Carmen MÖRSCH - THE EDUCATION/FORMATION OF OTHERS THROUGH ART

THE EDUCATION/FORMATION OF OTHERS THROUGH ART: ART EDUCATION, COLONIALISM AND WHITE FEMININITY

Carmen MÖRSCH
Zurich University of the Arts, CH

This presentation will discuss ways in which feminization and paternalism in art museum education have been historically constructed. England will be taken as an example. From this lead, a few considerations will be brought forward in regard to a) the fact that this field still is dominated by a cis female workforce, and b) that the field’s hegemonic discourse about a deficient Other, who can be rectified/rescued by means of art education, is grounded in the establishment of nation states, empire, and capitalism. The talk will close by contemplating the potentials of art education understood as a critical and transformative practice in contemporary times and from a global perspective.

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Carmen Mörsch

is Head of the Research Institute for Art Education at the University of Arts, Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests include the history and present-day situation of art- ists in education; collaborative and transformative practices in art and education; and art education and queer/postcolonial theory. She is a member of the network “Another Roadmap for Art Education,” which unites researchers and practitioners who seek to analyse and develop art education from an emancipatory and decolonizing perspective.