{"id":2149,"date":"2016-10-24T23:06:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T21:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/?page_id=2149"},"modified":"2018-01-24T09:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T08:02:52","slug":"because-its-2016-challenging-inclusion-and-exclusion-at-swiss-art-schools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/fr\/because-its-2016-challenging-inclusion-and-exclusion-at-swiss-art-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Symposium Nov. 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BECAUSE IT’S 2016! CHALLENGING INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION AT SWISS ART SCHOOLS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00abA year ago, when asked \u201cwhy it is so important to have a gender balanced cabinet,\u201d the newly elected Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau replied, \u201cbecause it\u2019s 2015!\u201d 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 \u2018ideal art student.\u2019 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\u2019 students, staff, and curricula we would like to encourage Swiss art schools to become globally inclusive in 2016.\u00bb
\nThis was the introductory text to final symposium Art.School.Differences held on 11\/12. November 2016. The Institute for Art Education (IAE) at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) held the project lead in partnership with HEAD \u2013 Gen\u00e8ve, Haute \u00e9cole d\u2019art et de design and the Haute \u00e9cole de musique Gen\u00e8ve \u2013 Neuch\u00e2tel (HEM). Drafted in majority by Catrin Seefranz and Carmen M\u00f6rsch, the research design focused on three levels of activity in Art.School.Differences. The first level was an empirical investigation of how inclusivity and exclusivity worked at all stages of the \u2018student lifecycle\u2019 with special emphasis on the admission process. The second level involved participatory research by seven teams of co-researchers from the three partner-schools and used educational debates on core themes and theories for questioning social inequality. The third level comprised an active dialogue within and without the institutions about the project\u2019s objective throughout the duration of the investigation. The process was thus a critical endeavour from within<\/strong> the institution.
\nThe research project coming to a close, we encouraged further research, initiatives, and interventions to challenge inclusion and exclusion in higher (art) education. \u00abBecause it\u2019s 2016!\u00bb<\/p>\n

FOR THE FULL PROGRAMME REFER TO THE PDF front<\/a> AND back<\/a> OF OUR INVITATION-BOOKLET!<\/strong>
\nSee also our Flyer<\/a> and Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR CONFERENCE REPORTS!<\/strong>
\nI’m here and I’m black but I’m not here to be black<\/a>: Conference report by Quentin Delval (in English)<\/a>
\nDisability inclusion<\/a>: Conference report by Nina M\u00fchlemann (in English)<\/a>
\nArt.School.Differences und die aesthetische Urteilskraft<\/a>: Conference report by Karin Hostettler (in German)<\/a><\/p>\n

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE AUDIO-RECORDING OF OUR KEYNOTES!<\/strong>
\nPlease note that the recordings are in mp3 files and that certain browsers do not support their listening. Firefox or Internet Explorer work perfectly. <\/p>\n

  • ART.SCHOOL.DIFFERENCES. SELECTED RESULTS
    \nPhilippe Saner: Social structure of the field<\/strong>
    \n    https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/files\/2016\/10\/2_Friday_Philippe_Saner.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

    Pauline Vessely: Typology of candidates<\/strong>
    \n    https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/files\/2016\/10\/3_Friday_Pauline_Vessely.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

    Sophie V\u00f6gele: Fields of tension inherent to the admissions\u2019 process<\/strong>
    \n    https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/files\/2016\/10\/4_Friday_Sophie_V\u00f6gele.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

    Carmen M\u00f6rsch: Co-research process and Participatory Action Research<\/strong>
    \n    https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/files\/2016\/10\/6_Friday_Carmen_M\u00f6rsch.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

  • KEYNOTE 1<\/li>\n

    Rub\u00e9n Gaztambide-Fern\u00e1ndez: Creation, Participation, and the Political Life of Cultural Production<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In this talk, Gaztambide-Fern\u00e1ndez draws from his research on the experiences of secondary students in public arts schools as well as his participatory action research with young immigrants and Indigenous students in Toronto public schools in order to offer examples of what it means to approach arts education from a cultural production paradigm. Building on his critique of the \u201erhetoric of effect\u201c in arts education, Gaztambide-Fern\u00e1ndez elaborates on the notion of cultural production as a framework for thoughtful arts education and advocacy. Rather than seeing issues of equity, access, and social justice as outcomes or as problems to be solved, his framework takes these issues as points of departure where \u201edifference\u201c and the \u201edifference that difference makes\u201c become starting points for creative symbolic work. The presentation elaborates on the notion that creation and participation are intimately linked, whether implicitly or explicitly, and that only an understanding of this link can yield a rationale for the centrality of cultural production in education and for the pursuit of social justice goals.
    \n    https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/files\/2016\/10\/10_Friday_Keynote_1_Rub\u00e9n_Gaztambide-Fern\u00e1ndez.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

