Organiser: Étienne Bernard
The evolution of artistic practices for over a century has placed the process at the heart of the logic of production of the work. In his definition of the creative act, Marcel Duchamp adds audience analysis as a new element in the manufacture of the work. Since then, many artists focus on the concept rather than the finished object. Since the early 2000s, the explosion of information channels and the advent of a networking society have shattered the traditional disciplinary categories, access to creation, and consequently, the institutional concerns about presentation and selection. Today we see a profound change in the exhibition modes nourished by the questioning of the teleological value of the work of art in favor of "work in progress". For the artist-to-be in such a global context, the issues are now: what to learn? what to train for? what to produce? And what to show?
These questions go hand in hand with the concerns of the curator. Its two main functions as critical producer (challenging and stimulating the artist while the piece is being produced) and mediator of the work presented to the public, which historically accounted successively meet today at the same time.
Our session will focus on the following questions:
- how are the art schools now dealing with the traditional teleological education approach?
- how to open the art schools as the place to experiment to an audience?
- how to integrate the curator’s functions within the pedagogical project of the art school?
- how to connect the work produced within the context of the art school to the professional field ?
Part 1 (60 minutes)
presentations :
- “The curriculum is out there” by Rob Flint (Nottingham Trent University, UK) and Lucy Renton (Chelsea, Camberwell & Wimbledon Colleges of Art, UK)
- “The daily practice of imagining things differently” by Sissel Lillebostad (Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway)
- “Professional parallel events” by Ana García and Isidro Lopez-Aparicio (Granada University, Spain).
panel discussion :
- Rob Flint (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
- Lucy Renton (Chelsea, Camberwell & Wimbledon Colleges of Art, UK)
- Sissel Lillebostad (Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway)
- Ana García (Granada University, Spain)
- Isidro Lopez-Aparicio (Granada University, Spain)
- Étienne Bernard (ERBA Nantes, France)
exchange with the public.
