Artist as Researcher
Goldsmiths, London, 27-28 June
If we consider artistic and educational practices as forms of critical enquiry, how do we address the relationships between knowledge, practice, theory and context?
This symposium examines practice in the art and education sectors that is based/driven/formed by research, looking at how this is underpinned by knowledge(s) and socio-cultural context(s), and at the cross-fertilisation between artists and educators as both practitioners and theorists. The aim is a powerful critique of the relation between knowledge, context and practice.
A series of formal and conversational presentations focusing on different ways of knowing, including art practice, theory/practice research degrees and art in education will examine:
- how these processes become validated and legitimated within perceived hierarchies of knowledge?
- methodologies of teaching based around art as research
- what we mean by knowledge and how we acquire and use it
- the socio-cultural contexts and histories of art and education as dynamic, critical practices
- what we mean by a practice that is critical through its own processes questioning language(s) used by/through/around that practice
- ways forward for art & design in schools that are not driven by standards.
This symposium is a collaboration between the Education, Art History and fine art departments at Goldsmiths College.
Speakers will include: Sonia Boyce, Mohini Chandra, Mika Hannula, John Johnston, susan pui san lok, John Reardon and Irit Rogoff. Chairs: Dennis Atkinson, Paul Dash, Janis Jeffries and Rohini Malik Okon.