Los alumnos de este curso aprenderán a hacer sus propias obras de arte social y público si así lo desean, o podrán simplemente estudiar la teoría e historia reciente del medio. Diseñado por el artista y profesor de Duke, Pedro Lasch, e impartido con el director artístico de Creative Time, Nato Thompson, este curso presenta el arte y la cultura pública en sus formas contemporáneas radicalmente re-inventadas. Las conferencias enlazan acontecimientos claves de las últimas décadas en este campo con temas más amplios como la política espacial, estructuras sociales cotidianas y la educación experimental. También se incluyen presentaciones de importantes invitados especiales como: Tania Bruguera, Claire Doherty, Tom Finkelpearl, Hans Haacke, Shannon Jackson, Suzanne Lacy, Rick Lowe, y muchos más. Como implica el título del curso, “Arte del MOOC,” el proyecto invita a la comunidad entera de alumnos y participantes a tratar el MOOC en sí mismo como un medio de arte público. Esto sucede sobre todo a través de los componentes prácticos del curso, proyectos producidos localmente, intercambios globales, y los comentarios críticos. No se requiere experiencia previa con el arte o el activismo, aunque los proyectos también incluyen buenas opciones para alumnos avanzados. Para otros cursos en esta serie o versiones en otros idiomas , solo busca 'ART of the MOOC' en el catálogo de Coursera
Future Farmers
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Del curso dictado por Duke University
ART of the MOOC: Arte Público y Pedagogía
18 calificaciones
De la lección
Conferenciantes invitados adicionales (opcionales) A-Z
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Pedro LaschVisual Artist and Associate Research Professor
Duke Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Nato ThompsonChief Curator
Creative Time
Hi Amy.
>> Hello.
>> Thanks for taking the time to talk to us,
I know you're traveling a lot between places and projects.
And one of the reasons we thought it would be fantastic
to have your contribution in this module on art is
because the students' assignment for this week is a bit against the grain, right?
We are going to ask people around the world who are participating in the MOOC
to think of projects that can be with food, with farming, right,
with the whole idea of cultivating in the most literal sense.
And you have spent many years doing these types of projects.
So, on one hand, we know our students will be inspired by learning about your work,
if they didn't know it already.
But of course they can learn about your practice,
like how the whole thing has evolved.
And so as a first question I wanted to ask you, with your work,
with future farmers, but also the flat bread society,
how did you arrive in this type of work as an artist?
>> It was very organic, in a way.
I mean, Futurefarmers was pretty organic.
It was an outgrowth of actually wanting to work with other people,
not wanting to work alone.
And in 1994, I just started Futurefarmers as a design studio,
actually, and I started an artist and residency program.
So, with money that was made from my design studio, I invited artists
to come and spend three to six months, four designers and architects or writers,
to work with me on a project with the agreement that we would do some work for
pay, and that we would then create a new project together.
And this residency basically formed the basis of all of our collaborators now, so
most of the people that came through residency between 1994 and
2000 are still collaborators.
So that was not expected.
I just started the residency thinking I want to be continually inspired and
challenged by other skill sets and other contexts.
So, that's how Futurefarmers formed.
>> And, you know, in your collaborations, you already brought up designers,
architects, extremely from the outset, the word farmer is in your name, right?
Do you collaborate with farmers?
There's that poetic dimension of farming the future, right?
But there's also a direct engagement with baking in some sense but
also the growing of food.
I know you've learned from farmers, but
how often do you get to collaborate with people who farm for a living?
>> More and more, I collaborate directly with farmers.
The name was more of a metaphorical charge or
a reminder of a certain type of farming that is very collaborative.
When I was a child, I lived on a small farm, and
during harvest we had to borrow tractors from each other.
And all the farmers stayed up late to help each other get the harvest in before
the rain.
And of course many of the wives made big feasts and
we ate until the moon was full in the sky.
And it was really a very communal moment in the area where I lived.
I didn't realize until I was out of undergraduate that I was yearning for
some sort of an ethos like this, to find a way where people
could share resources and skills and work together.
So a few things, one thing that we do at Futurefarmers
that's kind of a standard is we quickly prototype things.
And we also just throw an idea on the table and say,
let's just try to make the prototype of it really quickly.
So, we often make scrappy wooden prototypes or
we perform something quickly to see how we can embody an idea,
what materials are needed, what other skill sets.
And that comes from design thinking background I think.
Which for me has been really helpful as an artist as well as
specially working in public art context where you have to
work with a lot of different people and types of people.
And so that's one kind of, what do we call this, studio secret?
[LAUGH] Not secret, but- >> Yeah.
>> It really helps, because we can immediately be like, we need a really
heavy engine to make this pendulum work or we need 20 people to lift this thing.
How are we going to recruit 20 people to do something like this?
So, that's one thing.
Another thing is that I always ask for advice, and that's a more recent thing
because of the scale of our projects and the politics around our project.
I've started lately to form kind of boards of consciousness [LAUGH] or a conscience.
Like a group of people who I admire, I ask them to be with me on the project so that
I could consult them and make sure that I'm staying in check with my politics.
So, for instance, in Oslo we were invited
to do a permanent public art piece in a new waterfront development.
And for me, that's a charged situation, right?
It's this huge economic gentrification.
A charged, charged environment, especially in a city that I don't live in.
So I formed a committee of thinkers.
Neil Smith was a geographer, passed away a couple of years ago, but Neil Smith,
Kuba Matu, seasoned artist in Brussels who deals with intellectual property.
Hendrik Luben, he's a urban planner and anarchist in Berlin,
teaches at Humboldt University, and Amy Balkin, artist from San Fransisco.
And Amy Balkin wasn't formally on my committee but [LAUGH] she's a confidant.
Basically, I felt I needed to run the ideas that we were having
about making a public artwork in this context with people who were
hyper-critical of this kind of a development project.
And it was interesting because I was on the fence.
Should we situate ourselves in this project or should we not?
And I was pretty impressed that everyone said, you can decide not to
take part in this project or you can do it and try to change.
And if you have one foot in this development,
you can then talk to people who maybe you would never have a chance to talk to,
like bankers or mayors of the city or
ministers of agriculture of Norway who we're talking with right now.
So that gave me the confidence to walk into this new territory or
a territory that I was uneasy about.
So, I always say your network is your nest [LAUGH] and
your friends are your best allies.
And that's another kind of, it's not a secret, but
we really just depend on the people we know.
And try to keep those relationships really healthy so
that we always have people to fall back on and ask questions to.
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