Each One Teach One
TDAR hosted a discussion focusing on Florian Waldvogel’s Manifesta 6 article “Each One Teach One” and its relation to The Philadelphia Institute For Advanced Study (PIFAS), the host of the Eric James Johnson Memorial Residency Program. Manifesta is a European biennial for contemporary art and the sixth installment was to take place in the divided city of Nicosia on the island of Cyprus. The curators reformated the exhibition as a kind of school, with lectures and workshops planned for the Turkish and Greek sides of the city. Legal and funding battles ultimatley sunk the project, but a range of preperatory texts remain a testatment to what might have been.
Keynote speakers and respondants to the essay included Brandon Joyce & Richard Lee Davis, PIFAS Co-Founders. Joyce’s talk was entitled “Culture Rather than Art” (video here), in which he called for a substitution of the more encompassing term ‘culture’ for what he sees as the limited, hierarchical designation of ‘art.’ Davis, meanwhile, spoke about the history of PIFAS, the coexistance of education and artistic creation in the space, and the intrinsic beauty and fulfillment of learning. Temporary Fellow Oliver Wunsch participated from Boston via skype-projected head, providing a summary and critique of the Manifesta project and Waldvogel’s article.
