The 100% Official Unofficial Open Day for Alternative Art Education
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THE FIRST 100% OFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL ART EDUCATION OPEN-DAY
An informal open day exploring the plural experiences of alternative art schools and wider conversations of alternative education all together. An opportunity to get to know existing alternative art schools but also teach you how to DIY or DIT (Do It Together).
SOTD will use this day as the launch for inviting applications for 2018/19. Alongside this, these alt- courses or schools will showcase how they are unique through workshops presenting their individual identity ; AltMFA, Art and Critique, Pacto, School of the Damned, Syllabus, TOMA, Turps Banana.
The venue is fully wheelchair accessible.
This event is part of the ART LICKS Weekend
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Full Programme:
12.00: Welcome, tea &coffee
12.30: School of the Damned: Building an Active Archive
A workshop introducing 'The Active Archive': an online investigative tool for those interested in engaging with and facilitating alternative ways of learning.
13.00: Art & Critique
Within the last ten years alternative art education has burgeoned into a full-blown movement, fuelled by economic crisis, austerity and the liberalisation of higher education. But what is alternative art education? Who is it for, and what is it an alternative to? Join with Art & Critique to exchange ideas, discuss and question the future of alternative art education in a participatory workshop.
13.30: AltMFA
AltMFA is a recipe that we make up together, inventing as we go, using whatever ingredients we can get hold of - a cocktail of the personalities, passions and histories of whoever is at the meeting. Bring an ingredient to add to the strange salad we will be making together as we collectively transcribe the recipe for an alternative art school.
14.00 - 15.00: Lunch
15.30: Pacto: Radical Research Methods
Pacto would like to further explore how self organisation takes place. A workshop challenging the symposium to create a model for collaborative research.
16.00: Syllabus: Manifesto towards a Syllabus
Wysing Arts Centre's Assistant Curator John Bloomfield will be joined by Tom Smith and Frederica Agbah from Syllabus II and III to discuss the manifestos that each year's group have drawn up. Composed during the first retreat of each year the manifestos are used to shape the ideals of the group and to lay down ground rules for the year ahead.
16.30: Turps Banana: Correspondance course
Patricia Mulligan (Turps Banana) will be in conversation with Emily Woolley (SOTD) about her experience of the correspndence course and finding ways to practice and study post graduation.
17.00: TOMA: The Art Pub Quiz
TOMA invite you to form a team and take part to test your knowledge and forge discussions about alternative ways to educate yourself outside of the institutional system in 2017.
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Founded in 2010, AltMFA is an alternative 'Master of Fine Art' course established by artists for artists as a free alternative to studying at a university-based MA in London.. The course has no fixed premises; our programme takes place in a range of private and public venues. Meetings are every Monday night between 6.30pm and 9.30pm.
Art & Critique is an open-access network dedicated to practice, education research and critical engagement with contemporary art. We foster alternative models of art education and bring together artists, curators, writers and organisations in a series of free and open-access public events.
Art & Critique is independent, self-organised and self-funded. Our commitment to alternative education and radical pedagogy goes hand-in-hand with our commitment to developing collective, collaborative and co-operative models of pedagogy and organisation.
PACTO is a research project that aims to explore communal negotiation of autonomy. PACTO will encourage a dynamic dialogue around how artistic action can be a vehicle for enquiry and an apparatus for creating lines of agonistic discourse and empathy building. PACTO is looking to pose a proposition. What is communal negotiation of autonomy?
During PACTO all participants will be active members in shaping its ongoing format, defining the terms of the proposition as a group, assisting other members theoretically and practically, playing a role in organising the logistical aspects of your individual and collective research. Central to the project will be a desire to undertake the research collectively, through collaboration and reflection on individual actions and their outcomes. Important to PACTO is the participants' role as authors of the project's structure to shape the format that suits our shared aims.
School of the Damned is a free year-long art course run for and by its students. Currently in its 5th year, School of the Damned was set up in response to the increase of higher education fees. The course aims to provide support for development of individual art practice in a critically engaged framework.
School of the Damned is an art course
Unaccredited and free of location and fees
Regardless of age, race, ability or gender
Regardless of persuasion, location or opposition
School of the Damned wants education for all
School of the Damned is a school
School of the Damned is a traditional school
School of the Damned is a traditional alternative school
School of the Damned is an alternative to traditional alternative school
School of the Damned is not the ultimate opposition
School of the Damned is a singular potential solution
School of the Damned aims to be as accessible as possible
Syllabus is a peer-led alternative learning programme in its third year that supports ten artists across ten months. Syllabus is organised by Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, Iniva, New Contemporaries, S1 Artspace, Spike Island and Studio Voltaire. This year's lead artists are Harold Offeh and Jesse Darling.
The programme is structured around a series of retreats hosted at, or organised by, the partner institutions. Contributing artists to Syllabus (2015) and Syllabus II (2016)have included Ruth Beale, Celine Condorelli, Andy Holden, Richard Long, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Katrina Palmer, Rosalie Schweiker, Richard Wentworth, Jonathan P. Watts, Keith Wilson and Rehana Zaman. With additional input from Benedict Drew, Marie-Anne McQuay, Kathy Noble, Eddie Peake, MArinella Senatore and Mike Sperlinger.
The Other MA (TOMA) is an alternative art education model set up by practicing artist, Emma Edmondson, working in partnership with Metal. Designed to fit the everyday lives of contemporary artists TOMA is a response to the barriers that some face in accessing many traditional art MA models. Ten artists are selected each year who directly steer the study programme, choosing those who come to teach on it and the topics explored. TOMA artists also host public facing projects and exhibitions as part of their time on the course. TOMA is currently based at Metal in Southend.
Turps Banana correspondence course is a one to one responsive year long programme of online mentoring. Offering an opportunity to reconnect and reinvigorate participants practice, on an international platform.
