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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoA Community of Artists: Radical Pedagogy at CalArts, 1969-72 (East of Borneo)2014-08-08T20:04:00+00:00
http://www.eastofborneo.org/articles/a-community-of-artists-radical-pedagogy-at-calarts-1969-72
robertogrecoWhat remains of primary importance to me […] is the sense that we were connecting to a much larger enterprise than trying to advance our artistic careers, or to make art for art’s sake. It was precisely our commitment to the activist politics of women’s liberation, to a burgeoning theory and practice of feminism, and to a larger conversation about community, collectivity and radical history, which has given me lasting connections to people and a continuing sense of being part of a cultural and political resistance, however fragmentary the expression of this may be in my life today.
Despite his own conflicts with the institute, Blau holds a similar perspective: “During the time I was there (I cannot speak for it now), it was—like the Bauhaus or Black Mountain—not only a school but very much what Disney wanted, a community of the arts, in which students and teachers trained together, performed together, constructed ‘environments’ together and even somehow managed—where the particular work was not of a communal nature—to leave each other alone.”
CalArts today is a school rather than an anti-school, with grades (low pass/pass/high pass), a timetable for graduation, and for the first time in its history, a syllabus in every classroom. Yet an investment in radical pedagogy persists, with a loose consensus that the educational situations that work best often involve field trips and social outreach, project-based learning, and “mentoring” as opposed to “teaching.” The notion that faculty are to treat students as artists and colleagues prevails, with its attendant benefits and difficulties. The question of what form the delivery of content should take is a live one. Time and space are continually contested, and an openness to what might be places constant pressure on what is.
Just last year, the institute carved out a “commons” time from the heavily scheduled individual school curricula in which students can come together across disciplines to collaborate—in some sense, a return to its origins. Although, to paraphrase Marcuse, an art school can only be truly free in a free society—i.e., art becomes life only when life is also opened up to creative change—the promise of this commingling endures. Indeed, the Gesamtkunstwerk that preserves a vision of emancipated social life in times of political conservatism holds even greater possibilities in our own era of renewed resistance and collective action."]]>calarts cv history education 1960s 1970s robertfitzpatrick roydisney waltdisney robertcorrigan mariosalvo herbertblau fluxus judithadler melpowell janetsarbanes mauricestein feminism freedom tcsnmy lcproject openstudioproject alisonknowles petervanriper allankaprow dickhiggins emmettwilliams jamestenney namjunepaik owensmith judychicagomiriamschapiro johnbaldessari herbertmarcuse art arteducation radicalism communes communalism interdisciplinary crosspollination crossdisciplinary transdisciplinary multidisciplinary experimentation blackmountaincollege bmc pedagogy teaching howweteach deschooling capitalism unschooling power control democracy anti-teaching anti-schools artschools altgdp activism community relationships bauhaus collectivism society grades grading schedules timelines syllabus projectbasedlearning 2014 1969 1970 1971 1972 pbl radicalpedagogy artschool syllabihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:909ba3f359b3/