How to Teach Art? (DENKT KUNST)

§16§§How to teach art? What kind of knowledge should artists absorb? How might an ordinary person become a creature addicted to the creative process; a non-artist become an artist? Such programmatic questions articulated by the acclaimed Polish artist Artur mijewski were at the heart of the workshop "How to Teach Art?" Between April and July 2018, mijewski invited a group of graduate and PhD students from three Zurich universities-the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), the UZH (University of Zurich), and the ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts)-to collectively reflect on their artistic practices. Over the course of four months, the group met several times a week for hourlong sessions, following individual and collective exercises devised by mijewski himself.§§§This book retraces the workshop and its process by means of inconclusive, fragmentary results between theory and practice:. It presents drawings, videos, photographs, 16mm films, and accompanying reflect §16§ions on the central premise, "How to Teach Art?"§§ §04§7 - 11 Preface (Wiktoria Furrer, Carla Gabrí, Nastasia Louveau, Maria Ordóñez)12 - 26 How to Teach Art? (Artur Zmijewski)27 - 85 Exercises 1-686 - 117 Collective Thinking119 - 171 Exercises 7-11172 - 197 Moments of Controversies, Crisis, and Creation. Looking Back on »How to Teach Art?« (Wiktoria Furrer, Carla Gabrí, Nastasia Louveau, Maria Ordóñez)198 - 199 Index of Images and Photographic Credits200 Authors §02§Louveau, NastasiaNastasia Louveau explores dialogic processes and the notion of critical learning in her combined artistic, research and teaching practices. A self-taught artist trained as a cultural researcher and educator, Nastasia deals with issues through a hands-on approach grounded in sharing, caring, and curiosity. She is working on a doctoral thesis on the "Couple as Method" within performance art at the Departments of Slavic Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Sylvia Sasse. §02§Gabrí, CarlaCarla Gabrí is a doctoral student at the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, with a dissertation on textiles in the moving image 1970-2020. She is a member of the research project "Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format," led by Prof. Fabienne Liptay, and an associate of the doctoral program "Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices," formerly led by Prof. Dieter Mersch. Her artistic practice oscillates between the media of film, painting, and object art, with series on prosopagnosia, obsolescence, and skin.