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The research project to which this text refers was based on the challenge to provide conditions for equal access to arts education for children and young people placed at a disadvantage - especiall...
This text examines the important and potentially creative role that evaluation plays in participatory arts projects taking place in education contexts. A brief overview of evaluation is given befo...
Theses from the Research Project „science with all senses – science and gender in the making“ The following theses are based on the research project „science with all senses – science and ge...
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A dialogue on perfomance theory and gallery education Based on Judith Butler's definition of the performative act as an action that has to be constantly repeated and socially legitimized, ...
Locating a gallery education that operates with concepts of performativity Why is gallery education interested in performativity? Between fights for recognition, reflection on one’s ow...
The article asks the question, if not only «talking about art» but also «acting to art» is possible and usefull in art education. Artworks should not only be discussed in a rational way, but also ...
What if we think of mediation not as a tool for the frictionless transportation of information but as a vehicle of transformation? How can art educators obtain a certain (different) kind of facult...
Towards a critical art education The performative production of the institution is at the center of the contribution by the artists/art educators collective microsillons. They discuss their r...
The paper is based on an introductory talk given at the conference Perfoming the Museum as a Public Sphere at Kunstmuseum Lentos, Linz, in April 2008. It parts from Charles Garoian’s thesis that a...
A performance script for the exhibitions Fomuška, by Micol Assaël, and Frühling, by Pawel Althamer and children living in Kassel, at Kunsthalle Fridericianum Performtive interventions, as a format,...
A reflexion on the Symposium KUNST [auf] FÜHREN The text parts from critique expressed by participants of the symposium KUNST[auf] FÜHREN in Kassel in June 2009: We had been talking about gall...
Elke Zobel stellt Zines als eine Alternative zu den Mainstream-Medien vor, die die Möglichkeit und das Potential vielfältiger Selbstrepräsentation, des Ausdrucks anderer Seiten des Selbst und der H...
Sonja Eismann zeigt in ihrem Beitrag die Geschichte und Aktualität von Do-it-yourself-Strategien in Aktivismus und Kunst auf. Sie geht der Frage der Etablierung dieser Gegenkultur nach, die sich An...
Flic Flac* – Feministische Materialien für den Kunstunterricht. Mit Flic Flac* versuchen Elke Smodics-Kuscher und Nora Sternfeld vom Büro trafo.K sich den Kodierungen, Fallstricken und Wi...
Die Materialien zum Selbststudium sind mit dem Ziel konzipiert, eine Diskussions- und Wissensbasis zu den Themen «queer» und «Do it yourself» im Kunstunterricht zur Verfügung zu stellen. Sie beschä...
In der Einführung werden die Ziele aufgezeigt, die Art Education Research Nr. 3 verfolgt: als „Schulbuch“ Anregungen aus der queer theory und den Kulturwissenschaften für den Kunstunterricht zu ver...
Danja Erni wirft in der Perspektive der Netzwerkveranstaltung Persönlichkeitsverwicklung # 1: Queer und Do-it-Yourself im Kunstunterricht einen Blick auf ihren eigenen Unterricht sowie auf das Beru...
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Art Education Research at Universities of the Arts in Switzerland With this article Barbara Bader takes a look at the art education research field in Switzerland. According to the author th...
Cultural education and research based on external fundsUniversities, research and non-profit institutions have their dependence on external funds in common. Agnieszka Czejkowska's article d...
According to Ute Pinkert the decisive characteristic of theatre pedagogy at theatres is the connection to the institution theatre. For this specific research area she introduces the term «Theaterv...
Wolfgang Zacharias’ contribution shows his interest in aesthetic and urban learning in the context of «Cultural Education 2.0». The text encompasses the experimental educational activities in publ...
The article by sociologist Philippe Saner concentrates on the current conditions for studying at Swiss universities. He critically discusses the practices and effects of the so-called «Bologna Proc...
The progression and outcomes of the seminar «How to Draw Sound. Ästhetische Übersetzungsfragen» [How to Draw Sound. Aesthetic Questions of Translation] (C.v.O. University Oldenburg) were recorded ...
About the development of research and theory in the field of art-, gallery-, and cultural education at the University of Applied Arts Vienna The education of art teachers at the University of Appli...
The fifth issue of Art Education Research, entitled «Von Kassel lernen» (Learning from Kassel) reflects on the intersection between cultural and political education, and is based on the example of ...
Notes from the perspective of migration pedagogy Rather than asking about the culture of specific migrant groups, how these cultures can be described and what enables the understanding betwee...
