Jointly organised by the Serpentine Gallery and Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, Deschooling Society brought together writers, artists and curators to discuss the changing relationship between art and education over two days at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room.
We are pleased to now be able to offer a series of podcasts of these presentations and discussions.
Episode 9
Photography: Mark Blower
Conclusion
Summary by Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson
Closing Statement from Ralph Rugoff
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Paul O’Neill spoke of the curatorial as a form of knowledge production rather than staging. He sees education as a contested ground that has the potential for social reconstruction and preservation.
Mick Wilson emphasised that since the 1960s there has been a systematic project of education within government policy. He suggested that the problematic of the educational turn was a question of form, wherein pedagogy has been unhooked from the specific programme of the political. He posited that political agency needed to be achieved within and without the state, and within and without the institution.
Paul O’Neill is a curator, artist and writer based in Bristol. He is Great Western Research Alliance (GWR) Research Fellow in Commissioning Contemporary Art with Situations at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
Mick Wilson is Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin. He is an artist, writer and educatior who has exhibited and published his work widely.
Ralph Rugoff is Director of the Hayward Gallery. Since his appointment in May 2006 he has curated the acclaimed exhibitions, Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture, The Painting of Modern Life and most recently, Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting.
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