Dear TAC,
Sorry for my lack of communication and input for the last while – I feel particularly bad since what I have been doing lately is quite related to CAMRU - but I am now in a better position to contribute again. (In case you’re not sure where I disappeared to, I am currently in Kassel, Germany working as part of the art mediation team of documenta 12. With the particular focus on Education for documenta and the efforts of the team coordinators to encourage innovative formats for guiding tours and special projects, I’ve been learning and involved with attempts to provide more dialogical educative models within the exhibition.)
So, yes Andie I would love to share my experiences but I'm not sure what is relevant - do you have any specific questions?? Actually, the 3rd documenta magazine themed on Education is now available and perhaps you could find this in Melbourne but the articles are also all available online...
I feel like I can’t really evaluate how the programme is working yet and whether this has been successful, but when I first arrived we heard from some interesting art education theorists and one project in particular was very similar to that of us with CAMRU- it was by Anna Zosik entitled ‘Hannah Arendt Denkraum’ as part of an exhibition held in Berlin (October to November 2006). She basically set up a room in the middle of this group show where people were encouraged to respond in ways similar to CAMRU – she edited responses a little more but really had the same difficulties and results as us… the guards got really into it, people took active ownership of the space, and it took on a life of its own.
The art mediation team is actually part of a research project by Carmen Moersch who is writing her PhD on art mediation and trying to progress this in Germany in relation to UK based models.
Okay, perhaps I can write more on this soon, but love to you all,
M xx
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I'd love to get a better idea of the "denkraum" project Mel, do you have anymore info or documentation from the artist? I visited a gallery site that has it archived but most of the info was in Deutsch!
hey mel,
id also like more info on that project. ive been reading lots of arendt recently. how does she fit into the whole collaboration scheme of things? she is certainly always writing about her openess of multiple and opposing perspectives, so i suppose in a way TAC is an arendtian project.
HI Mel
Sounds like good stuff. I like hearing that her project took on a life of its own as well just like CAMRU did. That is an area of collaboration which I find really interesting; artists want audiences to be involved / participate, but working out how that happens is fascinating. I am interested in the dynamic between how much control the artist has / wants and how much the audience has / is willing to take.
Somehow it seems to me that if it is completely prescriptive it is not real participation more like getting people to serve the function of the project.
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