University of Edinburgh
Monday 2 April 2012
(NB this date has changed from original posting)
Speakers
Neil Cummings – Professor of Critical Practice, Chelsea
College of Art & Design
Dave Rushton – Institute of Local Television
Shift/Work is an exchange between the School of Art,
University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop 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.
The workshop will be hosted in three studios in the School
of Art, Edinburgh College of Art. It will accommodate up to 30 participants,
two speakers and their facilitators. It will consist of a two and a half hour
morning session and a two hour afternoon session.
The workshop will begin with two presentations – one by
Neil Cummings and one by Dave Rushton – followed by two break-out sessions. A
rota-based approach to curriculum design will focus attention on the workshop
as a convivial means of knowledge production and distribution. Learning and
exchange will be developed through ‘on-the-job training’, engaging the
participants in a collective approach to learning.
- Attendees will require some experience of art education, either as a student or as an educator, as prior knowledge will be form a key component of the heuristic process.
- The event will be simultaneously recorded and streamed live on Bambuser to enable wider access.
- The presentations and feedback sessions of the event will be transcribed, edited and published in 2012 as part of a Shift/Work publication being produced by Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
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