! I didn’t go to any other art school so I didn’t have to fight previous educational models. It stressed that the work is made at the reception. Banal, but when it’s a spirit…I guess I keep that...
WatchInteresting story about life drawing at RA…
Looking back at the life room
This short slide show and audio by Naomi Salaman is a really interesting history of the life room (particularly from a feminist perspective). You can find the video here:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1005/10050601
The Devils Feast - Chelsea College of Art and...
At the Tate’s new Migrations show I stumbled across some an exhibition called The Devils Feast, an exhibition of black artists work which took place at Chelsea in 1987 and included Derek Rodney and Zarina Bhimji.
The catalogue for the show was a very interesting collective letter from the six artists who had been invited to take part, by the then librarian Liz Couch. They collectively...
Display - Time Line
Hi All,
This is the archive piece by Celine Condorelli which featured in the Social Fabric show at INIVA. It displayed books, copies of drawings, texts and sound pieces. This is a great reference for the timeline / chronology of the archival section of the exhibition.
Group Material
I came across this piece by Group Material called AIDS Timeline. It is an installation which forms a timeline formed from text, artworks, objects and ephemera, and it could provide inspiration for the format and presentation for the historical information we have gathered over the course of the project.
Group Material have made other timelines such as the Timeline: A Chronicle of US...
A Stitch in Time
Interesting given Amy’s interest in weaving.
David Medalla’s work, A Stitch in Time.
During the late 1960’s and early 1970’s Medalla made a series of ‘participation works’ where the audience was encouraged to be involved in the production of playful and experiential pieces which challenged the notions of creative hierarchy.Medalla described the piece as...
The Future of Art Schools....
As part of the history group, and to complete the trajectory of the timeline of radical art schools and Chelsea Art School that we are developing, I have invited some artists / architects to contribute drawings of what they consider to be the best future school. Utopian, dream-like, pragmatic, breaching the disciplines of art and architecture, these should provide a great leaping point from...
More on Kosuth and the Information Room
Joseph Kosuth, Information Room (Special Investigation), 1970
James recently blogged about Kosuth’s installation piece, Information Room. I have been trying to gather some documents surrounding this piece and with that have come across some more relevant information. The Information Room (The Third Investigation) (1969) was first shown at the exhibition “Conceptual Art and...
A Thousand Plateaus - inspiration for WEAVING
“Let us summarize the principal characteristics of a rhizome: unlike trees or their roots, the rhizome connects any point to any other point, and its traits are not necessarily linked to traits of the same nature; it brings into play very different regimes of signs, and even nonsign states. The rhizome is reducible to neither the One or the multiple. It is not the One that becomes Two or...
Paul Rooney: Thin Air | Sound and Music →
Here is the link to the Paul Rooney s project Thin Air ”The Psycho-Vocalic Discoveries of Alan Smithson, A Work by Paul Rooney” Part academic lecture, part science-fiction story, Paul Rooney excavates real and imagined histories trapped inside Leeds Metropolitan University’s H Building as it faces demolitionThroughout the 1970s, Smithson undertook an extensive sonic study of H Building...
The Contemporary Group
12/03/12
The CONTEMPORARY WORKING GROUP: MEETING. 1
Aim of group: Bringing contemporary artists to contribute/collaborate with the project.
Discussed the possibility of artist work to be exhibited, combined within the archive time line/structure. Merged contemporary and historical.
Read the meeting notes
Lively project meeting!
07/03/2012
We had a lively meeting, concrete ideas exchanged, and working groups formed!
Read the descriptive meeting notes
Here are the Working Groups:
Physical installation
Neil Zinny Laura Lizzy Amy Tash?
Timeline Research Historical Neil James Daisy Holly Tash? Lizzy Contemporary Artist Collaboration Taneesha Laura Zinny James Amy Working groups meet 14th, and we all convene on the 38th...
OMA/Progress at Barbican
I mentioned today some of the display methods that Rotor used in the recent OMA exhibition at the Barbican. I thought it might be useful to post on the blog, photographs of the techniques used as it might help us to visualise how we want to (or indeed how we do not want to) display the material that we are beginning to gather.
- Own Photograph
Above is a timeline of OMA’s architectural...
More on the Panopticon
Just found some interesting information and images of the panopticon and Millbank Penitentiary at this Tradescant blog, which has an amazing photograph from 1891 of the pantopticon from the air
Some excavation works were carried out at the site from 2001 to 2004, read the report.pdf .There is some interesting information, and it shows exactly where the panopticon was situated underneath the...
Malcolm Quinn - Bentham, Utilitarianism and Art...
29th February 2012
Hello everyone,
I have just uploaded to the drop box the audio from last weeks lecture with Malcolm Quinn. If anyone still needs to join the drop box and has lost the email inviting them, just let me know and I will re-invite you.
Zinny
Fresno Feminist Art Program / Experiment →
In terms of bringing a tangible object to suggest for tomorrows seminar, I have been researching the Fresno Feminist Art Program / Experiment which was founded in 1970 and became a full 15 unit program in 1971. It was founded by Judy Chicago and was an experiment in the sense that it removed the 15 students from the traditional art school format. They created “A Studio Of Their Own” in...
Gustavo emailed me back about going through some material related to art education. Please can we all attend the drop in session on Wednesday 12-1
Laura
February 2012
39 posts
TASK - DON'T COME EMPTY HANDED
For the next Exhibition Experiments meeting, 2-4, 7th March 2012
Bring evidence of RELEVANT artefacts to be included in the physical exhibition (objects, images, documents, artworks, things, things to be reconstructed, films, etc) that contribute to the theme of occupying (exemplary, radical, experimental, etc) art education. And remember the idea of exhibition, and exhibitionary experiments, as...
