Andrea Hubin and Karin Schneider
Andrea Hubin and Karin Schneider
Metaphor production machines.
Colonial thought patterns, the free art of children and the potential of hinge figures
Lecture on 25 June, 10:15-11:45
Based on our own practice and history in the field of critical art education in the museum context, in this lecture unit we invite you to reflect on the rucksack that we - even with the best intentions - carry with us from history; stones in our luggage that are not so easy to get rid of, also because we are not always aware of them. Looking at the Viennese artist and "inventor" of children's art, Franz Čižek (1865-1946), among others, we will discuss the often uncanny connections between libertarian ideas of free creativity and childlike artistic development and evolutionist, colonial or anti-Semitic figures of thought. We are particularly interested in the traces of these ideologemes in the present, as well as methodological proposals for deconstructing them through art-based art education.
Andrea Hubin is an art historian and art educator specialising in art education at the Kunsthalle Wien, where she was responsible for the development and management of the participatory reflection and action space "Community College" from 2013-2020. Important stations as a mediator include documenta 12 in 2007, where the knowledge transfer project DEUTSCH WISSEN was also created, and the conception of art mediation for the 5th Berlin Biennale in 2008.
Karin Schneider is a contemporary historian and art mediator. She is head of art education at the museums of the city of Linz, Lentos Kunstmuseum and Nordico Stadtmuseum. From 2007-2019, she was involved in several projects to develop and research art-based methods of history education, including "MemScreen" and "conserved memories" at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and "TRACES - transmitting contentious cultural heritages with the arts" at the Institute for Art Education at Zurich University of the Arts. From 2001-2007 she was head of art education at the mumok.
Karin Schneider and Andrea Hubin conducted research together with Carla Bobadilla and Barbara Mahlknecht in the project "Intertwining Hi/Stories of arts education" of the international network "Another Roadmap for Arts Education". Together they teach art education methods at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Together they develop and moderate discursive projects with an experimental-performative character for various contexts, such as the Volkskundemuseum Wien.
Recent publications on the topic of lectures:
- Hubin, Andrea; Schneider, Karin: "Metaphor production machines. Colonial thought patterns, the free art of children and the potential of hinge figures", in: vermittlung vermitteln. Questions, demands and experimental arrangements of art mediators in the 21st century (ed. by Ayşe Güleç, Carina Herring, Gila Kolb, Nora Sternfeld, Julia Stolba), Berlin (nGbK) 2020
- Hubin, Andrea; Schneider, Karin: "Rätselflüge - Denkbewegungen durch ein schwieriges Erbe progressiver Kunstvermittlung in Österreich / Flight of Riddles - Thinking Through the Difficult Legacy of Progressive Art Education in Austria", in: IAE Journal Art Education Research #15: intertwining hi/stories of arts education, Zurich 2018, blog.zhdk.ch/iaejournal/