Naomi Salaman will be in conversation with Matthew Cornford and Daniel Campbell Blight about the ‘history of the present’ in art school structure and taught content. Naomi will bring some recollections from her own art school experience first at Chelsea School of Art in the mid 1980s, and then with Victor Burgin as supervisor at Goldsmiths, in the early 2000s. Matthew Cornford will offer an account of the introduction of Complementary Studies within art schools, after the Coldstream reforms. He will be showing some extraordinary examples of Albert Hunt’s pioneering pedagogy exploring ‘intellectual work through physical activity’, at the Regional College of Art Bradford in the 1960s. Daniel Campbell-Blight has just redesigned the first year historical and critical studies course for fine art. The redesign of AGP452 represents and puts into practice a number of paradigm shifts in the approach to studying art and art theory under the general aim decolonising the curriculum of the historical and critical studies area of fine art.

Postponed this event will take place outside of RKE WEEK

Date: Monday 11/11/24
Time: 16.00-17.30
Who can attend:  All
Where: Grand Parade, G4

Image provided by Naomi Salman.  See https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/facp/2019/12/11/decolonise-brighton-university/ for background and student work