  • KEYNOTE 2<\/li>\n

    Nana Adusei-Poku: Everyone Has to Learn Everything!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u201cWhite privilege is your history being part of the core curriculum and mine being taught as an elective\u201d (Jose Lara)<\/p>\n

    To decolonise the curriculum and pedagogical practices means to embrace the impossible. In other words, the idea that everyone has to learn everything is a utopic wish speaking against the hierarchies and often erasure of knowledges and practices that do not conform to the dominant narrative of Modernity. Nevertheless, the unthinkable is often the desired outcome of critical educational approaches. Then, what does this mean for the practitioner and the student? What kind of structures are necessary in order to be able to sufficiently teach \u201ceverything?\u201d And what kind of work comprises the decolonising process? This talk discusses questions of emotional labour, institutional structures, and utopic desires in order to create space for education that embraces difference at its core.
    \n    https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/files\/2016\/10\/12_Friday_Keynote_2_Nana_Adusei-Poku.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

  • PANEL DISCUSSION<\/li>\n

    Art.School.Differences and the Development of Higher Art Education: A Panel Discussion among the Participating Art Schools<\/strong>
    \nwith Hartmut Wickert (ZHdK), Lysianne L\u00e9chot Hirt (HEAD \u2013 Gen\u00e8ve) & Xavier Bouvier (HEM Gen\u00e8ve \u2013 Neuch\u00e2tel). Chair: Mich\u00e8le Graf<\/p>\n

    This panel was intended to give room for a discussion and exchange among directorate-members of the three partner art schools in Art.School.Differences. They shared reflections, views, and critiques to address broader questions ensuing from the research\u2019s findings. Issues such as institutional processes of inclusion and exclusion, the significance of diversity and quality, or the role of internationalisation for every respective institution, as well as implications for the field of higher education in general, were addressed as well as questions such as: How can the aims of Art.School.Differences be reconciled with the institutional ones and structurally implemented? What challenges and what benefits are to be expected?<\/p>\n

  • PERFORMANCE<\/li>\n

    Ntando Cele with Pit Hertig & Patrick Abt: Black Notice<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Black Notice<\/em> is a performance where Ntando Cele creates a contemporary freak show. Playing her white alter ego, Cele becomes Bianca White and enables international students to \u201crealise their true potential\u201d in their gritty, predominantly white, world within European Art Schools. Cele tries to expose our contemporary response to prejudice. Combining stand-up comedy and live music, Black Notice<\/em> claims there are \u201cblack and white\u201d issues, as residues of the colonial past, in 2016. What does it mean to be black in Europe today? Is there a transnational or globalised notion of Blackness? When climbing the ladder of success as an African artist in Europe, the average climber tends to ignore the fabric that has formed the African experience therefore neglecting the over-trained Euro-spectator who has been observing and following African trends for over a decade. This performance\/life class is designed to give you access to the use and control of simple ideas like: atmosphere, subject, content, and the expected outcomes of such steps.
    \nIn collaboration with Pit Hertig on drums and Patrick Abt on guitar, Cele creates a burlesque atmosphere with such grotesque absurdity that laughter gets stuck in the throat.<\/p>\n

