How to Teach Art?

Nastasia Louveau explores dialogic processes and the notion of critical learning in her combined artistic, research and teaching practices. A self-taught artist trained as a cultural researcher and educator, Nastasia deals with issues through a hands-on approach grounded in sharing, caring, and curiosity. She is working on a doctoral thesis on the “Couple as Method” within performance art at the Departments of Slavic Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Sylvia Sasse.

Carla Gabrí is a doctoral student at the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, with a dissertation on textiles in the moving image 1970–2020. She is a member of the research project “Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format,” led by Prof. Fabienne Liptay, and an associate of the doctoral program “Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices,” formerly led by Prof. Dieter Mersch. Her artistic practice oscillates between the media of film, painting, and object art, with series on prosopagnosia, obsolescence, and skin.

Wiktoria Furrer is a research associate with Prof. Silvia Henke at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) as part of the Sinergia research project “Practices of Aesthetic Thinking.” She is a member of the doctoral program “Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices,” formerly led by Prof. Dieter Mersch, and is writing a dissertation on “Mikropädagogiken in der Kunst.”

Artur Zmijewski geboren 1966, ist Künstler und Kurator. Er lebt in Warschau.

Maria Ordóñez has developed her artistic practice focused on collectivity as a discipline of ethical engagement and shared knowledge, mostly in working with people affected by violence in Colombia, where she comes from. She is currently working on her doctoral project about alternative ecologies and creative forms of recomposition related to forced disappearance and the transitional context in Colombia (1950–2016), as part of the research team on “Contested Amnesia and Dissonant Narratives in the Global South: Post-conflict in Literature, Art, and Emergent Archives,” directed by Prof. Liliana Gomez, in the Department of Cultural Analysis at the University of Zurich.

7 - 11 Preface (Wiktoria Furrer, Carla Gabrí, Nastasia Louveau, Maria Ordóñez)12 - 26 How to Teach Art? (Artur Zmijewski)27 - 85 Exercises 1-686 - 117 Collective Thinking119 - 171 Exercises 7-11172 - 197 Moments of Controversies, Crisis, and Creation. Looking Back on »How to Teach Art?« (Wiktoria Furrer, Carla Gabrí, Nastasia Louveau, Maria Ordóñez)198 - 199 Index of Images and Photographic Credits200 Authors