An event of the Certificate Course “Artistic Interventions in Cultural Education” at the University of Hildesheim, funded by Stiftung Mercator
Friday, 8th July – Saturday, 9th July 2022 at the University of Hildesheim / Main Campus and Cultural Campus at the Domain of Marienburg
The Symposium addresses artists working in the field of Cultural Education and other societal contexts, scientists and scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of Cultural Education and Cultural Mediation as well as representatives from cultural and education institutions and administrations.
Art bears a particular potential for cultural education processes. Experiencing artistic principles and processes can stimulate inquisitiveness, independent and unconventional thought and action as well as one’s self-perception and that of one’s environment among children, youths and adults. It can also strengthen awareness of self-efficacy and of complex societal contexts. The International Symposium seeks to create access to and discuss knowledge and insights relating to cultural and education policy programmes in various countries, demonstrate a wide range of perspectives on aims, potentials and impacts of cultural interventions in educational contexts and make different artistic concepts and strategies for working in various social and educational contexts experienceable in practice workshops run by artists.
The key objectives and issues of the Symposium:
We are happy to invite you to spend two days with us getting to know and discussing international positions and gaining impulses for your own work from them.
The Symposium will be held in English.
Admission is free of charge.
The number of participants is limited to 200.
Registrations via email are still possible.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our team at: symposium [at] uni-hildesheim [dot] de
9.00 Guided Tour of Hildesheim’s historic sites and Unesco World Heritage
10.30 Informal welcome and snack (Audi Max, Main Campus Hildesheim University)
10.30 Informal Welcome and Snack
11.00 Welcome and Introduction “Artistic Interventions in social and educational contexts” – opportunities, potentials, political support (Prof Dr Birgit Mandel, Department for Cultural Policy, head of programme “Artistic Interventions in Educational Contexts”)
11.30 Artistic Intervention – a common experience with artist Uta Plate (freelance theatre director and lecturer in manifold national and international contexts) – Musiksaal
12.30 Lunch
Section 1 presents Policy Programs for Artists in social and educational contexts in different countries: Which kind of structures, programmes and strategies do exist in different countries to support artists? What is known about the effects? Which kind of structures are necessary to guarantee sustainable support?
13.30 Teresa Torres de Eça (World Alliance for Arts Education, Portugal): Artists in education: A landscape of connections and tensions
14.00 Marie-Therése Holzer & Dr Katharina L. Ochse (Goethe-Institut, Germany): Artistic work in social and educational contexts –national and regional projects and approaches of the Goethe-Institut
14:30 Prof Dr Susanne Keuchel (President German Federal Association for arts and cultural education/BKJ): Artists in arts education: International and national discourses
15.00 Panel Discussion
15:45 Introduction to Session 2
16.00 Coffee and cake
Section 2 uses the format of participative lectures to discuss scientific results and perspectives on potentials, methods and effects of artistic work in social, educational, political and business contexts: What are the specific benefits and effect that arts can deliver in educational, social, political or business contexts? What are the methods being used? Which kind of studies and evaluations do exist?
16.30 – 17.30 Participative Lecture 1
18.00 – 19.00 Participative Lecture 2
Renata Cervetto (researcher and arts educator from Buenos Aires, Argentina): Archives in art and education: what, how and for whom?
Meriam Bousselmi (Writer, Theatremaker, Lawyer and Researcher from Tunisia based in Berlin): Montaigne’s head and Aesop’s tongue
Dr Tiina Kukkonen (The Canadian Society for Education through Art / Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Canada): Envisioning the Future of Artistic Interventions – From Research to Action
Dr Naomi A. Haruna (University of Maiduguri, Nigeria; SDG Graduate School ‚Performing Sustainability. Cultures and Development in West-Africa): Effectiveness of Artistic Interventions in educational and social contexts within an insurgency environment: a case of Internally Displaced Persons in some selected camps
Prof Dr Ariane Berthoin Antal (WZB Berlin Social Science Center): The highs and lows of conducting meaningful research on artistic interventions
Verena Melgarejo-Weinandt (curator, artist based in Berlin, researcher at Central European University, Austria): Centering Artistic Mediation from a curatorial point of view: “Gloria E. Anzaldúa as method in decolonial art, art education and politics”
Katarzyna Niziołek (Faculty Member of the Institute for Sociology, Bialystok University, Poland): Participatory theatre and social research
All Participative Lectures are held twice. You can attend one lecture per time slot.
19.30 Dinner at Main Campus / Gathering & Networking
Session 3 is created by artists who show their approaches for working in educational and social contexts and invite to participate in a common artistic experience: Which kind of approaches and methods do artists use to intervene in educational, social or political contexts? How do they combine their profession as artists with participative projects?
09.00 Welcome with snacks
09:30 Artistic Intervention with Juca Fiis (artist, fellow of CAMP notes on education at documenta fifteen, from Brasil): The courage of the corn to become popcorn
10:15 Introduction to Session 3
10.30 Practical Artistic Workshops 1
12.00 Practical Artistic Workshops 2
David Garner (artist & arts educator from Wales, UK) : Socially Engaged Art from A to B
Dr Anton Kats (artist, musician & dancer from Ukraine, based in Berlin): RA:DIO – All kinds of fires. Listening as an interventory resource
Mariam Gabritchidze & Lili Mamulashvili & Mareike Wenzel (theatre makers, theatre arts educators from Georgia and Germany / organisation:აიწონა-დაიწონა / AITSONA-DAITSONA): Creating Communal Stages: A workshop based on Aitsona-Daitsona’s theatre work with teachers and children in Georgia
Anne Helga Henning (artist, arts educator & atelierista / Norwegian University of Science and Technology):Worldmaking through ornamenting
Jan Hendrickse (artist, composer & musician from London, UK): Flute making workshop: Exploring intra-action through sound making
Renée Olili Zako (artist, arts educator, mediator & manager / Les Associations Majuscules, Ivory Coast): École de la vie – the importance of a sense of community values & the notion and essence of culture in our communities
All Practical Artistic Workshops are held twice. You can attend one workshop per time slot.
13.30 Lunch & Gathering