RMC på GRASP: Citizens as/are artists

Måske besidder alle mennesker en iboende kunsterisk evne. Det er tesen for Sergio Garcias feltstudier i Danmark og Spanien, og i denne talk fremlægger han sine foreløbige resultater.

Sergio Garcia er musiker, underviser, forsker og ph.d.-studerende ved Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium (RMC).

Talken er på engelsk:

How utopian is art? Or rather, how utopian should our thinking of art be? And is the idea that an artist is something you become, based on outdated hierarchies, that we all as human beings possess an innate artistic sensibility?

Utopian thinking is not just about ideals to strive toward, but can be a method for change and a tool to critically revise both how we practice the arts and the role that they hold in our society.

In this talk, Sergio Garcia will show, based on his ongoing fieldwork in participatory co-creative artistic projects in Denmark and Spain, how we need to rethink arts education from the bottom up. By showing how so-called “non-artists” improve and expand artistic processes, he will demonstrate that making art belongs to us all.

The basis for his talk will be his recently submitted article 'Listening all around: Expanding on Artistic Citizenship for a path forward', and illustrated with examples from his ongoing research he will touch upon the importance of both uncertainty and critical-utopian-thinking as valuable assets to uncover artistic and educational approaches that contest how arts are thought of, taught, and presented in society, opening more inclusive paths for practice and reflection.