Learning the hegemonial language in museums Based on brief sketches on topics such as dialogue, difference, recognition, knowledge, reciprocity and reflexivity in pedagogical settings, this ...
Reflections on barriers and discrimination in educational institutions This text is concerned with self-reflexivity in institutions regarding the critique of barriers and discriminat...
Preliminary thoughts based on a study of inequality in the field of the art school Based on the results of the project making differences which deals with social injustice in the field of Swi...
how to deal with one’s own role as a white teacher in a critical perspective on racism? Background text for a workshop The paper aims to encourage a critical reflection on the privileged position o...
Current antiracist education in Germany is mostly directed towards members of the majority society and conceived in their perspective. In practice, perspectives of minority member or People of Colo...
the problem of religious ascriptions for migrants of Islamic heritage How relevant is Islam for muslims living here? What actually makes one a Muslim? Today, the term Muslim is being emplo...
AntikultiAtelier We are a group of people living in Switzerland and working on asylum and migration policies, racism and representation: many of us as refugees, others as migrants or Swiss. In...
Art in the (post-) colonial interstice Through an analysis of how 19th and 20th century European avant-garde art perpetuates and continues to affirm ideas of originality and purity and subseque...
Working the Third Space and Beyond This essay was published in 1999. It explores the difficulty of «difference» within pluriculturalist art education. It explores the dominant liberal humanist ap...
eine virtuelle Lernplattform This online publication introduces approaches, questions, and conflicts into the field of visual culture concerning ways of representing and critique of representation....
On deportations, the «exchange with Africa» and the fear of reverse colonization In her text, Francesca Falk connects contemporary illegalized immigration and the postcolonial constellation...
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In his text, Stephan Fürstenberg focuses on dominant representational forms of the figures art mediator and public. In referencing historical image examples, he works out productions of difference...
Didactic Pattern Analysis Starting From Art What role is played by the artworks in the representation of gallery education? From the spatial composition and the reactions of persons to the art in t...
An «other» institution of contemporary art in representations of gallery education? This article develops a description of two regimes of representation at the center of communication...
reflexions on theatre education in migration society The paper reflects on a theatre education project the Groupe l’Aventin developed with migrant women attending at the association Camar...
Working with young migrants in gallery education and exhibitions In her paper, Henrike Plegge discusses different forms of participation and visibility of young migrants in a gallery educat...
Practices and questions in educational projects in migration society Nine years ago we called one of our ambitious educational programs a «guide to self-emancipation». The title had an ir...
or AM I RACIST? The text deals with an intent to deport a student at our school, the protest movement that mobilized against the deportation, and an art project with students from several courses o...
Building relations and leaving rests in cartographies What enables reflective processes, that can help to view one’s own thoughts and actions in their conditioning frameworks and to criticall...
Between affirmation and ambiguity Who «belongs» and who doesn’t? What do I have to do to belong? What happens if I don’t fit the norm? The «workshop about myself» offers foster children pos...
Considering Historical-Political Education and Memory Work with Young People of Color in Germany Dominant debates on so-called Holocaust-education in the migration society not onl...
«We don’t want inclusion, nor participation, nor integration, what we want is SELF emancipation» (from Schwarzkopf BRD, JugendtheaterBüro Berlin). The paper, based on experiences from the work of ...
About the notion of cultural identity in the context of an (intercultural) music education This paper discusses the question, how the «Intercultural Music Education» can contribute to...
Explorations on the field of school music in the German speaking part of Switzerland This paper presents an explorative study about music classes in «Sekundarschulen» and «Gymnasien» in the G...
Meaning construction in music classes as a dimension of music related education This paper discusses the educational potential of music classes in which music-related meaning is constr...
An empirical study as a contribution to basic research in music education This paper gives an insight into an empirical study about individual concepts of music teachers. Interviews abo...
About the significance of the argument-based speech about music for aesthetic education This paper discusses the educational potential of aesthetic arguments in music classes. The descr...
This paper contains meta-theoretical considerations about the status of the research in music education. The author states, that music education – at least in Germany – concentrates on «Empirical ...
Body-heteroglossia and crip tools for dirty knowledges in art teaching Choosing the form of an email-conversation, Doris Arztmann and Eva Egermann discuss their workshop Body-Heteroglossia – u...
In this interview by Simon Harder, Sabian Baumann discusses how s_he and the collaborating performers tried to conceptually and performatively queer nude drawing and its connected patriarchal unde...
How does my taste influence my teaching? Why, as a teacher, it almost slightly offends me if the sovereignty of my «good» (qua «educated») taste is challenged by the aesthetical preferences of stu...
