Hello. There are many aspects that I would change in my career...
In the first place, I consider that the theoretical subjects are really bad. The students know very little about art history because the themes start from modern art and not all the previous history is considered, so the knowledge is very basic for a university artist. I think one of the big deficits is theoretical knowledge, which is directly related to artistic making. This is increased by the lack of a library available to all students. There are collections that not every student has access to, which I find embarrassing coming from such an important university. Nobody imagines that in a faculty there is no library, it seems absurd.
Another aspect of the mesh of my career, plastic arts, is the lack of specialized workshops in photography, video, "new media" or design. The career focus is still too traditional, with several traditional painting and sculpture workshops without addressing contemporary problems. It feels like returning to the past, in the worst sense.
Finally, related to the above, is the little implication of the visual arts with other disciplines. knowledge is very segmented, being that when dialoguing with other disciplines art is further enhanced.
In terms of infrastructure, I consider it a rather precarious space but with many possibilities. It is very broad and I think we should appropriate the spaces that we have (and that private universities do not have). I think this is the only thing that we have left and we have to take care of it.
Hi. One must to learn a lot for himself, and it´s sad, because we pay a lot for the university. ):
ReplyDeleteHi Susana, I like your post, truly, because I think that you could write and synthesize many points in few words. I think the same that you, we need more subjects and teachers that teach us about new media. I remember that in ARCIS University I could take a Video subject with Claudia Aravena and was incredible.
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hi, I'm agree with you, the theoretical subjects are really bad, I feel that I should have learned many more things in this 4 years
ReplyDeleteHi Natalia, I dont know how could I forget that in my post xd Its terrible because I tend to think that I wasted my time in some of those classes (Cecilia Pinochet cof cof).
ReplyDeleteIt is very true we are very accustomed to the art tradition and we leave a little aside what is happening today, which happens just in other media!
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