Creating the 21st Century

Creating the 21st Century...

Jessica Hamlinjess@art21.org

Mary Mattinglymary.mattingly@gmail.com

How are artists engaging with personal, social, political, and global issues today?

Ai Weiwei, Remembering, 2009. Backpacks and metal structure. Klaus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

How might artists inspire new paradigms for teaching and learning?

Tania BRUGHERA, Museum of Arte Util, 2014, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

What is (contemporary) art?

Claude Monet, Haystacks (sunset), 1890-91. Oil on canvas.

Jessica Stockholder, [no title], 1995. Wicker chair, plastic tub, light fixture with bulb, synthetic polymer, oil paint, plastic, fabric, concrete, resin, wood, wheels, acrylic yarn, glass, cookies in resin, 71-1/2 x 63 x 50 inches.

Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808, 1814 Kerry James Marshall, Watts, 1963, 1995

Leonardo DaVinci, Vitruvian Man, 1492 Cao Fei, RMB City 7, 2007

Gong Xian, Ink Landscape with poem, 1688 Jenny Holzer, Truisms, 1977-79. Spectacolor electronic sign. Times Square, New York. 1986.

Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Porcelain.

Tania Brughera, Tatlin’s Whisper #5, 2008. Two uniformed mounted policemen, crowd control police technique, two horses (one white, one brown), audience.

What do artists do today?

What expertise do they have?

Mel Chin, KNOWMAD, 1999, Collaboration with KNOWMAD Confederacy

Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, 2003

ALLORA and CALZADILLA, Chalk (Lima), 1998-2002.

Allora and Calzadilla, Paradox: http://www.art21.org/videos/segment-allora-calzadilla-in-paradox

How might educators think and work like artists across subject areas and disciplines?

Pursue questions and follow curiosities: Artists as investigators

Alfredo Jaar, The Silence of Nduwayezu, detail, 1997

Read, talk, and research: Artists as researchers

Mark Dion, The Great Munich Bug Hunt, 1993

Focus on process: Artists as makers

Oliver Herring, "Exit–Videosketch #6," 1999

3. Inspire curiosityExperiment and play:Artists as inventors

Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Under Discussion, video still, 2005

3. Inspire curiosityFoster creative spaces:Artists as place makers

Thomas Hirschhorn, Gramsci Monument, 2013

Go beyond disciplinary boundaries: Artists as explorers

Pierre Huyghe, A Journey That Wasn’t, 2005

Carrie Mae Weems, From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, 1995

Make connections to the past: Artists as critical historians and storytellers

Move from the personal to the social, political, and global: Artists as engaged citizens

An My Le, 29 Palms: Security and Stabilization Operations, Graffiti, 2003-04

Krzysztof Wodizcko, The Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, 1998

Work with others: Artists as collaborators and facilitators

Ai Weiwei, Production still from the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 6 episode, "Change," 2012

Engage in critical discourse and productive criticism:Artists as change agents

Embrace ambiguity, uncertainty, and failure:Artists as learners

Tim Hawkinson, "Emotor," detail, 2000

With a partner…

Reflect on your own practices as an educator:

● Which strategies are most relevant to your practice?

● Which do you currently utilize? Which are less used? Why?

● Which strategies would you like to utilize in the future? Why?