The TEACHABLE FILE (tTF) is a working catalog of alternative art schools and a reference on education-as-art. The file delivers and demonstrates its subject by acting as both a resource for teaching and a student of its users. It forms and reforms itself through communicative action and engaged research. It is what it is; it will be what it will be.
The file was conceived in the bookshelf of The Mountain School of Arts (Los Angeles) and grew in residence at Bétonsalon (Paris).
Parallel School and GRAPHIC
Parallel School was invited by the magazine GRAPHIC to contribute to its #17 edition, which focuses on the issue of alternative modes of production in graphic design.
"This issue deals with graphic designers' practices expanding the boundaries of graphic design. Based on works of 10 teams, it reveals how designers' attitudes transform design." Read the rest of the editorial here.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Conditional Design
Corner College
Dexter Sinister (Stuart Bailey)
Emily Pethick
FF
IFS
Jesko Fezer, Matthias Görlich
Kit-Toast
Metahaven
Parallel School
You can download our contribution (slightly modified by GRAPHIC) here.
"This issue deals with graphic designers' practices expanding the boundaries of graphic design. Based on works of 10 teams, it reveals how designers' attitudes transform design." Read the rest of the editorial here.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Conditional Design
Corner College
Dexter Sinister (Stuart Bailey)
Emily Pethick
FF
IFS
Jesko Fezer, Matthias Görlich
Kit-Toast
Metahaven
Parallel School
You can download our contribution (slightly modified by GRAPHIC) here.
Art Basel Conversations: The School Makers
I found this video while looking up the work of artist Tania Bruguera – who can be here seen talking about Cátedra Arte de Conducta (2002-2009), which she founded in Havana. The focus of Bruguera's work in on the intricacies of the relation between art practice and the relationships of power (audience/artist; artist/institution; institution/society) that both surround and constitute it. I believe that the other projects presented in this video, despite being very different from hers, can also be discussed as concerned with those relations. The other speakers are:
- Eduardo Abaroa, Artist and Writer, Co-Founder SOMA, Mexico City;
- Bruce High Quality Foundation, Artists/Foundation, New York;
-Domingo Castillo, Co-Founder of the nomadic artist-run project the end/SPRING BREAK, Miami;
- Piero Golia, Artist and Founder of the Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles;
- Yoshua Okón, Artist, Co-Founder SOMA, Mexico City.
- Eduardo Abaroa, Artist and Writer, Co-Founder SOMA, Mexico City;
- Bruce High Quality Foundation, Artists/Foundation, New York;
-Domingo Castillo, Co-Founder of the nomadic artist-run project the end/SPRING BREAK, Miami;
- Piero Golia, Artist and Founder of the Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles;
- Yoshua Okón, Artist, Co-Founder SOMA, Mexico City.
Art Basel Conversations | The Future of Artistic Practice | The School Makers from Art Basel on Vimeo. Filmed on December 5, 2010.
The Mountain School of Arts
I recently heard about the Mountain Scool of Arts in Los Angeles, and I think it's worth sharing their view. It was established in 2005 by Piero Golia & Eric Wesley.
Their vision of art education is very similar to what we are trying to develop with Parallel School. Here is a short bit of the descritpion of the school — The administration, the faculty and the student body, work together as a singular entity to construct a stress-free, mutually beneficial and organic alternative to the typical university. MSA^ considers itself a supplement and amendment to the university system and encourages involvement with the established educational system —.
You can find a short interview of the MSA^ with Fillip magazine, here.
Parallel School at A Diary of an Exhibition
Parallel School was interviewed by A Diary of an Exhibition (the logbook of Graphic Design Worlds, which will open in January 2011 at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan). We are proud of being mentioned among so many interesting design practitioners!
You can read the interview here (Italian/ English).
Alternatively, you can download it here.
You can read the interview here (Italian/ English).
Alternatively, you can download it here.
TAKE PART TO IDEAS. GRAPHIC DESIGNERS AND THEIR RESEARCH
ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
“Take part to ideas. Graphic designers and their research on intellectual property” is an ongoing project. It's a starting point for a wider debate: the purpose is to share ideas around “intellectual property” in its widest meaning through different exhibitions, which collect projects such as books, posters, texts, videos, websites.
