Transition and Progression in Fine Art Education and Research
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Fine Art European Forum: Paradox Accademia di Belle Arti Palermo 21/22.09.2009
The four reports were written by:
- Sean Cummins /Curriculum Development
- Andres WieCheRink/ Exchange and Collaboration, with a separate summary from Christine Pybus
- Emilia Telese/ Professional Practice, External Connections
- Kevin Atherton and Maria Antonietta Malleo /Research and Doctoral Level
Sharing differences and considering them a resource has been one of the aims and challenges of Palermo conference, putting on the table the “hot” issues of this particular moment of “transition and progression in Fine Art education and research” in Europe and establishing specific working groups.
The reports, written by Sean Cummins/Curriculum Development, Andres Wiecherink/ Exchange and Collaboration, with a separate summary from Christine Pybus, Emilia Telese/ Professional Practice, External Connections, Kevin Atherton and Maria Antonietta Malleo /Research and Doctoral Level, show the complexity of the discussion, where participants shared experiences, recommendations or simply their vision.
Rather than give solutions, the reports introduce us to open perspectives and this can be considered part of the richness of the work in itself.
That’s why most of the reports use an interrogative form.
- How to maintain traditional skills and improve in the same time non- traditional knowledge?
- How to help students be self-directed and responsible for their own learning? What are the strengths of current practice in your institution (Curriculum Development)?
- How art practice and research are related? Is the research of artist “untranslatable”? How to evaluate and “measure” the artistic knowledge?
- How to teach art as research (Reasearch and Doctoral Level)?
- How does academic study and research relate to the art ecosystem? How can be the UK Art Ecosystem model transferred to other contexts in Europe?
- What are the attitudes of art graduatesto society (Professional Practice/External Connections)?
- Is it possible to have a different way of exchange within or without the Erasmus programme?
- How to make student exchange more focused in a social and cultural foreign environment?
- How to implement staff exchange and interaction (Exchange and Collaboration)?
These are some of the questions that show how wide the spectrum of debate was.
In publishing the Palermo conference proceedings, PARADOX aims to show a possible path for shared action of the European network of art professionals, researchers and educators in Fine Art.
*The names of the members of the working groups are shown only for the Curriculum Development and Research and Doctoral Level groups, in the other cases only the provenience of the participants was recorded.