  • KEYNOTE 3<\/li>\n

    Cornelia Bartsch: Mothertones, Raw Gestures, and the Dispositive of Absolute Music \u2013 a De\u01c0Construction<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u201cAbsolute music\u201d was introduced into the 19th century German discourse on music by Richard Wagner as a pejorative term. It became, however, a common expression for music \u201cwithout additions\u201d of any sort including words, lyrics, gestures, dance, or pictures. As the antonym of \u201cfunctional music,\u201d the term implied an aesthetic \u2013 as well as economic \u2013 positioning which was also gendered and racialised. Absolute music became an universalised term to denote the \u201cpure art\u201d of music which was crucial for the construction of a Middle European canon of musical masterworks made up of male composers. It also came to denote \u201cfunctional\u201d music of all kinds (except for salon music, the striking and sole example of feminised functional music).
    \nIn contrast to the above, the paradigm of (musical) expression that was decisive to the \u201crise of (Austro-German) instrumental music\u201d in the second half of the 18th century not only included the \u201cadditions\u201d like voice and gesture as roots of human expressiveness, it also inverted the way \u201cpure\u201d or \u201cfunctional\u201d music was racialised and gendered. In the writings of Johann Gottfried Herder, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and other protagonists central to the development of the Austro-German musical aesthetic of the 18th century, \u2018mother tones\u2019 as well as the expressive gestures of \u2018raw\u2019 and \u2018wild people\u2019 become the archetype of human and musical expressiveness. Simultaneously in their writings \u2013 most famously in Rousseau\u2019s essai sur l\u2019origine des langues<\/em> \u2013 \u201cdead\u201d scripture became alive by the implementation of the voice, and the mother\u2019s voice specifically, as well as of the bodies of \u201cothers.\u201d Apparently these implementations became fundamental for the rise of the score as a repository of musical knowledge (and not only a performance instruction) with crucial consequences on the epistemic order of music.
    \nIn her talk, Bartsch outlined these paradoxes by analysing \u201cabsolute music\u201d as a dispositive: as a network of discourses, media, institutions, and institutionalisation that produces hierarchical knowledge on music by the inclusion and exclusion of gendered and racialised bodies.
    \n    https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/files\/2018\/01\/16_Saturday_Keynote_3_Cornelia_Barsch_mit-Musik_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio> The references to the music pieces Cornelia Bartsch makes us listen to refers to the \u00abDouble Concerto For 2 Violins, Strings, And Continuo In D\u00bb by Johann Sebastian Bach, \u00abLa serva padrona\u00bb, part 1 aria \u00abAspettare e non venire\u00bb by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and Ludwig van Beethovens late \u00abstring quartet Nr. 13 op. 130, Cavatina\u00bb.<\/p>\n

  • KEYNOTE 4<\/li>\n

    Bahareh Sharifi and Rena Onat: the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house* – challenging power structures in the arts (*Audre Lorde)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The input by Bahareh Sharifi and Rena Onat combined artistic, activist, and academic perspectives. More specifically, they worked to struggle against structural racism, institutional racism, and intersectional forms of discrimination within arts and cultural work. For them, Audre Lorde\u2019s famous words \u201cthe master\u2019s tools will never dismantle the master\u2019s house\u201d posed an important intervention into white feminist discourse and the movements which neglect those questions of difference.
    \nWhat do we mean by difference? In their talk, Sharifi and Onat suggest to revisit understandings of difference and processes of structural subordination that were shaped by Black feminist thinkers and women of colour thinkers who urge us to shift focus from individual and institutional racism to an understanding of racism as an all-encompassing structure. Philomena Esseds\u2019 notion of everyday racism is an important intervention into the persistent understanding of racism as an individual flaw. It draws attention to the ubiquity of racism experienced by Black people and people of colour due to hegemonic whiteness. Essed also underlines the importance of regarding Black knowledges vis-a-vis racism as socially relevant and interesting for academic research on racism. Sharifi and Onat shared this approach of locating those affected by discrimination and oppression as experts on the workings of power structures, mechanisms of inclusions and exclusions, and racist discourse.
    \nWithin their talk, Onat and Sharifi centred the perspectives of artists and cultural workers of colour to give examples of the forms of racism within their fields. In doing so, they pointed to specific resistance strategies developed in practice by artists such as Hassan Aksayg\u0131n, Collective Creativity (London-based Queer Artists of Colour Collective), and the theatre group Jugendtheaterb\u00fcro<\/em> of Berlin.
    \n    https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/files\/2016\/10\/19_Saturday_Keynote_4_Bahareh_Sharifi_and_Rena_Onat.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

