monty story
I had this great idea for a series of interviews with people who artists and curators work with a lot but who are instead experts in something else. People who wouldn't otherwise have conventionally come near to artistic practice yet whose thought and disciplines offers artists a great deal. I have in mind Avery Gordon (social anthropology), Angus Cameron (human geography), David Deutsch (theoretical physics), that inorganic chemist at UCL that Camila Sposati worked with, etc etc.
Quite often these people say - especially when they are much more 'in' the art world than anything else - 'Oh, I had no art training' and when you think about what art training IS - Bologna Protocol or not - it actually starts with the fact that a small kid liked drawing. Obviously there is a strong relation between art and the urge towards formal non-verbal representation, but there's no reason why other early-stage leanings shouldn't also have sent kids to art school. Yet generally the art learning stream only really gets filtered through this one increasingly archaic skill, or also being a drop-out in other things, which is a whole other discussion.
Anyway we know all this and we also know all about Montessori and Free Schools and so forth, but still I'm fascinated by these people who were scientists or something all their lives and one day they end up working with an artist - how was the connection made?
I'm a Montessori kid, by the way. Predictably enough. Did anyone else on my flist go to Montessori?
Also I had this great idea for a kind of kitten that never gets any bigger nor behaves any differently than a kitten, all its life. Because that would be really cute.
Quite often these people say - especially when they are much more 'in' the art world than anything else - 'Oh, I had no art training' and when you think about what art training IS - Bologna Protocol or not - it actually starts with the fact that a small kid liked drawing. Obviously there is a strong relation between art and the urge towards formal non-verbal representation, but there's no reason why other early-stage leanings shouldn't also have sent kids to art school. Yet generally the art learning stream only really gets filtered through this one increasingly archaic skill, or also being a drop-out in other things, which is a whole other discussion.
Anyway we know all this and we also know all about Montessori and Free Schools and so forth, but still I'm fascinated by these people who were scientists or something all their lives and one day they end up working with an artist - how was the connection made?
I'm a Montessori kid, by the way. Predictably enough. Did anyone else on my flist go to Montessori?
Also I had this great idea for a kind of kitten that never gets any bigger nor behaves any differently than a kitten, all its life. Because that would be really cute.