'We are gathering experience' : restaging the history of art education

  • In recent years, critics and art historians have pointed to an 'educational turn', a rise in participatory pedagogical art projects and artist-led experimental schools. This essay considers artist-led projects and museum programmes that restage or reenact educational experiments from the past, analysing their limits and possibilities in the study and presentation of modern art history. Much like performance art, pedagogy is ephemeral and contingent, and yet it differs in that it does not establish a fixed spectatorial role. To be understood it must be participated in, for, as Josef Albers described his teaching, 'we are gathering experience'.

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Author:Alethea Rockwell
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-678566
URL:https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-21/rockwell_gathering-experience.pdf
DOI:https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-21_25
ISBN:978-3-96558-029-9
ISBN:978-3-96558-028-2
ISSN:2627-731X
Parent Title (English):Over and over and over again : reenactment strategies in contemporary arts and theory / ed. by Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini ; Cultural Inquiry ; 21
Publisher:ICI Press
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2022/04/25
Year of first Publication:2022
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2022/05/16
Tag:Museum education; Pedagogy; Teaching
GND Keyword:Kunst; Pädagogik; Museumspädagogik; Albers, Josef
Page Number:6
First Page:256
Last Page:260
HeBIS-PPN:496556541
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung
7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 70 Künste / 700 Künste; Bildende und angewandte Kunst
8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0