This two-day conference brings together international artists, curators, and writers to discuss and debate the changing relationship between art and education.
Speakers have been invited to present critical ideas on collective and participatory practice, pedagogical experiments and how such art can be understood and discussed.
Deschooling Society takes its title from Ivan Illich's seminal 1971 book, one of the most influential radical critiques of the education system in Western countries. Issues at the heart of that critique have been increasingly debated within the art world in recent years, and the subject of education has attracted renewed attention from artists, curators, academics, and collectives. Pedagogical models are currently being explored, re-imagined, and deployed by practitioners from around the world in highly diverse projects comprising laboratories, discursive platforms, temporary schools, participatory workshops, and libraries. Simultaneously, progressive globalization has led to a revaluing of the collective knowledge and agency of local communities.
The conference is a collaborative event marking the start of a Hayward Gallery research project culminating in the transformation of the gallery space into an alternative art school during Summer 2012. It also addresses the urgent issues that have arisen from the Centre for Possible Studies, part of an ongoing Serpentine Gallery project in the Edgware Road neighbourhood, and is the second part of the Serpentine's collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, following the conference Transpedagogy: Contemporary Art and the Vehicles of Education at MoMA in May 2009.
Speakers include: Christopher Robbins (keynote), Martha Rosler (keynote), ARTSCHOOL/UK, Lars Bang Larsen, Dave Beech, Claire Bishop, Tania Bruguera, Marcelo Expósito, Harrell Fletcher, Jeanne Van Heeswijk, Pablo Helguera, Hannah Hurtzig, Suzanne Lacy, Carmen Moersch, Nils Norman, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul O'Neill, Marion von Osten, Irit Rogoff, Ralph Rugoff, Terry Smith, Lisa Tickner, Gediminas Urbonas, Mick Wilson.
Panel session topics include:
- From Discursive Practices to the Pedagogical Turn
- Insertions, Alterations, and Rearrangements within Existing Institutional Frameworks
- Protest in Art School: Rituals of Power and Rebellion Since the Sixties
- Performative and Participatory Models for Exchange
- Presentations of artists projects and alternative art schools
29 - 30 April 2010, 10am - 6pm
Purcell Room
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX
Tickets £20, £10 (Concessions)
Available online www.southbankcentre.co.uk or from Southbank Centre Box office 0844 847 9912
Deschooling Society is jointly organised by Sally Tallant, Head of Programmes, Nicola Lees, Public Programmes Curator, Janna Graham, Education Project Curator from the Serpentine Gallery and Cliff Lauson, Curator and Rafal Niemojewski, Curator of Public Programmes, Hayward Gallery/Southbank Centre.
Programme
Thursday 29 April
10am Greetings and Introduction by Ralph Rugoff and Sally Tallant
10.15am Keynote lecture by Christopher Robbins 'Escape from Politics - The Challenge of Pedagogy and Democratic Politics in the De/schooled Society'
10.45am Response and Q&A moderated by Sally Tallant
11.15am Panel discussion - 'From Discursive Practices to the Pedagogical Turn', with Carmen Moersch and Irit Rogoff, moderated by Sally Tallant.
1pm Break
2pm Dialogues - 'Insertions, Alterations, and Rearrangements within Existing Institutional Frameworks', with Tania Bruguera, Harrell Fletcher and Nils Norman. Opening statement and moderation by Claire Bishop.
3.30pm Break
4pm Presentations - 'Pedagogy of Place - Self-Organized Education', featuring Artschool UK, London, Free University Warsaw (Janek Sowa), 16 Beaver, New York (Pedro Lasch), The Public School, Brussels (Sonia Dermience), Experimental Drawing Class, London (Terry Smith), introduced by Rafal Niemojewski.
5pm End
Friday 30 April
10am Greetings
10.15am Keynote lecture by Martha Rosler
10.45am Martha Rosler in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
11.15am Panel discussion: Protest in Art School: Rituals of Power and Rebellion since the Sixties, with Dave Beech, Marion von Osten, Adrian Rifkin and Lisa Tickner, moderated by Cliff Lauson
1pm Break
2pm Dialogues - 'Theatres of Education', with Hannah Hurtzig, Suzanne Lacy and Pablo Helguera
3.30pm Break
4pm Presentations - 'Pedagogy of Place - Local Models and Knowledges', featuring Marcelo Expósito, Barcelona, Janna Graham, London, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Rotterdam, Pablo Helguera, New York, Gediminas Urbanos, Vilnus, introduced by Nicola Lees
5pm Summary by Paul O'Neill, closing statement by Ralph Rugoff, plenary session, questions from the audience
6pm End
Schedule subject to change
Podcasts from the conference will appear on the Hayward Gallery blog.
THIS CONFERENCE IS SOLD OUT
Education Protests / Squatting the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in October 2009 (image provided by Marion von Osten)
