It is evident that artist-academics and …
It is evident that artist-academics and those who value the role of an artist as an oppositional intellectual question the populist cultural politics and the “dumbing-down” ethos that prevails in our universities. We know that the post studio arts are as valuable as the humanities and the sciences, but they need to be understood within their socio-historical contexts. The unquestioned straight-jacketing of the contemporary arts within the traditional academic, research, and pedagogic paradigms is individually and institutionally denying us the opportunity to enhance our creativity and our intellectual life and is, critically, negating the possibilities of producing new publics.
Brad Buckley and John Conomos in Rethinking the Contemporary Art School: The Artist, the PhD and the Academy