Art School 2012 - stage 3

In October 2012 Five Years organised a  programme of talks / performances to coincide with the publication of (im)possible school book: as found. Appendix. 

These were the instructions for my piece:





Mapping the Im(possible): action and response
In the session I want to map participant’s (and others’) responses to the project, from the initial concept for pieces through the experience of being part of document and its subsequent use, to how the document was actually used and later responses. I want to ask people to come up with responses verbally but also with diagrams and illustrations

I want to do this by flip charts of similar, one A2 (larger?) sheet of paper for each of the following questions / discussion prompts (with responses written on each, under the heading):

· Your initial concept (for people who submitted for the booklet)(relationship to pedagogy, group work, context of presentation, aims, intentions etc)

· Your response to (Im)Possible School Book (for people who submitted) (invitation to present, new contexualisation of work, new understandings of work, thoughts about education/pedagogy/school etc)

· Responses to the use of the document in the Tate / as part of ‘Summer School’, regardless of whether you had experience of this or not (as part of the school, as located in the Tanks, as part of a wider network which in part makes up the ‘artworld’)

· Wider contexts (thoughts about learning /art teaching / art teaching in schools / universities / outside this context / school as event / role of museum / debate between participation and viewing in the context of the relationship between theory and that which is theorised / relationship between the theatrical and the sincere / relationship between an ‘objective’, ‘communicable’ knowledge and radical subjectivity).



Images from the performance/workshop: