The Pedagogical Impulse

The Pedagogical Impulse is a platform for research-creation concerned with contemporary art's paradigmatic re-orientation towards the educational. The project will orient itself around a series of artist residencies that will take place across a number of educational sites (K-12 classrooms, teacher education programs, graduate programs, and community spaces) in order to examine how artists are engaging with educational concepts as spaces for the development of new critical practices, and the potential transformative engagements that occur when such art practices are located in collaboration with schools.

The Pedagogical Impulse is unique in its approach because it lies between two poles: lectures, seminars, and free schools that generally govern the pedagogical turn in contemporary practice, and object-based projects initiated in schools by teaching artists. As a larger series of art works and interactions with schools, universities and communities, the research-creation project will activate critical and imaginative modes of engagement between artists, teachers, and learners.