At this page we can share knowledge on art education practices in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
Nordic Visual Arts Education in Transition: A Research Review 2009 (PDF)
Editor: Lars Lindström. With national reviews by Helene Illeris, Denmark; Rósa Kristín Júlíusdóttir, Iceland; Lars Lindström, Sweden; Liv Merete Nielsen, Norway; Marjo Räsänen, Finland.
Marika Tervahartiala
Jan van Boeckel
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Collaborative Research Residency
Deadline: 1 August 2010
http://www.crresidency.net
BAC, Baltic Art Center in Visby, Sweden; The Factory of Art and Design (FFKD) in Copenhagen, Denmark and Hordaland Art Centre in Bergen, Norway jointly invite professionals within the field of visual art to apply to our new Collaborative Research Residency.
The Collaborative Research Residency offers one month residencies autumn 2010 for research groups of three collaborators where at least one has a contemporary visual arts background (artist/curator/art critic). The programme encourages new relationships and should be seen as a chance to try out different types of collaborations, which may have an inter-disciplinary character. We welcome applications from research groups based in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
This residency programme is a pilot project, and differs from our other residency programmes in two ways: it focuses on collaborative rather than individual practice, and it emphasises the research phase.
The application should outline the initial research idea, how you imagine the collaborative research process, as well as a clear motivation for why you wish to collaborate and how you see that your respective practices can enrich each other.
In 2010 we offer residencies to three groups of three people each to stay for one month in one of the three host institutions. A stipend of 1400 euros per month for each person, travel costs, accommodation and a studio or office facility will be provided. 500 euros will be allocated to each collaborating unit for expenses associated to their research.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
The application should include: a description of the initial idea, an outline of the imagined process and a clear motivation for the collaboration. Applicants must be from any of the Nordic or Baltic countries, or be professionally based in any of these countries. Please see http://www.crresidency.net for detailed information.
Application deadline: 1 August 2010 for one month (30 consecutive days) residency in the period spanning 1 October 2010 – 31 December 2010.
THE HOSTS
Baltic Art Center is a production office and work place for artists, curators and contemporary art writers located at the Swedish island Gotland. BAC runs a variety of different production- and residency programs. It is a flexible organization placing the artistic process at the centre of its activities it therefore has no permanent studios or exhibition rooms. BAC is working actively with questions concerning the relationship between artistic process, institution and society with the aim to continuously assess and re-think our working methods.
http://www.balticartcenter.com
The Factory of Art and Design (FFKD) is an artist-run institution in Copenhagen, Denmark. FFKD houses 55 studios for professional visual artists and designers and a 1000m2 production hall, which is used for exhibitions and events. We run a variety of different international residency programs and collaborate equally on a local, national and international level in issues dealing with the conditions of artistic production.
http://www.ffkd.dk
Hordaland Art Centre based in Bergen, Norway was established 1976 as the first artist run art centre in Norway. Its activities are based around the exhibition programme with equal emphasis on seminars, presentations and dialogue. Since 1985 Hordaland Art Centre has had a residency programme, from 2008 open to international artist, curators, writers and other art professionals. Hordaland Art Centre is situated in one of the oldest remaining school buildings in Bergen where we focus on local commitment in an international every day.
http://www.kunstsenter.no
Call for Papers. Eksperimenta! IDEAlaboratories
IDEAlaboratories is a programme for integrating contemporary art and education, which will take place during the Contemporary Art Triennial for School Students Eksperimenta! from 28th until 30th of April 2011, in Tallinn, Estonia.
IDEAlaboratories will consist of two parallel programmes, which will partly merge: a programme for the art educators and a programme for the school students in the age of 14 – 19. IDEAlaboratories will bring together art education experts, researchers, practitioners and school students.
We are looking for intriguing and inspiring presentations / workshops, which would lead to a better understanding of the essence of contemporary art and would contribute to integrating / translating contemporary art into the art teaching process. As we highly value in-depth presentations which interact with the audience, so we have planned the length of the presentations to be 45 – 60 minutes and the workshops 60 – 90 minutes.
INVITATION TO SUBMIT ABSTRACTS FOR CONSIDERATION
Researchers and practitioners in the visual arts and art education are invited to submit abstracts for peer-reviewed papers, presentations and practical workshops within the themes and sub-themes:
PROPOSED IDEAlaboratories 28 – 30th of April 2011 PROGRAMME – Key themes:
28th of April The Art of Thinking: how to support and develop creative and critical thinking. Conceptual art, idea as art. The end of art work as an object. Fading of the borders between art forms.
29th of April The Art of Looking: new media and visual environment. Art as a reflector of society, creator of connections.
30th of April The Art of Creating: how the above mentioned are combined to reach a practical output in the creative process. The best practices from practitioners to practitioners.
Abstracts must not exceed 300 words (excluding bibliography) and should be submitted under one of the key themes listed above.