InVisibilities and socio-political responsibility of art education This article argues out of a queer-feminist perspective why an understanding of visibility is to be considered p...
This text documents thoughts – on the formation of taste as a hegemonial practice of nation building, on taste and distinction and on the author's own habitus – developed during repeated visits to ...
Formation of jugdements of taste and social inequality in art education To a large extent and contrary to the common individualistic description of judgements on taste, our perceptions ar...
Reflections based on a participative research process Based on experiences in the participative co-research-process of Art.School.Differences, an ongoing research and development project at ...
We would like to trace the oscillating logic of taste from a perspective of educational practice. How can this logic be understood, between the normalizing production of certainties on the one han...
On the occasion of the special exhibition Evil Things. An Encyclopedia of Bad Taste by the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge this article portrays The Cabinet of Bad Taste of Gustav Pazaurek. It o...
Many cultural institutions today find themselves in a dilemma: On the one hand, programming should, and wants, to reach as many people as possible – especially young people, and particularly those...
The importance of physical appearance in job and relation markets increases. What points to this fact is a proliferation of concepts such as beauty work and –capital, aesthetic capital or lookism,...
the sketch of a history of conflicting ideas and political trends in action research The text provides an outline of the history of action research from its beginnings in the 1920s up unti...
thinking about the research apprenticeship The research apprenticeship serves the lecturers Michèle Novak and Anna Schürch as a means to introduce a format of research-oriented teaching and le...
Based on the assignment 'image archive', Anne Gruber shows how an attentiveness she developed during her studies to questions from art theory, cultural studies and art can be integrated in her prac...
thinking about the conditionality of collaborative theatre pedagogy in schools In his text, Andreas Bürgisser, as a former FLAKS collaborator, considers the significance of FLAKS towar...
The text retraces how studying the theatrical design workshop «role kids» with primary school children from Lucerne turned into a challenging expedition. Ulrich shows how team-based action researc...
The aim of the praxis-based research project in music pedagogy presented in this contribution involves in-class processing of musical competence and knowledge that music students have acquired out...
in search of critical approaches to professionalising in pedagogics There is a lack of socially critical approaches to professionalization in the education of pedagogues and also in the...
Proposals for collection development and interpretation at the Swiss National Museum National Museums claim authority in defining ‚cultural heritage’. Migration histories, as relativ...
Approaches for mediation practice with refugees Is it possible to speak of a collective memory of people who have fled their places of home? Can mediation contribute to contruct a collective ...
(unrehearsed) I aim to explore the ways in which artistic practice, academic research, and the blending of multilayered narratives destabilizes traditional, hegemonic sagacity, and static structu...
Based on my lecture at Un_University platform in April 2016, this text is a collection of fragments from an ongoing practice of unwriting the body as deschooling option, drawing on Walter Mignolo’...
In 1990, writing about women’s studies, Elizabeth Minnich noted: ‘Invisibility itself teaches something. Students who never hear of a woman philosopher have trouble believing in such a creature.’ ...
Based on Counter/Acting, a symposium at the Institute for Education in the Arts at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts in cooperation with Kunsthalle Wien, this text opens up links between possible acti...
How to approach processes of unlearning physically, intellectually, and collaboratively? This question has been at the core of my study and practice of unlearning in different constellations at the...
The Living School was held in London from February to June 2016 in collaboration with the South London Gallery and taking place at a range of venues in the city. Focusing on the issues of social ho...
The choice of a working language influences the content and type of discussions and creates in and out groups. At an art university in the German-speaking world, should one speak English due to the...
This text investigates collective action as an artistic practice. Such practice is often collaborative and curatorial, both working within artist groups and by involving the audience and other art...
Before any kind of exchange, I think about being, seeing and feeling. In this sense, to feel something is more real than to study something. A comfortable way of being next to each other, with no ...
The board presented here, echoing those found in school libraries, was made for the exhibition Art School, curated by Avi Lubin at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2016. Celebrating the 70th anniversary o...
Introduction to the pedagogical lexicon of the present Access, access criteria, access options, adults with few formal qualifications, agency, anti-hegemonic knowledge production, certific...
Negotiating with reality at the Bergen Assembly 2016 Are exhibition contexts places of refuge for critical teaching and learning, precursors of their total economization, or both? And what does thi...
If every art school class can be perceived as a collective body, it is usually headed by a master. We want to keep this anatomical metaphor and symbolically decapitate it. The head is generally un...
Everyone is ‘ignorant’ as long as marginalized knowledge is ignored, as long as knowledge is produced without critical reflection on its dimension of power. Knowledge production is linked to viole...
