Workshop Strand 1 : Stow Crit Space
Saturday June 10th, 2023 : 13:30 – 14:30
Overview
A co-produced group performance / pedagogical activity / workshop / party. It involves tools and techniques to question democracy, site, power and ownership to support a deeper understanding of making, why I am making and what could happen by making. Influenced by alternative art school strategies and methodologies. The Assembly will consider and develop collective relationships through tangible and intangible actions including movement, text, speech, sound and empathy.
Speakers
Sophie Mak-Schram
Sophie Mak-Schram is an art historian, producer, educator and occasional practitioner. She holds a Research MA (cum laude) in Arts and Culture from Leiden University, a Postgraduate Certificate (merit) in Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy from the University of Leeds, and a BA (hons) in English Literature and History of Art from the University of York. She has worked for organisations including immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, global university Minerva Schools, artists development organisation, UK New Artists and art platform for the global South, the Cera Project. Her practice spans experiential education, inclusion and consent practices, performance and writing.
Paul Stewart
Principal Lecturer in Fine Art and Curating, at Teesside University and MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), Co-Course Leader of the MA Curating, MA Curating (Curator Apprentice) and BA (Hons) Fine Art. Researcher, Artist and Curator in critical practice and social engagement, focusing on democracy and knowledge exchange, and critical pedagogy as a curatorial and artistic methodology. Author of Art, Critical Pedagogy and Capitalism (Routledge 2021) co-author a new monograph on Educational Aesthetics with Bloomsbury (due 2024). Co-Founder of the Middlesbrough Art Weekender and The Alternative Art College.