Art School Alternatives
Posted: August 29th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: University, art education | No Comments »
A Corridor8 symposium on alternative models of learning, at the Johnson Foundation Auditorium, Upper Duke Street, Liverpool John Moore’s University L1 7BT on 7th October 2010, 10am – 6pm. Drawing together a range of practitioners whose work looks to the communal, collaborative and participatory, Corridor8 contemporary visual art magazine presents a participatory symposium that explores methods of learning and ideas of schooling.
Speakers include: Department 21, Heath Bunting, Kate Rich, Islington Mill Art Academy, Lady Lucy, Circa Projects, Megan Wakefield, Black Dogs, A Latento, No Fixed Abode, Disrupt Dominant Frequencies and Artmarket/Kunstfreund.
We are a community-supported think-tank. That means that we create opportunities for members of the community to share the things they know and care about with other inquisitive people. These can be presentations, parties, classes, or events that defy categorization. We have an extensive archive of video of past presentations, and have just begun hosting classes. 
Department 21: an experimental interdisciplinary workspace at the Royal College of Art
July 8-November 20, 2010
Sometimes institutions can make good things….Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford conceived Open Studio, the inaugural project of the Getty Artists Program, for a target audience of K–12 teachers, with the goal of making contemporary arts education accessible to teachers and classrooms across the nation and around the world. Authored by noted international artists, Open Studio is a collection of art-making activities that presents the unique perspectives of practicing artists. Each activity is presented as a free, downloadable PDF that includes an artmaking prompt, an artist biography, and images of the artist and works of art by the artist.
Collabarts.org was established in December 2005 as a resource and platform for artists, theorists and art students setting out to offer a source of information, dissemination and discussion about collaborative art practice. The site hosts a number of commissioned essays and interviews including some important published and as yet unpublished essays on collaboration that have been generously contributed to the site by their writers. There are also a large number of links to relevant articles and artists’ websites. In addition the timeline for collaborative art practice sets out to place artistic collaboration in a historical perspective in relation to cultural and political events.
LaunchPad is a creative gathering place focused on the arts, community programs, technology, and anything else that captures the imagination.
In 2006, a project known as Radical Education was initiated. The basic idea was to find ways of “translating” radical pedagogy into the sphere of artistic production, with education being conceived not merely as a model but also as a field of political participation. The aim of Radical Education, then, was to create a unique “progressive” micro-political space within the gallery ifself, a kind of critical antipodes to both the conservative and neoliberal tendencies that predominate in the art system. Right from the start, Radical Education was understood in the sense of “heterogeneous spaces”, in which art would be but one field of activity among others. For this reason, the project was all the more critical toward art’s extended domains, e.g. socially engaged art, relational art and participatory art – forms of art-making that often include in their projects, in an uncritical way, transversal practices, practices of self-organization and practices in which it is not clear where art ends and politics begins; as a result, such practices become normalized. Radical Education, then, aimed not only at interpretations of various forms of art/activism, but in fact at “the production of space”, basing itself on the principles of transversality, which is not some predetermined form but is rather constituted through events, different kinds of alliances, crossings and collective organizing.
