Agonistic academies

The role and signification of the academization of visual art served as a starting point for the project started up by Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design and MaHKU (Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design resulted in three symposiums. The keynotes from these three projects emphasize various challenging educative elements such as a clear connection between artistic production and critical studies, a curriculum with chiefly dialogic situations, a focus on public space, and a laboratory-type curriculum experimenting with both novel forms of presentation - for example contextual studies and curatorial studies - and various forms of communication as “agonistic forms of address.”