In universities, there are various referents of knowledge. They are usually embedded in social forms of power relation in precluding rather than opening up other knowledges to us. Using ‘listening’...
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STATEMENTS Gerald Bast Visionäres Denken ist realistisches Denken Für eine grundlegende Erneuerung des Bildungssystems Unser Bildungssystem funktioniert noch immer nach den Prinzi...
Stimmlos (voiceless/unvoiced/voting ticket), a series of experimental sound pieces and a work-in-progress, is based on and centred around artworks, giving rise to compact images in space and langua...
Art | A Critical Perspective on Racism | Art Education On Fragility and Resistance to edit this issue of Art Education Research that focuses on the challenges related to work in art and a...
“Everyone has to learn everything, or: emotional labor” is a reflection of the action-based research project “WdKA makes a difference” which took place between 2015 and 2017 at the Willem de Kooni...
Since summer 2016, we have been leading the KontextSchule, a platform for the continuing education of teachers and artists in Berlin. Adopting the viewpoint of those who stand inside and outside o...
Carried out as part of documenta 14 in Kassel, The Society Friends of Halit focused on the crimes of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) and its belated prosecution. Though it received overwh...
What are the implications of a commissioned monument that envisages a participatory process between an artist and the inhabitants of an asylum center? From defining the context and identifying the ...
Lineo Segoete Die Fesseln der Übersetzung –Von der Gewalt, mich erklären zu müssen Mit Beiträgen von Liepollo Moleleki und Zachary Rosen In ihrem Beitrag zur Geschichte der Alphabetisierung und der...
In her contribution on the history of her discipline, Anna Schürch explores how biologicistic argumentative figures have shaped the thinkable and sayable in the context of German-language art educa...
Margaret Trowell (1904–1985) founded one of the first schools of ‘fine art’ for Africans in the Uganda Protectorate in the 1930s. This essay argues that both Trowell’s arguments for introducing fin...
In 2016 Wintergreen started introducing the format of walking lectures to his students at the Nagenda International Academy of Art and Design (NIAAD/Uganda), aiming to encourage them to observe and...
In his seminal essay Nurturance in the Andes, Grimaldo Rengifo Vásquez reflects on his early experiences with the use of the Freire literacy program in indigenous communities in northern Peru. He ...
In this Interview with Alejandro Cevallos and Sofía Olascoaga, Grimaldo Rengifo Vásquez reflects on the trajectory of his work since his essay A propósito de Freire(Nurturance in the Andes, 2001), ...
Andrea Hubin and Karin Schneider’s contribution gives an insight into their explorations of Austrian art education’s difficult legacy. Reflecting on the boundaries, aversions, distortions, interru...
Taking the author’s personal experiences with the German nudist movement as a starting point, this essay explores the discursive link between colonialism, its ideology of racial hierarchies and th...
Praxisforschung in der kulturellen Bildung: Kontexte, Methoden und Ergebnisse Herausgeberinnen: Bernadett Settele, Nora Landkammer, Anna Schürch, Danja Erni _ EDITORIA...
KUNST [auf] FÜHREN Performativität als Modus und Kunstform in der Kunstvermittlung Herausgeberinnen: Nora Landkammer, Anna Schürch, Bernadett Settele, Sandra Ortmann, Danja Erni _ ...
Queer und DIY im Kunstunterricht Herausgeberin: Bernadett Settele EDITORIAL Das e-Journal Art Education Research als Schulbuch Carmen Mörsch, Herausgeberin von Art Education Research Di...
Auf die Plätze. Kunstvermittlung und das Forschen in Verhältnissen Herausgeber_innen: Stephan Fürstenberg und Carmen Mörsch Illustration: Marianne Sorge _ EDITORIAL In der vier...
Von Kassel lernen. Überlegungen zur Schnittstelle von kultureller und politischer Bildung am Beispiel des Documenta 12 Beirat Zeichnung: Jürgen Stollhans; © Photo: Robert Colle...
Kunstunterricht und -vermittlung in der Migrationsgesellschaft, Teil I: Sich irritieren lassen Herausgeberinnen: Nora Landkammer und Carmen Mörsch [Skype-Performance: Deniz...
SHOWING GALLERY EDUCATION – REGARDING THE REPRESENTATION OF PEDAGOGICALMUSEUM WORK Editors: Stephan Fürstenberg, Nanna Lüth andmicrosillons (Olivier Desvoignes/Marianne Guarino-Huet) [Montage: Nan...
