Offside effect : academy as exhibition : 1st Tblilisi Triennial /. - Balkemal, Annette W.; Slager, H.P. (Utrecht : Metropolis M Books, 2013)
Over the last decade, art education has been confronted time and again with neoliberal thought and attitudes. As a result of this, art education has turned slowly but surely into a specific product focused on quantifiable and verifiable end results manifested and legitimized by the rhetoric of marketing and efficiency. Although the debate on artistic research indeed demands space for a free artistic space for thought, it also seems necessary now to raise the question regarding the potential of educational platforms outside the Bologna rules. The 1st Tbilisi Triennial (Offside Effect, Tbilisi 2012), curated by Henk Slager and Wato Tsereteli, concentrated on this specific issue. In a forum-like display system, a number of keynote artists and lecturers in collaboration with their students from a dozen of experimental academies from all over the world presented their strategic ways of working. This publication's goal is to not only document the 1st Tbilisi Triennial, but to also incite further diagnoses and developments in the debate on current art academies and their contexts. Contributions: Tiong Ang, Jürgen Bock, Lucrezia Cippitelli, Sarah Cowles, Stephan Dillemuth, Inci Eviner, F+F Zurich, Rene Francisco, Rainer Ganahl, Nikolaus Hirsch, Jan Kaila, Nazareth Karoyan, Annette Krauss, Young June Lee, Tara McDowell, Mildred's Lane, Marion von Osten, Irena Popiashvili, Henk Slager, Nedko Solakov, Katharina Stadler, Wato Tsereteli, Anton Vidokle, Visual Culture Research Center Kiev, Mick Wilson.
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