This article was recommended in the PgCert further reading suggestions HE Values & Landscape. Anders Kreuger writes about the many different capacities he has undertaken since graduating. His career has oscillated between curating for major institutions and teaching curating at notable universities, both across Europe. I was struck by the honesty, openness and potential in this article.
‘Rather than assuming the role of the go‐between, the curator should aim to pro‐ duce situations where people can think together.’
–Thinking about Thinking Together, Anders Kreuger. Gielen, P. and de Bruyne, P. (Eds). 2011. Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm – Idealism Versus Cynicism. Valiz.
I am reminded of the energy of studying my MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. The thinking taking place amongst my cohort felt exciting, elastic, co-productive. I was learning to think in a new way, revealing how the world was constructed around me through materials, theories and a studio space to test our ideas in. Thinking was a tactile experience, it was exhilarating.
‘The mission of the art academy, as I formulated it, was threefold: to educate new art‐ ists, to provide proper employment for accomplished artists and to produce new knowledge. I maintain that new artists need to know not only how to produce work, but also how to situate their work in the world at large so that it can be received as new knowledge.’
–Thinking about Thinking Together, Anders Kreuger. Gielen, P. and de Bruyne, P. (Eds). 2011. Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm – Idealism Versus Cynicism. Valiz.
As an artist and a lecturer I am often looking for the crossovers in my research and teaching, for me these crossovers are the most rewarding part of my role. I understand sculpture to be the production of new knowledge which is born from experimentation with material, space, form and process. Sculpture stays relevant by being in a state of flux.
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