WIDE OPEN SCHOOL

Wide Open School is a month-long experiment that will see the gallery lending its space to classes invented especially by artists. "This is a school for people who like learning but hate to be taught," explained Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery in his introduction to the press view... The Wide Open School was an unusual month long experiment in learning with courses devised and led by over 100 artists from 40 different countries. Content is from the site's 2012 archived pages as well as from other sources... Wide Open School takes place in classrooms built in the Hayward's gallery spaces. But it is not an exhibition in any sense, and it demands a very different type of engagement. It asks its participants to make an unusual commitment of time as well as energy. It obliges us to be attentive and open. It invites us to use our intelligence in unusual ways, and to confront our desire to understand and to be understood. It requires a willingness to discuss issues and to make..

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