In Widersprüchen handeln Kunstvermittlung und - Unterricht in der Migrationsgesellschaft, Teil II Herausgeberinnen: Nora Landkammer und Carmen Mörsch Bereits die sechste Au...
Musikpädagogische Forschung: Positionen und Arbeiten aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum Herausgeber_innen: Olivier Blanchard und Carmen Mörsch Die vorliegenden Ausgabe des e-Jour...
Gut aussehen – Geschmack und Schönheit im Kunstunterricht Herausgeber_innen: Simon Harder und Carmen Mörsch Diese Bilder sind Fotografien von Prozessbildern einer Arbeit von Dominik B...
Über FLAKS (und darüber hinaus) – 5 Jahre Forschungslabor für Künste an Schulen Herausgeber_innen: Anna Schürch und Sascha Willenbacher 5 Jahre FLAKS! Seit 2011 bauen wir das Forsc...
"Das Gedächnis der Geflüchteten", Ausstellung "...the others have arrived savely", Bild Guido Henseler, Shedhalle 2015 Migration und Gedächtnis Herausgeber_innen: Nora Landkammer und ...
Un_Universität / Un_University HERAUSGEBER_INNEN: Ricarda Denzer und Jo Schmeiser [ngg_images source="galleries" container_ids="1" display_type="photocrati-nextgen_basic_slideshow" ga...
In her editorial, Nanna Lüth connects the issue of partiality within the field of critical art education to discussions about the notion of controversy in political pedagogy. Art education, she po...
intertwining hi/stories of arts education intertwining hi/stories of arts education (Symposium: Friday 1st – Sunday 3rd of June, 2018), www.bit.ly/intertwining Image: Maja Renn Carme...
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How could the implicit effect of school spaces be made more accessible to reflection and at the same time participate in the experience of the constitution of another space? The focus of the explan...
Both in artistic research projects and in teaching, walks are used to investigate the perception of space. Walking together is regarded as a constellation in order to recognize and influence the fa...
The contribution "poor images - About copies in motion and where to find them" deals with the concept of so-called "poor images", after Hito Steyerl (2009), and locates it in a contemporary art med...
This text outlines the theoretical framework of our study on spatial drawing in the context of primary school. We investigate how children graphically represent a single spatial body. This is one o...
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The focus of our long-standing project Connected in Isolation was initially on the different descriptions of processes and ways of representing objects of nature from art and science - their detach...
This article deals with the area of tension between scientific discipline, questions of teaching and social science research methodology in art education and didactical research at a kindergarten l...
Curriculum 21 marks a new orientation for teaching art and design in Switzerland, in cantons with German-speaking schools. The importance of professional and interdisciplinary competence developmen...
There are articles in art magazines about current exhibitions. The SFKP e Journal Art Education Research would like to transfer this format to the field of art mediation through current practice by...
The symposium Der professionalisierte Blick (The Professionalized Gaze) took place in 2019, shortly before the volume of the same name was published. For the first issue of the SFKP e Journal Art E...
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AMAMuG – an acronym for Archäologische Mustergrabung and Archäologisches Museum für Gegenwart (archeological sample excavation and archeological museum for the present) - was an interdisciplinary a...
By way of micro pedagogical leaps, this article aims to explore the current state of the major civilizational, educational and political project which is aesthetic education. The concept of micro e...
In this article, I look at changes in art and design education from the point of view of changing methodological and cultural practices. I compare historical learning processes with modern practice...
How exactly do art mediators create a situation in which a mediation of contemporary art can take place? What kind of attitude must they adopt toward their art mediating activities? Which strategie...
The starting point of the study Drawing - Talking - Showing is the question of how communicative exchange in art teaching influences visual thinking and practice. The aim is an empirically founded ...
In 2018 the collective Feige, founded by Ebru Düzgün, Franziska Kabisch, Magdalena Fischer, Malu Blume and Sophie Utikal, produced the video series Love, Sex & Real Talk.
In the 14-part web series...
Editorial The 18th edition of the Art Education Research e Journal was created in the first half of the year 2020. In addition to the steadily worsening climate crisis, the extent of which is alrea...
Social media and advertising produce and convey images of female bodies that, in keeping with current values and beauty ideals, are considered normal and desirable. The GIF series of the artist duo...
The microblogging platform tumblr is known for a culture of image-collecting and curating that has been primarily influenced by (female, queer/trans*, PoC) teenagers and twentysomethings. When brow...
Die Tiefe Kümmernis, a drag queen and museum art educator, answers three questions about her work in Vienna. She first explains the origin of her name and describes the beginnings of her work as an...
