27 Oct 2015

Education & Art: New Integrations Between Education and the Curatorial and Artistic Fields by Node Center

Education & Art: New Integrations Between Education and the Curatorial and Artistic Fields
An online course by Node Center

This course explores art education today, and how curating and artistic practice relate to pedagogy. It gathers different proposals related to art education, from art schools and art courses, to artistic and curatorial projects that focus on the topic of education, or that work directly within this field. The aim of this course is to imagine new intersections between education and curatorial and artistic fields.

We will reflect on questions such as: what does it mean to teach art? How could we combine the strenghts of both education and art? What are we curating, who are we educating and why?

To achieve this, we will analyze the system of art education as a whole by looking at different scenarios from the school to the museum, case studies of artistic and curatorial projects that integrate education, as well as the different roles and relations between the curator, mediator, educator and artist. Finally we'll learn how to articulate a curatorial project with a specific focus on pedagogy.


*Live video-conferences every Tuesday at 7pm Central European Time. Recordings will be available in case you miss a live session!

- Duration: Nov 17 - Dec 8, 2015
- Application deadline: Nov 14, 2015
- Lecturer: Juan Canela
- Participation fee: 148 EUR


Full information and enrollments: www.nodecenter.net/course/art-and-education


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PROGRAM

Week 1 / Context and introduction

Course overview
Introduction to the different relations between art & education
Different scenarios: the school and the museum

Week 2 / Art pedagogy

What does it mean to teach art?
Some thoughts on art education
Different examples of art schools
Different artistic and curatorial projects working from educational contexts

Week 3 / Artistic and curatorial projects addressing pedagogical topics

The pedagogical turn in curating
The museum as a pedagogical dispositive
Different roles and their relations: curator, mediator, educator, artist
Some examples of artistic and curatorial projects

Week 4/ Getting practical: conceptualizing projects and establishing relationships

How to conceptualise a curatorial project about education
How to work with artists, curators, institutions, educators and teachers trying to re-define the power relations among them
Case study: Lesson 0: an on-going attempt to develop a curatorial project about art education focusing on alternative educational methods.


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CONTACT
www.nodecenter.net
courses@nodecenter.org