(In)Significant Conversation

Wednesday 14 July 2021, 15:00-16:30 BST 

A provocation event curated by the Material:Pedagogy:Future Research Group of inter-institutional research into the future of HE Art education. 

At this online event Gilane Tawadros, Chief Executive of DACS and founding Director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), will share her response to a series of conversations which critically appraise current pedagogical practices and speculate on relationships to art making, art works, societies and cultures more broadly.

Gilane will be reflecting on closed conversations held with Prof. Magnus Quaife (University of the Arts, Helsinki), Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), Dr Gurnam Singh (Coventry University) and their respective invited guests, focused around the question:

Post pandemic, how can we imagine, critique, and challenge conceptions of art in the future without confronting the hierarchies, systems, structures, and relations which form its present?

Taking the grammatical function of brackets as a metaphor for the art school within the ‘art world’ and society more widely; looking to the minority within the majority; to the ‘folds’ within the institution in which transgressive practices and dialogues challenge the broader status quo, this event seeks to coalesce plural discourses around institutional change. Gilane’s external position to the ‘art school’ enables her to reflect on these conversations from outside of the debate, and to bring them back into significant conversation.

You can register for the online event here.