‘Exercises’ involved participants working in pairs and then small groups to represent and present aspects of their shared responses to being a teacher and a practitioner, through vignettes and scenarios, performance and narrative; visual, physically and spatially, using the site, the body and found objects. The few clips that can be found here indicate the diversity of perspectives, and often shared intensity, of the participants responses to the teaching-practice relationship.
‘Talking Hats’ is an aspiration to be able to ‘wear all your hats at once’, as whole person. ‘Eyes Open and Closed’ is about looking at things - escaping one’s own world of creativity and engaging with the outside world; teaching, and other influences. ‘Sitting on the Bench’ indicates a depth of thinking [keeping learning and investigation going as a teacher], and finding the essence of the thing - suggesting that teaching offers a different perspective and can influence art making.
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- a teacher and student 'role play' where teaching is a developmental role – a drawing out to expand other’s ideas, but frustrating for the practitioner as students often want to get to the end-point, rather than follow the process through.
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- This group installation represents when teaching and practice support one another, when it works well, there is a ‘prize’ - when it doesn’t, things fall through the gap, into a dark, unknown space - the ‘in-betweeness’ - where there are difficult questions like ‘who are you?’. We [teacher-practitioners] need both; to work alone but also to work with other people.
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- where teaching and learning is a co-operative process between teacher-practitioner and student and where different pathways are followed as the relationship dissolves
Filming by Richard Layzell, editing by Richard Wood and Antonia Clews, Bath Spa University.
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