Curriculum (Book)

Contemporary Art Goes to School

Edited by Jennie Guy

Explores the intersection of contemporary art and school education in Art School; the independent curatorial framework throughout Ireland focused on establishing new interfaces between art and education, questioning pedagogical shifts through artistic practice, bringing contemporary artists into education to inspire and to challenge. 80 b/w illus.

 

This publication was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Office of Wicklow County Council.

Category: Visual Arts

Edition

There is an urgent focus on education around the world, and this book is pushing directly into this territory. It will appeal to a wide range of readers – to anyone who is passionate about art and or education – and will have a strong international appeal as the contributors have international profiles and the book is poised to address global issues concerning contemporary art, education, and independent practice.

In this collection of original essays, the writers engage with the work of the artists who took part in Art School. Each contribution provides a lens through which each writer can focus on specific moments within the evolution of Art School, working outwards to explore how these moments resonate with the wider fields of art-in-education and radical pedagogies. These texts respond to a widespread concern with art and its place in education, while retaining a committed and informed engagement with the phenomena they assess.

Art School takes place as a series of independent projects, exhibitions, workshop and residency programmes, bringing active contemporary artists into educational systems to inspire and expand their teachings.

Responding to a growing desire to rethink art education at all levels, it is for those committed to new forms of social imagination and social engagement in contemporary art. This book is for curators, schoolteachers and other educators, and also for artists and art students who wish to extend their practice beyond the gallery.

Less a manifesto or a declaration of doctrine than an emergent set of experiments, Curriculum considers the school as a zone of artistic and curatorial practice, foregrounding the potential of contemporary art (understood in wide terms) to stimulate students’ creativity in original and open ways.

Although the book focuses on a specific project in Ireland, that project exemplifies trends in art and education that are happening around the world and includes contributions from an international group of scholars all well-known in their field.

Contributors: Clare Butcher, Gerard Byrne, Juan Canela, Helen Carey, Daniela Cascella, Fiona Gannon, Jennie Guy, Andrew Hunt, Hannah Jickling & Helen Reed, Alissa Kleist, Rowan Lear, Peter Maybury, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Nathan O’Donnell, Sofia Olascoaga and Priscila Fernandes, Matt Packer and Sjoerd Westbroek.

Artists: Sven Anderson, John Beattie, Clare Breen, Sarah Browne, Karl Burke, Rhona Byrne, Ella de Búrca, Vanessa Donoso Lopez, Priscila Fernandes, Hannah Fitz, Jane Fogarty, Kevin Gaffney, Adam Gibney, Fiona Hallinan, Elaine Leader, Maria McKinney, Maeve Mulrennan, Mark O’Kelly, Sarah Pierce, Naomi Sex and Orlaith Treacy.

Primary interest will be among educators, artists, curators, academics and students, and others working or studying in a variety of settings including school, universities, museums, and other arts organisations.

Of interest to these groups in the following ways:

Artists: Learning about how other artists are working in sites of education.

Curators: Reading about the curatorial mechanisms that support artists maintaining the ethics and integrity of their practice when working with younger audiences in schools.

Gallerists: Extending the horizons of audience and public outreach.

Museums: Considering new models of education, outreach, exhibition, and off-site events.

Schools: Learning about new models of artist residencies and workshops.

Students and Parents: Researching the potential of contemporary artists’ impact on education.    

Educators: Forming a critical perspective of how contemporary arts practice can be integrated in curricula.

Local and National Arts Agencies: Learning about how independent curatorial and artistic practice can co-exist within sites of education.

 

This publication was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Office of Wicklow County Council.

Jennie Guy is a curator, artist and educator based in Dublin, Ireland. She is the founder and director of Art School, a framework that explores strategies for placing artists within sites of education through in-school artist residencies and workshop programmes.

Foreword
Gerard Byrne

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Jennie Guy

The Outline as Weapon
Nathan O’Donnell

We Want to Learn How People Exist
Rowan Lear 

Image of the Self With and Amongst Others
Andrew Hunt 

In the Field
Helen Carey 

Weird Science
Hannah Jickling & Helen Reed

The Masterplan
Juan Canela 

Dear Revolutionary Teacher
Sofía Olascoaga & Priscila Fernandes 

Art School in Images: 2014 – 2019
Peter Maybury 

How Many Elsewheres? (For Four Voices)
Daniela Cascella 

EVA International: I Sing the Body Electric
Matt Packer 

Play Like Coyote
Alissa Kleist 

Exercising Study
Sjoerd Westbroek 

Art, the Body, and Time Perspective(s) in the Classroom
Annemarie Ní Churreáin 

Preparatory Gestures for a Future Curriculum
Clare Butcher

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