ARTSCHOOL/UK focuses on creating an environment in which Jon Thompson says “absolutely vital moves can be made by artists, an environment in which they can relate to share ideas with one another (ch-ch-ch-changes Ridinghouse, 2009). Perhaps a school or the idea of a school as a condition of learning, of being open to discourse and discovery, can also be seen as something we might carry with us wherever we go, whatever we do. (Raqs Media Collective How to be an artist by night) ARTSCHOOL/UK was launched in April 2010. For its launch year ARTSCHOOL/UK is working in collaboration with Cell Project Space, and the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
The project is divided into two Phases:
Phase I April 6th—25th 2010 at Cell Project Space, London
Phase II ( artschool/uk and its Observers) October 15th—17th 2010 at the Whitechapel Gallery, London
artschool uk is a new project founded by John Reardon, organised and co-ordinated in collaboration with Johannes Maier and Sabine Hagmann.
This unique project will explore the work of 21 international artists from all disciplines in daily seminars, workshops, tutorials, visiting presentations, and reading groups, delivered by an exciting and diverse group of artists, curators, critics, galleries, architects and designers.
For its launch year 2010, artschool uk is working in collaboration with Cell Project Space, London, where Phase I will take place from April 6th – 25th, 2010.
artschool uk is divided into two distinct Phases,
Phase I The Art School Phase takes place in Cell Project Space, London, from April 6th – 25th, 2010. This three-week long event-based project offers participants the opportunity to explore their ideas and work through three weeks of critically engaged group and individual teaching, workshops, presentations and reading groups with a wide range of contributors. While some parts of the project include an invited public, the main focus of Phase I is on participants, their individual work and development.
Phase II The Reflection and Publication Phase, begins six months after Phase I and focuses on the publication and dissemination of the project with particular emphasis on work produced by participants during the intervening period or period of reflection between Phase I and II.
Phase II will include, amongst other things, a publication containing participants work, essays and images critically exploring the first year of artschool uk, 2010, a panel discussion at the Whitechapel Gallery.The publication serves to connect both phases of the project. It showcases the work of participants and carries invited text-based contributions and a wide range of visual evidence exploring artschool uk, 2010.
The publication will be distributed to art bookshops across the UK and Europe and will be available for purchase on Amazon and other online bookshops.
Contributors to artschool uk are drawn from an extensive network of artists, curators, critics, galleries, architects and designers. The following people will be involved in Phase I of artschool uk, 2010, April 6th - 25th: Alicia Paz, Andrew Hunt, Caroline Achaintre, Caroline McCarthy, Céline Condorelli, Christian Jankowski, Dan Perjovschi, David Mollin, Dave Beech, Gail Pickering, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Klega, Markus Vater, Matthew Poole, Michael Craig-Martin, Oliver Klimpel, Paul O'Neill and the Bristol School, Phyllida Barlow, Rainer Ganahl, Richard Wentworth, Ruti Sela/Maayan Amir.
Participants in artschool uk, 2010 have been selected from 111 applicants: Adam Knight, Alice Evans, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Daniel Pasteiner, Elizabeth McAlpine, Habib Asal, Jedsada Tangtrakulwong, Kevin McPhee, Klára Orosz, Marijn van Kreij, Melanie Russell, Micha Patiniott, Michiel Ceulers, Min Joo, Rita Evans, Romeo Gongora, Ruth Höflich, Sibylle Feucht, Sissu Tarka, Vaishali Pathak.