February 2012
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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?
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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
EXYZT
Hey,
This is the manifesto for the group EXYZT, who were part of the Radical Nature exhibition at the Barbican. It seems to resonate quite nicely with the project.
Be utopian. We want to build new worlds where fiction is reality and games are new rules for democracy. If space is made by dynamics of exchange, then everybody can be the architects of our world and encourage creativity, reflexion...
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Special guest seminars
We have two guest seminars coming-up, to help nourish the Exhibition Experiments proces
15th February: Dave Beech on Occupy, teach-ins and counter public art education
29th February: Dr Malcolm Quinn on Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarianism and the foundation of public Art School education in 1837.
Both between 2-4 room E305, Chelsea College of Art and Design
Rum46 →
“Processes, shifts and interventions (through art in education) become subjects. The exhibition space will become a site where actors, processes, workshops & conversations, as well as photographs, videos, objects, and artefacts encounter one another, assemble. Art works confront the contradictions in the debates. On the one hand this will open up space for confrontation and on the other...
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Bauhaus at Barbican →
This could be interesting/handy
Amy
Minutes from Meeting (zboilas940@tumblr.com) →
Attached: notes transcribe.html
Sent using Google Docs
Attached: notes transcribe.html
Sent using Google Docs
Hello, here are some the minutes from last weeks meeting!
Towards the end of the meeting became a little sparse with note taking (
apologies- I was very engaged with listening and couldn’t type quick
enough!) but I have the audio if we feel we want to revisit any thoughts/...
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Google Group
If you want to be in the information loop, please sign-up to the Exhibition Experiments google group at exhibition_experiments2@googlegroups.com
This sister organisation might be be relevant too, Occupy with Art
positionplacesituatelocate
Just remind you about the private view on the 9th at 6.30 pm and the archive panel on the 10th from 3.30 to 5.30
http://positionplacesituatelocate.wordpress.com
Fran
Pontus Hulten's Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts...
Hi All,
Sad to hear about Mike Kelley…
I mentioned Pontus Hulten’s Institut yesterday and have been in touch with one of it’s ex-students to ask for more information. See her response below - it would be amazing to be able to document / occupy the Institut in order to stop it becoming a lost history…
I am organizing a Skype meeting with her for next week. Do let me know...
Educational Complex
Hi all,
Came on to post a link to this book by Mike Kelley as I thought it relevant to your ‘education’ and ‘occupation’ ideas:
http://www.jrp-ringier.com/pages/index.php?id_r=4&id_t=&id_p=15&id_b=1133
But while Googling for it discovered he committed suicide on Tuesday. Crikey.
Joseph (Tate)
University of Incidental Knowledge →
This what laura mentioned today in the seminar- but it dawned on me that i knew about this to. I think its joint collaborative project with Alice Bradshaw & Black dogs collective. Black dogs are based in leeds- and were my tutors so i have contact for these if we wanted to invite them to collaborate with us! I can also get in touch with Alice Bradshaw at a later date, as we in the same...
Third Time (Terceiro Tempo)
we mentioned it today:
Peep-Hole is presenting Third Time (Terceiro Tempo), the first solo exhibition by the Brazilian artist Renata Lucas at an Italian institution. In her works Lucas questions the space we inhabit, our perception of it and the relationships that are established within it, as she is aware that there are no objective answers to be found but merely possibilities to test. (press...
PRE-OCCUPATION
Firstly, its great to see so much research and context on different
methodologies/ initiatives . I’ve been trying to take in as much of this
info and everyones positions - so sorry if I’ve missed so something out
overlooked something. But generally it seems to becoming more cohesive- and
i can definitely see overlaps and new platforms for collaboration.
*RESOURCES:
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There is...
Radical Talk
I guess this could be interesting:
http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/opportunities/radical-talk
It’s a program run by Arsadmin which promote innovative and hard-hitting talks to inspire young people to think about art in new ways. After the presentations, audiences are given the opportunity to get involved with the artists as collaborators on current projects.
Fran
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A Few Definitions:
oc·cu·py
Verb: Reside or have one’s place of business in (a building).
Fill or take up (a space or time).
Synonyms:
take - seize - hold - inhabit
oc·cu·py
tr.v. oc·cu·pied, oc·cu·py·ing, oc·cu·pies
1. To fill up (time or space): a lecture that occupied three hours.
2. To dwell or reside in.
3. To hold or fill (an office or position).
4. To seize possession of and maintain control over...
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e-flux: Utopia Station →
So I’ve gone off on a bit more of a tangent in comparison to most of the posts here. The URL above leads to a hugely ambitious project relating to the notion of Utopia and what it means. This has been a spring board for my research in terms of a ‘pre-occupation’ with utopian or idealistic society. It’s a very vast subject but the execution of this project is interesting in...
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Occupy history
Dr Malcolm Quinn’s essay on Bentham, Utilitarianism, ethics, taste, 1835 Select Committee, the foundation of Art and Design education (first public education in Britain), the unconscious and much else besides here Malcolm, we be happy to contribute a seminar to the Exhibition Experiments working group……..
Institut Fur Raumexperimente - Berlin
This is an art school run by Olafur Eliasson in Berlin.
Do read their website, and an extract of text below:
Ultimately the idea is to explore the notion of the school as a process. By doing so, we can hopefully circumvent the negative mechanisms of the current-day market economy: by commodifying our thought processes, this economy insists on a linear way of engaging with our surroundings, on...