Art magazines publish articles about current exhibitions. The SFKP e Journal Art Education Research aims to transpose this format to current practice in the field of art education by presenting one...
Coming back from Ibiza analyses the potential of the meme as a political-activist tool, in terms of its use in contemporary, critical art education. The article focuses on the Austrian Instagram me...
SOMEWHERE OFF THE REAL considers interfaces as conjunctions of possiblilities, histories and underlying factors of digital media. Interfaces enable and shape interaction with digital information an...
The essay deals with the development of machine vision which today has resulted in the automation of face and object recognition. The notion of automation suggests that no human input is needed an...
I propose that the montage, as a media-independent narrative principle that can work with omissions and contradictions, cancel authorship and originality, and reflect on the medium itself, contains...
Progressive digitalization is changing our perception, our thinking and our actions. It also changes our relationship to the image. Yet at the same time, the relevance of visual education must cons...
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The contribution Sedimented – When material acts deals with materials as vibrant and intra-active phenomena. The impact, liveliness and interlinkage of material with the surrounding world is illust...
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In many places, art as a paradigm acquires the role of a political avant-garde. The motivation for this text was found in the need to expand art and bring the political back into the interpersonal....
The basis of this contribution is formed by my master thesis at the FHNW School of Education (PH), which centers on aesthetic education. The aim of this work was to activate students to participate...
The following text is a revised part of my master thesis, Are you sure? Zoom in. Approaching the unapproachable computer. A strategy of empowerment. The question is explored on the basis of the in...
My article presents exemplary observations of everyday photo actions in groups of adolescents and adults. The observations are written on the basis of inner images. Questions that take a critical p...
The master's thesis is a comparison of extra-curricular artistic promotion in the Lucerne area with the K'werk in Basel-Stadt and an examination of the concept of creativity. It was written in the ...
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Lena Eriksson: Correspondence, project in collaboration with La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, 2020. Pedagogical Trajectories: What is sedimented through political engaged research in the field of art peda...
The article provides an overview of a study being considered an investigation of and with actors in art education and orients itself methodically/methodologically on characteristics of phenomenolog...
This article is based on a critical engagement with the practical conditions of teaching and doing research, which are significantly influenced by the respective artistic and theoretical background...
The future does not just exist. We refer to it through diverse practices, assembling it as an experience in the now. The way we conceive of the future, experience it in the present, and thus also g...
The article investigates the contradictions associated with the formation and institutionalization of academic disciplines, and explores the anchoring of art education as a discipline in tertiary e...
Curriculum revision projects, such as the current revision of the secondary school (Gymnasium) basis curriculum 2020-22 in Switzerland, call for a review of the content and objectives of the indivi...
To reflect on teaching art education "from art" (see Sturm 2011), I select being exposed as a starting point. Being exposed marks a place on the threshold between the critical appreciation of actio...
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The debate around climate change has become a mainstream issue in society. Students and schoolchildren are increasingly politically engaged, and this also requires an agility on the part of institu...
As a field of cultural-pedagogical practice, mediation establishes relationships between artistic events and their audiences that give rise to aesthetic, sensual, or even physical experiences. With...
What role can mushrooms play in helping us rethink the relationships and communities that exist both among and beyond humans? This paper explores interactions between fungi and humans in order to g...
This paper is about a place called Chile and another called Wallmapu, which is either inside, below, or outside the former, depending on your point of view. Wallmapu is a place where complex histor...
For his latest book, Along Ecological Lines: Contemporary Art and Climate Crisis (2019), Barnaby Drabble traveled across Europe by bicycle, in order to investigate various projects and initiatives ...
We, Seraina Dür and Jonas Gillmann, have been working with thirteen pigeons on our project Parliament of Things, Animals, Plants, and Algorithms since 2019, creating performative settings that we a...
Humus is generally found in the uppermost layer of the earth – from around ten to thirty centimeters in depth – and is a vulnerable and fragile substance. This part of the soil is a key habitat for...
As a collective of authors made up of artists, students, researchers, cultural agents, and activists, our aim is to find a collaborative approach to the question of what the corona crisis has to do...
KlimaKontor Basel initiates interdisciplinary and participatory art projects that connect Basel institutions with actors from the fields of art, science, and civil society, with the aim of developi...
The EcoArtLab at the Bern University of the Arts is a pilot project that aims to investigate how the interplay between artistic research and human geography or climate science can best contribute t...
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Isabelle Eisfeld, an art teacher at a Berlin comprehensive school, assesses the text anthology Untie to Tie: Colonial Fragments in School Contexts for its practicability in real-world contexts. She...
