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- Where do you live?
- Salt Spring Island
- Website:
- http://www.pravinpillay.net
- What else do you want us to know?
- My MFA thesis exhibition was a systems based socially engaged artwork that explored activism, pedagogy, and collaborative art practice.
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Beverly
When did you start teaching socially engaged art?
Was this after a time of teaching more traditional art?
What inspired you to teach art in the way you do?
Do you have an activist art practice?
How do you feel your teaching practice relates to your art practice; do they feed each other or interfere with each other or both?
Who or what inspired you to become a socially engaged artist and/or teacher?
Did you find resources (books, slides, etc.) early on in your teaching career or did you have to develop your own materials because there were so few?
Have you been able to teach this way consistently or have there been interruptions?
What topics do you teach? Have you created many courses or a program with socially engaged content?
Describe the demographics of your current students.
What do you find particularly stimulating about working with this audience?
What makes it difficult to work with them?
If you have taught in several places, do you prefer to teach in one versus another?
Name one or two of your favorite activist art assignments.
What particular strategies do you use in your classes? I.e. getting students to tell their own stories in relation to a topic (like war or cultural identity),
giving them a topic and asking them to design projects which raise questions about that topic, interviewing a community group, collaborating with each other, etc?
Are your classes more open ended (students get to make art about whatever topic they want)?
Do you consider your classes to be interdisciplinary? In what ways in particular?
What forms do your students tend to work in? Do you encourage the students to solve problems or work out their ideas in formally open-ended ways (can they make dances, artist books, videos, installations, performanceis, interventions, or puppetry, etc. in the space of one particular class)?
What challenges have you faced with students? with peers? with administrators? with community?
What are some particularly successful moments of your teaching career?
If you've had particularly reactionary students in your classes, how have you dealt with that?
Do you collaborate with other activist art faculty? If so, how?
Do you feel isolated or do you feel you have a supportive community?
When you get discouraged in this work, what lifts you up?
What do you think prevents many artists from choosing the path of social engagement and socially engaged teaching?
What question do you wish I had asked here and do you want me to ask your peers?
If you are willing to share syllabi, please attach relevant ones, with your answers.
If you are willing to be interviewed over the phone, send me your number and a good time to reach you.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR PARTICIPATING IN THIS. Do not hesitate to send me questions.
Beverly