Future Art School

In the podcast series Teaching Art, creative writing teacher Dennis Gaens looks into what it means to teach art in the present day. In this thee part series he looks into where we teach art, who teaches it and what exactly is being taught.

Els Cornelis en Catelijne de Muijnck spraken met een aantal studenten, docenten, wetenschappers, denkers en makers over hoe de Kunstschool van de Toekomst eruit zou kunnen zien. In de interviews komt een keur aan onderwerpen aan bod, van sociale rechtvaardigheid, gedekoloniseerde curricula en inclusieve pedagogiek tot omgangsvormen, methodologieën, waarden, machtsstructuren en het schoolgebouw.

Hoe kunnen in een wereld gevuld met urgente vraagstukken en polariserende meningen, andere vormen van communicatie van belang zijn in de kunsten en ook in kunsteducatie?

These are exactly the times to rethink education because what is happening right now is showing us that just staying with the normal won’t do! Together with the Art education as Critical Tactics team of ArtEZ we bring you: No School Station, a four part miniseries on education outside of the educational institutions.

Nagaré Willemsen wrote a letter for our zine Diversity for What?. After her performative reading of the letter ‘The precarious body: analysing the black experience within the art school’ in 2018, she was offered a job as the coordinator of USB (Black Student Union) at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut.

An essay about digital learning by Nishant Shah, Director of Research and Outreach, and a Professor of Aesthetics and Cultures of Technology at ArtEZ University of the Arts.

On 28 May 2019 we had an intimate gathering and reading by artist and activist Hamja Ahsan of his book 'Shy Radicals: Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert'.