vladimir bulat on Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:39:38 +0100 (CET) |
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please post to nettime-ro on art academy discussion, thanks, karen having followed the discussions and polemics of the nettime-list, I would like to make a couple of points. My remarks are not intended to patronize. If the discussion, however, is really about the art academy (let's say in Bucharest) and not just to get rid of frustrations while building up new anger it needs to be more to the facts. Organizational structure of the Academy needs discussion of the following: are there paid (or even unpaid) student representatives (and in fact representatives from all groups of those working at the Academy) in the commitees of accession to studies, employment, study structure reform groups, board meetings, library and equipment commitees, etc. Are the technical staff, maintenance, administration more influential than the teachers or students? If so, who not aks for better student representation at all levels. Relevant Courses: Do you get enough of them? Do you have the possibility to do project work, study trips, individual talks? The flow of information: Do you have an open forum where evreybody can speak up and debate both art and everyday problems? Do you feel you all get the same information or is it mostly about being in the right place, with the right person at the right time? Than you should request more accountability and openness. The equipment: easy access and feasible rules for everybody to use equipment and to receive introductory knowledge on how to use it? Evaluation: are only the students evaluated or are there evaluation routines for teachers and administration as well? If not, try to get them established. Tuition: Do you get your moeny's worth out of the education and if not, why don't you ask for more? Budget: Do you know the schools-, your faculties budget? If not, try to get the numbers oin the open to find out where the money goes. Teachers: Are there openings for younger artists, possibly even female, to teach. are there part-time, limited term appointments? Please also consider this: when artists make the effort to teach at an art school in Romania (where they earn what?, EUR 120 - 200 ?) are they obliged to personally guarantee the success of their students in the art world? Nobody can do that, it is a risky choice in any country to study art. There are different reasons for teaching at an art school: the interest in the students and the arts, we hope, is the first. Power, status, security but certainly none of them (in Romania) is connected to really being able to pay your bills. Another point, in order to be able to teach relevant contemporary matters, it is essential that teachers at Art Schools get the opportunity to update their knowledge, to be able to travel, to further educate themselves and to conduct their "research" and with research I am now not thinking of the obligatory PhD, but rather of the artistic kind. How is the system providing for this aspect? And lastly, it is not the worst strategy for an artist to leave the schoool, get self-organized and criticize the "behated" system, this has in many cases proved to be very successfull - not only in terms of the educational but the whole institutional critique scene has not only succeeded in reforming the system, but possibly been most clever when it comes to having promoted their own interests. It is only through people like Matej Bejenaru, Florin Grigoras, Iosif Kiraly, Roxana Trestoreanu, Eugen Gustea, our contacts in the Romanian Art Education that we have actually managed to exchange ideas, students and teachers/artists in the past couple of years. BOTTOM LINE: GET ORGANIZED, REPRESENT YOUR INTERESTS AND MAKE THE SCHOOL LISTEN TO IT. THE ART SCHOOL SYSTEM EXISTS BECAUSE OF THE STUDENTS - NOT VICE VERSA. --------------------------------- Noile abonamente Astral OnLine 256 kbps ; 12 USD/luna http://www.astral.ro _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list Nettime-ro@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/