The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University’s spring schedule includes concepts of Ghanaian cultural memory, pedagogy and art education, and experimental printmaking techniques.
Luis Camnitzer’s site-specific “A Museum is a School” installation opens Feb. 24 on the Belvidere Street-facing side of the Markel Center.
What does it mean to work at the intersection of public education and contemporary art? For more than half a century, Camnitzer has been pondering the same question. Working in printmaking, sculpture, language and installations, Camnitzer’s work investigates how power is employed and can be challenged in society.
The title of the work invites the audience to reflect on the museum as a space for education. The subtext, “The artist learns to communicate, the public learns to make connections,” gives specific roles to artists and audiences, establishing them as colleagues in a collaborative process. “A Museum is a School” understands art to be a dynamic process rather than a product and emphasizes the museum as a forum for exchange.
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