Saturday, 25 July 2020, 12-7:30pm
ONLINE via the Conway Hall Zoom channel
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Self-organisation for a co-operative art school: report
Self-organisation for a co-operative art school: report
Many thanks to the participants who joined the workshop for their contributions and their patience! I can only hope that it was as useful for them as it for me. I was very excited to meet them and hear about their backgrounds, practices and reasons for joining the workshop. Many are members of collectives or cooperatives and it was especially good to have people drop in from Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol and Madrid! Continue reading Self-organisation for a co-operative art school: report
Interview with Feral Art School
Feral Art School: an interview with Jayne Jones and Jackie Goodman
Feral Art School is a Hull-based co-operative founded in 2018. The art school offers courses in drawing, painting, printmaking and textiles, as well as day schools in fashion and documentary photography. I caught up with Jayne Jones and Jackie Goodman to find out how they set up the co-operative and hear more about the programme, their working methods and expectations for the future. Read their fascinating insights on coops, the ambiguities of their structure and the challenges and debates around funding and accreditation.
Self-organisation for a co-operative art school – Antiuniversity Now! 2020
Self-organisation for a co-operative art school
A workshop on self-organisation and collectivity for a cooperative art school
Fri, 12 Jun 2020, 6-9pm
All welcome, please book your place
This event is part of Antinuniversity Now! Festival 2020, 6-13 June Continue reading Self-organisation for a co-operative art school – Antiuniversity Now! 2020
Artquest Research Residency at Conway Hall Library
Artquest Research Residency at Conway Hall Library
As higher education gears up for two more weeks of strikes about pensions, casualisation, workload and pay levels, and independent unions continue their campaigns on wages, outsourcing and zero hours contracts, the extent of the reforms that the 2010 student protests and occupations were fighting becomes all too clear.
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Feral Art School: an interview with Jayne Jones and Jackie Goodman
Feral Art School: an interview with Jayne Jones and Jackie Goodman
Feral Art School is a Hull-based cooperative founded in 2018. The school offers courses in drawing, painting, printmaking and textiles, as well as day schools in fashion and documentary photography. They have a textiles studio and darkroom for Feral members to use as studio and teaching spaces on a cooperative and collective basis. They’ve organised exhibitions in pop up spaces and last summer they hosted the event What Artists Want: What Artists Need, to explore the future of art education, with contributors from organisations and alternative art schools from across the UK.
Jayne Jones is a painter and Jackie Goodman is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer. They are founding members and project managers of Feral Art School. I caught up with them to find out how they set up the co-operative and hear more about the programme, their working methods and expectations for the future. They shared fascinating insights about coops and the ambiguities of their structure, membership and constitution, and the challenges and debates around funding and accreditation.
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URgh!#1: alternative art education
URgh!#1: alternative art education
The first issue of URgh! on alternative art education includes critical essays, histories, documents, guides, interviews, fiction, poetry and visual art on alternative art schools, study groups, peer-led and self-organised education, collectivity and collaboration, co-operative art education, mutual aid, alternative economies, creative labour and the critique of neoliberal reforms in higher education. URgh!#1 on alternative art education launches on Saturday, 25 July 2020 at the Alternative Art Education (Slow) Marathon.
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Festival of Alternative Art Education 2020
Festival of Alternative Art Education 2020
The Festival of Alternative Art Education 2020 has been postponed! It will now take place on 25 July 2020 at Conway Hall, bringing together alternative art schools, peer-support groups with stalls, workshops, discussions, screenings, tours, installations, performances, the exhibition The Secret Is Out: on the theme of cooperation and the launch of URgh! Zine on self-organised, DIY, peer-led art schools and collectives. Continue reading Festival of Alternative Art Education 2020
Self-organisation for a cooperative art school
Self-organisation for a cooperative art school
Fri, 12 Jun 2020, 6-9pm
Online via Jitsi Meet
All welcome, please book your place
This event is part of Antinuniversity Now! Festival 2020, 6-13 June
A workshop on self-organisation and collectivity for a cooperative art school Continue reading Self-organisation for a cooperative art school
OPEN CALL: URgh! zine #1 on Alternative Art Education
OPEN CALL: URgh! zine #1 on Alternative Art Education
Submissions are open for the first issue of URgh! on alternative art education. The zine will explore and document alternative art education in self-organised, DIY, peer-led art schools and collectives.
