🥧 ‘More pie, more sky pls’* 🚀
This year whizzed by, it’s been a while since I posted an update and there’s a bunch of news to share, so here goes! Continue reading 🥧 ‘More pie, more sky pls’* 🚀
Category Archives: PEDAGOGY
Bibliography for a co-operative art school
Bibliography for a co-operative art school
This page includes bibliographies on alternative and co-operative art education, radical pedagogy and self-organisation. The bibliographies accompany the directory of alternative art schools and resources for a co-operative art school, complied in conjunction with the research project A co-operative art school? For a collectively compiled syllabus on art education and radical pedagogy see the Radical Pedagogy Research Group. Continue reading Bibliography for a co-operative art school
Can You Hear Me?
Can You Hear Me?
![Nalini Malani [2020] Can You Hear Me. Whitechapel Gallery, London. Screenshot of hybrid visit to the exhibition](https://videomole.tv/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Nalini-Malani-2020-Can-You-Hear-Me-Whitechapel-Gallery-London.-Screenshot-from-a-hybrid-visit-to-the-exhibition_5156.jpg)
In October 2020 we visited the exhibition Can You Hear Me by Nalini Malani at the Whitechapel Gallery with members of the Art+Critique Autumn 2020 cohort. This was our first hybrid off-site visit and everyone was asked to write a critical review of the exhibition. Any number of things could have gone wrong. Continue reading Can You Hear Me?
📌 Artquest One to One 🍒 Art+Critique Summer 2022
📌 Artquest One to One 🍒 Art+Critique Summer 2022
As we await the arrival of summer the pandemic appears to be at bay, but only by giving way to new fronts of crisis, disinformation, struggle and resistance. Artists have been particularly impacted in the last two years and still reeling as we emerge into the new dystopian normal, so you’re not alone. Book a free advice session with Artquest One to One to discuss your practice and plans for the future – new dates in late May and early June will be posted soon. Continue reading 📌 Artquest One to One 🍒 Art+Critique Summer 2022
📢 Outpost Online & Art+Critique 🍒🚀
📢 Outpost Online & Art+Critique 🍒🚀
It’s been a long hard slog but things are starting to look up with the easing of restrictions and a potential end in sight for Covid. In the meantime, if you’re feeling stuck or want to hatch some plans sign up for a free advice session with Artquest Outpost Online. Continue reading 📢 Outpost Online & Art+Critique 🍒🚀
Art + Critique: Critical & Contextual Studies in Art Practice
Art + Critique
CRITICAL & CONTEXTUAL STUDIES IN ART PRACTICE: ONLINE COURSE
Studio practice and critical studies course that integrates practice and theory in a comprehensive programme of lectures, seminars, workshops, off-site visits, tutorials, assignments, feedback and peer support.
The curriculum fosters experimentation and collaborative study in a community of peers. It provides a supportive environment where participants will extend their knowledge of critical theories and discourses, develop their ability to discuss, write about and judge contemporary art, and contextualise their own practice.
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Festival of Alternative Art Education
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED INDEFINITELY DUE TO COVID
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Free admission with a ticket
This event includes the exhibition The Secret is Out:
Festival of Alternative Art Education
Come along and help us turn Conway Hall into an art school!
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
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
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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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?
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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Bursary
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Critical Studies Bursary, Autumn 2018
DEADLINE Monday, 3 September 2018
COURSE RUNS @Deptford Lounge, London SE8 4RJ, 8 Oct – 3 Dec & 27 Oct 2018
The Trickle-Down Syndrome
The Trickle-Down Syndrome
![Benedict Drew [2017] The Trickle-Down Syndrome. Installation view. Whitechapel Gallery, London. Photo Sophia Kosmaoglou.](https://videomole.tv/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Benedict-Drew-2017-The-Trickle-Down-Syndrome.-Installation-view.-Whitechapel-Gallery-London.-Photo-Sophia-Kosmaoglou-01.jpg)
We visited Benedict Drew‘s exhibition The Trickle-Down Syndrome at the Whitechapel Gallery with students on the Critical Theory in Contemporary Art Practice course. The exhibition was a sprawling interconnected array of objects, banners, screens, cables and digital components. What is the Trickle-Down Syndrome? How does it relate to the infamous laissez faire economic theory? What are the throbbing fleshy forms and knobbly knotted represented in videos, banners and roughly-hewn objects? Continue reading The Trickle-Down Syndrome
Workshops on alternative art education and self-organisation
Workshops on alternative art education and self-organisation
A series of workshops on alternative art education and self-organisation from 2017 to 2019. For a complete list of workshops please click here.
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ART&CRITIQUE (2015-2019)
ART&CRITIQUE was a peer-led and volunteer-run alternative art education network dedicated to critical engagement with art practice, theory and research. It was founded in November 2015 and based at The Field and LARC. We employed collaborative, co-operative and collective models of pedagogy and organisation and fostered alternative models of art education in a series of public events. Looking for the Art+Critique course instead?
STUDIO CRITIQUE
STUDIO CRITIQUE
The STUDIO CRIT was an opportunity for artists, curators, designers, film-makers and other producers to present their work to an audience of peers for discussion and feedback. These events were free and open to everyone. Please scroll down for the guidelines and event archive.
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[SYMPOSIUM] BOOK CLUB
[SYMPOSIUM] BOOK CLUB
The SYMPOSIUM book club was a monthly open-access reading group for artists, researchers and anyone interested in the intersections between art practice and critical theory. Everyone was welcome to propose a text and facilitate the reading group.