Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
4 April 2012
Shift/Work is a knowledge transfer exchange based in the
School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art that develops and shares open
educational resources for artists and art educators. The purpose of this
workshop is to enable its participants to develop their own models of
collaborative practice-based learning.
Developing new sites in which art can be produced and
expanding the ways in which production is supported are central to learning how
to practice as an artist. To facilitate this, art education conventionally
combines ‘structured’ historical and theoretical scholarship with ‘open’
practice-based learning agreements. This incoherent approach perpetuates the
legacy of Romanticism, producing ‘autonomous’ auteurs rather than
artist-learners. This does not prepare artists to participate in today’s
artworld, a horizontally integrated network that is highly dependent upon
reciprocal altruism.
Re-imagining the learning environment is key to facilitating
the kinds of knowledge that artists now require. Developing an iterative
action-based approach to artistic learning that is at once theoretical and
practical is imperative.
Shift/Work aims to examine and reconfigure ways in which we
can facilitate comprehensive workshop-based approaches to artistic production
that are theoretically informed, practical and participatory. Shift/Work will
facilitate new experiential knowledge, practices and tools for artists and art
educators to adapt and implement.
Shift/Work is supported by the HEA Discipline Workshop
and Seminar Series 2011-12.
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2012/seminars/disciplines/DW156
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