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RADICAL PEDAGOGICAL WORKING GROUPBHQFU 33 34th Street Brooklyn,
6th FloorSpring 2016 Wednesdays
7-9pmhttps://radicalpedagogy.wordpress.comJarrett Earnest
The one thing that an art school never tells you is that they
cannot teach you how to be an artist. Robert Gober
Teaching art is difficult because making art is so personal.
Over many years of being a teacher, Itried to discover ways of
addressing this crucial problem. I was always determined to teach
in away that would not encourage anyone to make work that looked
like or deliberately emulatedmine. What interests me was in
influencing how students thought about their work, how
theyapproached it, not what it looked like nor what its contents
might be. I wanted to be as non-prescriptive as possible, to
acknowledge the infinite diversity of art. Michael Craig-Martin
RPWGis an open seminar for re-envisioning art education,
addressing the basic question: Is itpossible to teach artists at
all? The fact that artists write lectures, compile reading
lists,assemble programs and found schools, proposes an array of
possible answers. Every week wewill focus on texts created as
pedagogical tools by artist-teachers, discussing content
whileanalyzing the strategies and underlying philosophical program.
We will also be joined by guestspeakers to discuss their
experiments and experiences in the classroom.
WEEK 1 March 2nd Hans HoffmannREADING:Hans Hoffmann: The Search
for the Real; Painting and Culture; Terms.Harold Rosenberg: Hans
Hoffmanns life classGUEST:Josephine Halvorson
WEEK 2 March 9th Johannes Itten & Josef
AlbersREADING:Johannes Itten: excerpts from Design and Form; Josef
Albers: introduction,1-2 and Interaction of Color iPad
App.GUEST:Anna Betbeze
WEEK 3 March 16th Laszlo Moholy-NagyREADING:Lazlo Moholy-Nagy:
preliminariesa new vision; new educationorganicapproach.
WEEK 4 March 23rd Joseph BeuysREADING: Joseph Beuys:
Introduction (1979); Manifesto on the creation of a Free
International School for Creativity and Interdisciplinary
Research (1973); I amsearching for field character (1973); Speech
upon receiving an honorary doctoratedegree from the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design, Halifax (1976); I put me on
thistrain!interview with Art Papier (1979).GUEST: Joan
Waltemath
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WEEK 5 March 30th John CageREADING: John Cage: Composition as
Process: I. Changes / II. Indeterminacy / III.Communication.
WEEK 6 April 6th William KentridgeREADING:William Kentridge:
Drawing Lesson OneIn Praise of Shadows; Drawing
Lesson ThreeVertical Thinking: A Johannesburg
Biography.GUEST:Nancy Goldring
WEEK 7 April 13th Adrian PiperREADING: Adrian Piper: My Art
Education; Notes on Funk I-IV; Food for the Spirit;Some Reflective
Surfaces I & II.
WEEK 8 April 20th Yvonne Rainer / Anna HelprinREADING:Yvonne
Rainer: Looking Myself in the Mouth; Yvonne Rainer interviewsAnna
Halprin.
WEEK 9 April 27th Simone FortiREADING:Simone Forti: Handbook in
Motion.
WEEK 10 May 4th Pablo HelgueraREADING:Pablo Helguera: Education
for Socially Engaged Art.GUEST:Christy Gast
BIBLIOGRAPHYAll readings will be available as PDFs via the class
website:https://radicalpedagogy.wordpress.com
Albers, Josef. Interaction of Colors (Yale, 1963).Beuys, Joseph.
Energy Plan for the Western Man: Joseph Beuys in America (Four
Walls Eight
Windows, 1993).Cage, John. SILENCE(Wesleyan, 1961).Forti,
Simone. Handbook in Motion. (NSCAD,1974).Itten, Johannes. Design
and Form. (Thames and Hudson, 1975).Halprin, Anna. Yvonne Rainer
interviews Anna Halprin Moving Toward Life: Five Decades of
Transformational Dance (Wesleyan, 1995).Helguera, Pablo.
Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques
Handbook
(Jorge Pinto, 2011).Hoffmann, Hans. Search for the Real(MIT,
1967).Kentridge, William. Six Drawing Lessons (Harvard, 2014).
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist
(Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc. 1947).Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. Vision in
Motion (Institute of Design, 1947).Piper, Adrian. Out of Order, Out
Of Sight: Volume I: Selected Writing in Meta-Art 1968-1992
(MIT, 1996)Rainer, Yvonne. Looking Myself in the Mouth
OctoberVol. 17 (Summer, 1981).Rosenberg, Harold. Hans Hoffmanns
life class Portfolio and ARTnews Annual(1962).