The first exhibition of the series I'm planning to curate was in the first week of september 2010 in Bologna (Capo di Lucca 12) The next one will be happening in October in Urbino (ISIA of Urbino). In March I am going to organize a week of conferences and workshops together with the exhibition, again in Bologna. Possibly the same will occur in Venice, and who knows if with all the participants (Samuel Bonnet, Joris Bovijn, Michèle Champagne, Jules Estèves, Stefano Faoro, Mael Fournier-Comte, Christina Franken, Harry Gassel, Caterina Giuliani, Brendan Griffiths, Shiro Inoue, Michela Povoleri, Erica Preli, Michael Rinaldi, Mark Simmonds, Tom Tjon A Loi, Brian Watterson) we can manage to organize an international workshop together! That is to say that I would like this project to become bigger, and I would appreciate a lot if somebody wanted to discuss this proposal and participate in some way. Samuel Bonnet and Mael Fournier-Comte participated at the exhibition with a poster on Parallel School and so I asked them to share more information about it here.
Introduction to the exhibition:
Who do quotes belong to?
What are the rights that we must protect for the society's benefit?
Does it make sense to speak about intellectual property in the contemporaneity?
These were the questions asked to seventeen young designers (Italy, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium). This exhibition is a survey, throughout different international realities, on the way designers face intellectual property. It is important that this topic, clearly related to graphic designersí work, is still marginal and that it is still just on a research level.
The aptitude to share information and experiences, characteristic of contemporary society, due to new information technologiesí development, to Globalization, to the birth of social networks, to open-source and free-software movements, to relational and participatory artistic movements, starts to be more and more predominant; at the same time it is countered by restrictions that prevent from free sharing of knowledge and consequently from free growth of social wellness produced by knowledge. One of the limits is copyright: on one hand it protects single author's wellness, on the other hand it forbid to use his ideas. There are some contradictions inside this structure.
Do ideas really belong to someone or they are products of society and history? Authors make their intellectual property available to the society, but the society is not allowed to freely appropriate and reuse this production, disadvantaging or stopping collective growth. Is it just a matter of recognition, of income, or are there other reasons that lead to prevent free circulation and free use of contents? The author is included in this socio-economic context in such a way that he perceives the gain of using as quite irrelevant, since its existence is primarily intended to protect the market.Is it possible to imagine a future in which systems such as print-on-demand is a viable alternative to the status quo? How does that relate to the protection of individual rights or of those belonging to the community?
Obviously, at the present time, copyright is a guarantee for a lot of people. Other solutions - such as Creative Commons licenses which allow sharing of content with the possibility to limit its use at different levels - are not highly considered. These new licenses create a virtuous circle that, if respected by all, vastly favors collective growth. To the question: “Does it make sense to speak about intellectual property in the contemporaneity?” clearly there is not just one answer. The projects in the exhibition highlight various issues related to intellectual property, questioning contradictions and problems, trying to avoid easy idealistic solutions. They are starting points included in the view of participation, meaning with that the participation present in sharing ideas; they have the intent to be nodes from which further thoughts, speeches and debates develop. The aim of the exhibition is to make available these reflections on a key issue for graphic designers so that they can be possibly extended.
“Art is a game between men of all ages” Marcel Duchamp
“Take part to ideas. Graphic designers and their research on intellectual property” is an ongoing project. It's a starting point for a wider debate: the purpose is to share ideas around “intellectual property” in its widest meaning through different exhibitions, which collect projects such as books, posters, texts, videos, websites.
The first exhibition of the series I'm planning to curate was in the first week of september 2010 in Bologna (Capo di Lucca 12) The next one will be happening in October in Urbino (ISIA of Urbino). In March I am going to organize a week of conferences and workshops together with the exhibition, again in Bologna. Possibly the same will occur in Venice, and who knows if with all the participants (Samuel Bonnet, Joris Bovijn, Michèle Champagne, Jules Estèves, Stefano Faoro, Mael Fournier-Comte, Christina Franken, Harry Gassel, Caterina Giuliani, Brendan Griffiths, Shiro Inoue, Michela Povoleri, Erica Preli, Michael Rinaldi, Mark Simmonds, Tom Tjon A Loi, Brian Watterson) we can manage to organize an international workshop together! That is to say that I would like this project to become bigger, and I would appreciate a lot if somebody wanted to discuss this proposal and participate in some way. Samuel Bonnet and Mael Fournier-Comte participated at the exhibition with a poster on Parallel School and so I asked them to share more information about it here.
