panel - what artists know
with andrew freiband and guests
Image: Andrew Freiband / Artists’ Literacies Institute
Andrew Freiband, director of Artists' Literacies Institute, invites students, scholars, thinkers, bystanders, artists, and non-artists alike to sit around together and consider what artists know.
In conversation with artists and authors Clive Cazeaux and Alana Jelinek, and as yet unnamed interdisciplinary interlocutors, we will consider art as knowledge and artists as knowledge producers in relation to economics, science, nature, culture, and more.
Can such a framing help artists escape their neoliberal marginalization as entertainers and decorators? Can it help other researchers and knowledge producers expand their fields in meaningful ways? Is it treachery or necessity to ask that artists be useful? What do artists actually know, after all - and how do they know it?
Course goals
To socialize, share space and ideas, grow relational knowledge, and see where it leads.
Detailed content
About 90 minutes of structured and unstructured conversation, looking at some images together, and making plans for the future.
suggested readings
Art Research Philosophy, Clive Cazeaux (203 pages)
This is Not Art, Alana Jelinek (192 pages)
Between Discipline and a Hard Place, Alana Jelinek (296 pages)
Bio
Andrew Freiband is an artist, filmmaker, educator, producer, and research-artist. His praxis sits among the many intersections of art, education, media, film, journalism, literature, social impact, international development, research, and strategic design. He is founder of the Artists’ Literacies Institute, an exercise in creative instituting as art practice, tin order to supplement the education of citizen-artists.required readings