Tag Archives: Tate Summer School

blogging my research

Last week I published four “live” posts about my ongoing research with the Tate Schools and Teachers team. I’ve been going to Summer Schools now since 2012, although I did have a year off last year. That’s seven lots of … Continue reading

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summer school day four

Log Who is here – no guest artists today, just us. What did we do? Today was focused on the theme of hierarchy and expertise – two relational practices endemic to education. ad about power. of knowledge, of position, of … Continue reading

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summer school day three

Log Who is here? Today we were joined by Amina Abbas-Nazari, a designer working with sound and artificial intelligence. What did we do? We began the day outside the Eliasson exhibition. India and Yemi assigned each of us one of … Continue reading

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summer school day two

Log Who is here? Today we were joined by Lawrence Watson, photographer. What did we do? We began the day by visiting the Olafur Eliasson exhibition. We were asked to think about reflection, and “how you are you in your … Continue reading

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summer school day one

Log Who is here? The artists running the Tate Summer School this year are Yemi Awosile and India Harvey.  There are eighteen of us in the Summer School – a mix of art teachers and museum educators. About a third … Continue reading

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bus driver’s holiday

This week Patter will be posting every day –  coming to you almost live from Tate summer school for teachers. Cultural and arts education is a big part of my day job and a lot of my research is in … Continue reading

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#tatesummerschool – day five

The last day of summer school provided time and space for people to explore the resources available in the Exchange and to look in more detail at what each of us had been doing/making/thinking. The Exchange was to be available … Continue reading

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#tatesummerschool – day four

Today we moved to Tate Britain. We began the day in the Henry Moore room, surrounded by ‘bodies’. After a noisy warmup, Travis introduced a quick ‘question answer’ exercise, where groups of four worked to produce speech-bubble question and answers … Continue reading

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#tatesummerschool – day three

We began the day with our now usual ‘noisy circle’ exercise, although today we actually started off lying on the floor. Travis also asked us to imagine we were a fruit juice and explained that using such an apparently abstracted … Continue reading

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#tatesummerschool – day two

Linda posted a quotation from Judith Butler on Instagram before the day began. This was a key to the idea we were to encounter. Billed as drag day, all of day two activities addressed the notion of gender as performance, and … Continue reading

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