Teaching as Art
Offered at NYU ITP Spring 2017
This class is for artists and creative practitioners who want to teach. A good teacher is also a great student themselves. They transform their curiosity into knowledge and share their learning process with others. One can learn to become a better teacher by staying fearless about ‘not knowing’ something, embracing radically open ideas and connecting various expertise and knowledge. Teaching can be a form of artistic and creative practice in collaboration with a diverse community. Teachers can invent new forms of learning spaces such as Artist-run schools, Hackerspaces and Museums.
Learning objective: In this class, students will learn about applying artistic processes to teaching. Students will read about the history of artists in and out of academic institutions, Black Mountain College as well as more recent experiments. Students are expected to engage in a critical discussion about the topic.
Learning outcome: Students will become knowledgeable about various ways of teaching. Students will create a lesson plan for a workshop.
Letter #1 12/26/2016
Letter #2 1/6/2017
Requirments
Students and teacher will respect each other as equals, will speak and write kindly to each other. They will challenge each other academically and artistically.
Students will be in class, on time. Two late arrival counts as an absence, two absences will be immediately fail.
Students will use github repository to find the latest syllabus, reading materials as well as to submit their assignments.
Students will submit their assignment by every Sunday morning. Late assignemnt will not be considered for review. Stuents may update their assignment after initial submission and after class.
Week 1. Learning
January 23, 2017
Introduction of the course and the instructor's practice. Teaching philosophy.
In class exercise about learning.
Reading assignment for next week:
- An excerpt from Democracy and Education by John Dewey
- Black Mountain College by Anni Albers
- On the Creation of Syllabi. from Notes on Dunce Cap by Jesse Ball. page 28~31
Reference
- The Experimenters, Chance and design at Black Mountain College by Eva Díaz
Assignment: Create a map that illustrates how you learn something. Write a 500 words essay to accompany the map.
Week 2. Curriculum
January 30, 2017
What is curriculum? Artists as educators, performance art work as curriculum
- Joseph Beuys & Fluxus
- Judy Chicago & Feminism
- Allan Kapprow & Happening
- Suzanne Lacy – LA & global
- Conflict Kitchen – Pittsburgh
- Institut für Raumexperimente – Berlin
- Tabari Bomani – Brooklyn
Topics
- Community is a curriculum
- Body is a curriculum
- Space is a curriculum
- Street is a curriculum
- Food is a curriculum
- Art is a curriculum
In class workshop, draft a curriculum for a workshop.
- Identifying a subject matter– What do I want to teach? learn?
- Big picture goals: What would the students experience and achieve?
- Inspirations: Who was your favorite, most inspiring teacher? Why?
- Activity: 10 Minutes Professor.
Readings:
Leaving art writings on performance, politics, and publics, 1974-2007 by Suzanne Lacy NYU Ebrary - In Mourning and in Rage, p 64- 71
Education for Socially Engaged Art by Pablo Helguera PDF - Chapter 2, p 9 - 25
Week 3. Syllabus
February 5, 2017
In class activity: School master
Assignment was to create a curriculum, for yourself as a sophomore in high school.
Each student will pair up with another student. They will introduce their curriculum (assignment)to each other. 10 minutes each.
As a presentation for the whole class, the students will present their curriculum from the perspective of a teacher (or a schoolmaster). The partner will give feedback in perspective of a student in the school. and vice versa. it will be like role playing.
Lecture about artists in schools, public institutions, galleries, museums, biennales
- Open field at Walker
- Sheetal Prajapati at MoMA
- Christine Sun Kim at Whitney
- Night School, Museum as Hub
- Shaun Leonardo at New Museum
- Art + Technology Lab at LACMA
- Machine Project at LACMA
- Triple Canopy at PS1
- Queens Museum Education department
- Pablog Helguera, Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011)
Readings:
- Museums, Managers of consciousness
- An excerpt from COULD BE NO.2: High School Special
Assignment:
Week 4. Pedagogy
February 13, 2017
Lecture 4. Pedagogy
Lecture about pedagogy, the craft of teaching. Traditional pedagogy and critical pedagogy, alternative education.
Assignment: Edit your syllabus for museum workshop for your partner and other participants. Rehearse your teaching for them, in person and in museum or in ITP. Create a feedback form for the participant (student) to give you feedback on your teaching.
Week 5 Inclusive learning
February 27, 2017
Lecture about accessible and inclusive learning spaces. Makerspaces, community spaces, libraries.
Week 6 Unlearning
March 6, 2017
Lecture 6 Lecture about combining theory and practice in art and teaching, through unlearning and plasticity.
- Sara Hendren
- Vicky Henson
- Unlearnign disability
- Capability and potentiality
- Judtih Butler
- Martha Nussbaum
Student presentation about a lesson plan for a workshop.
No class
Spring Break
Week 7
March 20, 2017
Student presentation on their final project: workshop.
Instructor information
Taeyoon Choi is an artist and educator based in New York and Seoul. His art practice involves performance, electronics, drawings, and storytelling that often leads to intervention in public spaces. Choi collaborates with fellow artists, activists, and professionals from other fields to realize socially engaged projects and alternative pedagogy. He was an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He has published books about urbanism and is currently working on a book of drawings about computation. Choi cofounded the School for Poetic Computation in 2013, where he continues to organize and teach. Recently, he's been focusing on unlearning the wall of disability and normalcy, and enhancing accessibility and diversity within art and technology. Choi serves on the board of advisors of the Processing Foundation.
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