{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Teaching Art - Episode 1: Notes on the Classroom","description":"In Teaching Art, creative writing teacher Dennis Gaens looks into what it means to teach art in the present day. In this three part series he looks into where we teach art, who teaches it and what exactly is being taught.  In this first episode, he first looks into some legendary art schools with art historian Joanne Dijkman. In the second part, he discusses the classroom and how we should approach it with writers and teachers Lorena Briedis and Jesse Ball.  A transcript for this episode is available at https:\/\/studiumgenerale.artez.nl\/   Notes:  You can read more about Joanne Dijmkman\u2019s PHD research here: https:\/\/www.artez.nl\/en\/research\/professorship\/art-education-as-critical-tactics\/research-group\/joanne-dijkman.    Information on the Black Mountain College exhibition at the Hamburger Banhof can be found here: https:\/\/www.smb.museum\/en\/exhibitions\/detail\/black-mountain-an-interdisciplinary-experiment-1933-1957\/. The accompanying book was published by Spector: https:\/\/spectorbooks.com\/black-mountain-en.    The European Association of Creative Writing Programmes can be found at https:\/\/eacwp.org\/    Jesse Ball\u2019s Notes on my Dunce Cap was published by Pioneer Works: https:\/\/pioneerworks.org\/store\/notes-on-my-dunce-cap.    Lorena\u2019s Class Proposals, which you wlll find below, are heavily influenced by Jenny Tunedal, who teaches at the Valand Academy in Sweden. She herself was influenced by by an art project called Radikal Pedagogik by Lisa Nyberg and Johanna Gustafsson. Lorena learned about the proposals through this session at the EACWP: https:\/\/eacwp.org\/activities\/course-belgium-2019\/.    Lorena teaches (and herself studied) at Escuela de Escritores: https:\/\/escueladeescritores.com\/   Here are her class proposals:    \u2022 We are here because we want to write. \u2022 We are here to play, to experiment, to rave, to wish for the impossible. \u2022 We are also here to learn to read (us) in a critical way. We write as we read. \u2022 We have set aside this time, each week, for our writing and for sharing our writing with each other. \u2022 We are here because we have committed ourselves to be here. \u2022 We are here to be the best writer each of us can be. \u2022 We do not compete or compare ourselves with others. \u2022 We recognize that writing is a craft that requires time and dedication, and we are willing to make our best. \u2022 Writing every week and commenting on our classmates' texts is our way of giving. \u2022 Listening to our classmates with attention and gratitude is our way of receiving. \u2022 Giving and receiving require the same degree of courage, commitment and generosity. \u2022 We take this space seriously and we take each other seriously, but we also know how to laugh, joke, play, have fun: how to enjoy. \u2022 We are partners in the Dionysian faith. \u2022 We interpret what the other tells us with benevolence. \u2022 We are receptive and listen attentively. \u2022 We recognize that this workshop is a dialogue with the present (our own texts and our circumstances) and with eternity (the literary tradition). \u2022 We are personal and private when we need to be. \u2022 We are strong and vulnerable at the same time. \u2022 Everything that we share here and entrust to each other has a mystical character (ie, secret). \u2022 We all contribute to creating a space of mutual trust and solidarity. \u2022 We all have experiences that together we can transform into knowledge in the classroom. \u2022 There are no better or worse texts: there are texts more or less crafted. \u2022 The texts we write, every week, are not finished pieces. They are sketches, experiments, drafts: work in progress. \u2022 We are generous with each other. \u2022 We read in favor of our texts and not against them. \u2022 We write and read like miners, that is, in the direction of gold, of poetry: that is, in the direction of the sacred that is in the wound of each text. \u2022 In the texts we do not seek justice (we do not judge), we seek poetry (the infinite understanding). \u2022 We are free to write what we want to write and to be whoever we want to be (we do not mistake the author with the narrator). We are interested in everything that concerns the human condition without exception. \u2022 We dare to fail. \u2022 We dare to take position and we also dare to change our position. \u2022 We are not afraid to say what we think, but we say it with respect and with judgment. \u2022 We let conflicts have their space (we don't fear them), but we don't make them either bigger nor smaller. \u2022 We take responsibility for the power we have and help others to make visible their own power. \u2022 We encourage each other to think critically and reflect on our work and the work of others. \u2022 We recognize that being here is a privilege. \u2022 We are companions, we stand by each other and support each other. \u2022 We share together the bread (the sacrifice, the effort) and the wine (the joy) of each text. The workshop is our feast. \u2022 We trust processes, more than results. \u2022 We imitate and steal in order to learn. \u2022 We rehearse, we practice, we succeed, we fail, but we never stop trying again. \u2022 We rest when we need it. \u2022 We are here, present and ready. \u2022 We recognize that the ultimate sense of this space is our love for writing, for literature, for the artistic expression. \u2022 We know that the path of writing is long and deep, and we are happy for that. \u2022 We know that this journey can only be undertaken with patience, perseverance, with faith and with love. \u2022 We tell each other: \u201cTake your time. Enjoy. We have a course ahead. We're on our way."       ","author_name":"Radio ArtEZ","author_url":"http:\/\/studiumgenerale.artez.nl\/","html":"