Art.School.Differences

Category: Veranstaltungen

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    A Symposium by Art.School.Differences

    Venue: Toni Areal, Zürich on 11 & 12. November 2016
    Times: FRI 14-21.15h; SAT 9-18.15h
    Please register (free admission): a_s_d.eventbrite.com and indicate if you need special accommodation

    A year ago, when asked “why it is so important to have a gender balanced cabinet,” the newly elected Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau replied, “because it’s 2015!” It is fitting then, in 2016, to renew a collective commitment. Through our research and collaborations in Art.School.Differences we question social inequality in art schools and examine how exclusion interweaves with gender, the body, class, diversity, and internationality, as well as interrogate the structural implications this has on perceptions of the ‘ideal art student.’ It is our goal to understand processes of inclusion and exclusion at work in higher art education in order to challenge, counter, and eventually overturn them. By striving for more equality, plurality, and heterogeneity among the institutions’ students, staff, and curricula we would like to encourage Swiss art schools to become globally inclusive in 2016.

    Now, as the research project comes to a close, we would like to encourage further research, initiatives, and interventions to challenge inclusion and exclusion in higher (art) education. Because it’s 2016!

    We look very much forward to welcome you to this event, enabling various discussions around inclusionary and exclusionary processes, engaging with anti-discriminatory practices and looking beyond insights acquired through Art.School.Differences!

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  • Invite to colloquium 5: Disability, ableism and the body: Diversifying, the politics of representation and queering art school

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    Friday, 3rd of July 2015

    18.00h
    Xavier Bouvier, Haute École de Musique (HEM)
    Welcoming and introductory remarks

    18.15h – 19.45h
    Sébastien Kessler: Le freak, c’est chic

    In his talk, Sébastien Kessler – “survivor of eugenics” or “opportunistic slacker” – embraces his visible impairment as an asset rather than a disability. What is our perspective on a population that at times is stigmatized as being vulnerable, while at other times is judged as impressive? How do you balance the conflicting and yet most normal desires to be both ordinary and extraordinary? Come listen to Sébastien and participate in a debate on the art of being freak in our contemporary society. — Freak out!

    [dis]abled, Sébastien Kessler is physicist and health economist, an alderman in Lausanne’s City Council, community activist and founder of a consulting firm that specializes in universal access to the built and outdoor environments and services (www.id-geo.ch)

    Venue: Haute École d’Art et de Design, HEAD, Auditoire, Boulevard James Fazy, 15, Geneva.

  • 24./25. April 2015: Global Exclusion and Diversity

    PUBLIC EVENING LECTURES 

    Global Exclusion and Diversity: Reading Migration and Gender in Art Schools

    Friday 24 April 2015, 6 pm – 8.15 pm, followed by a drink 

    The public twin-lecture hosted by Art.School.Differences interrogates diversity, gender and migration in the field of art and art education from a critical feminist and postcolonial perspective. The two lecturers will offer specific tools that enable us to read and critically reflect on differences. Their suggestions will be highly relevant to higher education – at ZHdK and other teaching and research institutions – but also to a number of other institutional fields.

    18.00h
    Welcome note: David Keller, Head of International Affairs ZHdK
    Introduction: Carmen Mörsch, Head of Institute for Art Education ZHdK

    18.15h
    Melissa Steyn (Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
    Getting into focus for the 21st Century: Critical Diversity Literacy as an essential lens

    “The ‘Critical Diversity Literacy’ framework can be regarded as an informed analytical orientation that enables a person to ‘read’ prevailing social relations as one would a text, recognizing the ways in which possibilities are being opened up or closed down for those differently positioned within the unfolding dynamics of specific social context. The presentation will outline ten criteria for ‘Critical Diversity Literacy’.”

    19.15h
    Marie Buscatto (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
    Art worlds as gendered worlds
    “Based on several empirial examples, this talk will try to describe not ony how women tend to find it more difficult to operate as artists than their male colleagues, but also resources and tools women, consciously or tno, use to transgress such gendered limiting processes in order to become and to remain artists over time, and sometimes, even to become famous worldwide arists!”

    20.15: Apéro Riche

    Location: Hörsaal 1, Level 3 Toni-Areal, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8031 Zurich

    Art worlds as gendered worlds

    20.15: Apéro Riche

    Location: Hörsaal 1, Level 3 Toni-Areal, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8031 Zurich

  • 27./28. Feb. 2015: De-Privileging Art School

    27./28. Feb. 2015: De-Privileging Art School

    Colloquium no. 3

    De-Privileging Art School: antisexist and antiracist methods, feminist, queer and postcolonial perspectives on knowledge production

    Friday 27th and Saturday 28th February 2015
    Haute école d’art et de design, HEAD – Geneva, Auditoire, Boulevard James Fazy 15, 1201 Geneva

    Friday 27 February 2015, 6 pm – 8.15 pm, followed by a drink

    The public twin-lecture held on Friday evening focuses on practices of (de-)privileging art schools and sheds light on research done on privilege and elitism from a critical feminist and postcolonial perspective.

    Lecture 1: Fabienne Dumont (École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne EESAB, Quimper)
    Gender discrimination in French Art schools
    This lecture will evoke the status of gender discrimination in art schools in France, from a few historical and current figures, accompanied by more qualitative analysis of the situation. This reflection will be accompanied by educational examples drawn from feminist history, especially the establishment of the Feminist Art Program in California, in order to invent solutions to fight against these discriminations.

    Lecture 2: Evan Ifekoya & Rudy Loewe (performer, London)
    Decolonising Art and Education through creative practice
    Interdisciplinary artists Evan Ifekoya and Rudy Loewe will present individually on their artistic and facilitation practices, exploring anti racist and anti sexist methods utilising archives, contemporary culture and lived experience.

    Samstag 28 February 9 am:

    Workshop by Evan Ifekoya & Rudy Loewe
    Public Displays of Accountability: Addressing Race in the Arts/curriculum
    A zine making workshop and presentation exploring various decolonial arts/curriculum projects and accountability processes.

    Round Table Moderators:
    Lysianne Léchot, Professor, Dean of Studies, HEAD – Genève
    Carmen Mörsch, Director, Institute of Art Education, ZHdK

  • Evening Lecture

    Jackie McManus (London)

    Hopes and Fears for Art: policy and practice in widening participation in art and design higher education in the UK

    In spite of considerable efforts to increase the social and ethnic diversity of higher education students in the UK, the academy continues to be dominated by white middle class students and is highly stratified by institution and subject area. This paper discusses the policy and practice of the project of widening participation in the UK focusing on art and design education. It draws on research undertaken with working class young people about their choice of degree subject, and on a national research project examining the admissions process in art schools in the UK. Finally, it looks at art and design widening participation programmes in London with some of the city’s poorest young people, and considers the future of this work in the context of the marketisation of higher education.

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