Presented by the JMB Gallery
Organized and curated by Maiko Tanaka, Curator-in-Residence,
JMB Gallery
Open to the public; registration required for panel discussions
Free admission
Hart House is wheelchair accessible
extra-curricular: between art & pedagogy
part 1: between institutions
(Feb. 15–20, 2010)
part 2: beyond institutions
(Mar. 8–13, 2010)
extra-curricular: between art & pedagogy, is an international conference and curatorial project exploring the relationship between art, education, audience development, and activism. The conference will take place in two parts: 1. between institutions (Feb. 15–20, 2010) and 2. beyond Institutions (Mar. 8–13, 2010). It will be accompanied by special projects, installations, workshops, and residencies with internationally renowned artists, educators, and researchers, with keynote guests Annette Krauss (Utrecht, The Netherlands), Xu Tan (Guangzhou, China), and Carmen Mörsch (Zurich, Switzerland). Collaborating organizations include Gendai Gallery (Toronto), Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Gallery TPW (Toronto), Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou, China), and Toronto Free Gallery.
The event will bring together practitioners working at experimental, critical, and radical crossings of art and education. Propelled by research on pedagogical art practices by Maiko Tanaka (Curator-in-Residence at the JMB Gallery), the conference and exhibition aim to develop new and critical models of exchange between the two fields and cultivate dialogical, affective, physical confrontations and meetings between artists, learners and publics. The two-part conference will be held at Hart House, at the University of Toronto. Focusing on “supplemental,” “extra-curricular,” and “in-between” spaces of the formal curriculum of academic institutions, the project will explore the various ways critical and radical pedagogy is employed by artists working through these spaces and beyond.
The conference includes art installations by Xu Tan and Adrian Blackwell, as well as performances, workshops, and film screenings at Hart House and off-site locations. Guangzhou-based artist Xu Tan will be developing a new phase of his ongoing participatory project Keywords School, scheduled to take place during part 1. between institutions. His project will be followed by an experimental architectural installation, Model for a Public Space, produced by Toronto-based architect and artist Adrian Blackwell. The latter project will function as a site for the roundtable discussions and presentations for part 2. beyond institutions, and continues as a platform for open-ended public forums by student and community groups through to the end of March 2010. Part 2 also takes place in conjunction with Utrecht-based artist Annette Krauss’s Visiting Artist Residency at the JMB Gallery.
Stay tuned information on part 2. coming soon!