Artist-Teachers in Context: International Dialogues

217 Pages·2016·20.081 MB·English

by  Raphael Vella (auth.)

Artist-Teachers in Context
DOING ARTS THINKING: ARTS PRACTICE, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
VOLUME 2
Series Editor:
John Baldacchino, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
Editorial Board:
Dennis Atkinson, Goldsmiths College, UK
Jeremy Diggle, independent artist and academic, UK
Nadine Kalin, University North Texas, USA
Catarina Sofia Martins, University of Porto, Portugal
Richard Siegesmund, Northern Illinois University, USA
Scope:
In the arts, the concept of theoria goes back to the original notion of thinking as a
form of reflection/contemplation that remains integral to practice as both a practiced
thought (phronesis) and as critical practice (praxis). This book series is aimed at
capturing and reasserting the wider possibilities that we give ourselves by doing
the arts. It explores how the arts and education can only converge through paradox,
where what we seek by doing arts thinking remains an open work and in continuous
inauguration.
Thus Doing Arts Thinking is an alternative view of arts education. Rooted in arts
practice and arts research, it purposely retains a degree of ambiguity. It is not limited
to “thinking about the arts”, or engaging with art theory as a separate entity from
practice. Rather, this book series intends to show that to mistake arts thinking for
abstract theory would be as false as dismissing arts practice for mere making; which
would result in a narrow view of both arts practice and arts research, especially when
a third element – that of arts education – is involved.
Artist-Teachers in Context
International Dialogues
Raphael Vella
University of Malta, Malta
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Cover image: Stammer – class, Shady El Noshokaty, multimedia installation,
Cairo, 2010
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
List of Figures ix
Introduction: Being What You Teach xiii
Raphael Vella
1. The Compatibility of Teaching and Making Art 1
Interview with Mónica Castillo
2. You Gotta Be Kidding Me: The Serious Business of Socially Engaged Art 9
Interview with Beverly Naidus
3. Creating an Edu/Virus 19
Interview with Shady El Noshokaty
4. Conflict: Cultural Identity in Art and Education, from Northern Ireland
to Inner London 27
Interview with Alan Cusack
5. Building Bridges between the Arts and Arts Education 37
Interview with Flávia Pedrosa Vasconcelos
6. Where I Am Now 45
Interview with Daniel Yahel
7. Navigating Multiple Practices 53
Interview with Shelley Hannigan
8. An Education in Artistic Thinking 63
Interview with Carl-Peter Buschkühle
9. Searching the Ways of the Art of Art Education in the North 73
Interview with Timo Jokela
10. Art Education in Singapore and the Possibility of Living Differently 83
Interview with Hong Wan Tham
11. A Life Companion: Art Practice and the Studio Critique 93
Interview with Sangbin IM
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12. Art as an Ecology of Knowledge 103
Interview with Sonia Guggisberg
13. Teacher at Dessau and Artist in the World 113
Interview with Lisa M. Stybor
14. I Do Not Follow Any Rules 123
Interview with Iva Vodrážková
15. An Archeology of the Future Past: Underneath the Surface of
Appearance 129
Interview with Teresa M. Tipton
16. Presence and Absence in Art Education: A Total Experience 139
Interview with Afaf Zurayk
17. Photography as a Layer of Memory 149
Interview with Alena Kotzmannová
18. Wandering Peripheries, Switching Borders 157
Interview with Robert Zahra
19. Excavating the Blueprint 167
Interview with Nona Orbach
20. Not Only a Dry Run: Helping Budding Teachers Come to Terms with
Art Education 177
Interview with Joachim Kettel
21. Conceptualist as Educator/Educator as Conceptualist 187
Interview with Jorge Lucero
List of Contributors 197
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank the following individuals who offered advice or suggested
names of artist-teachers who would be appropriate for this book: Pam Meecham,
Marie Fulkova, Michael Bock, Teresa M. Tipton, Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Ronald
Sultana, Nona Orbach, John Baldacchino, Alex Baramki and Hatto Fischer. I am
also grateful to all the contributors, whose stories, visions and generosity made this
book possible.
Note: In all the interviews in this book, Raphael Vella’s questions or statements
are represented by bold typeface while sections in regular typeface represent the
interviewee’s answers.
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1. Mónica Castillo, Self-portrait as another person, 1997, oil on
canvas, 90 × 80 cm 2
Figure 2. Mónica Castillo, Model for a Self-portrait, 1997, textile,
160 × 40 × 15 cm 4
Figure 3. Mónica Castillo, Creation of a utopian curriculum, 2010,
participatory project 7
Figure 4. Beverly Naidus, So Uncomfortable, a culture jammed image from
the series √Other: Breaking Out of the Box, 2001 14
Figure 5. Beverly Naidus, Eden Reframed: An Ecological and Community
Art Project, 2011, eco-art inspired by permaculture design,
Vashon Island, WA 15
Figure 6. Beverly Naidus, Homage to the Paris Climate Talks: An Eco-art
Class Action, University of Washington, Tacoma, D10, 2015 17
Figure 7. Shady El Noshokaty, Stammer: A lecture in theory, 2007 19
Figure 8. Shady El Noshokaty, ASCII Lecture Performance, 2014 22
Figure 9. Shady El Noshokaty, Colony animation, 2015 26
Figure 10. Alan Cusack, Craigavon Archive 1966–1983, 2015, installation 28
Figure 11. Alan Cusack, Craigavon: New town, 2015, installation and
projection 30
Figure 12. Alan Cusack and year 12 students from Regent High School,
Inherited Family Photographs, 2014, installation 35
Figure 13. Flávia Pedrosa Vasconcelos, The eyes, 2014, drawing 40
Figure 14. Flávia Pedrosa Vasconcelos, Designações a Miró ou porque eu
preciso desenhar, 2014, drawing 42
Figure 15. Flávia Pedrosa Vasconcelos, Lightning, 2014, drawing 43
Figure 16. Daniel Yahel, A manifest on the performance of pedagogy, 2013,
TEDx seminar, Hakkibutizim College of Education, Tel Aviv 48
Figure 17. Daniel Yahel, How to make a professional demonstration, 2015,
New City project, Tel Aviv 49
Figure 18. Daniel Yahel, The things art and basketball have in common #3,
2013, Under the mountain new public art festival, Jerusalem 51
Figure 19. Shelley Hannigan, Surrender, 1998, oil on canvas 58
Figure 20. Shelley Hannigan, Dress at Bundanon, 2008, pastel and gouache
on paper 58
Figure 21. Shelley Hannigan, The Wind in the Billows, 2004, stainless steel
and metal mesh 59
Figure 22. Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Untitled, 2015, print on paper, 110 × 80 cm 64
Figure 23. Carl-Peter Buschkühle, Untitled, 2015, print on paper, 110 × 80 cm 68
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