The Lab at the Auckland Art Gallery
The Lab. Hou Hanru. Auckland Art Gallery. 10th May – 11th August. It’s one thing for art to be educational. But is education that looks like education art too? ‘The Lab’ in the top floor of the Auckland Art Gallery is a space run between the architecture and spacial design schools within Unitec, The University of Auckland and AUT. The role of an artist assumes the role of the educator in that an artist believes they have an idea, process or relationship that is worth discussion and thus brings it to an audience attempting to transfer or educate the ideas. Artist – art – audience are then inseparable equal components of the work, and the challenge becomes how to transfer ideas from the artist to the audience through the art, so it looks like artist – idea – audience, and then to place this in the notion of artist as educator it becomes; teacher – idea – student. If the transference of knowledge is the key factor then it means that questions of accessibility and …