  • PARCOURS ART.SCHOOL.DIFFERENCES<\/li>\n

    by Art.School.Differences Co-researchers and Guests: Get Involved and Win<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The Parcours Art.School.Differences presented reflections, findings, analysis, inquiries, questions, and work in progress by the Art.School.Differences co-research teams and guests in a brief format to facilitate involvement and exchange. Core to the Parcours was engaging deeply and personally with anti-discriminatory considerations, practices, and methods around art schools and higher art education.
    \nVisiting the performance by Ntando Cele on Friday and Parcours-stations on Saturday entitled to collect stamps (see the stamp card part of the programme booklet). If seven stamps were collected, the Art.School.Differences reader was for free! Finally, with seven stamps people were invited to participate in a great tombola: Get involved and Win<\/strong> an anti-discriminatory surprise prize!
    \nFor descriptions of the PARCOURS ART.SCHOOL.DIFFERENCES see     PARCOURS<\/a>. For the winner of the surprise prize see below.<\/p>\n

  • KEYNOTE 5<\/li>\n

    Melissa Steyn: Critical Thinking for Decolonialism: The Diversity Literate University<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Decoloniality calls for the bedded down power relations between different groups of people that were constructed through the modernity to be deconstructed, and rethought through a lens of the struggle for a pluriversity. This paper argued that the framework of Critical Diversity Literacy offers principles for such a deconstruction. As with any concept used to normalise social arrangements, different interests seek to co-opt \u201cdiversity\u201d to different agendas, with effects that range in the degree to which the status quo is either protected or challenged. The Critical Diversity Literacy (CDL) framework is the outcome of a decade of teaching Diversity Studies to graduate students and attempts to distill the proficiencies that characterise an ethical sociopolitcal stance to a world increasingly characterised by heterogeneity in organisational, social, and public spaces, to provide a conceptual map for undoing dominant centres and margins.
    \n    https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/files\/2016\/10\/22_Saturday_Keynote_5_Melissa_Steyn.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

  • CONFERENCE WRAP-UP<\/li>\n

    by Art.School.Differences International Advisory Board members (more information see International Advisory Board<\/a>):
    \nNana Adusei-Poku (Rotterdam University\/Zurich University of the Arts), Jackie McManus, Olivier Moeschler (Universit\u00e9 de Lausanne), Ruth Sonderegger (Akademie der Bildenden K\u00fcnste, Wien), Melissa Steyn (South African Research Chair, Critical Diversity Studies University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), & Ulf Wuggenig (Leuphana Universit\u00e4t, L\u00fcneburg)
    \nAfter Art.School.Differences? Because it\u2019s 2017!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In a final wrap-up of the conference, the Art.School.Differences International Advisory Board briefly issued statements on how they suggest proceeding with the findings of Art.School.Differences from their respective perspectives, institutional positions, or disciplinary anchorage. They shared what they think about how inclusion and exclusion should be further addressed in higher art education and other higher education institutions. This allowed to elaborate together on what comes after Art.School.Differences and the implications of saying \u2018because it\u2019s 2017\u2019!
    \n    International Advisory Board<\/a>: After Art.School.Differences? Because it\u2019s 2017!<\/strong>
    \n    https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/files\/2016\/10\/24_Saturday_Wrap_Up.mp3<\/a><\/audio> Final video <\/a>on the fight for access to education shown by Carmen M\u00f6rsch<\/a><\/p>\n

    ANTI-DISCRIMINATORY PARCOURS ART.SCHOOL.DIFFERENCES PRIZE!<\/strong>
    \nThe great surprise price of the anti-discrimination parcours Art.School.Differences is a trip to the Chicago to the     School of the Art Institute of Chicago<\/a> to learn how they deal with ‘Diversity’<\/a> there. The winner is Rena Onat, research assistant and lecturer at the Media Studies department of the University of the Arts Braunschweig and PhD-candidate at the University of Oldenburg.<\/p>\n

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    \nTimes: FRI 14-21.15h; SAT 9-18.15h
    \nConference convenors: Sophie V\u00f6gele, Philippe Saner, Carmen M\u00f6rsch & Dora Borer; supported by Maja Renn
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    BECAUSE IT’S 2016! CHALLENGING INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION AT SWISS ART SCHOOLS \u00abA year ago, when asked \u201cwhy it is so important to have a gender balanced cabinet,\u201d the newly elected Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau replied, \u201cbecause it\u2019s 2015!\u201d It is fitting then, in 2016, to renew a collective commitment. Through our research and … Continue reading Final Symposium Nov. 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2485,"featured_media":2899,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2149","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":190,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2149\/revisions\/4299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/artschooldifferences\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}