Introduction to the exhibition:
Who do quotes belong to?
What are the rights that we must protect for the society's benefit?
Does it make sense to speak about intellectual property in the contemporaneity?
These were the questions asked to seventeen young designers (Italy, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium). This exhibition is a survey, throughout different international realities, on the way designers face intellectual property. It is important that this topic, clearly related to graphic designersí work, is still marginal and that it is still just on a research level.
The aptitude to share information and experiences, characteristic of contemporary society, due to new information technologiesí development, to Globalization, to the birth of social networks, to open-source and free-software movements, to relational and participatory artistic movements, starts to be more and more predominant; at the same time it is countered by restrictions that prevent from free sharing of knowledge and consequently from free growth of social wellness produced by knowledge. One of the limits is copyright: on one hand it protects single author's wellness, on the other hand it forbid to use his ideas. There are some contradictions inside this structure.
Do ideas really belong to someone or they are products of society and history? Authors make their intellectual property available to the society, but the society is not allowed to freely appropriate and reuse this production, disadvantaging or stopping collective growth. Is it just a matter of recognition, of income, or are there other reasons that lead to prevent free circulation and free use of contents? The author is included in this socio-economic context in such a way that he perceives the gain of using as quite irrelevant, since its existence is primarily intended to protect the market.Is it possible to imagine a future in which systems such as print-on-demand is a viable alternative to the status quo? How does that relate to the protection of individual rights or of those belonging to the community?
Obviously, at the present time, copyright is a guarantee for a lot of people. Other solutions - such as Creative Commons licenses which allow sharing of content with the possibility to limit its use at different levels - are not highly considered. These new licenses create a virtuous circle that, if respected by all, vastly favors collective growth. To the question: “Does it make sense to speak about intellectual property in the contemporaneity?” clearly there is not just one answer. The projects in the exhibition highlight various issues related to intellectual property, questioning contradictions and problems, trying to avoid easy idealistic solutions. They are starting points included in the view of participation, meaning with that the participation present in sharing ideas; they have the intent to be nodes from which further thoughts, speeches and debates develop. The aim of the exhibition is to make available these reflections on a key issue for graphic designers so that they can be possibly extended.
“Art is a game between men of all ages” Marcel Duchamp
re-do the stunt and re-watch the movie. I'm doing my re-stunt tomorrow at the National Gallery of Denmark
DAY 6
4PM:
Binding workshop at the beach!
11PM:
Still working with the light of the car!
THUS THE STORY OF BERLIN TURNED OUT TO BE A STORY OF LOVE
(Some emails exchanged between Parallel students ending this amazing story, which could be addressed to every next Parallel student! Learning is just about love!)
- Hi guys, now in Paris I wanted to thank you all again for those few great productive days, which were the beginning of many new friendships! It was a lot of work but a lot of pleasure, this workshop will stay in our mind for sur. I already miss it. I hope today was a good day for those who are still enjoying BERLIN, even after the longest nigth in da club for some. Keep it real!
See you for the next workshop or just around the world!
- Thank you for your words and thanks to everyone else too. The books are binded now, we made it all at the place we got to know at the bbq. It was a really great afternoon with you guys.
So, let's stay in touch.
Who wants to organize the next workshop and where??
Love
Binding workshop at the beach!
11PM:
Still working with the light of the car!
THUS THE STORY OF BERLIN TURNED OUT TO BE A STORY OF LOVE
(Some emails exchanged between Parallel students ending this amazing story, which could be addressed to every next Parallel student! Learning is just about love!)
- Hi guys, now in Paris I wanted to thank you all again for those few great productive days, which were the beginning of many new friendships! It was a lot of work but a lot of pleasure, this workshop will stay in our mind for sur. I already miss it. I hope today was a good day for those who are still enjoying BERLIN, even after the longest nigth in da club for some. Keep it real!
