Conference: Education and Art in the Public Sphere
May 2-3, 2010
The conference will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of May, 2010 in the framework of a collaboration between the Masters program for Education and Art at Hamidrasha Art College, Beit Berl Academic College, and the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, and with the support of the Polish Institute.
On the 2nd of May, the conference will be held at Hamidrasha between the hours of 5pm – 8pm, and on the 3rd of May will take place at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon between 10am – 4pm.
In the last few years, the Israeli art field has begun to emerge into the public sphere. In the past, public spaces mainly hosted art dealing with the presence of collective memory in the form of outdoor sculptures, monuments, memorial gardens, and more, or art used for decoration and ornament. Recently, we have begun witnessing a new phenomenon. Art comes out, but this time it features as a one-time "event", colorful and expendable, as browse-worthy festivals, fairs and biennials. Many tend to see the public sphere as an educational, democratic, and radical site, because it is accessible and communal, and because of the immediate connection it has with the viewer. The conference will ask to examine these perceptions in light of events in Israel, and ask whether in leaving the confines of the gallery and museum, there is new pedagogical promise in relation to the complex political context characteristic of the public sphere and local art production.
The central speakers in the conference include: Prof. Paul Duncum– an international expert in the field of visual education from the University of Illinois, Joanna Rajkowska– an international artist of Polish origin. Other speakers include: Prof. Tamar Rapaport (Hebrew University), Galit Eilat, Ronen Eidelman, Parhesia Group, Eyal Danon, Dr. Hava Bronfeld-Stein, and others.
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