NOTES FROM MEETING -
Are we rejecting the triangle space or using the space with an alternative structure?
Ricki – exaggerate the structure, more powerful, aggressive, stronger
Fran – create something that is more spread throughout the space instead of separate. Mini platform in the space. Create the structure in relation to what we are going to show. Think about the content.
Amy – how are we approaching people?
...
NOTES - Dr Malcolm Quinn on Jeremy Bentham,...
Bentham project – Professor Philip Schofield – Utilitary and Democracy
Bentham ‘symptom of liberalism’ – reflects how people feel about liberalism – changing opinions – proto facist – always looking for the logical solution in life
Question – What’s the best solution? Symptom of liberalism, failure to deal with mass culture.
He wrote manuscripts that others turned...
The Birth of the Art School: seminar
29th February 2012. 2-4 room E305, Chelsea College of Art and Design
Dr Malcolm Quinn on Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarianism and the foundation of public Art School education
Suggested preparation:
There is a Philosophy Bites introductory podcast on Jeremy Bentham
And Malcolm’s own essay on Bentham, Utilitarianism, taste and the foundation of the public Art School and the educational Museum.
The Hornsey Occupation
Very interesting text on the occupation at Hornsey College of Art in 1968 and practice based research, entitled Art in the Knowledge Polis, by Tom Holert on e-flux
On May 28, 1968, students occupied Hornsey College of Art in the inner-suburban area of North London. The occupation originated in a dispute over control of the Student Union funds. However, “a planned programme of films and speakers...
National meeting of Free Universities →
If you have the time and inclination…..read the minutes of the proceeding from the National Meeting of Free Universities on the 25th February
Hello,
Just a quick update. Briefly met with Alice Bradshaw who runs University of Institutional Knowledge. She had some really interesting things to say about how they organise lectures and develop their syllabus, above are the proceedings from...
Deschooling Society →
Deschooling Society (1971) is a critical discourse on education as practised in modern economies. It is a book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention. Full of detail on programs and research, the book gives examples of the ineffectual nature of institutionalized education. Illich posited self-directed education, supported by intentional social relations in fluid informal arrangements:
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Islington Mill Art Academy
james-harper:
I have no idea why I haven’t dragged this from the back of my mind before now. But here we are…
Islington Mill is a fantastic gallery/studio complex/venue/free school based in Salford. I’m pretty certain Taneesha hasn’t mentioned this before but if she has I apologise!
http://islingtonmillartacademy.blogspot.com/
Future Collaboration: (In Search of) The Perfect...
Hello everyone,
I have recently been in touch with Fay Nicolson, an artist, curator, writer and teacher whose work is very relevant to our current thoughts about art education. She took part in a series of performative lectures at the RCA, with Fay’s contribution titled, (In Search of) The Perfect Lecture. The lecture traced the physical and conceptual boundaries of the lecture theatre in...
Geodesic Dome →
A geodesic dome is a non hierarchal structure where each triangle distributes the stress across the structure equally. We are thinking this could be a good model for the anti panoptican.
The first dome that could be called “geodesic” in every respect was designed by Walther Bauersfeld, chief engineer of the Carl Zeiss optical company, for a planatarium to house his planetarium...
The Birth of the Art School
Dr Malcolm Quinn suggests some useful preparation before the seminar on the 29th February
There is a Philosophy Bites introductory podcast on Jeremy Bentham
And Malcolm’sown essay on Bentham, Utilitarianism, taste and the foundation of the public Art School and the educational Museum.
The Occupied Times →
Friday 17th Feb. I went to a lecture which was about a independent newspaper The Occupied Times of London. I asked them if they have written anything about education, They said in issue 3 (PDF’s) there is a whole news story about student fees.
They feel fine to come and talk to us. ...
Most recent proposal
Hi everyone, Here is the proposal that some of us have been working on.
Exhibition Experiments: Occupy Education are a collective of cross-disciplinary student researchers, practitioners and staff from Chelsea College of Art and Design. We are working together on a collaborative project considering experimental forms of art education, and exhibitionary practice. Our aim is to examine alternative...
WatchSenior Year (2006)
is a famous documentary film about the senior year of a class at No. 1 High School of Wuping in Fujian Province, China. It reflects the Chinese aducation system. As everyone knows Chinese education system or maybe should say Asian education system is famous for examing, specially the college entrance exams. It is called ‘acrossing a narrow foot bridge’. 1/3 or more students...
Joseph Beuys; Teaching and Learning →
“To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.” -Joseph Beuys, 1969
Beuys was a prolific teacher. During the course of his tenure at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, Beuys’ nontraditional and antibureaucratic pedagogical philosophy made him the focus of much controversy. Sympathetic with his expanded notion of art, the...
Pontus Hulten - Update
Hi All,
Notes from my conversation with Delphine below. She has confirmed that she will loan us her notes from the period, and given me the address for the MAC in Marseilles where the archive is languishing!
Pontus was the creator of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the most ground breaking museum in 20th century European history. Despite this His legacy is cruelly undermined in France, and his...
Exhibition Experiments - Minutes, 08/02/12 →
james-harper:
Begin by looking at Art School – Propositions for the 21st Century
available as e-book and mentions triangle space in Thierry de Duve essay on ethics
Natasha:
Zabludowicz Collection – Acoustic Mirrors RCA and Goldsmiths 3 day event featured radio booth, TV studio and paperwork…
DARTER
DARTER are a group of three artists who work in social and educational contexts. They undertook a residency at Brook Academy in Hackney last year and their work can be seen in Whitechapel Gallery at the moment. They had a large scale vinyl piece on the wall at the gallery which was part-instructions and part-manifesto, and it seemed very relevent to our project.
Daisy
