[ART&CRITIQUE] Quarterly meeting
Friday, 26 October 2018, 18:30 – 20:30
LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES  
MEETING AGENDA
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Agenda Point	Discussion Time	Discussion / Proposal	Decision	Actions	
Appoint new coordinator for the Book Club (Sophia)	20min	We need a new volunteer coordinator for the book club from Dec 2018 onwards. The coordinator collaborates with the facilitator/s to deliver the book club, brings alternative perspectives and interpretations to the text and supports the facilitator in the lead up to and during the event. The coordinator manages bookings, makes venue arrangements and liaises with the media coordinator to publish and publicise the event. 
Book Club Coordinator
•	Books and liaises with venues for the book club.
•	Works with the facilitator/s to fill in, proof-read and check the infosheet.
•	Sends the infosheet to the media coordinator (who updates the website).
•	Creates the Eventbrite page and promotes the event.
•	Meets with the facilitator/s to develop a structure for the discussion.
•	Prints the event handout and additional texts.
•	Arrives early to arrange table and chairs, setup projector, make tea, etc.
•	Welcomes the participants, introduces the event and the facilitator, keeps an eye out for late arrivals.
•	Contributes to the discussion and supports the facilitator.
•	Clears up with help from everyone else.
•	Updates the infosheet.
Book Club Facilitator
•	Selects the reading and prepares information and materials to publish on the website (bio, introduction, questions, further reading, images, captions, flyer).
•	Chairs the book club, introducing the text and questions, supports the discussion, keeps time, calls breaks, wraps up with a summary.
•	Posts a summary on the discussion list. Following feedback, redrafts the summary to publish on the blog.
•	Please see the book club infosheet for details.	Consensus []
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Looking at ways to discuss individual proposals for the Book Club in a group setting (John)	20min				
Radical Pedagogy Reading & Research Group (Sophia)	20min	Proposal for a new research project and reading group on alternative art education, radical pedagogy and self-organisation.
In 2016 we started a research project on alternative art education, radical pedagogy and self-organisation to inform the development of an alternative studio programme. We identified the main research topics, drew up a research proposal, created the alternative art education resource page and organised workshops and meetings on self-organisation and alternative art education.
The ultimate aim of the reading group is to create a forum for the discussion of alternative art education. This new group will meet monthly to research alternative art education, radical pedagogy and self-organisation, with the practical aim of creating a syllabus for an alternative studio programme. 
In the last ten years alternative art education has burgeoned into a full-blown movement, fuelled by economic crisis, austerity and the liberalisation of higher education. But what is alternative art education? Who is it for and what is it alternative to?
There are as many different formats and models of alternative art education as there are art schools, but in what ways is alternative art education expected to be different from traditional art education? Should alternative art schools try to emulate accredited MFAs or are they expected to radically re-imagine art education? How should alternative art schools be organised, structured and funded? How do alternative art schools get access to resources and what do they need to become sustainable? Are alternative art schools expected to resist and reform institutional models of education and pedagogy? Should alternative art schools challenge art institutions and the art market? What would a cooperative art school look like?
The first meeting will take place in January 2019 to determine the syllabus for the reading group, have a conversation about how we can structure this group and create a working group. Please come along and bring your own suggestions, ideas and questions.	Consensus []
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Discussion of a written constitution (John)	20min				
Feedback/Peer Review Series (Sophia)	20min	We haven’t had a Studio Crit in a while even though people within and outside of the group regularly get in touch to say that they would like to show their work. It might have something to do with the sudden expansion of the group last year, which perhaps makes it a bit more intimidating. It probably doesn't help that the last studio crit we had was almost two years ago, and it's a catch 22 because we recommend that people come to one before showing their work. In the meantime some members have said that they’re keen to get feedback on work-in-progress, critical writing and application statements. 
The feedback sessions could happen in various formats, depending on what we decide at the end of each one. We could break up the format of the crit into 30min feedback sessions or writing workshops. They could be drop-in sessions, we could start each one off with a workshop and then have three 30min crits, we could experiment with different formats. 
For example, in 2016 we decided in favour of a new series of group crits based around the idea of a common starting point that everyone makes work in response to. Everyone would bring their work in to install, display, read, perform or screen. The closest we got to something like this was the Critiquing the Crit workshop with Sophie Barr, where people brought work to show.
We could start the first one off with an evening of workshops on art crits, peer reviews and feedback sessions so that we can  work out how to proceed.
Are you interested in showing your work? Are you interested in joining a working group to organise the first event? Do you have a studio that we could use to host the first event? 	Consensus []
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Membership for A&C or Symposium (Dee)
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Participation in A&C workload (Dee)			Consensus []
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