Artist pedagogy and artistic thinking
We explore how artists teach future artists in higher education institutions and other settings, asking how and why pedagogies have evolved and how they might need to continue to develop into the future.
This thematic research network investigates the education of artists. The research is focused on the range of practices taught at the University of the Arts Helsinki. We explore how artists teach future artists in higher education institutions and other settings, asking how and why pedagogies have evolved and how they might need to continue to develop into the future. Our aim is to deepen critical understandings of these practices in evolving contexts by employing various methodological approaches including artistic research.
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Research projects
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Archive of Art School Dissent
Chris Evans’ and Magnus Quaife’s project seeks to discover trans-geographical entanglements between education, geo-economic circumstances, cultural conditions, and communities through which alterity has been articulated and dissent enacted.
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Writing-with Others as Artist Pedagogy
Aino-Kaisa Koistinen’s project examines feminist practices of collective writing in the context of artistic thinking and artist pedagogy.
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<strong>Performance Pedagogy – Politics of Art Pedagogy</strong>
The aim of Pilvi Porkola’s research is to consider how performance art is taught and what social dimensions performance art teachers see in their work.
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Developing student selection for the acting programme
Anu Koskinen’s project investigates who, how, and why individuals are selected to study acting at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.
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Fine art pedagogies
Magnus Quaife’s project sets out to develop a deeper understanding of how and why artists teach in the ways they do, to share these approaches through various means, and to foster communities of practice.
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Gestural philosophy
Luis Guerra’s project explores collective artistic practices as informal devices of intentionless learning, radical democracy, and institutional activism.
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Artistic Processes of University Art Students Self-Identifying Along the Neurodiversity Spectrum
Timothy Smith’s study seeks to learn about the neurodiversity experience of students’ engagement with artistic thinking within their artistic processes.
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Groans and muffled tones – hybrid, multidisciplinary realms of sounding bodies
The aim of the research project is to develop artist pedagogy and to subversively and horizontally alter the silo structures of the art university curricula.
Researchers in the network
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Aino-Kaisa Koistinen
University Researcher, Tutkimusinstituutti, Research Institute
+358504771386 aino-kaisa.koistinen@uniarts.fi -
Anu Varis
Lecturer, Degree Programme in Acting, Theatre Academy
anu.varis@uniarts.fi -
Sarah Rowles
Postdoctoral Researcher, Artistic research Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts
+358504358075 sarah.rowles@uniarts.fi -
Timothy Smith
University Researcher, Tutkimusinstituutti, Research Institute
+358504771315 timothy.smith@uniarts.fi
Past events
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Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium
The Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium will take place online on 15 November and in person on 22 November at University of the Arts Helsinki.
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The Work of the Head, the Heart, the Hands – An exhibition exploring the influence of teaching on artists’ practices
Introduction “If to exist means to be ‘outside of yourself, not to coincide with yourself, but to stand out towards the world, to be in…
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Foundational – Exploring the Legacies and Impacts of Foundation Art & Design Education
The symposium will take place over three days each taking a different approach to exploring the legacies and impacts of Foundation art and design courses and their equivalents.
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Gestures and Languages: Innovative Approaches to Artistic Thinking and Pedagogy
“Our world goes to pieces; we have to rebuild our world. We investigate and worry and analyze and forget that the new comes about through…