INSEA 2019 | VANCOUVER BC CANADA
MAKING
Inspired by the rich potential of the International Society for Education through Art World Congress held at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in July 2019, the Making-Place International Postcard Exhibition captures the vitality, creativity and poetics of arts educator’s engagement, enthusiasm and evocations, prompting all viewers to think more deeply about the power of sharing images and text in a seemingly simple act of mail art. Echoing the diversity of attendees to the congress, as well as those unable to attend, this exhibition represents arts educators from around the world eager to participate in the act of artistic collaboration knowing that the result would be an exciting exchange of images, narratives
The InSEA World Congress was help at UBC in Vancouver, Canada in July 2019. It offered art educators an opportunity to theorize and practice ‘making’ in art education. Through a diverse array of sessions, workshops and field experiences, delegates were able to reimagine and reflect upon ‘making’ in art education. ‘Making’, after all, is concerned with material and immaterial approaches, global movements of ideas, anticipated changes, and perceptual shifts. It is propositional in nature and not prescriptive. Being provocative and/or evocative, ‘making’ entertains that which has yet to be understood. Situating ‘making’ within Vancouver and Canada offered an opportunity to emphasize concepts such as emplacement, being out of place, and being of the place. Moreover, UBC is on Musqueam First Nations unceded and ancestral territory. At the intersection of Indigenous and multicultural perspectives, Vancouver becomes a meeting point for hybrid identities, experimental ideas and place-based consciousness as we prepare for the third decade in the 21st century. Congress Theme | Making: How is making understood across all dimensions of art education in the 21st century?
Congress Theme | Making – Place, Indigenize, Identity, Experiment
Congress Theme | Making: How is making understood across all dimensions of art education in the 21st century?
Congress Sub-Themes | Place: How can place consciousness impact art education particularly in an era when migration, immigration and refugee status change our sense of location? Indigenize: What are the possibilities and implications for indigenizing art education in an inclusive learning context? Identity: How might we describe hybrid identities and rethink our practices as a result? Experiment: What relationships exist among artistic and pedagogical risks, failures, successes and stabilized/destabilized practices?
Organizing Team
2019 InSEA World Congress Co-chairs | Dr. Rita Irwin, The University of British Columbia, Canada | Dr. Kit Grauer, Professor Emerita, The University of British Columbia, Canada.
Program Chair | Dr. Ching-Chiu Lin, Simon Fraser University | 2019 InSEA World Congress Program Chair, The University of British Columbia, Canada.
Conference Directors | Dr. Jill Rachel Baird, Museum of Anthropology, The University of British Columbia, Canada | Dr. Dónal O’Donoghue, The University of British Columbia, Canada | Dr. Hsiao-Cheng (Sandrine) Han, The University of British Columbia, Canada | Dr. Marie-France Berard, The University of British Columbia, Canada.
Program
InSea 2019 World Congress | Program
Program Schedule
InSea 2019 World Congress | Program Schedule
Publications
There are several publications related to the InSEA 2019 World Congress:
Congress Proceedings
Book of Abstracts
Making Place: International Postcard Exhibition
Mapping A/r/tpgraphy Exhibition Catalogue
Making-Place: International Postcard Exhibition
Inspired by the rich potential of the International Society for Education through Art World Congress held at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in July 2019, the Making-Place International Postcard Exhibition captures the vitality, creativity and poetics of arts educator’s engagement, enthusiasm and evocations, prompting all viewers to think more deeply about the power of sharing images and text in a seemingly simple act of mail art. Echoing the diversity of attendees to the congress, as well as those unable to attend, this exhibition represents arts educators from around the world eager to participate in the act of artistic collaboration knowing that the result would be an exciting exchange of images, narratives and thoughts compelling all viewers to embrace more opportunities to engage with others through our artistic practices.
Marzieh Mosavarzadeh and Ken Morimoto curated an intimate and compelling exhibition, inviting viewers to walk amongst the postcards clipped to lines strung across the gallery space. Weaving through and dipping beneath these lines of communication provided countless opportunities for viewers to move between postcards and if desired, to read the front and back of each. Viewers were surrounded by the thoughts and images of their colleagues, sometimes stopping them in place and sometimes, giving them a line of flight, nurturing the next exchange. After all, making-place is contextual, mutual, and committed to co-labouring.
This exhibition is a remarkable celebration of the very best of arts educators coming together to share their artistic processes and ideas. Congratulations to the curators and to each of the artists involved in this tremendous exhibition!
We wish to thank the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia for their support in making this catalogue a reality.
Publication | Making-Place: International Postcard Exhibition, InSEA 2019 World Congress
Editors and Curators | Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, Ken Morimoto
Foreword | Rita L. Irwin
Graphic Design | Kirsty Robbins
Mapping A/r/tography Exhibition Catalogue
The Mapping A/r/tography Exhibition was held at The University of British Columbia during the InSEA 2019 World Congress. This exhibition featured ongoing artistic, pedagogical, and scholarly works from the federally funded Mapping A/r/tography partnership, a network of international scholars engaging in a/r/tographic walking as inquiry and cartographies of transnational storytelling. Artists, researchers, and teachers engage in movement, broadly defined, and the critical creation of images, performances, and texts. The works reflect our collective imaginary of proactive cultural exchange and relationship building through a/r/tographic encounters.
Publication | Mapping A/r/tography: Exhibition Catalogue, InSEA 2019 World Congress
Project | Mapping A/r/tography: Transnational Storytelling across Historical and Cultural Routes of Significance
Principal Investigator | Dr. Rita L. Irwin
Editor and Curator | Nicole Y.S. Lee
Exhibition Contributors | Alicia Arias-Camisón Coello, Kwang Dae Chung (Mitsy), Jun Hu, Satoshi Ikeda, Minori Inoue, Rita L. Irwin, Toshio Ishii, Rana Jreidini, Koichi Kasahara, Minako Kayama, Kayoko Komatsu, Rocío Lara-Osuna, Alexandra Lasczik, Nicole Y.S. Lee, Ricardo Marín-Viadel, Kazuji Mogi, Ken Morimoto, Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, Paloma Palau-Pellicer, Joaquín Roldán, Anita Sinner, Takashi Takao, Soko Takemaru, Joanne Ursino, Anna Varea, Susana Vargas, and Elly Yazdanpanah
Graphic Design | Kirsty Robbins