Please do not submit multiple copies of the same abstract under different themes. All abstracts will be reviewed and may be moved into a different theme if needed. Once you have submitted you cannot make modifications.
Abstracts must be submitted on the given submission form (please find in the attachment), correspondingly the form of display (presentation or workshop) and target group (teachers, school students or both together) must be chosen using following code (Appendix 1 in the attachment).
The abstracts of workshops must include the list of necessary tools, materials etc.
Deadline for abstract submissions: 10th of November 2010
Notification of acceptance: 10th of December 2010
Deadline for full papers for peer-review and publication: 20th of January 2011
Please send the abstracts to the e-mail address: abstract@eksperimenta.net
The Contemporary Art Triennial for School Students Eksperimenta! is a unique art event which challenges art education to break out from the class room and creatively interact with contemporary life and society.The main topic of Eksperimenta! “Space” will bring together the curators’ interpretations about space – from city space to image space, from geopolitics to psycho-geography, from more than a dozen countries. But the authors of the art work are not professionals, but young people in the age of 14 – 19. See more: http://www.eksperimenta.net
Eksperimenta! Challenging creativity
Tallinn 26th April – 14th June 2011
http://www.eksperimenta.net
1st announcement SYMPOSION 2011
Artistic Research & Contemporary Art
14th to 16th March 2011
Organized by Aalto University School of Art and Design/ Department of Art (Helsinki) & Department of Art and Media (Pori)
The objective of the symposion is to adequately articulate the ratio between artistic work in contemporary art (in fine arts, theatre, dance, design and media) and the research work done by contemporary artists in universities. It will come to be proved that artists who are active in art world also develop interest in trying their skills in research work that aims at both systematic knowledge building in artistic action and describing the outcome of such knowledge building. The use of fiction, narrative methods, artistic description, and/or art as an effort to submit the outcome to the critique of peer review and/or academic assessment will emerge from the need to remain in artistic discourse instead of changing, in the middle of the procedure, to an alien context of scientific scrutiny.
The significant issues thus appeared to include:
‐feasible solutions to the need of a methodology of artistic research,
‐the possible impact of the strategies of contemporary art and thinking into the strategies of artistic research,
‐the ambiguous nature of the concept of knowledge in artistic action,
‐the translation of emotive, experimental, and inner experience to an articulated outer expression,
‐the role of sense experience in artistic research,
‐aesthetics, understood as knowledge of sense experience, in artistic research,
‐the narrative characteristics of artistic research,
‐the role and nature of the written report in projects focused on artistic action,
‐the significant differences in artistic research between fine art, dance, theatre, design and media,
‐the relationship between art curating and artistic research, and
‐the possible impact of artistic research and its institutional frames on the practices of contemporary art
The symposion will take place in the Helsinki premises of Aalto University, Arabia Campus, Hameentie 135 C
The Symposion will include presentations of six invited speakers plus posters, workshops and evening program.
Tallinn Conference on Art Education, “Public Expectations”
From 2 to 3 February, 2012, a conference on art education will take place in Tallinn, entitled “Public Expectations”, hosted by the Estonian Academy of Arts on 2–3 February, 2012 in Tallinn.
Here is the description and registration information: http://www.artun.ee/avalikudootused/eng/
The goal of this conference is to discuss the relationship among contemporary art, higher art education and society, trying to find answers to the following questions:
- Whom should the Art Educational Institutions educate – those who follow tradition or those who want to change it?
- What are the obligations of the Higher Art Educational Institutions to Society if any?
- How should the dialogue between Contemporary Art and Society take place and what is the role of the Art Higher Education Institutions in this process?
- Can (or must) everybody be an Artist? Or even understand Contemporary Art?
- Is an artist who is critical of Society a creator or destroyer?
- What is the role of aesthetics in Contemporary Art and Art education?
- What should art education be like in schools, assuring broader understanding of art in the society on one hand and raising the new generation of artists on the other hand?
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Mikkel Bogh (Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, rector; theoretician)
Prof. Henrik B. Andersen (Vilnius Academy of Arts, professor; artist)
Prof. Teemu Mäki (Aalto University, School of Art and Design, professor; artist)
Prof. Tomaz Zupančič (University of Maribor, Slovenia, professor of pedagogy)
Expected audience of the two-day conference are representatives of higher art education, teachers and researchers, degree students, artists, education officials.
The working languages are English and Estonian: simultaneous translation on first day; parallel sessions in English and Estonian on second day (NB! the second parallel seminar is aimed at international participants).
You are welcome to spread the information among your colleagues!
Don’t hesitate to turn to me in case you have any questions.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Tallinn!
Kind regards
Maria Jürisson
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Estonian Academy of Arts / Eesti Kunstiakadeemia
International Office / Välissuhete osakond
Estonia pst 7
Tallinn 10143
Tel: +372 626 7369
Fax: +372 626 7350
maria.jyrisson@artun.ee