Education on an artistic basis
Welcome to the first network meeting of the business year with the Network for artistic educations!
This time we get a visit from Nils Olsson, Senior investigator, University Chancellor's Office and stage and performance artist Bogdan Szyber to talk about education with a degree on an artistic basis together with Marta Edling, professor of art science at Södertörn University.
For whom? The network is for you who are active in a union within an education with a degree on an artistic basis, but this meeting is open to all SFS members.
When? 2024-10-07 klockan 16:00-18:00.
Where? The meeting takes place in zoom and everyone who is registered receives a meeting link no later than one day before the meeting.
16:00-16:30 Nils Olsson, Senior investigator University Chancellor's Office
Nils begins the meeting by telling about UKÄ's experiences of working with artistic degrees. Among other things, the definition of education on an artistic basis, the difference between an artistic and a scientific basis and independent work to be written on an artistic basis.
16:30-17:00 Bogdan Szyber, stage and performance artist and Marta Edling, professor of art science at Södertörn University.
Bogdan Szyber is the stage and performance artist who had his doctoral thesis at Stockholm University of the Arts rejected by the grading committee. Bogdan, who has criticized the academisation of artistic educations, called artistic research "pure nonsense", has been noticed in, among other things A quarter and SvD.
Since it is difficult to briefly summarize Bogdan's work and criticism of the academy, we use a quote from the thesis abstract:
Artistic research is usually linked to an academicized and thus bureaucratized art practice. This project draws attention to the risk of this practice creating its own branch of artistic research art, 'edu-art', as well as its own category of artistic research theory. Artistic research thus risks becoming self-referential and codified, solidifying into a new 'ism' for the initiated. The sore point of 'edu-art-ism' is artistic quality assessment, which leads to only the theoretical design of the work being addressed and treated systematically.
Marta Edling is a professor of art studies at Södertörn University. She has researched the history of the higher visual arts education in Sweden and the reactions to the university reform in 1977 when the King. The School of Art, the School of Arts and Crafts and Valand formally received university status. She has also studied how the university reform in 1977 and later educational reforms came to provide new conditions for the artistic university field to build artistic research and the different strategies and educational institutions in Stockholm and Gothenburg for artistic education that were the result.
The network is interested in a discussion about education with degrees on an artistic basis and therefore also wants to bring in voices with critical perspectives on the academicization of artistic educations.
17:00-18:00 Discussion and networking
Discussion and networking. Bogdan Szyber and Marta Edling stays and participates in the conversation.
Participating from the Swedish National Union of Students is Elsa Berlin, vice president of the Swedish National Union of Students, Jonathan Strömberg, studying to be a music teacher at the Ingesund Academy of Music and former chairman of SMISK, now vice-chairman of the Karlstad Student Union with educational policy responsibility, Vilhelm Weréen, studying symphonic orchestral playing at the University of the Arts and Music and former chairman of the Royal College of Music Student Union (KMS), and Johan Kovaniemi, member coordinator at SFS.