Where Theory Belongs. Four Ways to Experience a Seminar in Contemporary Art

This paper explores how the format of the seminar as used in contemporary art education is changing and the social, economic and political reasons for these changes. It will highlight these changes through examples of recent experimental approaches to presenting seminars to postgraduate fine art students attending Chelsea College of Art at both Tate Britain and Tate Modern with the Tate Research Center: Learning. Reference will also be made to historical art-educational programmes that have previously challenged models of education within the context of the seminar. The paper discusses how such seminars can evolve, how they can ‘look’, and how through their specific approaches, they can enable students to learn in exciting formats which offer a source of shared new knowledge construction.

This article is freely accessible at https://www.tate.org.uk/research/research-centres/tate-research-centre-learning/working-papers/where-theory-belongs