Multiple Elementary

ISBN 10: 1910433616 / ISBN 13: 9781910433614

Published by Black Dog Press, 2018

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Synopsis:

Multiple Elementary explores the elementary school classroom as a site of invention and reception of contemporary art practices. Part exhibition catalogue, part artists book and part corner store advertisement, the book reflects on the making of an artwork, by Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed, in collaboration with a class of grade six students in Toronto.


Begun as a riff on the Ontario social studies curriculum Canada and It's Trading Partners, the engagement with students evolved as a series of field trips, extended research and finally, the making of 28 chocolates, each as an edition of 10. Explorations of trade, exchange and labour took shape as exercises in public engagement, curatorial experimentation and institutional translation. Beyond socially engaged practices and expressions of art-as-pedagogy, this book explores aesthetic and representative possibilities for process-based and publicly oriented artworks, especially amidst the complications and contradictions inherent to collaborations with children.


Within the book, newly commissioned texts take-up adult-child relationships, the wildness of children and the contact high they offer to artists and academics attempting to recuperate wonder, failure and queerness in their work. Other texts explore the reception of childrens art outside of the classroom, the unruly behaviour of artist multiples, taste-making and eating in relationship to the other. Finally, a lexicon for curatorial, pedagogical and feminist-material-discursivity is offered to further locate Multiple Elementary amongst larger cultural questions.

About the Author: Hannah Jickling: Jickling's work institutes sport, outdoor recreation and education as models for performance, participation and feminist engagement, experimenting with form, participation and meaning. In recent years, she has shown and/or presented at Apexart, the Portland Art Museum, Recess Gallery and SFMoMA. Helen Reed: Helen Reed works with specific communities such as Twin Peaks fans, lesbian separatists, and high school art teacher candidates. In each project, collaboration is a working process from which the artwork emerges. Reed has exhibited in the US at apexart (New York) and Smack Mellon (New York).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Multiple Elementary
Publisher: Black Dog Press
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Book Type: book