The December/January 2002 issue of Art Review has an article ‘Let’s Get To Work’ about the artist let activity, influentially defined by the ‘Freeze’ show in the Docklands (Hirst, YBAs), that led to the proliferation of independent projects by artist also acting in the capacity of curator in the face of commercial and established institutions. The rest is history. How this has happened in the formal educational context is another matter given the propensity of institutions needing to measure and prescribe what an art education should be quite restrictively. There are interesting models that address this issue in art education. 
Crosskick explores a number of exploratory projects with a number of educational institutions across europe in order to shape a format linking art education and curatorial practice. A format that serves as ‘experimental stages and protective spaces for art which exists in the space between two poles: art no longer produced in an educational context, but not yet established in exhibition spaces.’ This touches on the necessity to keep reshaping the conditions for the autonomy the artists practice within the restrictive structures that can be imposed in educational institutions.
Some students drawing the outline of each others bodies, 2008.
Curatorial aspects are inherent in the way an event is set up in a particular order so it considers the psychological aspects concerning the way the viewer receives the work. I explored this with a group of Fine Art students on the Foundation course at Northbrook college, we needed to respond to the immediate environment, so we tried to appropriate what they had in the classroom/studio space into a context that worked, since they are working towards their final project and need (have needed) to start thinking along these lines. This is some work from some of the students:
Interesting, I like your approach and I think it has real potential for further development. I think it is important to see art practice as something that is happening right now in our own context, not in some abstracted way in an Institution.
Art is something that is a two way process and the viewer is part of that process. Michael Fried was derogatory about such concepts and labelled them as ‘theatrical’ but we are a post modern audience and that is the way we view ‘life’. Look up Pierre Bourdieu and the concept of the spectacle in this work he makes an informed guess as to the direction contemporary culture would take .
Created my own blog after you lesson, cheers for the information and help.
Russell
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