ABOUT

‘You should understand that for us it is difficult [co-creating with our teachers] because we have been taught for all our lives that to be good students we just have to listen’.

This comment by one of my former students captures the feeling many in higher-education experience when they are asked to co-direct their studies.

This episode inspired HACKING (ART) EDUCATION, a curriculum-as-toolkit* that builds on Arte Útil* to piggyback* and hack* the institutions of art and education.

HACKING (ART) EDUCATION was produced between 2019 and 2022 with various collaborators to establish Arte Útil as a methodology for institutional repurposing through participatory curriculum planning.

Artists often infiltrate the institution of education through their artworks. The institution typically welcomes their intervention as if it was just art when, in fact, is the implementation of curriculum changes.

This website provides unconventional curricula-as-toolkit that can be successfully implemented within schools, universities and museums.

The result is the development of long-term pedagogic sustainability through processes of participatory institutional hacking.

Collaborators

HACKING (ART) EDUCATION was produced by many. The outcome of the collaboration is this website which builds on one of the operational modes of the Arte Útil archive.

The resources included in this website, have been used to activate seminars, workshops and other pedagogical activities proposed in several art schools, academies, and museums internationally.

The research was developed at the ArtEZ - University of the Arts in the Netherlands (2019-2022), Associazione Culturale Altana with Artistic High School ‘Duccio di Buoninsegna’ in Italy (2019), UNIDEE Residency programme in Italy (2021-2022) and Decentralising Political Economies platform (2020 – ongoing) realised in collaboration with The Whitworth, the Institute of Art & Technology at the Liverpool John Moores University, and the Asociación de Arte Útil.

With special thanks to Andy Abbott, Poppy Bowers, Tania Bruguera, John Byrne, Gemma Medina Estupiñan, Alistair Hudson, Joasia Krysa, Alessia and Christian Posani, Owen Griffiths.

Disclaimer

This website is the practical part of a doctoral research designed and delivered by Alessandra Saviotti at the Liverpool John Moores University - School of Art and Design.

This website does not collect the personal data of the users.