Lecture Series on Arts, Cultures, Policies & Educational Practices #7

From September 2021 to February 2022, CAMP notes on education is running a series of lectures on Arts, Cultures, Policies, and Educational Practices. In nine online sessions, internationally renowned experts at the interface of Arts, Cultural Policy and Education will present their concepts and approaches. They will be talking about their research within their particular contexts. Through dialogue and knowledge-sharing, participants will have an opportunity to reflect on their own concepts, methods and practical experiences in the context of the upcoming documenta fifteen.

The curatorial approach of the artists’ collective ruangrupa is to locate art in people’s everyday lives and, with documenta fifteen, create a place for shared knowledge production. In line with this concept, the lecture series and its speakers will ask questions about the free and institutionalised spheres of arts and education. CAMP notes on education initiates a dialogue on the social and political factors that influence the emergence of artistic practice.

The series is organized in collaboration with the University of Hildesheim and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The lectures will be moderated by students and held in English due to the presence of international speakers.

CAMP notes on education

CAMP notes on education is a glocal* network of teachers and learners in the fields of arts, arts history, aesthetics, cultural policy and arts education. CAMP uses the practice of lumbung as an opportunity to place the question of contemporary Arts Education in networked and global contexts. For example, what role does it play in relation to artistic and curatorial actors? How does it position itself in the current cultural policy discourse?

The contemporary practice of Arts Education needs new responses to translocal teaching and learning contexts. documenta fifteen should provide a framework for instigating structural change in these areas. lumbung allows CAMP participants to learn about new parameters for horizontal decision-making processes and resource allocation. In the coming weeks and months, CAMP will be working with a growing number of cooperation partners and networks to translate these values, rituals and organizational principles. It will be questioning the foundations and practices of Arts Mediation and looking for ways to learn in and from collectives.

With this focus, CAMP notes on education is constantly growing and opening up spaces for collective and project-based learning.

*glocal = global-local

Thursday, January 27, 2022: North and the Arctic as a laboratory for sustainable art education: revitalising Indigenous and Northern knowledge systems

Speaker: Timo Jokela

The lecture provides a critical overview of current art and art education practices in the Arctic and the North. Several Indigenous scholars have highlighted colonizing features associated with Western art education. The lecture will discuss how art education at the University of Lapland in Finland and University of Arctic’s thematic network on Arctic Sustainable Art and Design possesses the agency of art education to revitalise Indigenous, local and Northern knowledge.

Timo Jokela is Professor of Art Education at the University of Lapland and currently leads the University of Arctic’s thematic network on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD). His theoretical studies, artistic projects and art-based action research development projects focus on relationships between northern cultures, art and nature in the contexts of decolonisation, revitalisation and cultural, social and economic sustainability. Timo Jokela actively works as an environmental artist and community artist based on the cultural heritage of the North and the Arctic.

More information about the event can be found here.