Monday October 16th 2017 at 12:30 – 3:30 pm
Space: Seminar room 1, Art Academy, Tromsø
PERFORMANCE ART, EXERCISES and UNTAMED EDUCATION
Welcome to a messy seminar about performance art, exercises and untamed education. The idea of the messy seminar is that there is space for theory, performative exercises, sidetracks and discussions. Performance artists and professors Charles Garoian and Ray Langenbach will propose exercises and share their thoughts on the theme.
Kristina Junttila will host the seminar and make sure to disrupt the borders between theory and practice, serve enough coffee and facilitate so that the talk goes back and forth.
There will be a special focus on the role of the educational institutions in art education. Our aim is to particularly discuss local issues in relation to this, such as the degrading of the Art Faculty at the University of Tromsø or the role of art subjects in schools.
”The untamed messiness of such an exploratory, experimental, and improvisational ontology is easily perceived as a threat to curricular and pedagogical systems that desire to clean up, manage complexity and contradiction, and prevent any potential unanticipated crisis from emerging in classrooms” (Garoian, 2014, p. 384)
The seminar is free and is open for anyone interested.
Tell Kristina.junttila@uit.no before Friday 13th of October if you are coming, so we know how much coffee, biscuits and fruits to buy.
Charles Garoian is an artist and professor of art education at Penn State University. Based on the critical strategies of performance art, his teaching focuses on exploratory, experimental, and improvisational art making processes in visual art studio and art education courses. Garoian is the author of Performing Pedagogy: Toward an Art of Politics (1999); co-author of Spectacle Pedagogy: Art, Politics, and Visual Culture (2008); and, The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art: Embodied Research and Practice (2013).
Ray Langenbach is an artist living in Kuala Lumpur and Helsinki. He is professor of Live Art and Performance Studies at the Theatre Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki. He is an artist and teacher whose installations, moving image works, and performance art is generally concerned with the interface of propaganda and contemporary art. His works have been presented at Whitney Museum of Art, National Centre for Performing Arts in Mumbai, Asia Pacific Triennale in Australia, 3rd Werkleitz Biennial in Germany, Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, Malaysia National Art Gallery and in Kiasma Museum.
Kristina Junttila is a performance artist and PhD research fellow in art pedagogy at the Contemporary Arts Academy, UiT. She works especially with different modes of participation and is generally concerned with the relationship between existing structures, the political and the personal. The seminar is organised by Kristina, and it is related to her doctoral research about the potential of exercises in Live Art.
Garoian, C. R. (2014). In "the Event" That Art and Teaching Encounter. Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 56(1), 384-396.
Supported by “Fondet for UiT – Norges arktiske universitet”