There Is Something We Can Do: From not-knowing to new theatres of encounter and agency within the art school

Alice Bell is Deputy Head of School, Creative Arts and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Lincoln. Alice holds a BA Fine Art; First Class, The Slade, a MA Creative Technologies, Distinction, and a PhD in ‘Enabling Deep Relational Encounter Through Participatory Practice-Based Research'. As an artist Alice works multimodally, interpreting deeply idiographic and dialogic materials through text, performance, sound, video, and interactive technologies, applying in-action, concerns of the relational, psycho-social, and maternal. Alice also integrates within her arts practice, training and skills in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy (IATE) and Psychosynthesis Coaching; all filtered through and synthesised by contemporary art debate.

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Professor Juan Cruz is an artist, educator and Principal of ECA (Edinburgh College of Art). Juan’s work has been exhibited widely including: Matt’s Gallery, London; Camden Arts Centre, London; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid. Juan is a director of the IAAC (International Awards for Art Criticism), and a trustee of the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust.

Chantal is an artist and writer whose photographic, painting, video and installation works have been exhibited globally. She has contributed book chapters to contemporary art publications, and regularly writes for academic journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues and is currently writing a book about scanning, touch and the mechanics of vision. Chantal is Professor of Contemporary Art and Head of the MA Contemporary Art Practice programme at the Royal College of Art.

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Not knowing as a pedagogical approach in the primary classroom

Octopussy as Camou-flâneur in the cloud of Unknowing

Graham Hudson is an artist working with ideas relating to fitness, wellness culture and the body as a psychological, cultural and physical subject. At the RCA, Graham is based in the Sculpture Programme and the Health and Care research hub. Project partners have included The Henry Moore Foundation, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, and The Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven. Graham is a regular collaborator with the Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons, creating work in New York, Tokyo, Beijing, Paris and London.

Gareth Kennedy is an artist and lecturer at the NCAD in Dublin. Since 2020, he has been charged with running the Studio+ NCAD FIELD module in a derelict brown field site beside the college which is in the process of being reappraised as a 'Novel Ecology'. Students reckon with the layered history and potential futures of this site through experimental, experiential and environmental based learning and action. They are tasked with developing new ‘Naturecultures’ through an ethos informed by taskscaping, Urban Commoning, and ‘rambunctious gardening’.

Martin Newth is an artist and Assistant Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the RCA, London. His artwork, which includes photography, film and installation, has been exhibited widely. As an educator and academic leader Martin interested in developing event-based curricula and forging innovative modes of learning, underpinned by research and practice.

From Online to Offline: translating screen-based interactions into studio practices.

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).