Part 1 Schedule
February 15–20, 2010
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(All events will take place at Hart House, University of Toronto unless otherwise stated)

pdf programme available for download here

Monday February 15

2:00-4:00 Xu Tan’s Keywords School Classes (Reading Room)

Tuesday February 16

2:00-4:00 Xu Tan’s Keywords School Classes (Reading Room)
7:00-8:30 Grand opening with keynote address and Documenta 12 art education book launch with Carmen Morsch (Debates Room)

Wednesday February 17

9:00-9:45 Registration (Debates Room)
9:45-10:00 Opening remarks
10:00-12:30 Panel 1 – Between the Classroom and Studio
12:30–1:30 Lunch
1:30-1:45 Video screening – All the Things I Need to Learn by Annette Krauss & Petra Bauer
2:00-4:30 Panel 2 – Between Art and the Production of Knowledge
5:00-7:00 Opening Reception for Xu Tan’s Keywords School (Reading Room)

Thursday February 18

9:00-9:45 Registration (East Common Room)
9:45-10:00 Opening remarks
10:00-12:30 Panel 3 – Between Curating and Curriculum
12:30–1:30 Lunch
1:30-4:00 Panel 4 – Between the Gallery and the Imagined Audience
2:00-4:00 Xu Tan’s Keywords School Classes (Reading Room)
5:00-7:00 Closing reception off-site at Toronto Free Gallery’s The Pinky Show)

Friday February 19

2:00-4:00 Xu Tan’s Keywords School Classes (Reading Room)

Saturday February 20

2:00-4:00 Xu Tan’s Keywords School Classes (Reading Room)

part 1: between institutions, programme

Presented in conjunction with Visiting Artist Xu Tan’s Keywords School installation and participatory project (February 15–20) as well as a book launch for Documenta 12 Education, the first part of the conference will focus on practices by artists, curators, researchers and educators moving within, between, and across institutional structures. It will include the following lectures and panel discussions:

Tuesday, February 16

keynote lecture: extra-curatorial? documenta 12 education Carmen Mörsch
7:00–8:30pm, (Debates Room)

Carmen Mörsch is the Art Director of the Institute for Art Education (Zurich). She will give an overview of the Documenta 12 Education Programme, its advisory board and research projects. Discussing the development of the Documenta 12 Education books, the talk will touch on the project’s achievements and challenges.

Wednesday, February 17

between classroom and studio
10:00am–12:30pm (Debates Room)

Artists who blur the lines between their teaching and art practice within the traditional and extended notions of the classroom.
Panelists: Amos Latteier “Artist Talk”
Daisuke Takeya “Into the eyes of a child/
From the eyes of a child
Stephanie Springgay “‘The Chinatown Foray’: Sensational Public Pedagogy”
Moderator: Carmen Mörsch
(Registration required)

between art and knowledge
2:00pm–4:30pm (Debates Room)

Art as knowledge production addressing questions of what, why, and for whom.
Panelists: Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez “The New(be)comers: An Investigation On Newcomer Knowledge”
Syrus Marcus Ware, Srimoyee Mitra and members from the AGO Youth Council “Becoming a Canadian Citizen (at the AGO) and thinking about contemporary art”
Darren O’Donnell with Vesna Krstich “Stealth Pedagogy”
Moderator: Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández
(Registration required)

Thursday, February 18

between curating and curriculum
10:00am–12:30pm (East Common Room)

Curators working with artists to create “educational curriculum” as exhibition, or curators on creative ways of working through institutional structures to support/produce pedagogically-oriented exhibitions.
Panelists: Milena Placentile/The Pinky Show “Challenging/Contextualizing/Complementing Curriculum (a.k.a. Thinking for its own Sake)”
Andrew Hunter “Extracurricular Activities”
Christine Shaw “Grammatical Moves”
Moderator: Maiko Tanaka
(Registration required)

between the gallery and imagined audience
1:30am–4:00pm (East Common Room)

A variety of perspectives on “learning outcomes” – how they differ in the educational and art contexts and the ways of negotiating the contradictions, difficulties, and challenges of reaching “desired audiences/students” and outcomes expected from both instituting and individual bodies.
Panelists: Kim Simon “Imagining trauma in public: Presenting Artur Żmijewski”
Srimoyee Mitra “Finding common ground and learning through ‘Crossing Lines: An Intercultural Dialogue’”
Carmen Mörsch “Between critical practice and visitor services at documenta 12 education”
Moderator: Michelle Jacques
(Registration required)

The extra-curricular conference, installations, screenings, and events will be open to the public and free for all with registration required for specific events.

register for panel discussions here

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