education

Teaching aids

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casts from the Life Room of the Ecole supérieure d'art visuel
Geneva 1998

Por les Curieux seminar

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exhibited seminar room
Pour Les Curieux 1998

Academy and Museum

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Ecole supérieure d'art visuel and the Musée d'art et d'histoire
Geneva 1998

Pour Les Curieux liferoom

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exhibited life drawing room
Pour Les Curieux 1998

Por Les Curieux lecturn

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the lecturn
Pour Les Curieux 1998

curieux lecture

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The exhibited Lecture Theatre
Pour Les Curieux 1998

curieux installation

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the installation
Pour Les Curieux 1998

Reprise

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Sub-Title

part of Independence, commissioned by curator Chris Hammonds

End Date

3 Aug 2003

Start Date

3 Jun 2003

Location

South London Gallery: London

Body

Reprise was part of Independence, a celebratory exhibition at the South London Gallery, marking the devolution of the Gallery from Local Authority management.

Reprise was presented by the director Margot Heller at the opening party on the 1st June 2003.

On our behalf, Margot read a speech that we found through our research in the Gallery archives. The speech was first delivered in 1893 by the founder [the Gallery began in 1868] and director William Rossiter to the Gallery Council. Rossiter was fighting to retain the independence of the Gallery by keeping it out of Local Authority control, he was fearful of swapping one form of indebtedness, inherent in financial support - from private donation to public subsidy- for another .

Rossiter lost the battle to keep the Gallery independent.

108 years later, and although the direction of the Gallery's movement is reversed - from public subsidy to a 'mixed' economy - the forms of indebtedness remain the same; the struggle for independence is being uncannily replayed, in reverse.

Reprise
A souvenir pamphlet, with annotated text of the speech delivered by both directors
ISBN 1 898 461 244
Price 20p

Published by the South London Gallery and millimeter.org

Available from the gallery

Pour Les Curieux

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Sub-Title

A project to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Musée d'art et d'histoire and the Ecole supérieure d'art visuel, Geneva. In collaboration with Sylvia Alberton, Adrien Beck, Donatella Bernardi, & Michael Henry.

End Date

20 Sep 1998

Start Date

6 Jun 1998

Location

Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genéve

Body

Since the 19th century there has evolved an intimate relationship between the education of artists and their potential public; through the museum and its collection.

Pour Les Curieux explored this evolution, and the educational imperative at the heart of the public museum. We traced the legacy of drawing and copying from artworks and artifacts by students, in the museum and scool themselves. And, the extension of these reproductive practices through the dissemination of exemplary artifacts to Art Academies, through casts and copies of the collection. More recently the use of photography, slide presentations, accompanying video films, lectures, an internet presence and publications have diffused the means of reproduction and education; for artists, the museum and their shared audience.

Pour les Curieux attempted to make the various, and powerful technologies of education in the Museum apparent. This included drawing attention to the museum's principle device of representation; the assembly of artifacts and reconstructed objects into themed 'exhibitions' or theatrical 'tableau'. But also attending to the supporting technologies of display; vitrines, plinths, frames, text panels, documentary photographs, pamphlet guides, museum tours, children's workshops, accompanying audiovisual displays, film and lecture programs, etc.

Imagine an auditorium: with rows of chairs laid out waiting for the audience, the chairs address a lecture podium on top of which is a microphone, small light, a glass and carafe of water; the microphone is connected to an amplifier and large free-standing speakers. Twin slide projectors with long-lead controls are on a stand ready, pointing towards a large white screen. During the exhibition these artifacts, labeled with museological precision become prt of an exhibitionary tableau; museum objects worthy of attention. And yet during the Thursday lunchtime Public Lectures, they have the potential to function as a 'working' lecture theatre. Through exhibition, an object has been made out of the medium, for the delivery of education; the audience hover, uncertain of their or the lecture theatre's status.

A tableau of a life drawing room - a 19th century device for instruction- complete except for the posing model, begins a display sequence which culminates in a contemporary Art School seminar room; the body has been replaced by the book.

We recognize the exponential growth of the Museum, and the expanding role funding and policy makers expect of them. No longer contained by the physical site of the building, the museum's practices extend discursively beyond its walls. So to coincide with our exhibition and as integral part of our project we organized the following:

1. Curate the public Thursday Lecture Program at the Museum during the month of June (focused around the theme of education and its institutions, their histories and practices)

2. Choose the Object of that Month: a collaboration with the newspaper La Tribune des Arts, inviting readers to locate a 'highlight' object in the Museum collection.

3. Arrange the 'advertising' vitrine at Musee Rath in the Ave Corraterie for the duration of the project.

4. Link the Museum and the School's web-site via our page devoted to the project.

5. Organise a Children's Workshop in the Museum and School

6. Produce a Pocket Companion exhibition guide.

Through discussion -and a chance photograph near Rue de Chantepoulet our title for the project became Pour les Curieux. The idea of natural curiosity tempered by eduction perfectly fits the aspiration of both the museum and the school.

A Pocket Companion

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Pour Les Curieux: A Pocket Companion was the exhibition catalogue and guide for Pour Les Curieux our project to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Musée d'art et d'histoire and the Ecole supérieure d'art visuel, Geneva. In collaboration with Sylvia Alberton, Adrien Beck, Donatella Bernardi, & Michael Henry.

education

Teaching aids

Por les Curieux seminar

Academy and Museum

Pour Les Curieux liferoom

Por Les Curieux lecturn

curieux lecture

curieux installation

Reprise

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Location

Body

Related Films

Related Projects

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Pour Les Curieux

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End Date

Start Date

Location

Body

Related Films

Related Projects

Related Publications

A Pocket Companion