Wednesday February 10, 2010

Pedagogy of the Periphery

Coordinated by the Open Practice Committee at the University of Chicago, threewalls will host Pedagogy of the Periphery on February 10th from 4:00 - 7:00 pm, a special workshop style event to compliment the Radical Caucus for Art's Autonomizing Practices panel at this year's College Art Association meeting.

In conjunction with AREA Chicago's ninth issue, Peripheral Vision, Pedagogy of the Periphery will focus on the history, practice and theory of radical pedagogy inside and outside institutions. Together, educators and students will discuss pedagogical practices, broadly defined— their optimism, obstacles, methods, pleasures, and frustrations—with both short informal presentations and time for group discussion. Some discussion questions will be submitted in advance by students, however there will be flexibility to address current events as needed (such as, campus uprisings happening in California, Europe, and elsewhere).

This free event allows people not attending the conference to benefit from a sampling of visiting speakers. It is not conceived as anti-CAA, but happens alongside the conference to illustrate the fact that some conversations are easier to hold outside the professional machine.*

Presenters: Dara Greenwold, Eve Ewing, Nicole Marroquin, Gregg Sholette, Bert Stabler and Liz Mason-Deese and Tim Stallmann of the Counter Cartographer's Collective

*For more information and to pre-register, please contact Zachary Cahill, Lecturer & Open Practice Committee coordinator at zcahill@uchicago.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Open Practice Committee in the department of visual art.