Topic outline

  • Welcome to Art, Environment, Education (general info)

    Not available unless: You belong to M01 (SISU)

    Description


    Come as you are. This course invites the participants to actively dive into topics that are evolving around the theme of environmental concerns in all its aspects. Current environmental theory should be understood as a call to action and our aim is to respond to this call. We will rework our pedagogical tools, take departure in artistic practices and initiate processes, through which theory can be transformed into practice. It is possible to start new processes through inspirations coming directly from this course as well as already ongoing projects can be invited into this framework.

    The course should be seen as a dynamic assemblage, which has its own synergies and we will make sure to create a safe space for discussion and creating together. We will compose a set of guidelines which will steer our weekly meetings. Excursions and dynamic activities will be combined with lectures and discussions, to facilitate a thinking in relation. Participants' individual work will be supported in group discussions and through sessions in small groups as well as individual feedback will be given upon request.

    Although the course title highlights connections between art-environment-education, the themes of the course and the issues discussed are inherently intersectional and complex, working with the environmental in its broadest sense. When considering the recent, rapid developments in politics caused by global unrest and further increased tensions between groups of people, the increasingly alarming environmental reports and predictions by experts, as well as the evolving theoretical understandings, it only makes sense to explore themes in this framework. This includes the potentialities for art for social change, art education and pedagogy, ecology, environmental rights and animal rights, posthumanist and new materialist orientations, ethical participation, performativity, and activism, as intertwined and intersecting themes and issues.


    Schedule

    (detailed plan and other material for each session will be posted in the weekly folders)


    Week 1: 03112021 – Introduction to the course, mapping and site-specificity, lecture and workshop [in-person, Aalto]
    This will be an in-person meeting, at Aalto University – place: L101 Ryhmäopetus - L101, Väre. The afternoon workshop will be outside if weather allows or we will move around campus (please dress to be outside).

    Week 2: 10112021 – Interviews and research (introduction to methods), Deep Listening (workshop) [in-person, Aalto]

    This will be an in-person meeting, at Aalto University – place: L101 Ryhmäopetus - L101, Väre. The afternoon workshop will be both inside and outside (please dress to be outside for some exercises).

    Week 3a: 17112021 – excursion day (exhibitions), in-between (exiled) spaces and dialogues [in-person, Helsinki]
    This will be an in-person meeting. We will meet at Helsinki Art Museum (more details and exact time tba)

    Week 3b: 18112021 – follow up on excursion, environmental philosophy, and independent work [Zoom-session]
    This will be a remote session via Zoom.

    Week 4: 24112021 – Affect theory, collective reading lab, and independent work [in-person, Aalto]
    This will be an in-person meeting, at Aalto University – place: L101 Ryhmäopetus - L101, Väre. For the afternoon independent work, it's possible to get feedback and students can work where suitable


    Week 5: 01122021– Co-creation and creating-with, and independent work [Zoom-session]
    This will be a remote session via Zoom.


    Week 6: 08122021 – Presenting projects and wrapping up [in-person, Aalto]
    This will be an in-person meeting, at Aalto University – place: L101 Ryhmäopetus - L101, Väre.


    This course will be in English and course assignments should be submitted in English.


    The lecturer of this course is Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen (she/they), a Danish artist and researcher, working in the intersection between performance art, sound, media, and matter. Madsen is currently a doctoral candidate at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (FI), researching in environmental, ethico-aesthetic performance art and affective relations in the context of climate change. Madsen has been working with performance art since 1999 and has an art educational background from the College of Arts Crafts and Design (DK), and holds a Master of Arts in Art History from Aarhus University (DK). Madsen is additionally the founder of performance protocols, a platform for instruction-based art and collaborative processes as well as a Deep Listening practitioner and facilitator certified from The Center for Deep Listening (US).
    Website: http://tmkm.dk/

    Contact: tina.madsen (at) aalto.fi