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Symposium
The Art to be Different
8. 3. 2020 / on-line symposium / Department of Art Education / Faculty of Education
118 participants
The Art to be Different
8. 3. 2020 / on-line symposium / Department of Art Education / Faculty of Education
118 participants
The Art of Being Different Symposium was held within the framework of the international research programme HORIZON 2020 / AMASS - Acting on the Margin - Arts as a Social Sculpture. As you know, the project is dedicated to research on visual arts strategies and the inclusive effects of creativity in cultural education and in the education of marginalised and disadvantaged social groups. Therefore, the objectives of the symposium were to create a space for discussion, to bring together for friendly and effective cooperation different actors, institutions and entities working in the field of arts and culture and in the field of education. The theme of our meeting was the inclusion of marginalized groups such as the elderly, acutely and chronically ill individuals, the Roma school population, schools on the periphery, children and people with special needs in cultural, educational and creative activities.
During the symposium we sought answers to the following questions:
How do we relate to someone who is different? With what ideas, stereotypes or fears do we enter into such a relationship? In what ways are ideas, fears, and stereotypes treated in the preparation of future teachers in the arts and culture educational area? What examples from the field of arts and culture can be considered good practice? What are the most pressing issues in arts and culture education and practice? What can and what are representatives of different institutions, organisations and platforms doing to address these issues? What are our options for supporting beginning teachers and practitioners in art education? What are we lacking in cultural and educational policy? What was lacking before the "covid", what are we missing in the current situation?
The symposium featured three keynote speakers:
During the symposium we sought answers to the following questions:
How do we relate to someone who is different? With what ideas, stereotypes or fears do we enter into such a relationship? In what ways are ideas, fears, and stereotypes treated in the preparation of future teachers in the arts and culture educational area? What examples from the field of arts and culture can be considered good practice? What are the most pressing issues in arts and culture education and practice? What can and what are representatives of different institutions, organisations and platforms doing to address these issues? What are our options for supporting beginning teachers and practitioners in art education? What are we lacking in cultural and educational policy? What was lacking before the "covid", what are we missing in the current situation?
The symposium featured three keynote speakers:
Eva Kot'átková, a prominent Czech artist who has successfully worked on the international art scene (she exhibited at the 2019 Istanbul Biennial, 2018 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, 2017 at 21er Haus - Museum for Contemporary Art in Vienna, 2016 at Sonsbeek, New Museum Triennial in New York in 2015, Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin in 2014, and the Venice Biennale in 2013), her work addresses themes of institutional control, surveillance, and power, exploring different forms of otherness and ways of relating to people labeled as different or abnormal. At the Art of Being Different symposium she presented her latest exhibition project Conversations with a Monster presented at Meetfactory a non-profit international contemporary art centre in Prague.
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Jan Pfeiffer is a multimedia artist, educator and curator. His work deals with the question of the relationship between man and architecture and most often works with the media of drawing, animation, film, performance, scenography, installation and sculpture. He worked as a consultant for the Creative Partnership for Equal Opportunities project. He currently teaches at the Charles University, Faculty of Education, Department of Art Education, where he leads the drawing and spatial and action design studios. At the same time, he is completing his PhD studies at this department, in which he is working on the topic of black colour as a central motif of artwork using Art Based Research and A/R/Tography methodologies. At the Art of Being Different symposium he presented his project Transformation / Cut for a New Suit (for a New Era) 2020.
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Mgr. Karin Vrátná Militká is the head of the GASK lecturer centre, teacher and curator of educational programmes. She studied art education and mathematics at the Faculty of Education and Science of Palacký University in Olomouc. In 2005 she studied at St. Cloud State University of Minnesota in the USA at the Department of Art. In 2009-2015 she worked as an art teacher at the Dobruška Primary Art School. For two years she worked as an educator at the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové. She is a member of the Czech Section of INSEA and is active in the Chamber of Educators at the Council of Galleries of the Czech Republic. She has been the head of the GASK lecturing centre since 2011. Her contribution to the symposium introduced the audience to the genesis of the intention and current direction of the project "GASK without barriers".
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