Art & pedagogy / teaching / education

A critical inquiry into the establishment, development, and transformation of alternative pedagogical and social spaces.

A critical inquiry into the establishment, development, and transformation of alternative pedagogical and social spaces.

In two lectures four decades apart, féminist art historian and curator Griselda Pollock denounces the gender politics of art education and resituates the major geopolitical and ideological shifts in the world since 1968.

In two lectures four decades apart, féminist art historian and curator Griselda Pollock denounces the gender politics of art education and resituates the major geopolitical and ideological shifts in the world since 1968.

An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.

The fourth issue of the annual review of the École des Arts Décoratifs takes as its starting point the observation of an incandescent and damaged world, unequal and inhospitable, which can only arouse concern and anger in new generations.

64 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fourth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from June–July 2024, (re)arranged into 9 thematic chapters—ranging from sections on DIY and amateurism, on verbal domination, on contemporary resistance and organising efforts, and on our doomscrolling fatigue with the networked world.

PhD and postdoc supervisors from Europe and beyond interrogate the existing formal educational pathways for artistic and practice-based research.

The Dream Academy publication explores art education policy in Northern Norway, with the establishment of the Art Academy in Tromsø in 2007 as a pivot point.

This edition presents the research of Brazilian choreographer, performer, teacher, visual artist, gardener, craftswoman and "post-pornographer" Acauã Shereya during her Master's degree in choreography and performance at ICI/CCN Montpellier.

76 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists, published by e-flux between April–May 2024, arranged into 11 thematic chapters—ranging from the live question of cultural censorship through to the role of diagrams and notation in contemporary artistic practice.

How AI can be used in the creative process in art and design.

An exploration of the various paths of ecodesign, from material environments to our imaginations, from concern for uses to new narratives.

The fifth issue of the annual graphic design journal, dedicated to image and print techniques.

For their thirtieth anniversary, Ulta-red, the international sound art and popular education collective is releasing the first volume of Ulta-red: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry, investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education. 

A board game and a communal ritual conceived by artist Angelo Plessas to explore self-made sacred spaces and inter-species connections.

For its 24th volume, The Drawer brings together a selection of drawings by some thirty final-year students from French and international art schools.

Extensive survey of the politically outward-looking Conceptualism emerging from Art & Language in the UK. Especially considering its critique of the norms of Modernist art practices in contemporary art, particularly practices of art education.

The "deconstruction" of design, between practice and reflection.

A chronicle of the recent transformations of art schools, from the point of view of a teacher, at a time when these spaces are both threatened by increasingly fragile and uncertain public policy management, and at the same time more than ever spaces where the word opens up, practices change and art finds itself in direct contact with the most avant-garde movements in society.

The result of a research project revolving around the question of data, headed by artist-photographer Aurélie Pétrel and philosopher Fabien Vallos.

The 13th issue of the biannual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews with Paul Hirsch, Sébastian Strappazzon, Matthieu Gafsou, Lorenza Longhi, Gabriele Garavaglia, Loucia Carlier.

The new adventure of the Musée Mobile (a traveling museum aimed at making contemporary art accessible to those who are far from it, from the earliest age, that has been touring France, Europe and Africa since 2011), in partnership with the Centre Pompidou: the first museum truck dedicated to Europe's largest collection of modern and contemporary art, designed by architect Isabel Hérault and artist Krijn de Koning, travelling to various regions and villages.

The album includes Milan Knížák's 1973 private recording BROKEN MUSIC, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of BROKEN REBROKEN, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra.

The challenges of participatory artistic research.

A collective publication resulting from a research project led by Sophie Orlando and Katrin Ströbel that takes as its starting point the way in which current geopolitical, economic and social changes induce a renewal and adjustment of artistic strategies, by investing, in an intersectional perspective, contextual thinking and feminist, queer and postcolonial thinking in an artistic and conceptual way.

A data glitch at the beginning of 2022 was the starting point for the sound art project 60 Seconds Each, as a result of a participatory artistic process initiated by Kristof Georgen: 32 tracks by 32 international artists form a 32-minute listening experience of diverse sound positions, each within minimal "expansion".

This publication presents research conducted by choreographer Mor Demer over two years, in the frame of the exerce MA in choreography and performance (National Choreographic Center of Montpellier / Occitanie). Against the backdrop of her artistic process, Mor Demer unfolds a reflection on the production and configuration of choreographic materials, as well as on the body and the practices and fictions of which it is composed.

This publication presents research conducted by Berlin-based choreographer and performer Jule Flierl over two years, in the frame of the exerce MA in choreography and performance (National Choreographic Center of Montpellier / Occitanie). This text manages to maintain a sense of orality, of vocality, within a written format. It is at once a description, an analysis, a score, a piece of music, a voice, etc.

This publication presents research conducted by visual artist and choreographer Clarissa Bauman over two years, in the frame of the exerce MA in choreography and performance (National Choreographic Center of Montpellier / Occitanie). Here, writing becomes movement, a weaving of words, gestures, images, and drawings that rub against each other in a dialogue articulated from page to page.

The third issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, placed under the complex and ambivalent sign of "TRANS", covering the various ways of transgressing (identity, textuality, coding, training, etc.).

The fourth issue of the annual graphic design journal, dedicated to image and print techniques, with Atelier Murr, Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, Juanma Gomez, Julien Van Anholt, Alexis Dandreis, Sébastien Esteban Desplat, Amélie Dumont, Les Artisans du Regard, Maximage, Fraser Muggeridge, Our Polite Society, Éloïsa Perez, La Perruque, Roman Seban.

The 56th issue of the design research journal, devoted to the question of writing in design practices.

A publication by artist and teacher-researcher Marie Preston on the alternative pedagogies developed in France during the 1970s-1990s in "open" schools working on the question of the relationship between co-creation and co-education.

An exploration of the various paths of ecodesign, from material environments to our imaginations, from concern for uses to new narratives.

Publishing as a discursive process and the book as a device of (re)formulation and enunciation: the culmination of a research program aimed at extending the notion of writing to all dimensions of editorial practice.

A writing workshop led by the writer François Bon and the artist photographer Bruno Serralongue at HEAD - Geneva from February 20 to 25, 2022.

A journal gathering texts, posters and extracts of three round-table conversations edited and spatilized by the students and the teachers at ÉNSA Versailles and the editors of the magazine Accattone.

The 12th issue of the biannual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with Atlas Studio, Eurostandard, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Elisa Medde, Jonathan Olivares, Samuel Spreyz, Manon Wertenbroek.

A singular book resulting from an investigation on the arts of sharing sound in an art school based on experiments with Scott Arford, Mario de Vega, Kevin Drumm, Christina Kubisch, Randy H.Y. Yau, art students and Jason Kahn who offers here a text on his listening to the place.

The central theme of the 55th issue of the design research journal are the objects created by and for the organization and mobilization of communities.

A manual for academic teaching and learning contexts.

The reference book in French on the Global Tools design movement linked to the Italian radical architects of the 1970s.

Costumes, the second book of images produced from the plates in isdaT's old books collection, focuses on the representation of clothing and ornaments. With a 21st century perspective, the edition explores an exceptional public heritage.

A collection of reflections by pioneering scientists, artists, and thinkers about the ocean environment, fusing art, science, and education, offering a diverse and interdisciplinary perspective on those threatened ecosystems and the crucial role they play in our adaption to climate change.

An overview of the research projects performed over the last two decades at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR) of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).