Today, we find ourselves in the same pedagogical impasse – the continuous need for curricula, course materials and lesson plans to legitimize and validate education, even though they are merely normative acts and a bureaucratic way of teaching, which turns us and a large part of the educators into mere functionaries of different subjects. It performs an education whose merits come only from grades, marks, Olympic medals, and standardized tests, because otherwise, most of our society consider it inadequate and adrift.

This Arta dossier dedicated to education, appears thanks to the invitation addressed by Marina Oprea, together with Gabriela Mateescu, and encompasses the majority of the dilemmas we have faced throughout our journey as artist-educators: from the need for certainties that give meaning to our efforts, to the necessity of relating to current theoretical frameworks; from knowing the historical context to understanding the contemporary one; from the idea of educational spaces to the idea of safe and inclusive learning spaces; from being stuck in the narrative of “alternative” and “non-formal” workshops, to the need for long-term programs; from the fear of education suspended between ”edutainment” and “pedagogical aesthetics”, to the hope that art still has the ability to invent “mutant coordinates” and generate “unprecedented qualities of being”

Laura Borotea & Gabriel Boldiș (Minitremu)