Poor poor School

Poor poor school is run by artists and writers Dean Kenning & Owen Parry. It is an inflatable school. A diagram of a possible school. A school within a school. A 3d model of a school hollowed out of cheap polystyrene. Dean is curator of the forthcoming Poor Things exhibition along with Emma Hart – a show at The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh exploring sculpture and social class, which asks questions about aesthetic composition, taste and availabilism. Owen runs a ‘PooR Theory’ seminar at Central Saint Martins and makes things up. He says ‘despite its name, PooR theory is not necessarily a “bad theory” or a “low theory”, although it can and often does challenge or undermine hierarchies of value and taste. Instead, PooR theory forms and spreads through experimental, open-ended, idiosyncratic, and sometimes super-natural processes – it is a theory in search of a theory – a language in search of a form and can thus be particularly generative for art practice.’