April 2011
6 posts
Peer, Collaborator, Comrade, Friend! –...
In a sphere where professional and social codes continually merge, what kind of allegiances do artists form to survive, to make space for reflection, identity and support? How does the nature of artists’ bonds affect self-organisation, progress and practice within and outside of art communities?
In a day length symposium Megan Wakefield (Spike Island/UWE), Andy Abbott (Black Dogs & Leeds ...
FREE University of Liverpool
Initiated by Lorena Rivero de Beer and The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home (Lena Simic and Gary Anderson) The FREE University of Liverpool states it has been developed to provide FREE education for any student who is keen to study. Believing that critical thought and action are at the heart of changing the world we live in, The FREE University aims to teach about and...
Just Do(ing) It: Artist-led and self-organised...
Just Do(ing) It: Artist-led and self-organised cultural activity as resistance to Capitalism. Saturday 14th MAY 2011 11am – 6pm at S1 Artspace, Sheffield
A one-day symposium event – initiated by Andy Abbott (Black Dogs and University of Leeds), in collaboration with Jane Tormey/Gillian Whiteley (Loughborough University) and S1 Artspace Studios (www.S1artspace.org) - aims to provide a...
February 2011
2 posts
A School Trip
Last November three members of Islington Mill Art Academy, including myself, traveled North-wards to Glasgow in order to attend, and take part in a series of workshops organised by Glasgow Open School (G.O.S) as part of the tenth annual Instal Festival. Given our status as an alternative art school organisation, and rather academically referential title, I like to consider our visit to be a...
Connections
Its been 3 months since the symposium and a number of links have continued between both speakers and attendees.
Islington Mill Art Academy have participated in Glasgow Open School workshops as part of the Instal Festival and a Department 21 hosted event
Discussing Alternative Education Models
December 2010
1 post
the TEACHABLE FILE
the TEACHABLE FILE (tTF) is a working catalogue of alternative art schools and a pre-pedagogical reference on experimental education. The file is forming itself through communicative action and engaged research.
Acting as ‘Filer’, Carson Salter developed the database whilst attending the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles, and whilst in residence at Bétonsalon & The Public School Paris....
October 2010
1 post
Review of the symposium by Jac Mantle
‘Is school a place, an institution, a set of facilities, a situation, a circumstance, an attitude, or a constellation of relationships of the transfer of acquired, invented, and accumulated knowledge?’ asked Raqs Media Collective in their essay for the 2009 compendium ‘Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century)’; MIT Press.
Taking this meditation as a starting point, the...
September 2010
3 posts
Infinite UnSchooling at School of the Future
School of the Future is a project about what a school can be. The mission/hypothesis of the future is that the best learners/teachers are the best teachers/learners. School of the Future invites anyone to propose classes, workshops, apprenticeships, installations, or moments that add to our active research about how to make a better education.The project defeats the notion that school is as it...
Extract from Adam Phillips 'Side Effects': Talking...
This is a quick addition to the Alternative Art Schools Discussion board, we are CIRCA Contemporary Art Projects, or Adam Phillips and Sam Watson as we are also known. We are really looking forward to taking part and hearing about the rich range of things going on as well as getting to experience the Liverpool Biennial for the first time.
Adam Phillips: I am fortunate enough to work in both an...
Timetable of the day
10am Introduction
10.30am Derek Horton in conversation with a selection of North West practitioners:
Zoe Sawyer from The Artmarket, Robert Quirk and Terry Slater part of No Fixed Abode, Dan Simpkins, Penny Whitehead and Charlotte A Morgan from Disrupt Dominant Frequencies and Andy Abbott, David Steans and Harry Meadley
11.15am Department 21
11.45am Megan Wakefield
12.15–1pm LUNCH
...
August 2010
15 posts
Art School Alternatives
A Corridor8 symposium on alternative models of learning, at the Johnson Foundation Auditorium, Art & Design Academy, 2 Duckinfield Street, Liverpool L3 5RD
on 7th October 2010, 10am – 6pm.
Admittance is free but please email lm@corridor8.co.uk to book a place
www.corridor8.co.uk
Is school a place, an institution, a set of facilities, a situation, a circumstance, an attitude, or a...
