The Art of the Life-Model at Leeds Art Gallery- pedagogic and performative strategies in community arts education, A. (original) (raw)

""The Art of the Life-Model has run as a community arts 'drop-in' at Leeds Art Gallery since 2002. It offers members of the public an opportunity to explore the gallery's collections and exhibitions through mixed-arts activity combining drama, life-drawing, art history, 3-D making, discussion and performance. The Art of the Life-Model is unique in its focus on the history, practice and politics of life-modelling and takes a theatre approach to the arena of life-drawing and also the space of the gallery. It offers learning space for people of all backgrounds, abilities and ages, and is unusual in its combination of theory and practice at community level. The session will present findings by Nina Kane from research undertaken whilst the course ran through the Leeds College of Art, and subsequently as a theatre and Gallery Education project under Cast-Off Drama. Please see upload B for copy of powerpoint presentation I was due to give to accompany the talk. I'm happy to provide a copy of the lecture notes to anyone interested after the event for connected research. Amendment. I did not give this talk at this event in the end due to extenuating circumstances. However, given the interest in this topic and requests for copies, I will upload instead a copy of a working report written by myself on The Art of the Life-Model in 2007 for the Leeds College of Art & Design, the findings of which were presented at a research seminar at the college on the 31st January 2008. Extracts of this were also presented at the Textual Revolutions Conference, University of Stirling, May 2008. ""