Conference
Bauhaus: Art and Education in Practice Symposium
18 Oct 2019
Regular hours
- Fri, 18 Oct
- 10:30 – 17:00
Cost of entry
£25 (inc. buffet lunch)
Address
- West Dean
- Chichester
- PO18 0QZ
- United Kingdom
This one-day symposium celebrates the centenary of the Bauhaus School of Design. It questions how the innovations in teaching and creative practice it is known to have fostered continue to underpin, inform and challenge both arts education and contemporary art practice.
About
Founded in Weimar in 1919 and closed by the Nazis in Berlin some 14 years later, the Bauhaus is renowned as a locus of radical ideas, experimentation, as well as practical applications of art, craft and design to everyday life. Although short-lived, its legacy is still felt as one of the most influential art schools of the twentieth century.
The Bauhaus centenary provides an opportunity to engage with the notion of a 'model' art school, using it as a means to critically explore historical, contemporary and potential contexts for alternate forms of making and pedagogy, emerging from crossovers between educational, social, and artistic practices.
At a time of increased pressure on universities and arts education in particular, this symposium explores how early experiments in pedagogy continue to haunt and inspire our institutions of education, as well as impacting on individual artists, artist groups, and collectives. The symposium aims to question the boundaries between disciplines of art, craft and design; to explore the importance of educational and studio facilities, materials, skills and spaces; and to consider wider questions as to what is valued in the arts and in education.
Schedule
10:30-10:55 Registration
11:00-11:10 Introduction by Dr. Nigel Llewellyn (Trustee, West Dean College of Arts and Conservation)
PANEL 1 Education in Context
Chaired by Dr. Annebella Pollen (University of Brighton)
11:15-11:45 Professor Jeremy Aynsley (University of Brighton) Rethinking Bauhaus Teaching
11:45-12:15 Professor Gavin Butt (Northumbria University) Bauhaus Undead
12:15-12:45 Education in Context panel discussion
12:45-13:45 Lunch (1 hour)
PANEL 2 Art School Educated
Chaired by Joseph Jones (University of Brighton)
13:45-14:15 Francine Norris Craft Haus (West Dean College)
14:15-14:45 Sarah Kate Wilson Episodes (Camberwell College of Arts)
14:45-15:15 Art School Educated panel discussion
Break
PANEL 3 Thinking Through Making
Chaired by Ashley McCormick (DLWP)
15:30-16:00 Lauren Godfrey (Artist) Open Stage
16:00-16:30 Renee So (Artist) in conversation with Rosie Cooper (DLWP)
16:30-17:00 Thinking Through Making panel discussion
A full programme will be available in early September 2019.
