Talk
Test Unit 2018: Turncoats debate - ART SCHOOL IS DEAD
21 Jun 2018
Event times
20.00
Cost of entry
£6/4
Address
- 26 Civic Street
- Glasgow
Scotland - G4 9RH
- United Kingdom
Arts education is enhanced through generosity, experimentation, critique and taking risks. This is at direct odds with the business model it often exists within. Is it not time to recognise that the institutional art school is dead and new models need to emerge?
About
Creativity is what makes us human. Learning how to be creative = big business. It’s time to cash in for art schools. Yay!
Exponentially increase the number of fee-paying students. Develop more courses with innovation in the title.
Place schools at the heart of new cultural regeneration projects. To get an art design or architecture teaching job you need a PhD, to get a PhD you need to pay the institution you’re going to work for. The loop is complete. Bloody great.
As education becomes the product, the objectives of HE institutions have silently shifted – to focus on business growth, efficiency and remaining competitive in the open marketplace of higher education. Arts education is a process enhanced through generosity, experimentation and critique – fundamentally underpinned by the relationship between creativity and the taking of risks. This is at direct odds with the business model it exists within.
Is it not time to recognise that the institutional art school is dead and new models need to emerge?
Our panelists for this feisty Turncoats debate are:
Prof. Ken Neil, Deputy Director, Glasgow School of Art
Lewis Prosser, School of the Damned
Ethel Baraona Pohl, dpr-barcelona
Final speaker TBA!
Chaired by: Ambrose Gillick, Baxendale