Participating Speakers
Derek Horton – A Round Table Discussion
Disrupt Dominant Frequencies residency studio at Atelierhaus Salzamt November 2009
Derek Horton will outline the thinking behind his Corridor8 article on alternatives to the current university-based models of art education and will extend the discussion by chairing a forum of artists engaged in independent and “DIY” activities. The contributors to the forum will include:
Andy Abbott,...
Heath Bunting
Terrorist The Status Project
Heath Bunting is the founder of the site irational.org and was one of the early practitioners in the 1990s of Net.art. Irational is a web server collective of six individuals who have developed an international system for deploying “irational” information, services and products for the displaced and roaming. IRATIONAL.ORG supports independent artists...
Department 21
Discussion on Cultures of resistance: Commodification of cultural production
www.department21.net
Representatives Bianca Elzenbaumer and Fabio Franz
Department 21 is an experimental interdisciplinary workspace at the Royal College of Art. The workspace was established and led by students throughout 2009/2010. Temporarily occupying a vacated space in the Royal College of Art, Department 21...
Kate Rich
http://bureauit.org
Feral Trade Apple Musk at Bristol Temple Meads Station
www.feraltrade.org
Kate Rich is an Australian-born artist & trader. In the 1990s she moved to California to work with the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT), an international agency producing an array of critical information products including economic and ecologic indices, event-triggered webcam networks, and...
Megan Wakefield
Spike Island Associates Programme, Bristol
Megan Wakefield is studying for an AHRC-funded collaborative doctorate with Spike Island and UWE in Peer Learning in Contemporary Art Networks. She works with the Associates Programme at Spike Island programming events and activities, as well as facilitating the Associates reading group. Megan is also a freelance art writer and has collaborated on...
Paul Rooney - Thin Air
Paul Rooney primarily works with text, sound and video, using short stories, songs, audio guides and lectures to highlight elements of a historical past within the ‘voices’ of real and ficitional senarios. Recent projects include a 12” red vinyl record broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music; a site-specific sound ‘lecture’ for Leeds Metropolitan University and Sound and Music; and a video...
CIRCA Contemporary Art Projects
CIRCA Jump! Children’s workshop
ccaprojects.org.uk
Sam Watson and Adam Philips have developed a renowned programme of artist’s talks, performances and film screenings under CIRCA Contemporary Art Projects. CIRCA’s communally focused events compliment the participatory and collaborative nature of both their practices working with established and emerging artists and curators. Sam Watson and Adam...
Islington Mill Art Academy in conversation with...
Islington Mill Art Academy
islingtonmillartacademy.blogspot.com
Islington Mill Art Academy is a free self-organised art school based in Manchester It was set up in 2007 by a group of art foundation students, dissatisfied with the quality and standards in University Fine Art courses open to them at that time. The Academy exists to experiment with what an art education can be, where it can take...
The Drawing Exchange
http://irational.org/drawing_exchange
Drawing Exchange Leas Lift Folkestone
Throughout the course of the symposium artists Lady Lucy will be leading a drawing exchange event. Drawing Exchange is a collaborative project developed by Lady Lucy and Kayle Brandon over the last four years delivering a social platform for drawing-led events. Hosting open drawing events in a variety of different...
Closing Discussion
5pm
A round table discussion led by Derek Horton with a selection of participating speakers will discuss the themes highlighted throughout the symposium, drawing upon shared avenues of research and potential future discussions.
Getting There
The university is a short walk from the city’s bus and train stations. The location of the Johnson Foundation Auditorium is marked ‘A’ on the map shown below.
For more detailed directions on how to get to the building please visit LJMU’s website at:
http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/location/routeplanner.asp?id=14
“Is school a place, an institution, a set of facilities, a situation, a...”
– Raqs Media Collective, ‘Art School: Propositions for the 21st Century’, MIT Press (2009)
About
Drawing together a range of practitioners whose work looks to the communal, collaborative and participatory, Corridor8 contemporary visual art magazine presents a participatory symposium that explores methods of learning and ideas of schooling.
Speakers include: Department 21, Heath Bunting, Kate Rich, Islington Mill Art Academy, Lady Lucy, Circa Projects, Megan Wakefield, Black Dogs, A Latento,...