How to Teach Art? (Think Art) Paperback ? October 15, 2021

A cooperative reflection on how to teach art.

How should art be taught? What kind of knowledge should artists absorb? How might an ordinary person become a creature addicted to the creative process? In other words, how can a non-artist become an artist? Such programmatic questions articulated by acclaimed Polish artist Artur Żmijewski were at the heart of the workshop “How to Teach Art?” Żmijewski invited a group of graduate and doctoral students from three Zurich universities—the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts—to collectively reflect on their artistic practices. Over the course of four months, the group met several times a week for hourlong sessions, following individual and collective exercises induced by Żmijewski himself.
 
This book retraces the workshop and its process by showing inconclusive, fragmentary results between theory and practice. How to Teach Art? presents drawings, videos, photographs, 16mm films, and accompanying reflections on the central premise, “How to teach art?”

Artur Żmijewski is a visual artist, photographer, and filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most prominent radical figures on the Polish art scene.

Wiktoria Furrer is a research associate at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) as part of the Sinergia research project “Practices of Aesthetic Thinking.” She is a member of the doctoral program “Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices.”

Carla Gabrí is a doctoral student in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She is a member of the research project “Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format.”

Nastasia Louveau is a doctoral student in the Slavic Studies and Gender Studies Departments of University of Zurich.

Maria Ordóñez is doing her doctoral in the Department of Cultural Analysis at the University of Zurich.