EDUCATIONAL TURN
How education is changing
contemporary art and curating
Adelita Husni-Bey,
Postcards from the Desert Island - 2011
SD video transferred to DVD, 22‘23‘‘ oil on canvas, cm 150x250
22‘23‘‘
How is the educational turn affecting artistic and curatorial
practices?
Radical pedagogies are the starting point to rethink an educational
approach free from prejudices and rhetoric. I believe that education is
the key to approach art practices from a perspective that tries to
differ from the neo-capitalistic view in which most part of the world
(not only the art world) is embedded.
Italian contemporary artists
and curators are giving a fundamental contribution to the development of
this idea using their practices.
In detail, we could spot three different areas of interest: first, the
pedagogic as a method for art practice; second, the rethinking of
educational institutions through art; third, the return to earth in a
sharing context.
"I think that education and the educational turn might be the
moment in which we attend to the production and articulation of
truths. Not truth as correct, as provable, as fact, but truth as
that which collects around it subjectivities which are neither
gathered by, nor reflected by, other utterances."
Irit Rogoff
Image credits to Laveronica Gallery
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