Research-Imagination
Credits: 3
Elective course for Third year
Hila Cohen Schneiderman
Hila Cohen Schneiderman is an Israeli curator. She was awarded the Curators Prize by the Ministry of Culture in 2021. Since 2018, she has served as the chief curator of the Museums of Bat Yam. From 2012 to 2016, she worked as a curator at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art and at the "City Artist" project for artist residencies in municipal departments. Cohen Schneiderman specializes in projects based on artistic and site-specific research.
Art creates new bodies of knowledge and expands human consciousness through imagination. The course’s starting point is the fact that we reflect on the world, and the world reflects back on us. Looking outward opens the door to internal work processes. The course will focus on the research turn that has occurred in the fields of culture and art over the past two decades, viewing artists as researchers. We will explore the difference between information and knowledge and the power of artistic research that begins when information reaches a dead end. During the course, we will start by investigating an external object: a concept/historical event/site/current event, etc., which touches the essence of being and doing for each student. Throughout the course, we will be exposed to various artists, collectives, and projects that offered new knowledge systems and created radical and groundbreaking artistic actions in their wake. We will practice constructing bodies of knowledge and a personal research practice, and based on these bodies of knowledge, we will examine how they drive the creation of new works.
