Course co-founder Birgit Mandel published a specialist article on the contents of the Certificate Course: Artistic Interventions – Potentials for Cultural Education in kubi online this week.
Abstract
It has been emphasised again and again that art bears special potentials with which it can intervene in various societal contexts, ideally triggering changes with an educational impact at both individual and institutional level. This article examines more closely with which approaches art operates, especially in cultural education contexts. The pilot course “Artistic Interventions in Cultural Education”, which was developed by the author herself, provides the background for this. The concept of Cultural Intervention focuses on the independence of art, which develops an impact precisely because it does not adapt to the usual modes of working and to conventions. The aim of the pilot course is to support artists in developing methods based on their own artistic work which provide scope for the ideas of the participants without forfeiting their own independence as artists. Consistently conceiving Cultural Education from the angle of art while simultaneously developing an interest in and understanding of the logics of other institutions and life-worlds can contribute to making art have an impact beyond art itself.
Funding for this qualification programme for artists in Cultural Education is being provided by Stiftung Mercator, which in doing so has completed its long-standing engagement in Cultural Education.
The full article is here.