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OPEN CALL: URgh! zine #1
OPEN CALL: URgh! zine #1 on Alternative Art Education
DEADLINE Friday, 21 Feb 2020
Submissions are open for the first issue of URgh! We welcome contributions that explore and document alternative art education and self-organised, DIY, peer-led art schools and collectives, to extend the existing research and amplify the movement.
Conway Hall Residency: Interview 1
Conway Hall Residency 2019: Interview 1
Listen to the first interview with Nick Kaplony from Artquest on the Conway Hall Research Residency. We explore the objectives of my research at Conway Hall, the idea of a cooperative art school and some of the key concerns in my practice, such as the legitimising role of the institution and the need for alternative models of art education.
Resources for a co-operative art school
Resources for a co-operative art school
A directory of art and education co-operatives and resources on co-ops and co-operative education (mainly in the UK). Complied in conjunction with the research project A co-operative art school? These resources accompany the directory of alternative art schools and bibliography on alternative and co-operative art education. If you would like to recommend a resource please use the contact form to get in touch.
A co-operative art school? Workshops at Conway Hall
Workshops for a co-operative art school
What would a co-operative art school look like? How would it work? Who is it for and what would the benefits be? Come along to a series of workshops at Conway Hall to discuss these questions and collectively explore potential models for a co-operative form of art education. Please click here for more information on the workshop series. To book please follow the links below.
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Workshops for a co-operative art school
Workshops for a co-operative art school
This series of workshops will explore potential models for co-operative art education. The workshops are participatory and experimental, progressing through stages and open to anyone who would like to contribute. You do not have to come to all workshops, but if you can that would enhance continuity between sessions.
A co-operative art school? Survey
A co-operative art school? Survey
This questionnaire surveys the current level of interest in the creation of a co-operative art school, the potential values, formats and structures of the school, and the questions that we should be asking. All fields are optional, please fill in the survey with as much information as possible. Please refer to the FAQ for background information on each question. The survey data will be collected, collated and shared anonymously for the purposes of this survey only. Your personal data will not be shared.
A co-operative art school?
A co-operative art school?
A co-operative art school? is a research project on co-operative education, alternative art education, radical pedagogy and self-organisation, with the ultimate aim of raising awareness about cooperative art education and starting a co-operative art school. The project is supported by an Artquest Research Residency at the Conway Hall Humanist Library.
What would a co-operative art school look like? Who is it for and what would the benefits be? How would it work? These are some of the questions that this research project will address. If you would like to contribute you can fill in the survey or scroll down for more ways of getting involved. Please check back soon, this page will be updated regularly with more information and resources. To receive updates please join the mailing list.
Radical Pedagogy Research & Reading Group (2019)
Radical Pedagogy Research & Reading Group
The Radical Pedagogy Research Group is a public forum and peer-led participatory action-research project on alternative art education, radical pedagogy and self-organisation, with the practical aim of developing a self-organised alternative studio programme. The reading group meets on the last Friday of every month, it is free and open to everyone who wants to join as long as they commit to the reading. We plan to organise additional workshops, screenings and other events that will emerge from our research. Please book your place and download the reading.
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Claire Bishop: Artificial Hells
[SYMPOSIUM] BOOK CLUB
Claire Bishop: Artificial Hells
Friday, 8 February 2019, 7pm – 9pm
LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES
Facilitated by Eva Ruschkowski
Suggested donation £2, booking via Eventbrite
DOWNLOAD Claire Bishop (2012). Artificial Hells. Verso Books. Continue reading Claire Bishop: Artificial Hells
Eagleton & Zizek: The Idea of Communism
[SYMPOSIUM] BOOK CLUB
#32 Eagleton & Zizek: The Idea of Communism
Friday, 14 December 2018, 6:30pm – 9pm
LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES
Closest stations: Whitechapel / Aldgate East
Facilitated by Neil Lamont
Suggested donation £2, booking via Eventbrite
In December we’re reading two chapters from the book The Idea of Communism (2010), Lear or Gonzalo by Terry Eagleton (chapter 6, pp. 101 – 110), and How to begin from the beginning by Slavoj Zizek (chapter 15, pp. 209 – 226). This book club is facilitated by Neil Lamont. Continue reading Eagleton & Zizek: The Idea of Communism