A Collection of Practice
19 November 2009
A free evening event at Iniva's Stuart Hall Library, exploring the notion of the bibliography of gallery and visual arts
education. Participants and others were invited to discuss their ideas and share their experiences through
Iniva's 'Spoken Skins' blog.
Two guest speakers addressed the following questions:
- Are there key books and resources that have informed or developed the practice of gallery education and visual arts learning?
- How are books chosen for reading lists for academic courses?
- How relevant are the texts to practice in gallery learning?
Participants were asked to consider what has informed their practice or work and discuss their suggestions. It could be a
text, person, artwork, website, film, object… or a book!
You can still get involved by leaving a comment at http://spokenskins.blogspot.com/2009/10/collection-of-practice.html#comments
Contributors
Chair: Veronica Sekules, Head of Education and Research at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia.
Guest speakers:
- Paul Dash is Head of MA in Artist Teachers & Contemporary Practices programme, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Yara El-Sherbini is an artist who uses contemporary popular culture to playfully explore art and life. Her interdisciplinary
practice straddles live art, video and installation, using recognisable formats from board games, game shows, and pub quizzes,
to auctions to open up ideas around what art is, can be and who it involves.
Resources
Download Yara El-Sherbini's summary of her presentation.
Click here.
Venue
The Stuart Hall Library at Iniva's spectacular new venue, Rivington Place, is home to engage's unique collection of international
visual arts education material. The collection has been developed over thirty years of gallery education practice, and can be
accessed by the public on a reference-only basis.
For more about the engage resource, click here.