“The first thing that seems important to note in this efflorescence of artistic interest in education is its indication of a changing relationship between art and the academy. If in the past, academia was perceived as a dry and elitist institution (an association that persists in the use of ‘academic’ as a derogatory adjective), today education is figured as art’s potential ally in an age of ever-decreasing public space, rampant privatisation, and instrumentalised bureaucracy. At the same time, as Irit Rogoff notes, there is a certain slippage between terms like ‘education’, ‘self-organised pedagogies’, ‘research’ and ‘knowledge production’, so that the radical strands of the intersection between art and pedagogy blur easily with the neoliberal impetus to render education a product or tool in the ‘knowledge economy’. So how can we tell the difference between ‘pedagogical aesthetics’ and more generative intersections of art and education?” (page 242)
Claire Bishop. Artificial Hells:Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. London: Verso, 2012.
Diana Rangel Selected texts Art, Pedagogy and Society nodoCCS
