FAST45 #3 Public Lecture
Shift/Work: A Paragogics for Open Artistic Learning
Presented by Prof. Neil Mulholland

25 March 2022
12:00 – 14:00 CET

In his book, Re-imagining the Art School: Paragogy and Artistic Learning (London: Palgrave, 2009), Prof. Neil Mulholland proposes innovative methods to redefine the art academy. Developing critical case studies of open source and peer-to-peer methods, he asks what happens when artistic learners deliberately engage with emerging educational practices such as the open paradigm (Winn 2015), paragogy (Corneli 2011, 2016) and para-academia (Wardrop 2014)?

This lecture explores new visions and 'paratechnic' methods to build and imagine the art school of 2045 and will be followed by a Q&A session.

Guest speaker: Prof. Neil Mulholland 

Neil Mulholland is Chair of Contemporary Art Practice & Theory in The University of Edinburgh. He runs the MA Contemporary Art Theory programme in Edinburgh College of Art. In Edinburgh, Neil works with Dan Brown, Jake Watts and Naomi Garriock as Shift/Work, a group of artists who develop workshop models for artistic paragogy, participatory visual methods and open educational resources. Neil recently published a book - Re-imagining the Art School (London: Palgrave, 2019) - which develops the paragogics of Shift/Work into a broader manifesto for art school reform and contributed a Shift/Workshop to Leap into Action (Peter Lang, 2019) a reader on performative pedagogies in art education. shift-work.org.uk