Living to learn : art & education for the common good / edited by Noah Simblist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simblist, Noah, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Study and teaching.

Art.

Artists as teachers.

art education.

Physical Description:

430 pages : illustrations (chiefly black and white) ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Art and education for the common good

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Inventory Press ; Richmond, VA : Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, [2025]

Summary:

"How can alternative organizations and traditional institutions learn from one another? How have exhibition platforms created space for artists to generate learning environments? How have these practices changed assumptions about art institutions and artistic production? How can we think about the economic, ecological, and institutional sustainability of all of these practices? Living to Learn, edited by Noah Simblist of Virginia Commonwealth University, presents the work of over seventy artists, curators, collectives, and scholars who address contemporary art as a site of learning in the twenty-first century. Building on earlier histories of education as civic service for the common good, it focuses on the last twenty-five years while exploring the future of art education as a practice unfolding both in and beyond school. The book's case studies reveal how innovations in education have a dynamic relationship with artistic practice, alternative arts organizations, universities, museums, and biennials"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Noah Simblist

Educação para adultos (Education for adults), 2010 / Jonathas de Andrade

I. Alternative arts organizations

Introduction / Noah Simblist

Intended missions, adjacent outcomes : a reflection on "art schools" in the Arab world / Engy M. Sarhan

Home workspace program / Christine Tohmé interviewed by Pelin Tan and Magnus Ericson

On divergent art education : a case study in dark study / Andrew Woolbright

Fifteen years of SOMA : why institutionality can be its own political act / Kim Córdova

Unifying agents : emancipation and art education in the Caribbean / Pablo Guardiola

From the wobbly scaffolding / lugar a dudas cofounders Oscar Muñoz and Sally Mizrachi in conversation with Karen Devia

Don't teach, learn : the educational experiments at EspIRA / Patricia Belli interviewd by Miguel A. López

The Post-Living Ante-Action Theater manual : the audience is always right / My Barbarian

II. BFAMFAPhD

Artists report back / BFAMFAPhD

There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing / the Public School Los Angeles

The UC strike / Brian Holmes

The hidden costs of a life of the mind / Beatriz E. Balanta

Unstable connections / Anuradha Vikram

Art schools in the Middle East / Gregory Buchakjian, Aissa Deebi, Walid Sadek, and Pelin Tan, moderated by Noah Simblist

Why I protest / a college senior having his degree withheld

On hating students / Daniel Spaulding

The university struggle to unlearn Zionism / Ariella Aïsha Azoulay interviewed by Linda Xheza

From the unreviewed writings of a peerless thinker / Jalal Toufic

Learning is a desire for proximity / Steffani Jemison, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, moderated by Noah Simblist

Teaching between worlds / Angela Dufresne, Gordon Hall, Arnold J. Kemp, Aki Sasamoto, Nato Thompson, and Rodrigo Valenzuela, moderated by Michael Jones McKean

Blood from stone, 2019 / Cara Benedetto

III. Practices

Of workers and trees / Luis Camnitzer and Pablu Helguera

On gender, sculpture, and relearning how to see / Gordon Hall

Six years : we've reached a moment of crisis / Sarah Rifky

Speech beyond the freedom of speech / Yazan Khalili

Occupational hazards of modern art and museums / Rasha Salti and Khaled Hourani

An oral history of Picasso in Palestine / Michael Baers

Pedagogies of commons as transversal methods / Pelin Tan

Systems of grasping / Kameelah Janan Rasheed interviewed by Noah Simblist

Yet another score for feral translation, 2025 / Kameelah Janan Rasheed

IV. Museums and biennials

Cardinal points in art learning / Pablo Helguera

Someone who knows something ... and someone who knows something else / Dominic Asmall Willsdon and Mônica Hoff talk about the Bienal do Mercusol

Can a museum contain conterpublics? / Manuel Borja-Villel interviewed by Marcelo Expósito

A museum in education city / Zeina Arida interviewed by Noah Simblist

Education at the Sharjah Art Foundation / Noora Al Mualia interviewed by Noah Simblist

Education at the São Paulo Bienial / Thiago Gil de Oliveira Virava interviewed by Noah Simblist

Learning from the medium / Manuela Moscoso interviewed by Noah Simblist

Maintaining belief in institutions / Magalí Arriola, Johanna Burton, Sally Tallant, and Dominic Asmall Willsdon, moderated by Noah Simblist

City as a school / Sofía Olascoaga, Lucia Sanroman, Sally Tallant, and Dominic Asmall Willsdon, moderated by Noah Simblist

Public promises : education, architecture, museums / Dominic Asmall Willsdon

The tree school (2014) / Campus in Camps and Grupo Contrafilé

V. Sustainability

Meditation ocean / Hope Ginsburg interviewed by Noah Simblist

On financial worlding / Gary Zhexi Zhang

Columbia University's "crisis" : a political economy sketch map / Adam Tooze

The debt collective : an introduction / Astra Taylor

RAW Académie at ICA / Linda Good Bryant, Marielle Ingram, Alex Klein, and Marie Hélène Pereira

Story of a marriage : Secue_LA / Helmut Batista, Marilia Loureiro, Lola Malavasi, and Sally Mizrachi, moderated by Noah Simblist

All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you / Prem Krishnamurthy and Sam Rauch (Department of Transformation).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781941753811

1941753817

OCLC:

1565865031