THE RING OF ARTS
POST-INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES OF ARTISTIC EDUCATION
In the post-industrial condition, not only do the distinct boundaries between different arts melt away—all become artistic practices—but the boundaries between the production of the work of art and the production of culture are also removed. Daily life with its material and digital “applications”, public life, community achievements, cultivation and nutrition are simultaneously cultural production and artistic achievement. A generalization of the jurisdiction of art and the production of culture permeates the atmosphere. Given this, artistic education cannot be autonomous, focused on the work of art, whose reference is an autonomous world of art. Art education, to recall the situationists, can be more focused on the real-life world and its achievements. Every student, entering an environment of artistic production, can learn, through constructive practices and inventions, how to influence and shape his/her own life and the life of the community, in a way that makes him/herself a cultural agent and producer.
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
In the New Arts Building, we propose that artistic education be addressed within the broader context of the “Creative Industries”, which also constitutes a new framework for artistic production and education. By connecting digital applications with pre-industrial practices of art and technology, linking technology with manual labor, the “meta-universe” with material culture, the creative industries constitute not only a new framework for artistic education but also broaden the horizons of professional perspectives opened by artistic education. The IB’s mindset towards arts education seems to welcome developments favorably.
Collaboration with:
Efthymia Dimitrakopoulou
Alexandra Siougari
Gavriela Avlogiari