STUDIES IN KUNSTVAKIDIOTIE
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author(s): Mirjam van Tilburg
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Welcome to "Studies in Kunstvakidiotie". Here, you can browse through the photographs, essays, drawings, audio and video clips. ‘Studies in kunstvakidiotie’ is the doctoral research of Mirjam van Tilburg at Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA). This is a study in arts education from within the arts. She tries to shift the dominant image of life-long-learning (LLL) and provide insight into the possibilities that this LLL space also provides to art teachers. By searching in this way, more and more became clear about life-long-learning of art teachers. Therefore, a linear cause-and-effect narrative did not seem to do justice to the subject matter. The term ‘studies’ in the title is sketchy — it also involves repetition and seeking connections and, above all, it is a derivative of studio and study.
Five essays form the markers within ‘Studies in Kunstvakidiotie’. Together, they construct a narrative. The essay ‘(onder)zoek in kunsteducatie’ describes practices and values that stem from Mirjam van Tilburg’s artistic practice: education. The motivation behind this research is that art teachers find LLL events to be limited. The essay ‘LLO als commoning practice’ discusses the possibilities of commoning practices. The examples: The New School Collective and studios are outlined herein. The studios are the experiment within this doctoral research. During the winter of 2020-2021, Mirjam van Tilburg worked with ten art teachers. The experiment of this doctoral project coincided with the Covid-19 crisis. Together they occupied artist studios in Tilburg and Rotterdam to de-automate and look at teaching practices.
The essays ‘Blik’ and ‘Tijd’ therefore propose two topics of conversation within LLL: the ‘aesthetic glance’ and the temporal experience of ‘interruption’. These essays question the efficient and productive order prevailing in the work environment and LLL of art teachers.
The essay ‘Herontdekking van Kunstvakidiotie’ is the story of a change in the craft of art teachers in the first Covid-19 crisis year. The term ‘kunstvakidiotie’ in the title cannot be directly translated into English because it is a compound word and may have specific connotations in the Dutch context. The essay describes how in these studios, art subject teachers had one foothold: artistic fervour.
ART RESEARCH ENVELOPE
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author(s): Wera Hippesroither
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The publication Envelope offers insights into ongoing PhD projects by candidates in the PhD programme PhD in Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in an innovative format. The major thrust of “Envelope” presents content supplied by doctoral researchers based on their individual artistic research and provides insights into ongoing work processes. These visual and textual traces reveal the state of the Art within its ongoing research processes. Jointly developed by Margarete Jahrmann, professor of the PhD in Art programme from 2017/18 to 2021, and Alexander Damianisch, director of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung, this open format seeks to reflect on experiences through exchange, as well as document relevant developments in the field of art and research.
And hand, and index, and manual: ongoing explorations of my online choreographies in conjunction with my evolving research.
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author(s): Renee Carmichael
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I have been wanting to start this project for awhile, but I didn’t know where to start. I didn’t have the right connection. But then I started reading “Fenomenología del Fin: Sensibilidad y mutación conectiva” by Franco “Bifo” Berardi—(My first experience reading a theoretical book completely in Spanish, a point that is not to be put aside as something decoded—ah ha!—but to be anded into the conversation, the experience and the process. For me it is already a liminal starting point of not only a new life in Buenos Aires after arriving around 6 weeks ago, but also a new type of conjunción in my research)—and I realised that I did not need a connection. And what now?
The idea here will be to explore my own movements surrounding my research as I read it and process it and note it and write it and digitise it. This very current month, whatever month you find yourself reading this text, I am starting a PhD in Teoría Comparada de las Artes at Universidad Nacional de Tres Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. My topic is around dance and code. I won’t go into details, and anyway, they will probably change depending on what month you are in. Instead I will say that I want to get to the body. To the dance AND to the code there is always a body to be explored.
I am not exactly sure what shape this will take. What I can say now is that I plan to record my movements while thinking through them with the very theories that I am reading. Every once and awhile I might make a connection, a code that can be used for you readers, to also understand, or better yet—use. But the point is more in the exploration, in the conjunctions.
From what I incorporated, conjuncted, from the Spanish and the introduction of Berardi’s book, with the digital, we are moving away from a liminal world of conjunctions, empathic understanding, and instead find ourselves in connections, or clear codes of communication in structures of syntax. This changes the way we perceive the world, which includes our aesthetic sensibility and our emotional sensitivity. Have we lost our ability to experience that which cannot be said, that which is liminal, that which cannot be understood, that which cannot be codified, that which has no syntax, that which can only be felt? And in a very general sense, my research is asking a similar question. It is bringing back the idea of the body as a way of resisting flows of technological power through the conjunction of dance and code. And so why now?
I have often said, in understandable syntax to describe ideas that perhaps only make sense to me, that I often interalise a theory. I make it experience and then I use it to write. I also say I am interested in exploring the liminal. But I always go back to codifying it, to describing it, to writing it. I will of course have to do that to complete the PhD. There is a system in place after all and this system requires a specific syntax. However, here is my chance to remain in the liminal and in the conjunction and in the body as much as possible in order to process the things I am reading, writing and researching in new ways, with my aesthetic sensibility AND my emotional sensitivity.
And let’s see where it goes.
The publication Envelope offers insights into ongoing PhD projects by candidates in the PhD programme PhD in Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in an innovative format. The major thrust of “Envelope” presents content supplied by doctoral researchers based on their individual artistic research and provides insights into ongoing work processes. These visual and textual traces reveal the state of the Art within its ongoing research processes. Jointly developed by Margarete Jahrmann, professor of the PhD in Art programme from 2017/18 to 2021, and Alexander Damianisch, director of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung, this open format seeks to reflect on experiences through exchange, as well as document relevant developments in the field of art and research.open exposition comments (0)