Past Exhibitions

Extra-Curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy

Part I. Between Institutions (February 15 – 20, 2010)
Organized and Curated by Maiko Tanaka
Free admission

Previous installation of Xu Tan's Keywords School, Guangzhou Museum of Art, 2008.
Photo courtesy of the artist and Vitamin Creative Space

Extra-curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy, is an international conference and curatorial project exploring the relationship between art, education, research, and activism. The project will take place in two parts: I. Between Institutions (February 15–20, 2010) and II. Beyond Institutions (March 8–13, 2010). Collaborating organizations for Part I include Gendai Gallery (Toronto), Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou, China), and Toronto Free Gallery. Please visit the project website for more information: www.extra-curricular.info

Exhibition:
Xu Tan, Keywords School
Dates: February 15-20, 2010
Reception: February 17, 5-7pm
Keywords School Classes: February 15, 16, 18, 19, and 20; 2-4 pm
Location: Hart House Reading Room, University of Toronto

Open to the public during Hart House regular hours
Co-presented with Gendai Gallery

Xu Tan, JMB Gallery’s International Artist-in-Residence, invites you to participate in a new instance of his mobile learning project, Keywords School in Toronto. The venue of the project will be the “Reading Room,” a social space located in Hart House at the University of Toronto. Through Keywords School, Xu Tan will share his ideas with the Toronto art community, to develop new dialogue around such complex issues as cultural identity and linguistics, citizenship and nationality.

Drawing on past iterations of his project, Xu Tan invites participants to discuss and generate new sets of keywords. Workbooks, videos, forums, and Dictionary of Keywords will be provided as resources and aids during the workshop. Visitors may join the discussion at any point, provided space is available.

Keywords School has been generously supported by Hart House, University of Toronto, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Please visit the project website for more information: www.extra-curricular.info

 

________________________________________________________________

 

Photo documentation from education program at Documenta 12. Copyright: Documenta gmbh.

Conference: Between Institutions
Keynote Lecture by Carmen Mörsch: Tuesday February 16, 7-8:30 pm
Panel Discussions: February 17-18, 2010 (registration required)
Closing Reception: February 18, 2010; 5-7pm, Toronto Free Gallery, (1277 Bloor Street West)

Presented in conjunction with Xu Tan’s Keywords School, as well as a book launch for Documenta 12 Education, the first part of the conference, Between Institutions, will focus on practices by artists, curators, researchers and educators moving within, between, and across institutional structures. Presenters include Rodrigo Hernandez Gomez, Andrew Hunter, Amos Latteier, Srimoyee Mitra, Carmen Mörsch, Darren O'Donnell, Milena Placentile, The Pinky Show, Christine Shaw, Kim Simon, Stephanie Springgay, and Daisuke Takeya.

Keynote speaker Carmen Mörsch, Art Director of the Institute for Art Education (Zurich), will give an overview of the Documenta 12 Education Programme, its advisory board and research projects. Discussing the development of the Documenta 12 Education books, the talk will touch on the project’s achievements and challenges.

The event will bring together practitioners working at experimental, critical, and radical crossings of art and education. Propelled by research on pedagogical art practices by Maiko Tanaka (Curator-in-Residence at the JMB Gallery), the conference and exhibition aim to develop new and critical models of exchange between the two fields and cultivate dialogical, affective, physical confrontations and meetings between artists, learners and publics. Focusing on “supplemental,” “extra-curricular,” and “in-between” spaces of the formal curriculum of academic institutions, the project will explore the various ways critical and radical pedagogy is employed by artists working through these spaces and beyond.

For the full conference schedule and descriptions, please visit www.extra-curricular.info. To register for Part I, send an email to info@extra-curricular.info with your full name, organization/position, phone number and sessions you plan to attend.

Extra-curricular: Between Art and Pedagogy is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Hal Jackman Foundation, Ontario Association of Art Galleries with the Department of Canadian Heritage, Ontario Arts Council and the Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk Centre for International Studies.