Performing Educational Modernism

Ausstellung bis 12.09.2021 SAAG, 601 Third Avenue SouthLethbridge, Alberta, CA

Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber

Performing Educational Modernism centres on a period of post-war architecture and how the design of space influences learning. The 1960s and 1970s were a time when radical approaches in the design of learning spaces transformed the infrastructure of many institutions.
Vancouver-based artist Sabine Bitter and Vienna-based artist Helmut Weber have undertaken extensive research into the relationships between pedagogical contexts and architectural spaces, their impact on learning experiences, and relationships between people. Through their artworks, Bitter & Weber analyze and critique this vernacular of architecture in relation to its intent: “The metaphor of the ivory tower gave way to that of the open university or free university. The newly built universities were meant to be the places where the masses could get access to education in order to acquire and produce the knowledge necessary to cope with processes of modernization, liberal democratization and new forms of economy based on skills and training.”   Curated by Adam Whitford and Kristy Trinier

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