In these two volumes, Das Museum Verlernen? explores the field of education in ethnographic museums through a decolonial lens. Looking at the interaction between educators, artists and activists an...
“Grasping Gaps” is the title of the performative radio play by Clara Laila Abid Alsstar and Mako Sangmongkhon. They deal with the field of tension between complaint, ambivalence and L:E:E:H:R:STELL...
In a poetic manner, the text combines the author's practices with current social issues and negotiates multilingually between shared knowledge, more-than-human positionality, as well as strategies ...
“Fragments of Anti-Racist Critique in Educational Contexts” is a research project led by the prospective teachers Agnes Biya, Luise Ramm, and Eva Marie Klein, carried out in collaboration with the ...
In dialog with the secondary school teacher Veronika Rauschenbach, the cultural agent Bettina Eberhard traces how identities are constructed. Together, they devise concrete approaches for conceivin...
In the video work “Fluctuating”, gaps become indications for a gaze that is new and has the potential to be expanded. Havin Al-Sindy asks where changes are possible and how we perceive them or beco...
The Kollaboration + Kunstunterricht (Collaboration + Art Education) podcast was produced following the seminar “Situierung zwischen den Stühlen” (Situated between the Chairs). For the seminar, four...
In three video works, Luise Ramm seeks artistic answers to social issues in educational contexts, raising new questions along the way. The works are made up of performative elements and each deal w...
The podcast presented in this issue is the result of our engagement with the history, functions, actors, and target audience of the museum, and their relationships to education. Using guiding quest...
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In my article, I engage with the question “What imaginative powers can be unfolded using artistic and theoretical framing, and to what extent can they function as vessels for emancipatory narrative...
In this text Sascha Willenbacher deals with the practice of the cultural agent using the example of "Kulturagent.innen Schweiz". Along the concepts of ‘awareness at the margins’, ‘irritation’ and ‘...
This letter was written in the context of the PhD-project “Listening to Land: De-neocolonizing the imaginary.” It is a piece of speculative fiction and casts a critical eye on human relations with ...
“Chair between Chair, or: On the Qualities of a Gaze and the Opening Up of New Narratives” examines different definitions and views of a supposed “neither here nor there,” developed along the lines...
When did you last wash your hands? Can you still remember who it was that taught you to do it? How would you explain how we should wash our hands? While it might seem unusual to consider a simple a...
We are five people who are each studying at the HBK Braunschweig or have done. We met during the seminar “Situated between the Chairs” and all want to become teachers – whether sooner or later, abs...
This 23rd issue of the e Journal Art Education Research is dedicated to asking questions in art education. We speak of "art education" both in the sense of the academic discipline, which is shaped...
Our usual habits of perception, thought, and action are shaken when something we previously took for granted is brought into doubt. These are not questions that can be answered with a simple yes or...
Children have questions; they ask about almost everything. Playfully, they examine, deconstruct, collect, and organize what surround them. Individual questions and active, self-directed approaches ...
Let’s be honest; for art to be perceived in all its fullness requires us to ask questions. I question, I search. Following many years of educational-curatorial work, Julia Schäfer sketches out the ...
Does art education have its own specific way of asking questions? Considering this is a field whose most prominent characteristic is to traverse diverse areas of knowledge and constantly differenti...
The way in which questions are asked influences the response to them: Do the thoughts come in a flow of inspiration, or does panic break out, as in an exam? The type of question and its context hel...
Untie to Tie addresses discourses around colonialism, migration, and racism in schooling contexts. Starting from the observation that there is barely any active engagement with these topics in Germ...
Radicalizing Care. Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating. Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, Lena Fritsch, Birgit Bosold und Vera Hofmann (Hg.) London: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Sternberg Press...
Questioning and challenging through art education – what can it do? In three answers, Büro trafo.K pursues the question of questioning. They illustrate strategies, boundaries, and exemplary questio...
Science/art/criticism usually begins by formulating questions. These questions can concern an object of research, or of criticism, or what surrounds us – they start with a frown or a pause. A feeli...
The ACT Performance Festival is an annual event in Switzerland that has been offering a platform for students to showcase performance art since 2003, initiated by art academies in Zurich, Lucerne, ...
In living with a child, young parents often find themselves confronted with stereotypical and generalized representations of gender. Teaching children about gender diversity day to day requires mor...
Verstehen Sie Spass? was the title of a one-week teaching format for master’s students training to teach visual arts at the upper secondary level. The focus lay on the performativity of works of ar...
