Abstract:This short article is the slightly amended text of a keynote talk presented at the Swedish Research Council’s symposium on Artistic Research ‘The Art University – political dream or broadened future f...This short article is the slightly amended text of a keynote talk presented at the Swedish Research Council’s symposium on Artistic Research ‘The Art University – political dream or broadened future for the arts’ in Malmo on 25 November 2015.
I want to highlight three areas relevant to the contemporary Art University in order to: identify some particular challenges that are shared by all universities in the UK and are relevant to universities across Europe; to indicate the contributions Art Universities make to society; and begin to outline why Art Universities can be a ‘great help out of our present difficulties’ to quote Matthew Arnold from 1869 (1).
These three areas are:
The regulatory frameworks that universities have to work within;
How Art Universities meet societal needs and challenges – the productive knowledge they generate;
Why Art Universities must value disinterested knowledge and critical distance.
(1) Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006), 5.Read More
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-06-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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