Piet Zwart Institute
Master Education in Arts
P.O. Box 1272
3000 BG Rotterdam
The Netherlands
We proudly present “Cartographies of Acting Pedagogically: Working with Liquid Logic,” a series of public lectures developed by the Piet Zwart Institute Master Education in Arts in collaboration with Priscila Fernandes as part of her solo exhibition at TENT Rotterdam.
Lecture series
“Cartographies of Acting Pedagogically: Working with Liquid Logic”
Location: TENT, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam
Entrance to the lectures is free, please reserve via [email protected]
Friday, May 22, 20–22
“What Are We Up Against and What Are the Possibilities?”
With Adelita Husni-Bey and Ine Gevers
Thursday, June 4, 20–22h
“Strategies of Empowerment”
With Ane Hjort Guttu
Thursday, June 18, 20–22
“Precarious Pedagogies: Knowledge Production in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism”
With Joost de Bloois
The lecture series is integrated in Priscila Fernandes’ solo exhibition at TENT, titled Those bastards in caps come to have fun and relax by the seaside instead of continuing to work in the factory.
Location: TENT, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam
Opening: May 1, 18h, and on view until July 5
Among other work, Priscila Fernandes will present her recently published The Book of Aesthetic Education of the Modern School, inspired by the radical ideas of the Escuela Moderna in Barcelona (1901–06). At a time when education was guarded by the Catholic Church, the Catalan pedagogue Francesc Ferrer i Guarda started this project based on a free, secular, universal and egalitarian educational program, influenced by the revolutionary messages that anarchists and freethinkers were spreading. Although aesthetic education wasn’t officially part of the curriculum, the school published several articles on the importance of the artist’s role in society, and the implementation of artistic activities in the learning process. In her book, Fernandes investigates what the role of art could have been had Ferrer been able to further develop his project, and how art can help redesign society.
In addition to presenting The Book of Aesthetic Education of the Modern School, Priscila Fernandes sets part of the exhibition space up as an informal classroom, functioning as an installation in which joint production, reflection and debate take place, activated by students and exhibition visitors alike. The lecture series was developed together with Prof. Dr. Frans-Willem Korsten, course tutor at the Master Education in Arts.
Since the 19th century the political and the artistic avant-gardes have been thinking about the role of art in education in relation to societal circumstances and change, predominantly with the goal of emancipation. This dynamic however, depended on a national educational system that concerned all layers of society. Now that both private and public modes of education are at play and most adolescents spend more time on gaming and social media than on school work, it would be foolish not to consider this investment in a fundamentally pedagogical way. To address such issues, the lecture series proposes to explore the potential of a “cartographies of acting pedagogically.” The aim is to use both the collective intelligence and practices of the students, guest speakers and theories to visualize the force field that actors are in when wanting to operate pedagogically. The lectures and seminars are constructed around the idea of “liquid logic”; a more open, networked and fluid way of approaching the otherwise structured and compartmentalized educational models.
For more information about the lecture series or the Piet Zwart Institute Master Education in Arts please visit our website.
Application deadline:May 10
Contact
Vanessa Tuitel, course coordinator, [email protected]