This audio feature is a performative search for micro-utopian moments in the everyday actions of my fellow human beings. The artistic research shows digging in small spaces as a possible reaction t...
Practices of artistic collaboration, free and institutional approaches to teaching art and design, staking out new fields of research – art education at university level requires dual or even multi...
Based on Olivia Wiederkehr’s Manifesto and a manuscript of a discussion in Basel between Olivia Wiederkehr, Sabine Gebhardt Fink, and Patricia Bianchi in 2018, we developed this manifesto. We under...
For issue 24 of SFKP, we’re asking: How is an understanding of performance art, and of how bodies perform, taught in a critical way? And how is this knowledge passed on – both to children and young...
Reflecting on my own subjective experiences of working as a sobat at documenta fifteen, I discuss the conflicts and tensions I encountered there between different roles, interests, and opinions. My...
While the ubiquity of memes did not stop at the fifteenth documenta, this was welcomed by ruangrupa. Among other things, they were officially exhibited alongside drawings, photos, sketches, and ot...
In what ways did art mediation at documenta fifteen serve to critique power, and what role did ‘diversity’ play in this? Nhu Y, Mohini, Niki, Baharak, and Aurélie offer second-order reflections, ex...
This article discusses the training of art mediators for documenta fifteen, and how this affected the mediation team during the exhibition. The question of what conditions collective art mediation ...
For documenta fifteen, the collective ruangrupa, which had taken over the artistic direction of the Kassel exhibition, introduced the lumbung practice. To what extent the principles of this practic...
In the “3 Questions for…” interview, Mirl Redmann reflects on the history of documenta in the context of processes of othering within science and art mediation, pointing out gaps in existing resear...
This article is about disenchantment (trans. Enttäuschung) as a method in art mediation . It is presented from the perspective of an art mediator at d15 who worked as a sobat sobat. Based on the ex...
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The article is a reflection on nine interviews with sobat-sobat from the research project The Art Educator's Walk II: On the Situation of Art Educators at documenta fifteen. A survey by Gila Kolb i...
In September 2023, while documenta fifteen was still running, Gila Kolb created an online survey in collaboration with Ayşe Güleç. This was sent out to around 140 sobat-sobat on the situation and p...
This article is based on an interview with the Swiss artist Tamara Janes, whose series Copyright Swap experiments with scans taken from the New York Public Library Picture Collection. Working in co...
Yvonne Schweizer’s essay takes DIS’s curatorial contribution to the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2021 des Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève as its starting point. DIS’s practice combines analog ...
Taking the “Castle Doctrine [9:58]” discussed in the film essay as a starting point, this article examines the connections between the “home” and the “account.” After a brief review of the scene, w...
Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies is a new publication that brings together different perspectives aimed at achieving societal change on the basis of an anti-autho...
This play takes the artist group DIS’s film Everything but the World as the starting point for an investigation into the conditions and possibilities of simultaneity, celebrated within current disc...
This article is a creative commentary and practical response to the film Everything but the World (DIS 2021). Stills and quotes from the film provide the basis for a consideration and development o...
The final series of images in this collection focuses on the scene “White Castle”, in which a routine drive-in order is suddenly interrupted by an unexpected outburst of rage by the staff. A speedy...
The multi-faceted material of the film essay offers a kaleidoscopic view of the fragmented history of humanity and pours it into contradictory narratives, especially with a variety of borrowings fr...
In addition to the various academic contributions, we ask five art educators specifically about hands-on ideas for educational practice: What can you derive from the film essay Everything but the W...
The film essay Everything but the World (DIS 2021) affects us in its complexity. Engaging with this work opens up new perspectives on the fragmented narrative structures of digital cultures and sug...
The cinematic work EVERYTHING BUT THE WORLD by the DIS collective imagines scenarios of existence beyond the usual strategies of linear historiography and knowledge production. The themes are stori...
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Our short-format interview “3 Questions for...” sees the art theorist and educator Beate Florenz answer questions on the links between aesthetics, space, educational processes, and artistic researc...
How do school students perceive buildings and built environment around them? What are their experiences of this local Baukultur, and how do they imagine it to be in the future?
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The focus of my article is on how the built environment (Baukultur) is constructed, as dynamic networks of material structures, cultural practices, and symbolic associations. Starting from examples...
A playful appropriation of space, artistic intervention in public space, and participatory cartography offer novel perspectives on the built environment (Baukultur) by challenging existing spatial ...
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Built environment education (BEE) uses tangible objects produced by humans, which constitute our built environment (BE) (i.e. buildings, bridges, monuments) to enrich learning for children. Monumen...
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