To Seminar
To Seminar

editor Henk Slager ; bys Tiong Ang, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Jeremiah Day ...[et al.]

Author(s)
Tiong Ang, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Jeremiah Day, ...[et al.]
Editor(s)
editor Henk Slager, bys
Publication, year
Utrecht : Metropolis M Books, 2017
Scope
64 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.
ISBN
9789081830263

The project unfolds as a contemporary reading of philosopher Roland Barthes’ essay To the Seminar (1974). Engaging with the notion of the seminar—as a concept and as an intimate and complex practice—as something pivotal for learning today, To Seminar transforms the noun into a verb in an attempt to activate its “unpredictable rhythm,” proposing it as a tool for intervention into the settled practices of education today; in art and beyond. For what was once celebrated as the “educational turn” today turns far too often into either routine initiation into a knowledge economy or cognitive capitalism, or into the placatory emptying of the meanings of “knowledge production,” “community,” and “method".


Person as subject
Tiong Ang, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Jeremiah Day, ...[et al.]
Location
Cabinet 9 - 4: Kunst stromingen en thema's