Temporary Art School
Various Locations, Aberdeen, 2012
TAS aimed to extend the possibilities of what an art school can be, to challenge the current system and to open the experience to those who have not been formally trained. It tested the self-organised art school as form which was was increasingly being used across the globe to address issues of access to art and education.
The school was based around four main workshops: Art & Philosophy, Art & Politics, Religion & Ritual and Dematerialization and took place in independent galleries around the city, pubs, shopping centres, public squares and churches. It was part pre-programmed and then part programmed by those who started to participate. It aimed to initiate new forms of knowledge production and exchange in the public domain and was founded on the premise that the practice of art should be a real possibility for all who wish to pursue it.
'In an art school, a cultural rite is practiced, the point of which is to reinforce old perspectives and traditions by passing them on to coming generations. This differs from a Temporary Art School whose point is more to deconstruct these rites in order to open the door for new structures, in a continuing process of creation and destruction.'
A History of Temporary Art Schools
All graphic design by Alexander Storey Gordon.
Generously supported by Scottish Community Foundation, Limousine Bull, Peacock Visual Arts & Project Slogan.