On June 23 and 24, at the Medienhaus of the UdK in Berlin, the conference “art thinking doing art. Artistic Practices in Educational Contexts from 1900 to Today” took place.
The conference inaugurated a historical as well as contemporary investigation of the interrelationships between art education, art production, and ideological contexts. With contributions from scholars from eleven different countries, this project takes a uniquely broad perspective on the question of art education by also epistemologically situating the process of “art knowledgization” (Holert) in broader discussions of the (inter-)materiality, (counter-)institutionality, and (trans-)disciplinarity of artistic practices, and by using empirical case studies to examine their historical dimensions in different geopolitical contexts for the period from about 1900 to the present.
Throughout the event, artistic perspectives were involved in discussions to counteract a monoperspectival orientation of the discussions from the outset.
Contributors:
Key Lectures:
Benjamin Buchloh, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Tom Holert, Harun Farocki Institute, Berlin, Germany
Other lectures: Nicola Foster, Noa Sadka, Jeffrey Saletnik, Emily Ruth Capper, Rebecca Sprowl and Bernard Akoi-Jackson
Short presentations: Dennis Brzek, Isabel Seliger, Delphine Paul, Barbara Vujanović, Jake Watts, Marie-Christine Schoel, Izabelle Louise, Isabel Nogueira, Sarah Poppel, Patrick Düblin, Burak Üzümkesici and Chloë Julius
Intervening Lecture: Raqs Media Collective, New Delhi, India
Welcome: Brigitte Weingart, Professor for Media Theory at the Institute for Theory and Practice of Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts
Support: Anna Brus, Professor at Freie University Berlin, Institute of Art History, Section of African Art
The conference was conceived, planned and organized by Sandra Neugärtner and funded by the Collaborative Research Centre 1512 “Intervening Arts” (DFG), the Leuphana University Lüneburg and the Berlin University of the Arts.
Further information on this topic can be found at e-flux Education.
Findings from the conference and related research will be published by Brill in the series: Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education in 2025 (working title of the edited volume: Toward a New Aesthetics: Institutional Criticism in Art Education from 1900 to Today).
Dr. Sandra Neugärtner 