I am an artist and not a social worker
This work reminds me of the Oasis Social Club by Rebecca Davies https://cargocollective.com/rebeccadavies/The-Oasis-Social-Club
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- Oct 2020
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www.thomashirschhorn.com www.thomashirschhorn.com
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Thomas Hirschhorn, was the initiator, the organizer, the employer
why did he want to take on so many roles? is it because the art is in the process?
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- Sep 2020
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www.e-flux.com www.e-flux.comTurning14
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In education, when we challenge an idea, we suggest that there is room for imagining another way of thinking
This approach is more about listening. Also accepting differing views and building on, with or away from them, rather than shooting them down and creating polarisation. It makes me think of when the Occupy movement happened and lots of criticism (in London) was that there was no solid alternative or plan mapped out by the movement. But the beauty of the movement was that it established modes of learning and exploring ideas rather than concrete outcomes.
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After all, it is very clear that those who formulate the questions produce the playing field.
Great sentence to remember, especially when going into an institution and as an art producer too.
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The Tate Modern comes to mind as an example of how a museum can function as an entertainment machine that celebrates “critique lite.” Instead, I want to think of education in terms of the places to which we have access.
Not sure what is meant exactly by "critique lite"? The Tate gives an impression (in the education programme) that artists and learners can be bold and experimental with their work but they (the directors) are known for censoring artists who critique their funders. Recently Jade Monsterrat and in the past a group that is now known as Liberate Tate
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“Academy” might instead encompass fallibility, which can be understood as a form of knowledge production rather than one of disappointment.
failure can mean being vulnerable - how can we create learning spaces where vulnerability (and fear of the unknown) are accepted and carried?
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The access that was given was not aimed at producing institutional critique or exposing the true realities of the institution
Should they ignore this though? How can you, when the true realities are part of the how people function in the institution? Perhaps this will become clear why this was left out
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Both these terms seem important for mobilizing any re-evaluation of education, as they allow us to expand the spaces and activities that house such processes. Similarly, they allow us to think of “learning” as taking place in situations or sites that don’t necessarily intend or prescribe such activity.
Art as doing, dialogue, learning from place, within a place
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This points to a condition in which we all function in a complex system of embeddedness—one in which social processes, bodies of learning, individual subjectivities cannot be separated and distinguished from one another.
Intersubjectivity - I like this approach, we exist through relating
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More importantly, it must always include within it an element of fallibility—the possibility that acting will end in failure
Building in failure is important-public arts funding (in the UK) is mostly adverse to failure and this can lead to projects finishing shiny and polished due to a fear that they will not be funded again.
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In asking what we
Who is we?
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Instead, we wish to say that their reach could be wider, that they might provide sites for doing so much more than they ever thought they could.
This kind of change needs a relinquishing of power by those at the top
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Born of a belief that the institutions we inhabit can potentially be so much more than they are, these questions ask how the museum, the university, the art school, can surpass their current functions.
At this moment in time, there are a lot of calls to pull the institution down and start again. Reform and reflection has happened lots throughout history and institutions slip into the same positions of oppressive hierarchical power. One example commenting and supporting this is The White Pube
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threaten to harden into a recognizable “style,”
institutionalised?
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liberalizing
what is meant by liberalizing exactly? liberal in terms of opening up or liberal in terms of politics?
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us
who is us?
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