Listen: The Unteacher – Philip Guston and pedagogy as practice. Chaired by Ben Street, with Sepake Angiama, Dana Clancy and Alexis Harding

“Teaching is a way to lose interest in what you thought you were interested in..” wrote Philip Guston in 1966. In the following decade, his work as an educator was highly influential on a generation of painters, but is often overlooked in discussion of his practice.

https://freelandsfoundation.co.uk/event/talk-the-unteacher-philip-guston-and-pedagogy-as-practice

This talk examined Guston’s often uncomfortable relationship with pedagogy and practice in the last decade of his life. Programmed to coincide with Tate Modern retrospective Philip Guston Now (October 2023 – February 2024) and organised in collaboration with the School of Visual Arts at Boston University – where Guston was a visiting professor from 1973 until 1978. Departing from Guston’s own work, this panel discussion considered how teaching and artistic practice inform each other, in the context of other examples of artist-educators from his time and ours.

Ben Street (educator and art historian) chaired the conversation and was joined by Sepake Angiama (Artistic Director, Iniva), Dana Clancy (artist and Director and Associate Professor of Art, Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts) and Alexis Harding (artist and Senior Lecturer in MA Fine Art, University of East London).