This forum revisits a Special Issue entitled ‘Politicising Artistic Pedagogies: Publics, Spaces, Teachings’ published in late 2021 in the journal Art & the Public Sphere, edited by Ian Bruff and Mel Jordan. The special issue sought to disrupt more conventional understandings of art, politics and pedagogy through the deliberate juxtaposition of contributions that would not normally be seen together.
The Call for contributions to the special issue explicitly adhered to inclusive and pluralistic understandings of art, politics and pedagogy. For example, art takes a number of sensory and aesthetic forms, ranging from traditional representations such as painting through to more somatic experiences produced via contemporary technology; all aspects of life are political and not just those that are part of the ‘politics’ cage of government, elections, parties etc.; and we are engaged in educational relationships in all aspects of life, meaning that questions of pedagogy are entwined with societal hierarchies of knowledge. The response to the Call was so large and impressive that we agreed to create two special issues, with this first collection gravitating towards broader, societal themes and questions (the second, which has more of an art discipline/practice focus, will be published in mid-2022).
The blog posts draw on articles which speak to the special issue’s key themes of publics, spaces, teachings: for example, on questions of public/social participation and potential politicisation through artistic practice; on the entanglements between urban built environments, state power and capital accumulation; and on the relationship between our pedagogical commitments and teaching practices.
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The set image reproduces El Lissitzky, ‘Teyashim’ (Four billy goats) [1922]
This post introduces readers to the second Special Issue we have co-edited on the umbrella theme of ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies’. The first Special Issue, entitled ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies: Publics, Spaces, Teachings’, was published in late 2021 in the journal Art & the Public [...]
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In 2013 I was handcuffed outside the Bank of England. The handcuffs were bought at a joke shop and the protest – a guerrilla performance – took place on one of the few remaining pockets of public land in the City of London. In the strolling guerrilla street show BACS: Bankers on Community [...]
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It was both an honour and a delight to contribute to the Special Issue of Art & the Public Sphere edited by Ian Bruff and Mel Jordan. The focus on disrupting the relations between art, politics, and pedagogy provided a wonderful provocation to reconsider and critique some of my own teaching [...]
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This blog post discusses an article that was part of the Special Issue entitled ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies: Publics, Spaces, Teachings’ published in late 2021 in the journal Art & the Public Sphere, edited by myself and Mel Jordan. In doing so, I finally managed to write about my [...]
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The Period Poverty initiative was subsequently featured in national media, and became the basis of a recently-published journal article in a Special Issue of Art & the Public Sphere where we draw on our shared lecturer/student experiences to collectively reflect on the initiative and consider [...]
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What if a longstanding monument or a building can slice through history (time) and geography (space) to provide past and present insights on the construction of place? Essentially this has been a question explicitly carried throughout one aspect of my ongoing research on spatial political [...]
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This forum revisits a Special Issue entitled ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies: Publics, Spaces, Teachings’ published in late 2021 in the journal Art & the Public Sphere, edited by Ian Bruff & Mel Jordan. The Special Issue sought to disrupt more conventional understandings of art, politics and [...]
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