- Thank you for these inspiring days, new ways of working and motivation that keeps my spirit up for working and producing throughout the summer!
VERY BEST!
So, let's stay in touch.
All the best and have a good night.
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- T H A N K Y O U :)
IT'S OVER, WE MADE IT. 1 VERY INTENSE WEEK WITH AN AWESOME GROUP CREATING SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY.I HOPE EVERYBODY TRAVELED HOME SAFELY AND ENJOYED THE WEEK.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING, SHARING AND MAKING ALL THIS POSSIBLE — I THINK I CAN SPEAK FOR ALL OF US IF I SAY THAT THIS REALLY WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY WEEK.
I HOPE THE WORKSHOP WILL INSPIRE SOME PEOPLE TO PERMANENTLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE PARALLEL SCHOOL OF ART!
- Hey guys and girls!
Thank you all for the LOVE we shared!
You all are amazing persons and PARALLEL certainly matters much for each of us.
I am so very happy and grateful for having been there with you all and us all being "parallel",
yeah, that rocks.
Many thanks, hugs and kisses
- I would really love to contribute to the blog! I'm still deeply impressed and in LOVE LOVE LOVE with our "results" and the whole process during the week.
Hope you guys went well back home and still miss us a bit...
- Hey guys and girls!
Thank you all for the LOVE we shared!
You all are amazing persons and PARALLEL certainly matters much for each of us.
I am so very happy and grateful for having been there with you all and us all being "parallel",
yeah, that rocks.
Many thanks, hugs and kisses
- I would really love to contribute to the blog! I'm still deeply impressed and in LOVE LOVE LOVE with our "results" and the whole process during the week.
Hope you guys went well back home and still miss us a bit...
Love
DAY 5
11AM:
Art is a conversation. Conversation as a method.
We have selected three texts centered around the ideas of participation and collaboration in art
practice:
– Picking Up the Thread — Of Dandies, Cocktail Parties and Mnemotechniques. Conversation
and the Arts by Sabine Sanio (2010);
– Spaces of Unexpected Learning — A Conversation between Annette Krauss, Emily Pethick and Marina Vishmidt in Krauss, Annette (2008), Hidden Curriculum – A project by Annette Krauss, co-published by Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory and Episode;
– Doing Democracy by Andrea Phillips in Condorelli, Céline (2009), Support Structures, Sternberg Press.
By making the texts converse with each other, we aim at simultaneously discuss and make tangible the productive potential of conversation. For that to happen, we have asked everyone to:
I. read the texts beforehand;
II . bring photographs, pictures, ideas, questions, drawings, ..., everything that comes to mind as
being connected in any way to the texts and to the sentences/ paragraphs that were selected.
The result will be twofold: a conversation about our selections and a new text.
4PM:
Football match or museum, publishing team working.
10PM:
The publication team finished printing!
3AM:
Non-german students now know what means clubbing! Amazing night at B E R G H A I N !
8AM:
Sleep...
Art is a conversation. Conversation as a method.
We have selected three texts centered around the ideas of participation and collaboration in art
practice:
– Picking Up the Thread — Of Dandies, Cocktail Parties and Mnemotechniques. Conversation
and the Arts by Sabine Sanio (2010);
– Spaces of Unexpected Learning — A Conversation between Annette Krauss, Emily Pethick and Marina Vishmidt in Krauss, Annette (2008), Hidden Curriculum – A project by Annette Krauss, co-published by Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory and Episode;
– Doing Democracy by Andrea Phillips in Condorelli, Céline (2009), Support Structures, Sternberg Press.
By making the texts converse with each other, we aim at simultaneously discuss and make tangible the productive potential of conversation. For that to happen, we have asked everyone to:
I. read the texts beforehand;
II . bring photographs, pictures, ideas, questions, drawings, ..., everything that comes to mind as
being connected in any way to the texts and to the sentences/ paragraphs that were selected.
The result will be twofold: a conversation about our selections and a new text.
4PM:
Football match or museum, publishing team working.
10PM:The publication team finished printing!
3AM:
Non-german students now know what means clubbing! Amazing night at B E R G H A I N !
8AM:
Sleep...
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