On Not Knowing : How Artists Teach

On Not Knowing : How Artists Teach conference

The not knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

Donald Barthelme, Not-Knowing, 1997*

The conference On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach has been convened by The Glasgow School of Art and The Academy of Fine Art at The University of the Arts Helsinki and brings together over 100 artists, academics, and researchers from across continents to deliver panels and workshops exploring different aspects of how artists teach in higher education, galleries, and beyond. A decade after the publication of On Not Knowing: How Artists Think we began by asking: if not knowing is crucial to making art†, is it also important in the teaching of it? At a moment when a range of political, social, economic, environmental, and not least educational pressures are combining to impact both art and education we believe there is an urgency to developing fora in which artist teachers can share their pedagogical practice and research. Our hope is that the conference will be a significant moment for us to learn from each other in ways that will allow our pedagogies to evolve. To facilitate this, we have asked for the session and workshop conveners to factor in equal time for discussion and engagement as for presentation or demonstration, with the ambition of creating space for the knowledge, understanding, and even uncertainty of all delegates. As Barthelme makes clear, ‘not knowing’ is crucial to the creative process, but also, we suggest, vital to pedagogy in the arts and the ways in which artists teach. We hope the conference will lead to deeper understandings of how this is the case in a way that reflects the diverse experience of everyone here.

 

Professor Rebecca Fortnum

Professor of Fine Art and Head of the School of Fine Art

The Glasgow School of Art

 

Professor Magnus Quaife

Professor of Artist Pedagogy/Professori Taiteilijapedagogiikka

Academy of Fine Art, University of the Arts Helsinki

 

* Not Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme, Ed. Kim Herzinger. New York: Random House, 1997

† On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, Ed R. Fortnum and E Fisher, London, Black Dog Press, 2013

 

Date and time

Fri, 9 Jun 2023 09:00 -
Sat, 10 Jun 2023 16:00 BST

Location

Glasgow School of Art- Reid Building
164 Renfrew Street
Glasgow
G3 6RQ

Schedule

Friday 9th June

10am - 12:30pm: Morning session
2 - 4:30pm: Afternoon session
5 - 6:30pm: Welcome and Keynote
8pm: Evening event at Civic House

Saturday 10th June

9:30am - 12pm: Morning session
1:30 - 4pm: Afternoon session
4pm: Reception in the Degree Show
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Keynote

We are delighted to announce that the Keynote speaker for On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach will be Scottish artist Susan Philipsz.

Susan Philipsz is an artist from Glasgow whose work deals with the spatial properties of sound. She was winner of the 2010 Turner Prize and exhibits internationally. Recent solo shows include, San Francisco MoMA; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Kröller Müller Museum, The Netherlands and Tate Modern. She is a Professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Dresden.

Programme of Sessions

Speakers

Rebecca Howard

Hannah Gawne

Susan Philipsz

Anne-Marie Atkinson

Ann Carragher

Sarah-Joy Ford

Jackie Haynes

Oyindamola Fakeye

Allan Hughes

Kate Liston

Tom O’Sullivan

Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson

Niki Colclough

Perla Ramos

Natalie Gale

Fiona Larkin

Juli Reinartz

Roddy Buchanan

Marianne Mulvey

Grace Gelder

Ross Sinclair

Siôn Parkinson

Ben Parry

Peter McCaughey

Rebecca Bell

George Rush

Gina Osterloh

Noelle Mason

Beth Livensperger

Jason Lazarus

Julian Kreimer

John Wood

Julia Lockheart

Rachael Miles

Jenny Rintoul

Cathy Wade

Lesley Guy

Charles Danby

Lisa Nyberg

Paul Stewart

Sophie Mak-Schram

Mary Anne Francis

Lisa Metherell

Carl Robinson

Martin Newth

Gareth Kennedy

Graham Hudson

Yifei He

Johnny Golding

Maddy Gilliam

Proximity Collective

Jen Clarke

Dan Dubowitz

Lisa Fornhammar

Bart Geerts

José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano

Miika Hyytiainen

Tzang Merwyn Tong

Stefano Romano

Craig Fisher

Chantal Faust

Emma Drye

Ray Lucas

Daniel Peltz

Kate McLeod

Odun Orimolade

Ama Ofeibea Tetteh

David Strang

Andrew Prior

Aubyn O’Grady

Laura Leuzzi

Serubiri Moses

Anna Douglas

Juan Cruz

Mel Brimfield

Stuart Bennett

Alice Bell

Stephanie Springgay

Jo McGonigal

Simon Lewandowski

Adam Gillam

Helena Reckitt

Althea Greenan

Lina Džuverović

Majella Clancy

Felicity Allen

Andrea Stokes

Kate Squires

Timothy Smith

Hilary Robinson

Lucy Reynolds

Polly Wright

Helen Knowles

Elizabeth Hodson

Justin Carter

Greig Burgoyne

Andy Broadey

Sue Brind

Anthony Schrag

Ruth Pelzer-Montada

Laura Guy

Judy Anderson

Maggie Ayliffe

Matthew Hearn

Ysanne Holt

Gavin Butt

Erin Sutherland

Brenda Macdougall

Heather Leier

Susan Cahill

Andrew Bracey

Joanne Lee

Flora Parrott

Alice Gale-Feeny

Jenny Dunseath

Moyra Derby

JJ Chan

Laura Onions

Christian Mieves

Danica Maier

Marsha Bradfield