MAR KABK and Royal Conservatoire
MAR @ KUNSTVLAAI
The MAR’s participation in the Kunstvlaai was in itself a form an artistic research project, using the classroom as a space for tryout and self-reflection. The project can be read as a pragmatic and political act, in its undisguised reallocation of resources from the art educational context to the art world in a time of budgetary scarcity. It can be seen as a gesture of inclusivity and altruism in its opening up of art education for the general public and/or a gesture of exclusivity and hermeticism in its carrying on of an insider activity in the public realm. It can be read as an act of blatant self-promotion at a competitive moment for the survival of postgraduate programmes. It is precisely the entanglement of such mixed agendas inherent in its participation in “Learning Utopia(s)” that the MAR wishes to bring to the fore at this political and economic moment of art and art education in the Netherlands.
MAR @ KUNSTVLAAI
The MAR’s participation in the Kunstvlaai was in itself a form an artistic research project, using the classroom as a space for tryout and self-reflection. The project can be read as a pragmatic and political act, in its undisguised reallocation of resources from the art educational context to the art world in a time of budgetary scarcity. It can be seen as a gesture of inclusivity and altruism in its opening up of art education for the general public and/or a gesture of exclusivity and hermeticism in its carrying on of an insider activity in the public realm. It can be read as an act of blatant self-promotion at a competitive moment for the survival of postgraduate programmes. It is precisely the entanglement of such mixed agendas inherent in its participation in “Learning Utopia(s)” that the MAR wishes to bring to the fore at this political and economic moment of art and art education in the Netherlands.