The Art of Engagement: Foundations for an international learning community in social practice

参与的艺术：社会实践中国际学习社区的基础

• 批准号: AH/W004208/1
• 负责人: Loraine Leeson
• 金额: $ 4.11万
• 依托单位: Middlesex University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW004208%2F1
• 关键词: Art; Engagement; Foundations; international; learning

The proposed research network will explore how the teaching of social practice can be improved for arts practitioners through partnership between cultural and higher education institutions. It will use online communications to test practical possibilities for augmenting learning through collaboration across national boundaries, and investigate other benefits that networking across institutional and geographical divides can bring. The network will result in the formation of a nascent community of practitioners, cultural providers and educators to encourage cooperation, exchange and possibilities for greater future collaboration.Communications will commence between a core of four arts institutions and universities in the UK and US, two countries that are, relative globally, foundational to social practice arts and its education. This will then be expanded into a wider network. The core organisations are Tate Exchange and Middlesex University (UK), and Queens Museum and City University of New York (CUNY) (USA), each with specific experience of supporting social engagement in art.Social practice is a growing phenomenon amongst artists globally, who are increasingly drawing on their creativity to address urgent intersectional issues of social and environmental justice. There are nevertheless still relatively few opportunities to formally develop the knowledge and understanding needed for effective practice in this field. The nature of learning for engagement in the wider social sphere inherently questions whether it could be more effectively achieved by drawing on a wider pool of experience than UK HEIs have to offer. It is envisaged, particularly in relation to current developments in decolonizing arts education and museum provision, that much could be achieved through collaboration and exchange supported by online learning strategies.The project will progress through bringing together representatives from other cultural and educational centres of expertise, including institutions in Ireland with its significant legacy in this field. An initial half-day online symposium will facilitate discussion and the sharing of ideas. This peer-practitioner-educator dialogue will lead to a series of four half-day online workshops for emerging artists from UK and US locations, hosted by each of the core organisations, to test possibilities for longer-term future programmes. A face-to-face exchange hosted by Tate Exchange and Queens Museum will support this work, enabling in-depth dialogue and the sharing of methodologies and learning strategies between the different organisations. The programme will culminate in a full-day live-streamed virtual symposium where programme findings, outcomes and outputs will be demonstrated, discussed and disseminated. With wider international participation, this event will address how future learning in this field can be expanded through cooperation, exchange and ongoing networking. The work will be informed by a Project Advisory Group of established practitioners, educators and artists, together with alumni of Middlesex and CUNY courses.The main benefits of the research will be realised through future collaborations leading to educational initiatives that can offer greater support to emerging artists in this field. These will benefit through discovering new and effective ways of developing their work in the social sphere, which will in turn aid the publics and environments with which they engage. Artists, educationalists and academics will gain perspective and ideas for different ways of delivering educational activities, while workshops participants will have opportunity to gain skills and experience. Dissemination through journal articles will not only be aimed at academics and cultural institutions, but also arts practitioners via professional publications.

拟议的研究网络将探讨如何通过文化和高等教育机构之间的伙伴关系，改善艺术工作者的社会实践教学。它将利用在线通信来测试通过跨国界合作扩大学习的实际可能性，并调查跨机构和地理界限的联网可能带来的其他好处。该网络将形成一个由从业者、文化提供者和教育者组成的新生社区，以鼓励合作、交流和未来更大合作的可能性。交流将在英国和美国的四个艺术机构和大学之间展开，这两个国家在全球范围内都是社会实践艺术及其教育的基础。这将扩大到一个更广泛的网络。核心组织是泰特美术馆和米德尔塞克斯大学（英国），皇后博物馆和纽约城市大学（美国），每一个都有支持艺术社会参与的具体经验。社会实践是全球艺术家越来越多的现象，他们越来越多地利用他们的创造力来解决社会和环境正义的紧迫交叉问题。然而，正式发展这一领域有效实践所需的知识和理解的机会仍然相对较少。学习参与更广泛的社会领域的性质本质上的问题，它是否可以更有效地实现借鉴更广泛的经验池比英国高等教育所提供的。根据设想，特别是考虑到目前在艺术教育和博物馆非殖民化方面的发展，通过在线学习战略支持的合作和交流，可以取得很大的成就，该项目将通过汇集其他文化和教育专业中心的代表，包括爱尔兰在这一领域具有重要遗产的机构的代表来取得进展。最初为期半天的在线研讨会将促进讨论和交流想法。同行-从业者-教育者对话将为来自英国和美国的新兴艺术家举办一系列为期四天的在线研讨会，由每个核心组织主办，以测试未来长期计划的可能性。由泰特美术馆和皇后博物馆主办的面对面交流将支持这项工作，使不同组织之间能够进行深入对话，分享方法和学习策略。该方案最后将举行一个全天直播的虚拟专题讨论会，展示、讨论和传播方案的调查结果、成果和产出。随着国际社会的广泛参与，这次活动将探讨如何通过合作、交流和不断建立网络来扩大这一领域的未来学习。这项工作将由一个项目咨询小组提供信息，该小组由成熟的从业者、教育工作者和艺术家以及米德尔塞克斯大学和纽约市立大学的校友组成。研究的主要好处将通过未来的合作实现，从而为该领域的新兴艺术家提供更大的支持。这些机构将通过发现新的和有效的方式在社会领域开展工作而受益，这反过来又将有助于他们所参与的公众和环境。艺术家，教育家和学者将获得不同方式提供教育活动的观点和想法，而讲习班的参与者将有机会获得技能和经验。通过期刊文章进行传播不仅针对学术界和文化机构，还将通过专业出版物向艺术工作者提供服务。