From Here We Derive

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Dyslexia Project....

Essay

Notes: Pinning down field of research

·       Arts relation to education

·       Importance of skill exchange, peers matching and reference service to educators at large

·       Internet/virtual forums as a way of connecting artists across geographical and cultural boundaries

·       Collective intelligence

·       Networking decision making

·       Distributed collaborations

·       Cultural apartheids

·       Collapsing disciplinary divides

·       Focus in the understanding of individual socializing experience

·       Bourdieu’s term ‘cultural production’

·       Distinction between artist and teacher

·       Learning to learn

·       Pedagogy not concerned with succeeding but with trying

·       How could assessments keep up with the revolutions in practise?

·       Why are you an artist?

·       Why did you need education?

·       Why are continuing?

·       Why do you rally against the system?

·       Help towards independence rather than independence being thrust our throat

·       There was an over powering sense of a vacuum in the college (bubble concept)

·        Completion and jealousy is breed

·       What you do with what you know

·       A person who asks themselves questions better not try asking others

·       To what extent has our political changes influenced our art schools

·       Recognise the social aspect of leaning and conversation, interaction with others and application of knowledge’s and integrated aspects of learning

·       Gallery as educational spaces: Room 13 art space

·       Using the very authority vested in institutions such as schools in order to work against the grain of such authorities

·       One artist is not enough: many-sided organism that has the capacity to evolve

·       Society is pre-choiced: our culture gives the illusion of choice

·       Talent – creative – attitudes

·       School community

·       Pilot programs

·       Learned therefore deserved

Virginia Woolf // 1938

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Education!

Myself and education have never really seen eye to eye. Anyone who knows me well enough knows that much of what I know is self-taught. Admirable. Yes that maybe so, but society does not do admirable, your knowledge and understanding cannot be a result of your own, it much be accounted for by someone or something of a higher calibre with headed paper and flashy .com website.

I am not enough in that respect. Much of what I know is refusing to accept that there is only one or two ways to do something and both happen to be written by the same institution.

If I am so compelled to challenge the art school; why then do I have BA and MA after my name? maybe it’s because one has to be in the thick of it to truly understand? For me it’s not the public as a medium, it’s the art school as a medium, with the students at its core.

I was asked a question today: Is it the community of the art school that has compelled you to practise in a socially engaged way?

I can’t answer that right now, I will just have to add it to the pile! But what got my interest was ‘school community’. I and some others are trying to recreate this very thing outside of the system. For many years this has been the case for many collectives. But the art school community is unlike any other. The mix of friends, relationships, competition and intellectual copyright forms a breeding ground for much of the issues I am drawn to.

My mission then, is to reacquaint myself with the art school life style but from outside the white walls as opposed to within.