Co-Operative Education, Politics, and Art

This timely and compelling volume furthers understandings of contemporary art education in international contexts and the position of alternative art colleges in relation to the neoliberal academy and arts economy. Defining the concept of 'co-operative education' and articulating its centrality and relevance to the so-called alternative or autonomous art schools it examines, the book presents innovative explorations of its central topics such as art educator identities, the non-profitisation of arts studios, and the Anthropocene while drawing these into relation with important contemporary political and academic concerns such as decolonisation, feminism, and neoliberalism. Chapters showcase a range of international viewpoints, dialogues, and empirical research contributions from notable scholars, renowned artists, and experienced educators. This book will be of use to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in education policy and politics, arts education, and higher education. Members of professional bodies such as art historians, critics, and curators may also find the volume of interest.

Richard Hudson-Miles is Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies, Leeds Beckett University, UK. Jackie Goodman is Cofounder and Director, The Feral Art School and Hon. Research Associate, Faculty of Arts, Culture and Education, University of Hull, UK.

'1. Introduction. Part 1. Co-operation. 2. A Framework for Co-operative Higher Education: Beyond Public and Private. 3. The Politics of Education or Education by Politics? Live Learning. 4. Roundtable On Collaboration Between Mainstream and Alternative Art School: A Roundtable Discussion Between Members of The National Association for Fine Art Educators. 5. Exploring Perceived Identities Of Art Educators: Outsiders On The Inside And Alongside?. Part 2. Contexts. 6. The Alternative Art School and the History of the Social Reproduction of Artistic Labour. 7. The Art School and the Everyday: No Life Without Art. 8. Identifying Transferable Qualities From Studio Practice To Teaching: Inwards Looking, Outwards Facing. 9. The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence to the Art World. 10. Occupying the School: Learning Otherwise. 11. Autonomous Research and Knowledge Production. 12. The Non-Profitisation of the Studio: Implications For Arts Education. Part 3. Strategies. 13. Making and Making Do Reflections on an Alternative Art College. 14. Decade of the Damned: Notes on School of the Damned 2013-2023. 15. Collaboration Over Competition. 16. When White Pube went to Turps Art School: Portrait of a Different Kind of Art School. 17. The Feral Art School, Hull: Refocusing the Experience of Making Art. 18. The New School of the Anthropocene: Confronting Biopolitical Emergency and Climate Justice through Art-Critique-Experiment. 19. Conclusion: On the Politics of Cooperation.