08-Jun-2023
Annette Krauss works as an artist, educator, and writer. She is course leader of the Master of Fine Art at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. In her conceptual-based practices, she addresses the intersection of art, art education, and politics of everyday life. Her work revolves around informal knowledge and normalisation processes that shape our […]
11-May-2023
Michelle Teran (born in Canada) is an educator, artist, and researcher. As practice-oriented Research Professor of Social Practices at Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) / Piet Zwart Institute (PZI), she is, among other things, developing the research profile connected to the Social Practices study programme for the Research Centre WdKA. Her research areas encompass socially […]
11-May-2023
Pascale Gatzen is kunstenaar en modeontwerper en was tot 1 januari 2023 hoofd van het masterprogramma Practice Held in Common van ArtEZ in Arnhem. Gatzen werd opgeleid aan de modeopleiding van ArtEZ en was als modeontwerper, educator en vormgever tien jaar verbonden aan Parsons School of Design / The New School in New York. Als […]
02-Dec-2021
Wereldsterren spreken zich via sociale media in toenemende mate uit over maatschappelijke onderwerpen. Deze vorm van para-sociale ‘massa-educatie’ blijkt verrassend democratisch. In dit essay wordt uiteengezet op welke manier celebrity-educators Miley Cyrus en Cardi B nieuwe, digitale vormen van politiek engagement inzetten om hun volgers uit te nodigen zich te ontwikkelen tot kritische, mediawijze burgers. Er wordt beargumenteerd dat we de angst voor de passieve, naïeve en beïnvloedbare jonge internetgebruiker achter ons dienen te laten; de volger heeft immers toegang tot een wereld aan informatie en kan daarmee naar eigen wens ook deelnemer dan wel educator worden.
15-Apr-2021
Certain spaces produce certain practices. We are tempted to think in dichotomies: for example, form and content, but often overlook a third element—space. The same occurs in education, where we often think of what is taught and how it is taught, overlooking where it is taught. This article thinks through how spaces produce certain kinds of practices, following guidelines set by Michel Foucault. Veldkamp compares the most prevalent educational spaces to engaged practices and wonder what spaces engaged practices need.
29-Mar-2021
The question of artistic or arts-based education, learning, and training has all too often only been posed and concerned with the performance of institutions inherited from the colonial period, as if ancient African societies were foreign to it. This undoubtedly justifies a certain disconnection between the current art system and the public to a point where the idea of art as an activity strictly practiced by white people has increasingly become attached to its social life.
25-Mar-2021
This article probes the possibility of creating anarchistic learning spaces within a neoliberal framework by presenting the case study of Critical Kinaesthetics, an experimental game that functions as a learning aid.
02-Jul-2020
This four-part miniseries of Radio ArtEZ is on education outside of the educational institutions. The current state of art education and the way it is organized is quite traditional. Thoughts about change often start from existing concepts. But what happens when we think in a radically different way?
03-Jun-2019
Farid Tabarki interviews Louise Fresco about what fashion can learn from science and food.
